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Meet Lucy McHale, the Rosa Parks of Middle School (Girl, 14, stands up to gay bullies!)
The Stream ^ | August 7, 2018 | Austin Ruse

Posted on 08/07/2018 4:10:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

Lucy McHale, now 14, worked at the snack bar at the local pool in Olney, Maryland. One day a boy from her school leaned over the counter and told one of Lucy’s co-workers to kiss him. In today’s #MeToo environment this would be a clear violation, except the person he wanted to kiss was another boy. Because the boy demanding a kiss was supposedly gay, and because Lucy stepped in to defend her co-worker, she became the devil in the story, and the target of harassment at Rosa Parks Middle School.

Sometime later, Lucy was sitting with two of her best girlfriends at a local coffee shop, when all of a sudden, the two friends began kissing. Lucy says, “We are kind of like sisters. They were kissing on the lips. I didn’t know what to do. I told them it’s kind of disgusting and they did it again.” One of her friends announced to Lucy that she was a lesbian. Their friendship ended.

Lucy comes from a large family of faithful Catholics and was already something of a target for bullying at her school. She liked to wear her favorite shirt that says, “Women of the Womb Unite.” One boy asked her, “How are you not the most hated person in school?” She tells me, “If someone can wear an LGBT shirt, and they do, why can’t I wear my pro-life shirt?” But, Lucy found out that tolerance works only one way, that there is a favored group and she’s not in it.

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Things came to a head for Lucy this Spring when the Montgomery County School Board mandated that the schools celebrate “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride” during June. Her school’s answer to this order was enthusiastic, to say the least. It included a massive display case with pictures of “heroes” as Ellen DeGeneres, Jazz Jennings, Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Maddow and others.

In addition, the case featured several books they want the kids to read.

Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle is about Kate and her best friend Lissa who have “shared everything for four years. Then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending Lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, Lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. But with the help of a free-spirit new friend, Lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.”

Ami Polonsky’s Gracefully Grayson tells the story of Grayson Sender who “has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: ‘he’ is a girl on the inside, stuck in the wrong gender’s body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection or worse. Despite the risks, Grayson’s true self itches to break free. Will new strength from an unexpected friendship and a caring teacher’s wisdom be enough to help Grayson step into the spotlight she was born to inhabit?”

With such propaganda from authority figures even in middle school, there is little wonder that boys, who are too young to know who they are, now feel emboldened to demand kisses from other boys, or that girls are confused enough to begin kissing other girls in public places.

Lucy McHale met with her principal and asked if they could have a display case about the issue of abortion or of traditional marriage. The principal said the “Pride” display case was mandated by the board of education. Lucy saw this as the dodge that it was. The order from the board did not say they needed to put up a display case, only recognize “Pride” month. It could have been practically anything, but the principal decided to put up the gaudy rainbow display case promoting lesbianism, homosexuality and transgenderism.

The principal said they needed to make everyone feel included. Lucy said to her, “But I don’t feel included.” Lucy’s inclusion, of course, was entirely beside the point. Or perhaps it was quite the point, because certain viewpoints, Christian viewpoints, are the enemy of the new zeitgeist.

I interviewed Lucy for an hour this summer and found a charming, intelligent, engaging and fearless girl that any school would be happy to have. I also met her brother, Vincent, a hyper-articulate 12-year-old who has already delivered a paper at Rosa Parks laying out the lies of “gender identity.”

With such propaganda from authority figures even in middle school, there is little wonder that boys, who are too young to know who they are, now feel emboldened to demand kisses from other boys, or that girls are confused enough to begin kissing other girls in public places. There are no other words to describe this other than recruitment and grooming.

It is interesting to consider who is Rosa Parks at Rosa Parks Middle School. Is it the boys who demand homosexual kisses? Is it the indoctrinated kids who bully those who object? Is it the principal who does not allow competing voices? Of course, it is none of them. It is Lucy McHale who refuses to sit in the back of the ideological bus.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: abortion; arth; bullying; gaypride; homosexualagenda; lgbt; libertarians; lucymchale; maryland; medicalmarijuana; perversion; romancatholicism
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The whole political, educational, corporate-capitalist-creep and hollywood-entertainment complex is coming down with its full force and weight, to coerce our children and grandchildren into perversion.

Some fight back.

1 posted on 08/07/2018 4:10:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

They do this because it appears a lot of them like kids...if you know what I mean.


2 posted on 08/07/2018 4:11:51 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Why does anyone put up with this crap?

Home school your kiddos. There at least a dozen on-line K-12 schools that advertise locally, on-line = can be had everywhere.

(spits and walks away)


3 posted on 08/07/2018 4:16:31 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

It doesn’t sound like the school I went to. I don’t recognize America anymore.


4 posted on 08/07/2018 4:22:27 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ASOC

And what about the people who can’t afford to?


5 posted on 08/07/2018 4:26:50 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: crusty old prospector; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; ...
This world is heading towards the Tribulation (short-hand for the 70th week in Daniel's prophecy).

Old lies from the Serpent are now touted as "progressive". Well, we're certainly progressing towards what will be the Great Tribulation and eventually Armageddon. I see many liberals smirk and pretend this won't happen. They couldn't be more incorrect.


