Posted on 04/19/2002 10:44:06 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
A school district in California is facing a federal lawsuit after representatives from Planned Parenthood were brought in to address a health class without parental notice.
School administrators at Arcata High School invited guest speakers from Planned Parenthood to address the freshman class. The topic to be covered was sexual education -- but more specifically, "homophobia" and homosexuality.
Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute says what took place during the class amounted to religious-based harassment.
"Planned Parenthood put all the kids in a circle and then they would ask them questions. If they answered the questions correctly, the children got to leave the circle and watch and look and stare at the quote-unquote ‘intolerant’ kids inside the circle," Dacus says.
"Inside the circle, the final question asked of the children was, ‘Do you have religious beliefs that ... homosexuality is a sin and therefore wrong?’ There was [sic] three girls who were left in the middle of the circle feeling very demeaned, very put down."
Dacus says such exercises are all too common in California schools. "These kinds of programs are becoming the norm, not the exception," he says. "They’re becoming much more the rule, and that is why it’s so important to protect our children from this kind of stigmatizing trauma that’s taking place against Christian kids with Christian family backgrounds."
Dacus says the exercise violated both state and federal law when it was performed without prior written parental consent. The parents of at least one Christian student are considering legal action against the school district.
A good idea. Those who participate in such perverted bullying of decent kids should face immediate consequences.
But there should also be an all out legal attack on the organization. This type of program, obviously, has nothing to do with planned parenthood. Indeed, it makes a total mockery of the concept of parenthood, at all.
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I'm probably preaching to the choir with you, but this just proves again to me why Christians ought to homeschool. Sending Christian children out before they have on their full armor is irresponsible. Had these girls had on their full armor, they would not have had these feelings of being demeaned and put down. On the contrary, they would be rejoicing!
The school isn't responsible for how these young ladies feel...their parents are. If their daughters come home traumatized from the experience, the parents should seek God's forgiveness for sending out their offspring unprepared and keep them home till they are prepared.
I believe that our children, if given time to learn the Word and have it fixed firmly in their hearts, can literally change the world. And I believe that can be at an early age. But it's up to the parent to determine when their child has reached this age. Obviously, these girls had not. /rant
Banned Parent hood.
But you're right. As one put it, sending our kids to state schools these days is like sending a six-year-old to an enemy indoctrination camp for six hours, five days a week. Not wise.
Dan
Anyhooo....Several Christian kids who were appalled by the woman tried to leave the auditorium and were told they couldn't. Someone videotaped the program and passed tapes around town. The parents brought a lawsuit and lost. I hope these people make out better.
Now, I homeschool my children, but I have worked on campaigns to get good conservatives elected to school boards. Perhaps that is what you're talking about doing. But, keeping your child in that school to save the others is not the thing to do. You will probably end up saving no one and your child may end up damaged permanently.
"because of your religion, culture, ethnicity, economic class, political beliefs, etc. you think this way, so therefore you must be intolerant".
Yes...
However some might refer to it as the 'Kennedy's-@ss-Kissed-For-Nothing Act', OR, the NEA's 'Funding-For-Indoctrinating-The-Next-Generation' Act.
Exactly! I've got 30 years of bible study in my heart and this would be such an opportunity!
My Matthew, reading with me, thinks similarly — and he's 15, having been HSed for ~9 years.
Yes! And there are even the occassional young persons in schools that already have to full armor on and stand proudly for what they believe, knowing they will often be demeaned. I think I was probably one of them...but the tests back then were not so hard.
They want to do this sort of thing starting in elementary schools.
My point exactly. My six year old Matthew is right now in the "green house" if you now what I mean. Before he can go out into the world, he needs to grow in the Lord. Then we'll need to find ways to harden him off (speaking all in gardener terms...we're gardeners you know!) I'm so excited to see what he will become when the process is completed successfully.
Tell your Matthew that I'm delighted he found my post worth reading!
Maybe a better parallel to my life-as-it-now-is would be to think in terms of a seminar at work. I work at a place that does occasional diversity "things." There is a "gay" presence, though it hasn't been too loud or obnoxious in my building.
But I could conceive of something like this being done, and my being faced with a decision. Being singled out like this could conceivably be threatening to my job, a job my family depends on. It would be a hard choice — though I don't believe I'd hesitate. (Peter teaches me not to boast too loudly over trials I haven't yet endured.)
Loss of esteem and friends, at that age, would be comparable. It's a rough go; at any rate, it isn't why Christian parents who use state schools send their kids to school. They just need to understand that the school's image of its mission has changed radically, to the point where it is becoming incompatible with responsible Christian parenting.
Dan
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