Parents Rip School Over Gay Storybook

The Boston Globe ^ | 04/20/2006 | Tracey Jan

[Andy'smom]

Parents rip school over gay storybook Lesson reignites clash in Lexington By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | April 20, 2006

In a controversy with a familiar ring, parents of a Lexington second-grader are protesting that their son's teacher read a fairy tale about gay marriage to the class without warning parents first.

The teacher at Joseph Estabrook Elementary School used the children's book, ''King & King," as part of a lesson about different types of weddings. A prince marries another prince instead of a princess in the book, which was on the American Library Association's list of the 10 most challenged books in 2004 because of its homosexual theme.

''My son is only 7 years old," said Lexington parent Robin Wirthlin, who complained to the school system last month and will meet with the superintendent next week. ''By presenting this kind of issue at such a young age, they're trying to indoctrinate our children. They're intentionally presenting this as a norm, and it's not a value that our family supports."

[Andy'smom]

Looks like the Lexington schools just won't give it a rest.

[2banana]

Government schools - don't cha just love them?

[Dane]

The homosexual agenda marching on in the public schools.

[DustyMoment]

Gay "literature" for second-graders is child abuse. Were it my kids, I wouldn't stop belting administrators until the district halted their gay-friendly activities completely.

This is totally inappropriate.

[6SJ7]

Just as long as all the books in the school are free of any religious content. We don't want any of that sort of thing 'contaminating' young minds! /sarc

[Fedupwithit]

Just another reason as to why I moved out of this homo-friendly state...

Live Free or Die, baby..

[Vaquero]

despicable!

[humblegunner]

teacher read a fairy tale

Now thats funny right there.

[Fintan]

''My son is only 7 years old," said Lexington parent Robin Wirthlin...

 

Doesn't matter, Robin, they don't care. Your role as mother is over; your child now belongs to the brave, new world of the socialist democratic party.

The leftist agenda seems to be either abort your child, or we'll turn him/her into a homosexual.

[Andy'smom]

This is the 2nd incident at this particular school. The 1st involved kindergarteners.

[Born Conservative]

[thoughtomator]

Educational malpractice. There oughta be a law!

[mlc9852]

I am so mad just reading this! If my kids were at that school, they wouldn't be reading any more homosexual trash to my children! I would make a very big deal out of it. This is so inappropriate that if it wasn't in Boston, I wouldn't even believe it! Disgusting.

[Roccus]

After all,it takes a village.
Or as in a previous time, the fatherland instead of the father.

[Puppage]

''King & King,"

Shouldn't it be Queen & Queen??

[Publius6961]

Although I no longer am likely to ever have more school-age children, this enrages me.
This teacher and his/her supporters should be charged with child abuse. The fact that it's "legal" doesn't matter to me, since these laws were rammed through legislative bodies by perverts who insinuated themselves into legislatures and boards.

If enough cannibals do the same thing, must we look forward to being forced to accept cannibalism as a "norm"?
What is the limit (if any) to what subjects are "legalized" in appearance and forced upon the taxpayer, the ultimate master? How does this differ from totalitarianism?

[stentorian conservative]

The hypocrisy astounds me. I would be LIVID!

[stevestras]

"She complained more than a year after Lexington parent David Parker was arrested for trespassing, because he refused to leave the Estabrook school grounds until administrators allowed him to opt his son out of discussions about families with same-sex parents. The latest incident has renewed the efforts of Waltham-based Parents' Rights Coalition to rid the state's schools of books and lessons that relate to homosexuality, and led the school system to reemphasize its stance on teaching about gay marriage and related issues as part of larger lessons on diversity and tolerance."

I didn't connect the dots until I read the whole story and saw that paragraph. This is absolutely disgusting. To legitimize a perversion that leads a child to early death is just outright hideous. To keep rubbing it in parents face is outrageous.

When will this agressiveness of indoctrination backfire? When enough parents pull their kids out? When the normal folks start an aggressive "anti-indoctrination" campaign? Never?

[Diogenesis]

Some say that Chief Judge Anthony Lewis-Margaret Marshall(S.Africa,Democrat,NewYorkTimes,SJC-Massachusetts) is considering
a law forcing second graders to experiment with homosexuality
consistent with the agenda of her New York Times masters.

[Andy'smom]

The Lexington superintendent is on the radio explaining that the book was read in the context of a discussion about "weddings". How many 2nd grade classes do you know that have a unit on weddings. Give me a break. They will try to sneak in this stuff any chance they get.