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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Absolutely. Parents are a child's natural primary educators.
Always have been and always will be. NO ONE ELSE should EVER have that right over parents. Glad the parents did what they did and the fact the kids refused to look at it says maybe progress is being made. I referenced that in a previous post. It's ALWAYS about what the other side wants. Well, it's about time the parents stand up for their children and their children's rights as well. Good for them.
In their dreams maybe.
they are indeed trying to force it. One hopes they will not succeed we will see. KY is one state where parents have guts! They may just continue to ignore the ACLU as a nuisense.
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Perhaps they should adopt a law such as the one in texas which mandates the teaching of homosexuality as an unacceptable lifestyle choice. The do it via a health and hygene perspective. (that was not affected by the lawrence decision)
We may never see an open season on the ACLU and its ilk, but the day is coming when late-comers to God will be exterminating them. The battle has already been decided and won, but so many of Satan's minions are too ignorant to know it.
If a person is not bigoted, then attending a class is largely a waste of time.
If a person is a bigot, it's hard to believe that they'll reform lifelong hatreds based on an 8-hour-class, presented by the very minorities that they purport to hate.
The HR people at our company are largely a bunch of idiots. They're so practiced in not stepping on any toes that they accomplish nothing and say even less. There's a reason why engineers become engineers, and bureaucrats go into HR.
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Public schools ping
Homosexual Agenda Ping. Kind of an overview of various happenings in various schools. Some good news - great news from KY, and dubious from other places. Like the pastor who didn't like the pro-"gay" book for small kids, but thought it was ok for high schoolers to be indoctrinated.
More evidence that the homosexual activsts are going for broke with child indoctrination.
Rip the kids out of school now. Note: No Child Left Behind may not be good for homeschools and charter schools.
Let me and DirtyHarryY2K if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
"If they can't figure out how to put on a condom, then they're too stupid to be having sex."
LOL, that is the best line in the piece, she's certainly right about that!
Did anyone else get weird mispelled email from "trinnyandcoll"?
I recieved three.
yes, I deleted without replying
One can hope that the public raises cain about these behavior forming programs in the schools. It is not the schools job, and bullying and the like can be handled with existing school processes, like detention and suspension.
Political correctness, multiculturalism, and homosexual tolerance programs are political manefestations of the democratic party and are out of order on a school campus. One would not allow a teacher to preach their political philosophy in class and this is no different. Come on people take back control of your schools.
How about the other class of people, who are moral and don't want their kids importuned by gays pederasts intent on spreading their special-purpose propaganda and promoting looser morals, but mostly on just getting at the kids?
How about them? Are they bigoted, for wanting to transmit the received morality of the last twenty centuries to their children?
Gay men are basically like amoral heterosexual men: They don't care whether they have to get over someone or lie to them to get them to lie down. They are different in this: that over the centuries, they've been much more inclined to be youth-worshippers and to pursue underage boys, than heterosexual men are inclined to pursue underage girls. It was a social problem in Athens (see the definition of "pedagogue", which impeaches the gay argument that people in Athens were tolerant of "boy-love"), and if anything they would like to import Athens's pederastic social problem and make it our own.
They want the boys. They are perfectly willing to discuss any arrangement, any truth, any social study, fact, information, or canard, for that matter, that leads to the happy outcome of gay men recruiting teenaged and preteenaged boys openly, at will, and without any effectual opposition from outraged parents, family, churches, or conservatives.
Which raises the interesting question, why are liberals rightly concerned about young heterosexual men in high school who are running around getting girls pregnant as a kind of amoral game, but absolutely insistent, on the other hand, that homosexual men be given the opportunity to do the exact same thing in the very same schools?
Concurring and reinforcing bump.
BTTT.
snip...They are different in this: that over the centuries, they've been much more inclined to be youth-worshippers and to pursue underage boys, than
I believe they pursue young males because they are 'female-like.' Even though they're abnormally attracted to their own sex, they're still driven to and/or attracted to the 'female' body type. In lurking same-sex activist dgs, I've read threads where they described the sort of 'male' they're most attracted to. Here's what say said: pretty face, smooth skin, rounded cheeks, full lips, rounded stomach. That's a female body.
I duked it out with them for a couple of years on Salon's "TableTalk". When the discussion was entre nous, like the conversations you followed, there was lots of chuckling and cackling over the pursuit of boys. But just use the word "pederast" in a quote, and hell wouldn't hold their indignation at such vile "phobe" canards.
I really don't like actively dishonest people. And these activists are.
At one time I had a link {which I've been trying to relocate) to something called the "Queen's Dictionary". As you can guess, it's a compilation of 'homo' cant.
The most insightful aspect though was that the majority of the cant was directed at describing young males and the types of sex-acts performed with regards to boys.
Disgusting cant such as "eggs {toddlers} and chickens {adolescent boys) abounded. Like you, I used to duke it out with them and when I would use some of their own repulsive cant, they couldn't lie and deny fast enough, lol!
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