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Montgomery County [Md.} parents won't hand over their public schools to the sex theorists without a fight. This week, two parent groups sued over their schools' new and expansive sex-education curriculum. The controversial pilot program, slated to begin as early as next week, is one of the most reckless sex-ed curricula in the nation. This is no garden-variety lesson on the birds and bees. It crosses the line from instruction to advocacy and should be sent back to the drawing board. For one, the curriculum buys into theories that sex and gender are "constructed," not discovered at an early age....

A Montgomery County school board member will sit in on sex-education classes that have prompted parental protest and a federal lawsuit claiming an anti-religious and pro-homosexual bias in the curriculum. "I do take those concerns seriously, which is why I want to see it," said Steve Abrams, the lone Republican on the nine-member school board. Mr. Abrams, who is also chairman of the county Republican Party, is the only school board member who has expressed plans to visit the new sex-education classes, a school official said.

A parents group yesterday filed a federal lawsuit to stop the Montgomery County public school system from teaching a sex-education course that the group says advocates homosexuality and dismisses religious viewpoints. "It's not a curriculum to give kids knowledge. This curriculum is an indoctrination program," said Rockville lawyer John Garza, vice president of Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC). "It's setting forth a viewpoint on sex and homosexuality that goes beyond impartation of knowledge."

The State Highway Administration purchasing official who paid $26.99 a can for windshield de-icer that costs about 97 cents at retail is still on the job and still has a government-issued credit card, lawmakers learned yesterday. SHA Administrator Neil J. Pedersen told the General Assembly's Joint Audit Committee that the employee and others who paid exorbitant amounts for janitorial and maintenance items have not been disciplined because of a pending criminal investigation. Pedersen said they have retained their credit cards - which were used to purchase such items as toilet bowl cleaner at 16 times its retail cost - because...

Pastors and parents of Montgomery County said yesterday they are uniting in opposition to a new sex-education program in high schools that they think promotes homosexuality. School officials "have definitely stepped over the line in assuming the majority of parents in this county accept this," said Tim Simpson, pastor of 500-member Greenridge Baptist Church in Clarksburg and parent of a high

This from our chairman: "On Election Day we made 60,000 calls in Montgomery County all focused on getting-out-the-vote. Altogether over the four days prior to the election plus on Election Day, Montgomery County Bush-Cheney volunteers made almost 140,000 get-out-the-vote calls. This was far beyond a record effort. It's almost impossible to believe, but we had 300 phone bank volunteers calling on Election Day out of private homes, and we had 80 to 90 phone bankers calling on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday before Election Day at our three phone banks. Bush-Cheney Campaign analyzed each and every Ohio county months ago...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Montgomery County police have charged an off-duty deputy US marshal with murder in the shooting death of a motorist last week on Rockville Pike.

COURTHOUSE - Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) students recently received a real-life lesson: Do not sign something unless you thoroughly read it.Students, who last month signed a petition that was being circulated on the Blue Bell campus to legalize marijuana for primarily medicinal purposes, now are finding out that they are registered Republicans. "This is just very disheartening," said Plymouth resident Jennifer Fugo, a 24-year-old continuing education student who describes herself as a "victim of voter registration manipulation." "Everyone is encouraging young people to register and vote and then they experience something like this," Fugo said Monday. "This is just...

Police yesterday dug up a body believed to be that of a 71-year-old Montgomery County woman and charged two more people in her disappearance -- including a man who allegedly was paid $250 to haul the dead victim in a trash can from her home and bury her under a farm shed 38 miles away. .................................................... When Sachs refused to leave, Hadl called police. On Aug. 16, police and two social workers came to question Sachs, but concluded that she could not legally be removed from the house, Driver said. "I told her to get a lock on her bedroom...

For Ohio Freepers and Bloggers, here is the link to the Blog site the Montgomery County eCampaign chair has created for Bush/Cheney '04. For people who live in Montgomery County, they are offering free bumper stickers! Montgomery County Ohio For Bush!

