No Cussing Club Kid Gets Death Threats
News Busters
By
Tim Graham
January
31, 2009
Here is a testimony of
one child in public school from a moral family and what this one child has
stood up against and what he has accomplished. I came to Jesus Christ when I
was 14 and a few months later was filled with the Holy
Ghost. I went to a public High School and was on fire for Jesus Christ and just
obeyed the Lord in what he had me to do and I ended up being a powerful witness
for Jesus Christ in a High School of 2400 students. One student one child can
work wonders if they truly know and love the Lord Jesus Christ. I was
absolutely fearless as the Lord would have me speak and testify to others, I also
held a small bible study on school grounds after school.
Brent
Bozell's culture column this week tackled the new
F-bomb single from Britney Spears and the kid who received death threats for
starting a No Cussing club:
McKay Hatch is a 15-year-old boy from
And for that he is vilified. Hatch says some people
are going out of their way to curse him at school, on the Internet and on the
phone. They send him pornographic magazine subscriptions. Not long ago, someone
ordered $2,000 worth of pizza delivered to Hatch's house. Then came the death threats.
Brent Hatch, the teenager’s father, told reporters one death
threat in particular crossed the line. "I was at the hospital with my
wife, we were visiting family, and some guy had called on my cell phone said,
'I know you you're gone, you're not there, and I'm in front of your house and
I'm going to kill your family.’"
If the purveyors of profanity think that cussing is
so harmless, why are some of them so unbelievably hostile to anyone suggesting
a voluntary ban on the bleeps?
McKay Hatch
isn’t buckling. "It's really scary, because people are calling us all
night," he says. "Sometimes we have to unplug the phone. You know, at
first it was really kind of scary, but they're just bullies and they want you
to be scared. And so I'm not gonna let them
win." His
No Cussing Club now boasts 20,000 members.
Let me repeat something here. This boy is 15 years old. He
didn’t just stumble into activism. It’s a family mission. McKay's parents are
authors of a book titled "Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated
World." Profanity wasn’t allowed at home. Hatch says none of his friends
in elementary school ever swore, but when they got to middle school,
"everyone started cussing," he says. "The reason it bothered me
the most is because it was something they were using every other word, kind of
like the word 'the.' They kept using it and using it."
Hatch suggests that instead of cuss words, his
school friends could use alternative exclamations when frustrations inevitably
occur. He told Jay Leno his favorite was "pickles,"
but he also suggests "barnacles" and "sassafras." He even has a rap-music video
on YouTube where he and some friends walk to the beat
down the street in their orange club T-shirts and chant "Don’t Cuss."
It’s severely at odds with the kind of language that usually permeates rap
videos.
Sadly, most of popular culture seems headed in the
opposite direction. Bubble-headed pop princess Britney Spears, desperate to
stay in the spotlight after years of embarrassments and humiliations, has a new
single coming out called "If You Seek Amy." If that doesn’t spell
trouble, then pay a little more attention to Britney’s snappy lyric, as she
claims "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek
Amy." This lyric doesn’t make any grammatical sense, until you read it
phonetically. She’s spelling out the F-bomb.
Britney’s now casting herself as the new Tila Tequila, the latest MTV temptress so fetching that
she’s a poster girl for bisexual incontinence.