Posted on 10/12/2005 9:21:02 AM PDT by pabianice
Well, yesterday (October 11, 2005) was "Gay and Lesbian Coming Out Day" in Massachusetts public schools. According to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, "“Talk About It” will be the theme of this year’s National Coming Out Day, to be celebrated on Oct. 11, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced today. HRCF’s Coming Out Project is an ongoing campaign to empower gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied Americans to live openly and honestly about their lives. Every single time we talk about our lives as GLBT Americans, we are another step closer to equality,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “Each word helps build bridges that change hearts and minds — and eventually our laws.”
I know few people who believe that gays and lesbians should be denied the basic civil rights the rest of society enjoys. But many have a big problem with public schools forcing the gay agenda upon teachers and students. My friend -- who works as a "permanent substitute teacher" -- was presented with her ribbon upon reporting to school yesterday and "strongly urged" to wear it. She does not agree with the militant gay and lesbian agenda, nor does she support "encouraging the coming-out" of school kids in an oppressively MoveOn.org atmosphere wherein kids may be forced to accept such an agenda or risk being ostracized and even persecuted (yet another form of reverse discrimination). For teachers -- especially those without tenure -- failure to publicly embrace a social radical agenda may mean unemployment and being blackballed within the teaching community as "politically incorrect."
Let's imagine a state policy wherein there is a designated "Military Support Day," during which all school students and faculty are required to wear an American flag pin and spend an assembly discussing how failure to support the armed forces is unacceptable and reason to be ostracized or even be fired. The ACLU would hit that school so fast and hard it would leave skid marks on the street and the concussion would be heard for 50 miles. How about a "Pro-Life Support Day" during which all are required to wear tiny fetus pins and attend an assembly in which those who support abortion are excoriated and called "damned baby killers"?
Gay and Lesbian Student Coming-out Day as public policy is simply wrong and yet one more example of a political Left that is still taking its marching orders from greying ponytailed professors, Starbucks Marxists, and the pinch-mouthed bigots who hide their intolerance under the umbrella of "diversity."
ltn72@charter.net
Just another answer to the question, "Why do I homeschool?"
I wonder how fast the ACLU could be mobilized if teachers were required to wear "Abortion Is Murder" pins?
One of a million. I know. We do it, too.
Could you imagine the outcry if they did this with a cross?
As a retired school teacher, I remember being "strongly urged" to donate to Unicef and the United Way every year, and I didn't do it--just said "No." The person overseeing the fundraisers made faces, but I was never ostracized by the entire school or anything, and never lost my job over it.
Substitutes, it is true, might lose their status in the system if people got to talking, but is there really a concerted effort to fire teachers over not wearing little rainbow ribbons?
I know a good many public school teachers whom you could never force to do this.
Ditto and BTTT
The solution? Don't use public schools! It's a bad product, buy elsewhere.
Public education is an oxymoron. And there is no Constitutional authority for the Department of Education. Congress does not have the authority to spend one nickel for the education of anybody's children.
Beyond the puckin' fale. Force, eh?
While the school cannot take action against a teacher who declines, the whole atmosphere reeks of coercion.
On this day next year, I wonder if the teachers will be encouraged to perform lewd homosexual acts in the restrooms. Condoning and supporting it is just as bad as the act itself.
"But I don't want to wear the ribbon." - Kramer
Seems a day does not pass that something is not brought to my attention that resassures me that homeschooling my children was definitely the right thing to do!
Fits with the NEA.
---I wonder how fast the ACLU could be mobilized if teachers were required to wear "Abortion Is Murder" pins?--
A fetus is a person without any rights, according to the ACLU......
Good remark, by the way!
...and I know many of them who would laugh their asses off at and give the finger to anyone who tried to force them to do this; I am one of them.
So the teachers are supposed to help recruit another generation of LBGTs?
This is political indoctrination pure and simple!
Unreal!!
Now if the teachers had been forced to say a prayer with their class all he__ would have broken loose.
This is not right!
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