Posted on 06/27/2007 3:44:16 AM PDT by balch3
Many of the same people who want to prohibit any mention of God in our schools are now attempting to ram the homosexual agenda down our throats. They see no inconsistency in repressing over 90 percent of our society who are believers in God while promoting a small, though highly controversial lifestyle of 1 to 2 percent of our population. U.S. District Judge, Mark Wolf threw out a lawsuit filed in Lexington, Mass. by David Parker, father of a five-year-old kindergarten student. Parker wanted to shield his son from homosexual lessons. Judge Wolf said in his ruling against this father, "Schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens." In other words, according to the judge, the state, not the parents, has the right to decide on the moral values to teach to children. Our federal judicial system is overruling the will of the people in many school districts. Judges are decreeing what is appropriate in local schools. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has exploited the Equal Access Act to legitimize homosexual clubs in public schools as another non-curriculum club. These homosexual clubs are supposed to be educational and not encourage homosexual activity. More often than not, this is not the case. In the same way, using the same ACLU reasoning, Bible study clubs should be allowed in public school. However, very few Americans believe that a Bible instructor would not cross the line into becoming an advocate of a particular religion. This is the reason why even in the Bible belt, speaking about God is not allowed in public schools. Children up until the young adult years are developing their sexual identity. They are often innocent and vulnerable to groups led by authorities that promote the alleged virtues of homosexuality. For homosexual clubs to have state sanctioned access to our children without presenting an opposing view, is not a forum for education, it is brainwashing. Public education's mission is neither to promote a particular religion or a particular sexual orientation. Public schools have been established to give all Americans an opportunity to become literate functioning citizens. American government schools are distinguished from totalitarian government schools because we have refused to dictate a specific way of believing to our students. Religion and moral values in America have traditionally been up to the parents to decide not the government. When our public schools develop curricula to change our moral values towards homosexuality, we have moved into the realm of re-education camps of communist countries. This should send a chill up the spine and spineless alike. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on March 13th, stated that adultery and homosexuality were immoral. This caused a firestorm although Christians, Muslims and Orthodox Jews consider adultery and homosexuality immoral. The old and new testaments and Koran alike condemn sexual acts between people of the same sex. Old Testament: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, such a thing is an abomination." Leviticus 18:22. New Testament: "Therefore God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and their males likewise gave up natural relations with females burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." Romans 1:26,27 Koran: "For ye practice your lusts on man in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." (7:81) Homosexuality to many secular people has no moral relevance as long as it is between two consenting adults. They view homosexuality as genetically determined although no definitive scientific evidence substantiates this claim, it is a belief. In America we are free to believe in whatever manner we decide as long as it does not interfere with the rights of others. A discrete sexual act, homosexual or heterosexual behind closed doors is not the business of our government. It is a personal choice of our conscience. Whenever the state is able to indoctrinate children into a certain belief system, parents and all of us have been robbed of our basic freedom of teaching our children what we have learned through our own lives. America has a long history of tolerance of different religious and personal beliefs. Our government schools cannot be hijacked by special interest groups to promote their agenda without undermining the essence of our freedoms, the bedrock of our republic. All special interest agendas should be heard in the free market place of ideas, in books and open discussion amongst individuals. Certainly it is not a government right to spread the secular agenda. Neither proselytizing a religion nor a homosexual orientation is acceptable in school. We must maintain separation of church and separation of sexual orientation from our children's education. Homosexual education does not belong in our schools.
Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School. Visit: www.drmaglio.com.
the vile homos are trying to indoctrinate the next generation, in accordance with their plans. If they have their way, your children and grandchildren will think it's "ok" to marry somebody of the same sex. This is what they're aiming for, nothing less than the total destruction of our Judeo-Christian way of life.
I have long said that the lobby of perversion is using their quest for “equality” as actually a quest for acceptance and approval. Now that they have the courts, media and left wing “elite” on their team, they control the instruments they need to work to get their goals accomplished.
Sorry ,but you have to be wrong we all know all queers are “born” that way. Its a Gene you know.
Yeah: and the moon is made of green cheese. They are recruiting our children, indoctrinating them with the help of school teachers.
Paragraphs are our friends . . .
unless of course, one does NOT want old codgers with aging eyes to read their posts.
Notice how gays are the ones pushing marriage these days? Divorce is up, singleness is up, and who’s pushing hardest about the *right* to get married?
Could you please spell Gene with a small g? I hate being blamed for everything.
Gay Marriage was the gateway that allowed a sexual minority unfettered access to other people’s children for the express purpose of sexualizing those children. As I said to Don Feder, there is only one reason an adult wants to teach a small child about sex.
Many of the same people who want to prohibit any mention of God in our schools are now attempting to ram the homosexual agenda down our throats.
They see no inconsistency in repressing over 90 percent of our society who are believers in God while promoting a small, though highly controversial lifestyle of 1 to 2 percent of our population. U.S. District Judge, Mark Wolf threw out a lawsuit filed in Lexington, Mass. by David Parker, father of a five-year-old kindergarten student. Parker wanted to shield his son from homosexual lessons.
Judge Wolf said in his ruling against this father, "Schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens." In other words, according to the judge, the state, not the parents, has the right to decide on the moral values to teach to children. Our federal judicial system is overruling the will of the people in many school districts.
