Posted on 01/14/2005 11:58:52 AM PST by Lindykim
NUMBER 228THE NEWSPAPER OF EDUCATION RIGHTSJANUARY 2005
Gay Agenda in Schools Riles Parents On the heels of lopsided votes against same-sex marriage in 11 state referenda last November, parents and students are becoming more vocal in resisting school programs aimed at support for the homosexual lifestyle.
In northeastern Kentucky, hundreds of students have defied the Ashland-Boyd County school district's "mandatory anti-harassment workshops" required by an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that also allows the Gay-Straight Alliance student group to meet in school buildings. Some 324 students did not come to school the day the tolerance training video was shown, and hundreds more refused to watch it.
The ACLU has threatened to seek a court order to enforce attendance. Joseph Platt, a lawyer representing parents, said "mandatory training on tolerance for homosexuals violates the right of conscience of parents and students who believe such behavior is immoral." (Washington Times, 12-1-04)
In Montgomery County, MD, pastors and parents are joining forces to oppose a new sex education program in high schools that promotes homosexuality. The program teaches 8th- and 10th-graders that sexual experimentation with members of the same sex is common and normal, that same-sex couples are one form of traditional family and that homosexuality is not a choice. The program also includes a video in which a girl is shown fitting a condom on a cucumber. Parents must provide written permission for their child to participate in the week-long sex education program. Abstinence-only classes and an independent study option will be offered as alternatives, according to a spokeswoman for the county public school system.
The new curriculum also teaches that "a family is two or more people who are joined together by emotional feelings or who are related to one another." Three members of the citizens advisory committee that endorsed the curriculum resigned in protest, said Michelle Turner, a committee member and mother of a high school student.
"Sexual orientation being introduced to 8th-graders is totally inappropriate for such a young age and is only going to confuse kids, and it's contrary to what many parents want to teach their children," she said, adding that the parental permission slips should contain more detail about the program. "I don't understand why we have to teach kids how to put on a condom. If they can't figure out how to put on a condom, then they're too stupid to be having sex." (Washington Times, 11-11-04)
Meanwhile, a dozen organizations led by the National School Boards Association have issued "practical" guidelines to help school officials deal with legal issues involving students' sexual orientation and gender identity.
Boys in dresses
On a question about cross-dressing, the guide states: "A restriction on boys' wearing dresses to school would be appropriate in communities where such attire on males would result in substantial disruption of the learning process, but in other locales, cross dressing might actually be more socially acceptable and cause minimal disruption in school, making such a restriction less legally justifiable."
The guide continues, "Schools with sex-specific dress codes could consider making a narrow exception for transgender students - students who are biologically of one gender, but psychologically identify with the opposite gender." (CNSNews.com, 10-13-04)
One small-town school in east Texas actually held an official "cross-dressing day" on November 17. After prodding by Liberty Legal Institute, Spurger Elementary agreed to exempt two children from attendance based on their parents' moral convictions, as Texas law requires.
An Iowa parent has questioned the appropriateness of a book read to 6th-graders in which one of the four main characters is gay. The objection is being considered by a special committee and the school board in the Pleasant Valley School District.
A pastor spoke in support of the parent at a November open forum about the book, The Misfits by James Howe, which he described as having a homosexual overtone. "It would be one thing to have the book in the library," said Mike Fendley. "The issue is it is being read to students." He explained that he has no problem with the book being used at the high school level, but he believes parents should be notified of its use in elementary and junior high school. (qctimes.com, 11-26-04)
T-shirt battles
Pro-gay and anti-gay T-shirts continue to kindle disputes under school dress codes. The ACLU filed suit November 23 against a Webb City, MO school district for prohibiting a 16-year-old from wearing gay-pride T-shirts to school. School officials assert the shirts are disruptive, and have sent other students home who wore homemade gay-pride shirts in support of the first student. The mother of one of them expressed support for the school's position, saying "I would have never let her wear that shirt to school." (Associated Press, 12-5-04)
A student pulled out of class for wearing an anti-gay T-shirt has pressed a federal lawsuit against officials of Poway High School in the San Diego, CA area. The youth acted in response to a "Day of Silence" observed by some students in support of the rights of gays and lesbians. The Alliance Defense Fund took up the student's case and predicts it will wind up in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. (SignOnSanDiego.com, 11-6-04)
In a strange case involving a lesbian public school teacher, a 7th-grade language arts instructor in South Haven, MI has been accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old former female student, participating in witchcraft and even "wedding" her in a pagan ritual. The teacher, who has been placed on leave from her job, lived with another woman and their adopted son prior to her arraignment. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. (Associated Press, 12-4-04)
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"Herbert Marcuse, of the Marxist/Nietzschean Frankfurt School, which is credited with devising political correctness, extrapolated upon Marxism so as to include homosexuals among the "oppressed groups." The research findings of Alfred Kinsey, sadmasochistic- homosexual-pedophile were incorporated into a larger ideology which eventually came to be known as 'queer liberation' theory. Propounders of this insanity have been so successful in conditioning some Americans that they no longer believe there are but two genders...male and female. Instead, they've been cruelly conditioned into accepting the queer fairytale claim that biology and physiology play no role in what an individual wishes to believe he is {sexually} at any given moment; that in fact, mankind is gender-neutral." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320220/posts
We have been discussing inexpensive ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84
The thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined.
