Posted on 04/23/2007 12:39:52 AM PDT by dbehsman
A Christian student has been punished by his Michigan high school for demonstrating opposition to a school event celebrating the homosexual lifestyle. The boy's father, a pastor, says he's frustrated the rights of Christian students are being constantly trampled on campus.
Oakridge High School in Muskegon, Michigan, is one of many schools across the U.S. that took part in Wednesday's "National Day of Silence" -- an event promoted heavily by homosexual activist groups, which view it as a day to protest alleged discrimination faced by students who identify as "gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT)." At Oakridge High, duct tape was passed out for students to wear over their lips as a way to show solidarity with homosexual students who are purportedly suffering in silence.
John Gardner is pastor of Holton Family Life Worship Center in Holton, a community of approximately 2,500 about 17 miles northeast of Muskegon. Pastor Gardner says his 15-year-old son David, a student at Oakridge High, was suspended for a day by the school because he wrote with a black marker "I'm straight" on a piece of duct tape and attached it to his shirt. He explains that David donned the message to voice his objection to the school's participation in the Day of Silence.
"They asked him, at that point, to take it off," Gardner says, "and David [asked] why do the rest of the kids in the class get to wear theirs and I can't wear something about what I believe?" According to the pastor, the teacher then instructed David to remove the message or he would be "kicked out" of class. "And he said, 'Well then, you'll have to kick me out' -- and that's what they did," says David's father.
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A couple of hundred thousand dollars in damages ought to go a long way towards convincing them that if they allow one viewpoint, they have to allow an opposing viewpoint.
And just for the record it's a damned shame that the damages can't come out of this idiot principals pocket or pension.
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we are becoming a nation of girls.
Videos of the indoctrination of very young kids in school (one private, one public)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821506/posts
Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mil2ohzJ6gs&NR=1
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spz5yN5I2wU&mode=related&search=
I think it would have been funny if one of the male students put this tape over the seat of their pants to indicate they did not want any unlawful entry.
The world is upside down.
Let me guess-—the “teacher” was queer.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was OK for students at Des Moines, Iowa in 1969 to wear black armbands “protesting” the Vietnam War. Doesn’t that end any controversy with students making political statements?
The principal needs to be fired for lack of tolerance.
You'll be briefly pleased to learn that the principal can be named as a defendant, and held liable "jointly and severally" with the school district for any damages that may be awarded. Of course the district would then promptly indemnify him and pay all the damages ...
It’s obviously not about “diversity”, “tolerance”, “accepting other life styles”.
It’s about imposing a life style that is accepted by only a small percentage of the people. It’s about forcing acceptance and compliance.
oH, THAT IS SO SICKENING..
Bttt......
* I would pull my children out of that school.
.....the “teacher” was queer....
that is, the “teacher” was queer
I suggest this procedure be used as a daily part of the school day.
Contact the ACLU. That should be good for a laugh.
As always, those requesting “dialogue” want nothing of the sort.
The local taxpayers are ultimately the ones responsible for the attitudes and behavior of the teaching staff and administration in their schools. They have to take control and the only way they can is to sue successfully.
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