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Sex-ed fliers cause ruckus
The Washington Times ^ | 7-17-07 | Kristen Chick

Posted on 07/17/2007 11:07:53 AM PDT by JZelle

Montgomery County public school employees censored and discriminated against a group opposed to the county's new sex-education curriculum, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney said yesterday in a letter to the county school board president.

Teachers and a principal violated the First Amendment right of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, known as PFOX, by encouraging students to throw away the group's literature, said Jeremy D. Tedesco, an attorney for the conservative legal group, which is often involved in issues of religious freedom.

Teachers and the principal at Winston Churchill High School put the group's name on school trash cans and told students to throw away its fliers, Mr. Tedesco's letter stated.

"The problem here is that they've targeted PFOX because they don't like their viewpoint on homosexuality," Mr. Tedesco told The Washington Times. "It's a back-door approach to religious discrimination."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: education; homeschool; montgomerycounty; sexed
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"One from a Montgomery County Public Schools e-mail address accused the group of being "like the KKK but only in the form of religion."

More liberal hypocrisy

1 posted on 07/17/2007 11:07:57 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

doesn’t sound like censoring.. if they’d censored it, the students never would have had them.


2 posted on 07/17/2007 11:17:44 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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“It’s a back-door approach to religious discrimination.”

Heck, you don’t have to be “religious” to KNOW beyond any doubt that no one is “born that way”, there is no “gay gene” and males pretending to be “female” and females pretending to be males (dikes) are NOT NORMAL!

3 posted on 07/17/2007 11:18:04 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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“It’s a back-door approach to religious discrimination.”

Given the subject, this might not have been the best choice of words.


4 posted on 07/17/2007 11:20:35 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: JZelle

Sodomites have rights too. ( sarcasm off )


5 posted on 07/17/2007 11:21:41 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: JZelle; Jersey Republican Biker Chick
The sender says he is a homosexual teacher at Thomas S. Wootton High School and is "appalled" at what the group is doing.

OMG! That's my old school! I'm totally sure that it's Mr. Lasco! That guy really creeped me out, but the weekend "study sessions" he used to organize for the males in the Drama Club really had a smarmy vibe that I could pick up even in my youthful innocence...

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

6 posted on 07/17/2007 11:22:35 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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males in the Drama Club

You are one of "them"?

7 posted on 07/17/2007 11:25:57 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: JZelle
Liberals have NO morals.

Yes, it’s more CENSORSHIP!

Liberals are tyrannical dictators.

8 posted on 07/17/2007 11:31:05 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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“It’s a back-door approach to religious discrimination.”

You: Given the subject, this might not have been the best choice of words.

AGAIN, you don’t have to be “religious” to have common sense and SEE that homosexuals are NOT normal and MANY have come to their senses and turned away from this hideous lifestyle CHOICE.

9 posted on 07/17/2007 11:32:32 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Meanwhile, Lasco is on the hunt looking for innocent young boys in the drama club. Homos LOVE the arts since that is more SUBJECTIVE.


10 posted on 07/17/2007 11:33:58 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Clam Digger
Oh man, was I ever right!

I would like to quote Mr. Lasco, who recently told me that "I did not spend 2 years in the military fighting for the flag, I spent 2 years in the military fighting for the right to burn it."

http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=971

You are one of "them"?

No. I was in the knitting club. We were all dead butch.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

11 posted on 07/17/2007 11:34:27 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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“AGAIN, you don’t have to be “religious” to have common sense and SEE that homosexuals are NOT normal and MANY have come to their senses and turned away from this hideous lifestyle CHOICE.”

Get a sense of humor. I referring to the fact that they used “back-door approach” in a story about homosexuality. It was NOT a serious comment.


12 posted on 07/17/2007 11:45:36 AM PDT by gracesdad
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“...he is a homosexual teacher...”

What department covers that subject? History? Math? Language Arts?


13 posted on 07/17/2007 11:48:52 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: gracesdad
Sorry!

I apologize.

I’m so sick and tired to homosexuality being rammed down our kids throats as normal and anyone objecting to it as abnormal or “homophobic”.

14 posted on 07/17/2007 11:49:07 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Just thinking that if this group really were like the KKK some of the teachers and a couple of principles, maybe evena board member or two would have been lynched by now.

The others would be much more polite.

15 posted on 07/17/2007 11:50:10 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: absolootezer0
It's a public school. The teaching staff and administrators are agents of the state, that is, the government.

When the government trashes the message that's censorship. When a private party does so, it's not censorship (under the Constitution).

The teachers in Montgomery county, even the gay ones, are going to have to give up fascism. I know it's going to be tough for them to do so, but it's for the children!

16 posted on 07/17/2007 11:52:19 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Grimmy

Liberal arts.


17 posted on 07/17/2007 11:52:37 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: JZelle
"It's a back-door approach to religious discrimination."

Maybe I am missing something here, but religious discrimination is when you discriminate against a person or group due to their beliefs. Since when did homosexuality become a religion?

Setting aside the whole idea that religion dictates homosexuality is a sin...there is also the matter of "biological incompatibility" and the "yuck factor". And I ain't going to delve any further into that topic, LOL!

18 posted on 07/17/2007 12:01:09 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Owl_Eagle

You still plan on going to the class reunion this October? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look at ole “Let’s Go” Lasco the same way again.


19 posted on 07/17/2007 12:06:30 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: nmh
homosexuality being rammed down our kids throats

That may not have been the best choice of wording either!

20 posted on 07/17/2007 12:16:44 PM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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