Home school BUMP!
Separation of School and State BUMP!
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The "disgendering" and/or 'queering" of America encompasses a whole range of issues from destruction and overthrowing of our culture; destruction of traditional marriage; deconstruction of our Constitution and Rule of Law; and the ACLU, the group that most visibly serves as the 'dogs of destruction' for the Left and their social revolution.
Ping!
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
double ping!
Am I reading this right? The ACLU wants to force these kids to watch this? What kind of civil liberties do they think these kids and their parents have? None? I almost wish they'd try it. My bet is they'd wish they hadn't.
Not too much room left for Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, is there?
If the gay sensitivity classes are half as full of Sheit as the Racial sensitivity classes I wouldnt advise anyone to attend. I never heard such a load of crap in my life as at a racial sensitivity class. I came out so pissed off if I wasnt a bigot when I went in I was when I left, It took a couple of days to get back to my normal non-bigoted self.
Maybe parents will get riled enough that they will unite to bring back common sense in the schools and get rid of the mediation type classes, the diversity crap the touchy feely stuff and reinstitute the three "R"'s and respect for teachers. I just saw a thread that said students pick grades!!!
I love this line!
"I don't understand why we have to teach kids how to put on a condom. If they can't figure out how to put on a condom, then they're too stupid to be having sex."
LOL!
Sweet Home Kentucky!
The ACLU has threatened to seek a court order to enforce attendance.
Fascism is freedom.
Joseph Platt, a lawyer representing parents, said "mandatory training on tolerance for homosexuals violates the right of conscience of parents and students who believe such behavior is immoral."
Absolutely. Parents are a child's natural primary educators.
it kept falling off their tongues............
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320747/posts?page=11#11
Gay.ru is a Soros-funded Moscow NGO that has developed "into an established and recognized Russian gay and lesbian center" and "the clearing house for lesbian and gay groups scattered across the country"
http://www.gay.ru/english/
Russian GayLesBiTrans Site - International Section
I am sick and tired of gay activists forcing their agenda down kids throats. I'm not saying gay people should go back into the closet, but there should be boundaries where and where not to promote your agenda. Kids in junior high should know that gay folks exists (as if they didn't already,) and that it's not right to persecute them. But there is no need to elaborate on anything. They will find out all they need to know in their regular lives as they go to high school, college, work etc I never met a gay person till I was in high school ...but then I am 46 years old and lived a sheltered life (haha).
BTTT!
"The ACLU has threatened to seek a court order to enforce attendance."
My question is, how are they going to 'enforce' attendance?
Armed guards outside the school and classrooms?
I'd love to see them try!
You betcha. There is NO WAY I would send my child to a school that promotes a gay agenda and on the other hand doesn't want God's name mentiioned. Something wrong with that way of thinking. Nope, Home School is right. Parents don't have to put up with that. It's always what the opposition wants all the time. That is not balanced and therefore, should be challenged. The opposition wants to take everything away from parents and that is not right and never will be right.
The ACLU will come kick down your door and drag your kids off to Gay Induction Class, put tooth picks in to hold open their eyelids and a straight jacket to make them face the screen. They are going to make them gay whether you like it or not.
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