every time i read about what the disease ridden queers get away with i thank God i don't have anymore kids in the public school system!!!
Posted on 02/04/2008 4:09:08 PM PST by wagglebee
BOSTON, MA, February 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal appeals court panel has upheld a Massachusetts policy of indoctrinating elementary school students with pro-homosexual attitudes without their parents consent.
The three judge panel ruled that a lower court decision was correct when it denied parents the right to remove their children from such classes, while admitting that the purpose of the literature to which their children were being exposed was to influence children to "tolerate" gay marriage.
"It is a fair inference that the reading of King and King was precisely intended to influence the listening children toward tolerance of gay marriage," the court admits. "That was the point of why that book was chosen and used."
However, in the appeals court's opinion, this doesn't mean the children were being indoctrinated with anything. "Even assuming there is a continuum along which an intent to influence could become an attempt to indoctrinate, however, this case is firmly on the influence-toward-tolerance end. There is no evidence of systemic indoctrination. There is no allegation that Joey was asked to affirm gay marriage. Requiring a student to read a particular book is generally not coercive of free exercise rights."
The book referred to by the panel, "King and King", depicts a "prince" who isn't interested in a princess, but instead is "in love" with the princess' brother. Their "love" is portrayed in a sympathetic manner, and the two "marry" each other. They are shown kissing on the lips at the end of the book, which was read to second graders in 2006 in Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Two families complained to the school district, which responded that the school district was not obligated to advise families about such matters, and would not allow parents to opt-out. David Parker and other parents with children in the school district responded by filing a federal civil rights lawsuit. After the suit was dismissed by Federal District Judge Mark L. Wolf in early 2007, the parents appealed. Now, the Federal appeals court has rejected their appeal.
However, the families are determined to press on all the way to the Supreme Court, which is the next step in the appeals process. "We are fully committed to go forward," Jeffrey Denner, lead attorney of the Parker legal team, told the pro-family group Mass Resistance. "We will continue to fight on all fronts that we need to."
"This ruling will surely embolden and enable the schools even more on this if it's not fought," said Parker. "There's going to be an accountability, you can count on it."
Denner told Mass Resistance that he is not discouraged, recalling the St. Patrick's Boston Parade case in the 1990s, in which parade organizers sued to vindicate their right to exclude homosexuals from the event. Although local, state, federal circuit court and appeals court judges ruled against them 17 times, they eventually won their case before the Supreme Court, successfully defending the right of Americans to organize themselves according to their convictions.
Related Links:
Federal court denies appeal in David Parker Civil Rights case on homosexual programs in elementary school
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker_lawsuit/appeal_los...
History oft the Parker Case
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html
Exceprts from Book, "King and King", Approved by Federal Appeals Court
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/king_and_king/book...
Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:
Court Rules Schools Can Teach Homosexuality Without Parents Consent or Choice to Opt Out
https://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07022604.html
National Gay Groups Fight Parents Over Mandatory Homosexual Indoctrination in Mass. Schools
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06100606.html
Seven-Year-Old Beaten at School For Father's Stand Against Homosexual Activism
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06061410.html
Father of 6-Year-Old Arrested Over Objection to Homosexual Curriculum in Kindergarten Class
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042910.html
Parents Sue Massachusetts School for Promoting Homosexuality to Young Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06042802.html
Charges Dropped Against Father Who Objected to Promotion of Homosexuality in School
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05102106.html
Massachusetts Superintendent Instructs Schools: Parents Do Not Have to be Informed About "Diversity" Classes
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05092602.html
Father of 6-Year-Old Arrested Over Objection to Homosexual Curriculum in Kindergarten Class
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042910.html
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Well, then, I suppose the court approves of reading the children the nativity story at Christmastime - after all, reading a book about a kid born in a barn is not indoctrination.
This example, too, will play out in the courts. Can’t wait to hear how the distinguish the two reading assignments.
Why can’t they read the Bible then ?
Well that’s different, of course.
“...Requiring a student to read a particular book is generally not coercive of free exercise rights.”
See how they’ve got “generally” in there? This way, they can censor whatever they want.
Excellent point.
They don’t want real men and women.
Father’s and mother’s.
These people hate real families and want the state to decide the morals of children.
Undermining the family is evil.
The legislature did nothing when fathers and mother’s sent petitions to ban gay marriage. The legislature broke the law by doing nothing when faced with the petitions to make it a referendum ballot.
Take the kids out of school.
Good point!
Soooooo...carrying a Bible to school is prostyletizing, but THIS isn’t indoctrination?
Riiiiiiiiiight!!!!!!
One step closer to telling them they can’t take their kids out of SCHOOL period, now that they’re told they can’t take them out of a single CLASS.
People better wake up!
Imagine how much worse this crap is gonna get once W is gone?
Children shouldn’t be used as pawns or caught in the middle, but in this case I’d make an exception, Great IDEA!
ANOTHER IDEA IS TO CONTACT:
www.thomasmore.org
And to believe that just a mear 331 years ago this was the birth place of the American Revolution. What a shame! Pull your children out of schrool stand up for god sake! where are your rights as an American!
Why you hateful bible-thumper you! /s
Yeah, these sick freaks also schedule their depravity for family week at Disney...cute little things like that, HOPING they’ll get decked so they can prosecute YOU for hate crime!
Boy Scouts are a hate group just because they don’t accept the gay lifestyle!
If they can’t shove their agenda down American’s throats, then that means WE are shoving theology on THEM or something as insane as that!
A shame only 2 families spoke up...they need to contact : www.thomasmore.org
Good point...and soon enough we’ll have nurses and doctors forced to the promote the liberal socialist health care agenda too!
Hmmm. I wonder who the last governor of Massachusetts was?
Yup, and soon enough we’ll have yet ANOTHER Clinton appointing these creeps!
Well, from my vantage point, we pay a little more with this nation’s very soul each & every day!
Very good point..I’ve been making this point for a long time...why do sane Christian people in the majority no less, have to be forced to pay for private schools?
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Where the godless, liberal hate America first crowd in the minority are obligated to pay for this insanity?
every time i read about what the disease ridden queers get away with i thank God i don't have anymore kids in the public school system!!!
The faggots and their liberal friends will ruin public education!
The simple answer is you refuse to attend this indoctrination. Then you fight in court.
If you lose you put your kids in private school if you care about your kids.
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