Posted on 12/19/2005 5:23:36 PM PST by wagglebee
(AgapePress) - A Maryland school board is under fire for placing members of three pro-homosexual groups on its new Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development (CAC). Among the groups represented on the committee are the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and Teach the Facts, a homosexual advocacy group whose founder has close ties to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
Members of a conservative parents group called Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC) are criticizing the Montgomery County Public Schools ((MCPS) for the pro-homosexual appointments to its advisory committee. Also, CRC says a settlement agreement they reached with the school board guarantees them a chair on the committee, yet the board is not allowing the group to designate its own representative.
Michelle Turner, a spokesperson for CRC, says the Montgomery County Board of Education has apparently not learned its lesson from a recent lawsuit that led to the demise of its biased sex-ed curriculum. "We don't quite understand why the school system is going back to having these representatives on this advisory committee, which is supposed to be representative of the community," she notes.
Last May, a federal judge blocked implementation of a sex-ed curriculum approved by MCPS for 8th-grade students -- a program intended for use in discussing homosexuality, transgenderism, and bisexuality. The temporary restraining order issued by the judge was the culmination of a lawsuit filed in federal court by CRC along with the Virginia-based Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), a group that offers support for people struggling with unwanted homosexuality. In their lawsuit, CRC and PFOX charged that Montgomery County's sex-ed curriculum presented a one-sided view of homosexuality and that the program showed favoritism towards certain religious groups' views of homosexuals.
After the federal judge issued the order blocking the curriculum, MCPS school officials suspended the pilot sex-ed program, and the parties on both sides of the case agreed to work together to try to settle the matter out of court. According to an MCPS press release, the Montgomery County Board of Education approved a settlement on June 27 in which the school system agreed to a number of changes in the controversial sex-ed curriculum.
Among the various amendments the settlement stipulated was one stating that references to specific religious denominations with regard to sexual orientation cannot be noted in the revised curriculum. Also, the agreement provided for both a CRC and a PFOX representative on the newly established Citizens Advisory Council.
The CAC is scheduled to have its first meeting today. Turner says Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum plans to continue monitoring the situation to ensure that the terms of the settlement agreement are met. In particular, she notes, "We want to make sure that the Board of Education develops a parent permission form that is easy to read by any parent who is receiving one from their student, that specifically spells out exactly what their child will be exposed to in the classroom."
They will NEVER learn their lesson, the homosexual, pro-abortion, anti-Christian agenda takes precedence over everything for them.
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Let the athiest state raise your kids and you'll have very open minded open sexual kids for it.
Send your kids to Private school before its too late.
Montgomery County social engineers strike again.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Very bad news. There must be something very rotten in this county. Local people should find out who is trying to pervert the schools and toss them out of whatever position he/she/they hold.
I'm of two minds. On one had, we should fight within the system, each doing what we can, to shine the light of truth in the darkness, change policies/laws and practices so that moral absolutes are promoted. OTOH, I feel as though it's too late and the leviathan cannot be fixed. Either way, kids need to be protected from predators, propaganda, and the extremely bad influences that saturate most public schools.
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This is Montgomery county again . If Wagglebee in Post one thinks that the sex biased curriculum is dead he is wrong, it will come up again.It was just defeated last time it will appear again as sure as I sit here. It will be a little more subtle, but it will get the Camels nose under the tent and go from there.
"concerned"??
Concerned is what you feel when you forget to bring a raincoat and the skies cloud up.
If the local schools around here began hiring homo's with an obvious effort to sway my kids I'd be more than concerned.
I'd be flaming, boiling mad, mad enough to storm a freakin school board meeting with threats of legal action.
"Among the groups represented on the committee are the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and Teach the Facts, a homosexual advocacy group whose founder has close ties to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)."
The usual culprits at work again - NARAL, PFLAG, and GLSEN. Wonder why the school board did't invite NAMBLA as well? The list of perverts would have been complete then.
Good grief...when leftists and homosexuals have taken over your school board, it's high time you stop fighting over your deck chair on the Titanic and get your kids out of that school system. At that point, it isn't about political power. It's about losing your child's soul to the dark side.
Then, he made school boards!
The above apparently came from Mark Twain decades ago. So in more than a century, Twain's apt description still applies!
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