Posted on 09/06/2002 4:38:31 AM PDT by kattracks
CNSNews.com) - Two California parental-rights groups say schools that address homosexuality in their curriculum or in after-school programs face an increasing risk of being sued by parents.
The Pro-Family Law Center (PFLC) and the United States Justice Foundation released a report Wednesday that will be distributed to parents, school districts and the state education department. The 15-page document cites court decisions, which the groups claim could be used in lawsuits to challenge schools that seek to "normalize homosexuality."
"We're in the early stages of a national campaign to homosexualize American schools," PFLC attorney Scott Lively said. "Ten years ago this was not happening. We have a generation of school kids who are the official guinea pigs in a social experiment that we believe is going to have dramatically harmful effects."
Lively, who called the report "groundbreaking," said it gives parents an avenue to challenge schools. Once parents have the document in their hands, he wants them to distribute it to teachers and administrators.
The report highlights what it claims are liabilities associated with incorporating homosexuality into a student's education. It encourages schools to abandon any discussion of homosexuality.
Lively said lawsuits could arise from any number of factors, but overlooking parental concern is chief among the risks that schools take.
"Parental rights are some of the most fundamental of all rights recognized under the Constitution," he said. "Using the general principles of law and looking at the facts as we see them unfold, it's very easy to predict what's happening here. We are going to see some of these things being decided over the next few years."
But requiring parental permission for all discussions about sexuality, as the report suggests, carries parents' rights too far, especially when it involves after-school programs, said Wayne Besen, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual advocacy organization.
"Parents don't have the right to stop young men and women from receiving the help they need," Besen said. "The parents themselves are often the threat. These [homosexual student] groups are there to help vulnerable people who are subject to humiliation and harassment get the services they need."
The Human Rights Campaign was mentioned in the report as an organization that promotes such practices in schools along with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG).
Officials at GLSEN declined to comment on the report and calls to PFLAG were not returned.
Besen said the report is the latest attempt by anti-homosexual groups to advance their political agenda. Besides, he said schools are not doing nearly enough to protect students from classmates who harass them.
"[Schools] should have a zero-tolerance policy," he said. "Any student who gets caught harassing a gay or lesbian student should be punished appropriately. [Schools] need to teach people they are entitled to their beliefs, but they should be tolerant to all minorities, including gay and lesbian students."
Lively countered Besen's arguments by claiming homosexuals exaggerate concerns about school safety to advance their own political cause.
"There is no problem with school safety," Lively said. "Schools have the authority to stop harassment by students, but you don't solve that problem by dividing them up into groups."
He suggested the best way to address the liability problems would be for schools to stop addressing homosexuality in the classroom and in after-school activities and instead to concentrate on the more traditional subjects of reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Why Johnny Can't Think.
Shalom.
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Shalom.
There it is folks. Parents don't have the right. The state will decide what child needs what "help", and what services they need.
The educational establishment thinks that parents are often the threat. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
He didn't need to. The concept is included in the broader term that he did use. What are you implying?
LOL, now we've found common ground.
Never underestimate the power of whine.
Yeah, they got us whupped in that regard. We'll never match them in the hissy fit competition.
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However, our civilization is spiralling out of control towards its own destruction. Whether this is the Biblical end time, it appears to be the end time of what we fondly call Western Civilization. Barbarians are at the gates and the center can not hold unless G-d decides on another Great Awakening. He may, but we have squandered 2 so I don't know why He would waste His time on a third.
With all that we know on the brink, I may need to be armed to defend my neighborhood or town. To that end, I'm not looking at a weapon of self-defense, but a weapon of war. What form that may be I have not yet decided as I have not yet decided to pursue this thought beyond rambling on Free Republic. But that may change sooner than I like to think.
Shalom.
Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse
God Save America (Please)
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This is why the homosexual advocacy groups want to take parents out of the picture by both keeping them in the dark about the pro-homosexual activities in the schools and by discrediting their ideals where ever they can. Keep up the good work!
As for me, my wife and I have given up on government schools and gone to homeschooling. That doesn't mean we bury our heads in the sand and ignore what happens in the government schools, though. We are just as outspoken as we always are because there are many parents who do not recognize the dangers that lurk there.
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