Posted on 05/22/2004 11:57:44 AM PDT by Cracker72
NEWTON, Mass. - Kate Brodoff is a freshman at Newton South High School but lately she's also been a teacher.
The 15-year-old's lesbian parents were plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit that led to Monday's legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts. Her presence lends an insider's perspective to classmates and teachers at Newton South, which like schools across the state is seeing same-sex marriage incorporated into the daily dialogue.
``Some (students) make assumptions. They think that marriage and civil unions are the same,'' Kate said after French class and before she caught a bus to softball practice. ``I try to tell them the actual facts of the case.''
Massachusetts schools have long broken ground in the area of gay rights.
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School became the first public high school in the Northeast to create a gay-straight student alliance more than 15 years ago. Today, there's one in nearly every district. And the state Department of Education has long provided grants to teach acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students.
``Schools have been way ahead of everyone else,'' said Paul Schlictman, president of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. ``We've always had gay parents. The only thing that's changed is their legal status.''
Whether textbooks or lesson plans will change to reflect the events of the past week remains to be seen. Until the state's highest court ruled in November that same-sex marriage should be legal, effective Monday, the issue was abstract.
Now, it's a reality. In a history class at Newton South this week, teacher Michael Kozuch raised gay marriage as part of a discussion of the cultural differences between nations.
``My father isn't against gays, but he says marriage is between a man and a woman,'' said one girl, who said she disagrees and has tried unsuccessfully to change her father's mind. ``I got fed up.''
Part of her dad's reasoning is because same-sex couples can't biologically have kids.
``Marriage isn't about kids,'' a boy added. ``It's about two people who love each other.''
Another girl recalled that in ``Romeo and Julius'' - a Shakespeare parody she and other classmates performed recently - the unmarried couple had no hospital visitation rights, one of the benefits married gay couples now enjoy in Massachusetts.
Outside liberal bastions like Newton and Cambridge, however, the discussion is decidedly different.
Michael Barth, a 30-year-old psychology and history teacher at Melrose High School, 10 miles north of Boston, said it's more common for his students to favor traditional marriage. Gay marriage comes up ``all the time'' in lessons on the history of discrimination, he said.
One senior said he'd shoot a gay couple if he saw them holding hands on the street.
``He didn't literally mean it, but it's important not to use words like that,'' Barth said. ``We spent an entire class period just talking about that (comment).''
Barth, who is married with a child, said he tells his students he supports gay marriage. But he said he makes sure to present both sides of any issue.
``There are some very straight-laced teachers who teach right out of the book,'' he said. ``They're just not going to be talking about it.''
For now, gay marriage discussion in the classroom depends on who's teaching.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
They are spawning them early.
The "gay-straight alliances" are essentially clubs into which gay teachers channel confused children for recruitment. The kid that resists the teacher's advances is a "homophobe," which is the second-worst thing you can be in Mass. public schools (the worst is a "Christian," always said with the sneer quotes).
In Massachusetts, "education" has in the past included extremely graphic (and enthusiastic) instruction in the mechanics of gay sex. I couldn't describe it more precisely for fear of being cast out of FR. Search the net (and site www.massnews.com) for the term "Fistgate" if you really wanna know -- but you probably really don't wanna know.
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``Marriage isn't about kids,'' a boy added. ``It's about two people who love each other.''
This is where the problem starts. An idealized and somewhat selfish vision of marriage. This kind of marriage is only valuable as long as the participants 'love' each other. Children become secondary. Real marriage IS about kids first. It's about commitment despite the problems inevitably encountered.
Whoa... a lesbian couple "raising" a lesbian?!?
Ignorant boy, who is being miseducated. Actually marriage's importance to society is *precisely* the raising of children and the continuation of civil society from one generation to the next.
The girl's father is right. But alas, the leftwing agenda in the schools will make it harder to fight these cultural battles.
My son is a small businessman, does rather well.
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``I try to tell them the actual facts of the case.''
Oh, please. The "facts" are nothing more than a regurgitation of the homosexual indoctrination they're receiving.
Kevin Jennings of GLSEN told Bill O'Reilly that their same sex marriage curriculum was "balanced." It's been documented that's untrue:
The Top 10 Reasons to Protect Students from GLSEN's Deceptive 'Marriage' Curriculum ( excerpt here )
High School Same-Sex Marriage Curriculum Anything But Balanced ( excerpt with additional documentation here )
In the text books (Genesis -the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Now these Books teach a swell how fallen man changed the itnerpretation of Gods Revealed Law -and copied the actions of wicked that did not know God. Man broke covenant--but God -being God did not break covenant.Some men
broke covenant by taking many wives -and God allowed it because of the hardness of their hearts.But Nowhere does the Bible teach such was Gods definition of "marriage"In fact when God sent his Son -the promissed Messiah-to His
chosen people.Jesus taught His Father,and Moses had taught
marriage as the union of one man and one woman. And even after Christ was murdered and raised up again the witness of the Apostle Paul did not change what God had done -did not change what the Christ had taught. MArriage is one man and one woman.Anything else is Fraud--and dilution of the
trademark institution called "marriage."Anything else may
be permitted for a time -for the hardness of our hearts.OR
God may betired of a people whose fist is forever inHis face.A stiffnecked and rebellious people. And CRY going up
from the unrepentant America may bring down a judgment like
has not been seen since Sodom ,and Gomorrah ceased to exist.
And passers by may hear Babylon is Fallen -is fallen-is fallen.And so end th elesson our children ought be taught in school-but we have been a stiffnecked and rebellious people.
Already read about that a long time back.
You are correct, I didn't really want to know that.
"Johnny, you really don't know if you're gay until you try it. Billy wants you to try it, why don't you? Just take your time. It might be uncomfortable at first, but if you use a good lubricant, it'll feel wonderful in a little while."
Think I'm joking? I wish I was. Massachusetts already has teacher's guides like that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138324/posts?page=34#34
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138324/posts?page=52#52
BTTT
That's because fags can't reproduce. Homosexuals have to recruit from one generation to the next.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - Schools in Massachusetts - A Vision of the Future?
Are we going to let the mentally ill deviants decide what "reality" is? Are we going to roll over so no one calls us "bigots" or "haters"? If we do, we're as guilty as the "gay" activists because we KNOW what's right. If we shut up and just try to live our lives as closeted conservatives, we're as good as "good Germans" who shut the windows when the trains stuffed with Jews went by.
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Well said
BTTT
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