David versus the Bolsheviks: The Battle of Lexington Green in the Year 2005

OpinionEditorials.com ^ | Sept. 20, 2005 | Linda Kimball

[Lindykim]

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[Lindykim]

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[ElCapusto]

We're after your children!

Thanks sycophantic school "leaders" and administrators!

[MACVSOG68]

With all due respect, it would be nice to see an article which includes the whole story. I suspect something is missing on this one.

[little jeremiah]

Will ping it out later, thank you!

[AD from SpringBay]

bump - if this is true - then the tree of liberty is thirsty.

[elbucko]

Taking back the school boards, and hence the schools, is just the beginning to taking the country back from the perverts of the Left. I hope that David Parker's battle cry is heard across the country.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

The Agenda to pervert, corrupt, and disillusion our children is most insidious and must be fought with all strength.

Make no mistake about it, this is not an earthly battle, this is a spiritual battle, and must be fought with spiritual weapons. Prayer, faith, and God's Truth.

[wolfcreek]

Calling Dr. Laura

[massgopguy]

The Lexington School system violated state law by not informing Mr. Parker that Homosexuality was being introduced to the curriculum. The school committee memebers are further violating that same law by engaging in retribution against him. Where is AG Riley?

[cinives]

Nope, it's true. Read this:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/29/arrested_father_had_point_to_make/ http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/main.htm

or this:

http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/main.htm

There's only one answer - get your kids out of the public schools and cut off their funding stream. Private or religious school or homeschool only.

[adorno]

We're after your children!

Well, children do turn into adults.

So, it's better to get to them early and indoctrinate them before they can think for themselves.

Control of the schools and universities has gone to the socialists and communists. Start with the young and eventually, the young will become the adults in control of the government and social systems. Or, so they hope.

[Alter Kaker]

Conservatives calling liberals "Communists" is about as effective as liberals calling conservatives "Nazis" or "Fascists." Regardless of how apt you think the comparison is, people look at the comparison rather than at your argument, and it generally distances you from your audience. While the author may be completely right, she chooses to name-call rather than relating events in a simple, straightforward, persuasive style. I've read the article twice now, and I'm still not sure I know what happened.

[Alter Kaker]

Moreover, the article is careless to the point of meaninglessness. She says that three religious leaders supported the school. I'm not sure why she brings that up, but she does. She labels them "Marxist Liberation-Theology Preachers." Without having a clue what happened, this is obviously false: liberation-theology was (is?) a dissident movement of far-left Latin-American Catholics. Since the religious leaders she mentions aren't Catholic and don't pretend to be, they're clearly not involved in liberation-theology.

My point being, could she simply tell us what happened, instead of hyper-ventilating in print?

[Lindykim]

Nothing missing at all. Go to www.Article8.org for complete stor.

[MACVSOG68]

Thanks for the links. I did read them and on the Boston.com one got a slightly different take. Sounds like a confrontation did take place and after he leveled his demands, refused to leave. As I understand it, he was arrested for refusing to leave, not requesting that his son not be familiarized with same sex families. I suspect his motive was to provoke an arrest.

He should confront the school board and elected officials, or try home schooling if none of that works.

[mmercier]

>> I hope that David Parker's battle cry is heard across the country.

Nothing will change in Massachusetts, nothing can.

The only change here are the normal people leaving and more perverted nitwits communists and illegals moving in.

This place is a freak show of dysfunctional public sector workers and lawyers. Soon it will be only them left as the destroy the very fabric of the civilization they so hate.

[little jeremiah]

I've read pretty much every article that's appeared on FR about David Parker.

The real problem is that those who want public schools to double as indoctrination centers for (among other leftist causes) the "gay" agenda will brook no dissent - none whatsoever. And the aggressive promotion of homosexuality is first and foremost of the leftist agendas being force fed into children.

Mr. Parker's alternative methods can all pretty much be described as various appeasement methods.

In CA there is a law mandating K-12 homosexual indoctrination; from what I've read some school districts in conservative parts of the state don't pay as much attention to it as in the liberal areas. The actual alternative is finding a good private school or homeschooling. But a conscientious conservative doesn't want only their own children to be protected from lies and indoctrination; a real conservative doesn't want to see society go to hell in a handbasket.

The administration in this situation did not give Mr. Parker the respect that was due him as a citizen and a parent. It is clear that homosexual activists - not just the radical homosexuals themselves, but those who support their cause - are the most intolerant, vengeful, lying and powermad group of people we've seen in a long time.

[little jeremiah]

Well, for one thing, there have been many articles about the David Parker situation. This is not strictly a news report, it is an editorial, and the author was not attempting to write a historical rundown of everything that happened but is rather giving a summary, bringing it into a larger political perspective.

She can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think she's using the "liberation theology" not as strictly as in the Catholic Marxist revolutionaries, but in the sense of "relgious" people promoting leftist causes in general. Such supposedly religious homosexuality promoters are using their position to promote pet leftist causes, seeking "liberation" from - well, from the 10 Commandments, for one thing.

She mentions the religious spokespeople because they have been mentioned prominently in news articles. It is noteworthy that people who are supposedly representing God or trying to teach the message of God are promoting that which God very clearly states is abominable, and not just in the Old and New Testament, but in every monotheist religion in the world. I think that quite noteworthy.

And your complaint that she didn't tell you each detail of the entire story - this is an editorial, not a complete historical account of the entire situation. I think that's pretty clear.