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Dad arrested while protesting sexually graphic book assigned to 14-year-old daughter
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Tue May 06, 2014 18:09 EST | Ben Johnson

Posted on 05/07/2014 9:40:02 AM PDT by topher

GILFORD, NH, May 6, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The father of a Gilford High School student was arrested at a school board meeting on Monday night after objecting that the school had assigned his 14-year-old daughter to read a pornographic book without his knowledge or consent.

William Baer, an attorney who moved to New Hampshire from New Jersey, registered his complaint about the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, which includes a graphic depiction of sex between two teenagers, at the local school board meeting.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: court; highschool; homeschool; homeschoolping; newhampshire; pornography; yesterday
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Arresting because of violating Political Correctness more important than protecting children...
1 posted on 05/07/2014 9:40:02 AM PDT by topher
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To: topher
Maybe the good news in this is that the father is an attorney.

He may literally make the School Board pay for this...

2 posted on 05/07/2014 9:41:23 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher
One of my mother's many encounters with whacko nuns involved one who had assigned The Joy of Sex to the freshmen in her Catholic high-school religion class.


3 posted on 05/07/2014 9:43:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yikes! That’s awful - an awful book, too.


4 posted on 05/07/2014 9:44:29 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: topher

“But both the Laconia Daily Sun and the Manchester Union-Leader declined, saying it was unfit to print due to its graphic content.”

The sexualization of our children by the left continues.


5 posted on 05/07/2014 9:45:07 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: topher

Had the father given this book to his child...he’d be in prison....

What is happening in this country?


6 posted on 05/07/2014 9:47:23 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: topher

Sue and press charges against the teacher, school and schoolboard to forcing the child to experience pornography.


7 posted on 05/07/2014 9:52:44 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: RedMDer

Why not the cop, too?

Our side needs to get much tougher and make examples out of people like this. Ruin their lives, Run them into bankruptcy. Break up their marriages. Make their children cry.

They do it to us.


8 posted on 05/07/2014 9:54:35 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: topher

It’s on their reading list:

https://sites.google.com/a/sau73.org/ghs-media-center/


9 posted on 05/07/2014 9:55:28 AM PDT by polymuser
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Among the reading list many many years ago when I was in High School was...

Portnoy’s Complaint
The Catcher In The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Yes I Can (Sammy Davis Jr.)
The Autobiography of Malcom X


10 posted on 05/07/2014 9:57:47 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Ted Grant

BUMP!
The ‘only doing their job’ defense is a bunch of bull as was shown in Nuremberg.


11 posted on 05/07/2014 9:58:40 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: topher
What we have is a conspiracy between the Courts, Law Enforcement and the two major political parties to use an ever expanding governmental bureaucracy to strip citizens of their freedoms, reduce them to serfs of the state, and to impose globalist values on America.

The system is broken and as long as Americans are apathetic enough to allow it to continue to be so, incidents like this will continue to occur.

12 posted on 05/07/2014 9:59:11 AM PDT by ZULU (Devil Patrick FREE Justina Pelletier!!!)
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To: illiac

What is happening in this country?

*********
The same thing that happened to Rome.


13 posted on 05/07/2014 10:01:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ZULU

I think we have a conundrum of epic proportions here.

How does one address the apparent “apathy” without coming off looking like a nutjob? By this I mean the following;

If a person reacts violently to this, if they’re not killed outright, they’re disowned, vilified, etc by both sides...yet if one can’t go through the system since it’s apparently corrupt, what is the recourse?


14 posted on 05/07/2014 10:08:36 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: topher

The dad is going to be on Megyn Kelley’s show tonight.
I hope he can sue them all.


15 posted on 05/07/2014 10:09:18 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Blood of Tyrants
LiveLeak published a few brief excerpts from the book. I wouldn't post something like this on a respected forum such as FreeRepublic, but if it's deemed acceptable to 14-year-old girls by the government-run school, then I suppose we adults should be able to handle it. (My apologies in advance to Jim Rob and the moderators, but it's important that we see why the school board members who had the concerned father arrested for speaking out refused to read the passage in the meeting.) Remember, this is considered acceptable for young teens by a public school board and not requiring parental notification.
From LiveLeak:

"Relax," Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.
... She couldn’t remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matt's back to bring him closer.
"Yeah," he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. ... (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.
Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her.

I'm far from being prudish, but this has no place in a middle school.

16 posted on 05/07/2014 10:10:42 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: topher

Arrested for being a MAN. The education establishment hates true men.
The soviet union had the KGB. The USA now uses the police to enforce political correctness.


17 posted on 05/07/2014 10:19:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

“The soviet union had the KGB. The USA now uses the police to enforce political correctness.”

Based on what we’re witnessing on a daily level here, I don’t see a difference.


18 posted on 05/07/2014 10:29:38 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: topher

A story that plays into where we are now bears recitation. I’m working from memory here and some of the details may not be precisely correct but the take away message has stuck with me all these years.
In August, 1977, a small church in Louisville, Nebraska – Faith Baptist – was raided by armed agents of the state Department of Education for running a Christian school. The ostensible reason for the raid was that they were NOT adhering to the state “requirement” that ALL schools and teachers be “certified” by the state. A judge issued an order that the school be closed. They remained open and the raid ensued. The teachers and 17 students children were terrorized as they were held at gunpoint on the floor. The pastor, one Everett Sileven, was arrested and held in jail for some time.
Public pressure forced his release and he began a crusade the effects of which are still felt today in the Christian and home school communities.
Here’s the take away message about which I have the clearest memory: Pastor Sileven appeared on a TV debate program to defend his church school. Also there was an official of the Nebraska Department of Education.
At one point, either the moderator or Pastor Siliven turned to the school bureaucrat and asked the real reason why the state had such a problem with their small church school?
Without missing a beat, through a sneer anyone who has visited the DMV will recognize, the bureaucrat declared (and I’m paraphrasing):
“Because you are denying the state schools needed money. And because you are educating children outside the public school system, in the world we’re designing for the future, THEY WON’T FIT IN!”
Dwell on those last 4 words for a moment.
If you’re curious about just what that world they were designing might look like, LOOK AROUND.
You’re living in it!!


19 posted on 05/07/2014 10:33:59 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: glennaro

Surprised the feminists haven’t protested the “pinned” arms and covered mouth. Sounds more like rape to me.


20 posted on 05/07/2014 10:59:14 AM PDT by huldah1776
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