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s remarks last week dismissing multiculturalism as "crap" and "bunk" echoed across the state yesterday, as Democratic and Latino leaders demanded an apology and Ehrlich defended his comments as "utter common sense." In Montgomery County, the County Council unanimously passed a resolution expressing "deep concern" over the governor's "ill-chosen remarks" and suggested "the phrase 'I'm sorry' as appropriate to the occasion."

I know I'm getting started late, but do any Maryland (or in fact any) FReepers have information and/or opinions on the candidates running on the GOP primary ballot on Tuesday, March 2? We have a Senate election this year, and Montogomery County (District 8) also needs a Republican to run against Van Hollen for the US House. Information on local candidates would also be appreciated.

Montgomery County public school students who attend Monday's rally in Annapolis in support of the $1.3 billion Thornton education plan could earn credits toward the service learning credits required for graduation. Students can earn two service learning credit hours for attending the rally, said Montgomery County schools spokeswoman Kate Harrison. Students begin earning community service credits the summer before sixth grade under a state requirement for graduation. Each county sets its own guidelines for how students can earn the credits. Montgomery County requires that students accumulate 60 credit hours in order to graduate. "There are a variety of ways that...

<p>Politicians in Montgomery County, Md., struck yet another blow against U.S. immigration law on Tuesday, as the county council voted unanimously to permit illegal immigrants to obtain public services using ID cards issued by foreign consulates, such as Mexico's fraud-plagued matricula consular. County Executive Doug Duncan praised the council's vote. According to Mr. Duncan, illegals have been unable to fully participate in the American dream because they couldn't produce valid identification.</p>

Officers' safety during sniper attacks investigated Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose is facing new criticism -- but this time, it's not about his book deal. W-U-S-A T-V reports that the county's Fraternal Order of Police is investigating questions about officers' safety during last fall's sniper shootings. The report is said to be exploring the possibility that important information was withheld from officers patrolling the streets during the attacks. The Fraternal Order of Police isn't releasing any details about the investigation. Moose has also been under fire from the county's ethics commission for a yet-to-be published book about the sniper...

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Marriott International Inc. won't deny persistent rumors circulating in the Montgomery County Police Department that Chief Charles A. Moose recently was paid a substantial out-of-court settlement from the hotel chain after lodging a race-bias complaint. Police and county sources tell WorldNetDaily that Moose, who is black, allegedly complained when security at a Marriott resort in Hawaii asked to see his hotel key. He and his wife, Sandy, a self-proclaimed civil-rights lawyer, vacationed there during the Christmas holidays. Chief Charles A. Moose "It is routine for security to check people in hotel complexes in Hawaii by asking to...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D.C. SNIPER TERROR Police told suspects black from very 1st shot fired Eyewitness to Michaels store window shooting also described getaway car -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 28, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com ASPEN HILL, Md. – Just hours after the Beltway snipers shot out a crafts store window here, kicking off a three-week rampage, a pizza delivery man on shift next to the store told local police he saw two short-haired black males leave the scene – laughing and "high-fiving" each other – in a dark, older-model car, WorldNetDaily has learned. Yet the sniper task...

Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose is facing problems caused by his fame from leading the manhunt for two sniper suspects in the case that terrorized the region for three weeks in the fall. He also faces duty in the war on Iraq. He has also come under severe criticism from the Fraternal Order of Police, which says Chief Moose refused to support pay raises for county police while his annual salary was raised to $160,619, the highest for a chief in Maryland.

Montgomery County police said yesterday that they will use tens of thousands of tips from the October sniper hunt to track down those who violate Maryland gun laws.

Maryland TRT members were on the frontlines, in the cold, pouring rain, until the jublilant end! Some of the many Maryland Tyranny Response (TRT) patriots and FReepers celebrate with other grassroots campaign volunteers at the Ehrlich/Steele for Governor victory celebration in Gaithersburg, Maryland, right after the polls closed Tuesday night. Maryland TRT members worked 13 hour shifts at key swing voter polling places for the Ehrlich/Steele (R) gubernatorial campaign in Montgomery County, Maryland on November 5, 2002. The evening rush hour shifts were worked outside during the cold, pouring rainstorm that hit this area last night. This explains the bedraggled...