6 posted on 08/07/2018 4:29:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: crusty old prospector

This is Montgomery County MD. They’ve been teaching how to cover a cucumber in latex for decades. My daughter was permitted to abstain from the classes 11 years ago.The principal was not pleased with me.


7 posted on 08/07/2018 4:31:16 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Mrs. Don-o

This is why, living in that county, we scrimp on everything to send our daughter to the Academy of the Holy Cross.


8 posted on 08/07/2018 4:35:05 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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To: Mrs. Don-o; SaveFerris
"Pride."

God opposes the proud.

More than opposes, He hates the prideful. It was pride that corrupted Lucifer, who was God's Lightbearer.

The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 16:5:

And he hates those who are proud of their sins.

Not to be to uncouth, be these perverts declare their "pride" for men sticking their penis into the anus of another man, and women engaging in mutual masturbation. To infect little children with this madness is pure evil.

9 posted on 08/07/2018 4:36:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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More than opposes = more than this.

Sorry, trouble typing.

10 posted on 08/07/2018 4:37:14 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Smellin Salt; ASOC
Yes, with the public schools going down the toilet, and the private schools priced beyond reach, a lot of conscientious parents will say, "But we can't homeschool. We can't afford it."

And yet homeschool researchers (like Dr. Brian Ray) report that according to U.S. Labor Dept. statistics, homeschooling families are found at every level of family income.

At every level of family income.

Think of what that implies.

That at least implies that the difference between public-schooling and home-schooling families is likely not in what their income is, but in what their values are.

Some of them will be people who asked, "Will we give our kids laptops, iPods, smartphones, designer-label clothes? --- or give them a real education at home?" And they decided to homeschool.

My husband and I only had one homegrown child, and one adopted. It was all we could have in our circumstances, and getting by on one modest income (my husband's) was sometimes very tight.

But we did work out, with a spreadsheet, that were were actually saving a truly eye-popping amount of money by my NOT working outside the home. We were saving BIG on transortation expenses, clothing and the kind of grooming plusses that expected for a working woman. We were saving by eating ALL our meals at home, McDonalds only on special occasions. Plus we avoided that double-income tax category!

In fact, to a surprising extent, the expenses of having both of us working, had almost eaten up the whole second income.

So I went back to homemaking/homeschooling full time. We enjoyed it: more time, less rushing. More flexibility, less stress. More home-life, less regrets. It didn't center on our income. It centered on our values.

11 posted on 08/07/2018 4:45:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." - Billie Holliday)
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To: Smellin Salt

Can’t afford to what? About half of the schools I see advertised use the word “Free” for the tuition.

Now, if you mean both parents have to work and thus public schools = free daycare, then yes, it can be a problem.

For those folks, I have no pat answer - but, if you want to get your child out of the current cesspool that much of public education seems to have become, it will require some sacrifices from both the parents and likely for the children as well.

I was fortunate that my folks sacrificed *a lot* so that I and my siblings could receive a solid education, for that I have been most grateful my entire adult life.


12 posted on 08/07/2018 4:46:39 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: ASOC

We took a financial beating so that my wife could stay home and we could home school.

Best investment we ever made. The kid is now 34 and thanks us for it.


13 posted on 08/07/2018 4:54:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: ASOC

So I guess It’s not homeschool then, if someone else is doing it. So you’re allowing your childs education by one group of people with an agenda to be replaced by another group of people with an agenda.


14 posted on 08/07/2018 4:55:57 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: Smellin Salt

Please, don’t try to put words in my mouth.

Most States in the USofA *require* that homeschooling parents (or whomever will do he teaching) provide a curriculum or a lesson plan that meets the minimum requirements of Public Law.

Using a ‘commercial’ product allows those parents that don’t have :
The time
The education
or the desire to produce such a document - yearly - to home school and still have a good idea of what the child will have learned at the end of that road.

Contrary to your assertion, if the parent is the teacher, the child is indeed, home schooled. Your assertion seems to assume that only a single choice exists for home schooling -
that is demonstrably not the case.

May I suggest you spend some time on the web to satisfy yourself about the many choices offered for ‘commercial’ homeschooling material - and the costs, or lack there of, for those materials. /.


15 posted on 08/07/2018 5:21:08 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Smellin Salt
OUR biggest expense was paper and ink.

EVERYTHING came from Debbie's "group" .... a bunch of born again ladies from all over America that freely shared via e-mail (in those days) ANYTHING that was requested regarding educating whatever year Debbie was teaching (She home schooled four kids until cancer sent her home to Jesus in 2004)

Not only can you afford it, but you really ARE smart enough to teach your own kids.

16 posted on 08/07/2018 5:21:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

see my #16


17 posted on 08/07/2018 5:23:30 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: ASOC

see my #16


18 posted on 08/07/2018 5:24:07 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: metmom

Ping


19 posted on 08/07/2018 5:29:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: knarf

So true!

God bless you, Knarf.

20 posted on 08/07/2018 5:39:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." - Abraham Lincoln)
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