Judges are decreeing what is appropriate in local schools. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has exploited the Equal Access Act to legitimize homosexual clubs in public schools as another non-curriculum club. These homosexual clubs are supposed to be educational and not encourage homosexual activity. More often than not, this is not the case.
In the same way, using the same ACLU reasoning, Bible study clubs should be allowed in public school. However, very few Americans believe that a Bible instructor would not cross the line into becoming an advocate of a particular religion. This is the reason why even in the Bible belt, speaking about God is not allowed in public schools.
Children up until the young adult years are developing their sexual identity. They are often innocent and vulnerable to groups led by authorities that promote the alleged virtues of homosexuality. For homosexual clubs to have state sanctioned access to our children without presenting an opposing view, is not a forum for education, it is brainwashing. Public education's mission is neither to promote a particular religion or a particular sexual orientation. Public schools have been established to give all Americans an opportunity to become literate functioning citizens.
American government schools are distinguished from totalitarian government schools because we have refused to dictate a specific way of believing to our students. Religion and moral values in America have traditionally been up to the parents to decide not the government. When our public schools develop curricula to change our moral values towards homosexuality, we have moved into the realm of re-education camps of communist countries. This should send a chill up the spine and spineless alike. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on March 13th, stated that adultery and homosexuality were immoral. This caused a firestorm although Christians, Muslims and Orthodox Jews consider adultery and homosexuality immoral. The old and new testaments and Koran alike condemn sexual acts between people of the same sex.
Old Testament: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, such a thing is an abomination." Leviticus 18:22. New Testament: "Therefore God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and their males likewise gave up natural relations with females burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." Romans 1:26,27 Koran: "For ye practice your lusts on man in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." (7:81)
Homosexuality to many secular people has no moral relevance as long as it is between two consenting adults. They view homosexuality as genetically determined although no definitive scientific evidence substantiates this claim, it is a belief. In America we are free to believe in whatever manner we decide as long as it does not interfere with the rights of others.
A discrete sexual act, homosexual or heterosexual behind closed doors is not the business of our government. It is a personal choice of our conscience. Whenever the state is able to indoctrinate children into a certain belief system, parents and all of us have been robbed of our basic freedom of teaching our children what we have learned through our own lives. America has a long history of tolerance of different religious and personal beliefs. Our government schools cannot be hijacked by special interest groups to promote their agenda without undermining the essence of our freedoms, the bedrock of our republic.
All special interest agendas should be heard in the free market place of ideas, in books and open discussion amongst individuals. Certainly it is not a government right to spread the secular agenda. Neither proselytizing a religion nor a homosexual orientation is acceptable in school. We must maintain separation of church and separation of sexual orientation from our children's education. Homosexual education does not belong in our schools. Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School. Visit: www.drmaglio.com.
“Paragraphs are our friends . . .
unless of course, one does NOT want old codgers with aging eyes to read their posts.”
I agree, but what I do sometimes is to copy the entire article and then copy and paste it onto an MS Word document. Then I enlarge the type if it’s really small. You can also insert your own paragraphs if you wish.
“[H]aving forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men, he [God] adds: `Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations were defiled, which I will drive out before you. And the land was polluted, and I have recompensed [their] iniquity upon it, and the land is grieved with them that dwell upon it’ [Lev. 18:24-25].” Eusebius of Caesarea, Proof of the Gospel 4:10 (A.D. 319).
“Notice how gays are the ones pushing marriage these days? Divorce is up, singleness is up, and who’s pushing hardest about the *right* to get married?”
I’ve been reading Thomas Sowell, “The Vision of the Anointed”. He makes an interesting point about divorce and statistics. According to this book, the rate of divorce is computed from the number of marriages in a given year and the number of divorces in that same year. This produces a misleading statistic about the divorce rate because it does not take into account marriages from previous years. People who have been married for, say, 20 years would not play a part in the computations.
“I can’t help wondering if we, the Christians and other sane thinking folks in the country will ever reach a saturation point and take back the power. Why we let such a small percentage of the people hold sway over all that is right, good and moral while we just simply let it happen...”
I agree with your frustration. I occasionally volunteer for a local traditional family type of organization. They helped to pass the Marriage Amendment in my state and do other things as well. I just do things like stuff envelopes, but it’s something.
Why don’t we brainstorm on ways to influence school children? We need to do more to counter GLSEN clubs and the Day of Silence. If you are involved in a local school, find out what books they have in the library (”King to King”, “Heather Has Two Mommies”, etc.). Are you involved in the PTA? There is strength in numbers. Find other people in your area who share your concerns. Talk to people in your church.
You can also contact Concerned Women for America. Look them up on-line and find out if they have a chapter in your state. They have a specifically Christian focus and I am under the impression that you are Christian.
I think that part of the problem is that we’re not driven like the gay activists because we’re not driven by emotional imbalances. That’s a blanket statement, but my own belief is that gay activists have either been molested when young, or have had absent or abusive fathers. Some people just want power. They gay activists are not “nice” or “fair” and they use that against people who are.
True enough.
But in a rush to read a LOT . . . that means the thread or post gets unread.
I agree it has to be extremely hard for a child to watch as two men or two women show their “Love” by kissing and petting each other without thinking that these two are “normal”.
To me it is child abuse and should not be allowed in natural mothers, much less should they be allowed to go out and purchase kids at the local adoption agency.
I always ask them why, if they have no interest in children, are so many of their efforts directed at children?
Thank you for speaking up on this topic.
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