Kim Cariani tried to videotape a "gay day" session at her childrens' school. (Courtesy Boston Herald)
Posted on 12/17/2004 4:05:56 AM PST by ovrtaxt
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Parents kicked out of 'gay day'
Concerned mom tried to videotape event
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Two parents who objected to a Massachusetts high school's homosexual-awareness day were expelled from the campus after a mother began videotaping a session.
Brian Camenker, an activist who has a son at Newton North High School in Newtonville, Mass., and Kim Cariani, mother of two students, said four police officers and the school principal warned they would be charged with trespassing if they didn't leave the campus Wednesday.
Kim Cariani tried to videotape a "gay day" session at her childrens' school. (Courtesy Boston Herald) |
A distraught Cariani told the Boston Herald she believes the school's "To BGLAD: Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day" has no place in the curriculum.
"It's against my religion," she said. "It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face."
Camenker said the event, with assemblies and workshops such as "Out at the Old Ballgame'' and "Color Me Queer," was intended to make students feel good about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism.
"This is so incredibly objectionable," he said, according to Concerned Women for America. "The parents are so outraged that this is being pushed on their kids that they don't know what to do. To use children's minds this way without even letting the parents know is horrible."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Camenker's Article 8 Alliance is a pro-family Massachusetts group seeking to unseat the four Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices for the Nov. 18, 2003, decision that led to legalization of same-sex "marriage."
The school did not send home a note to parents about the event, a Newton North spokeswoman acknowleged to CWA's Culture & Family Institute. But she said the event is listed on the school's website and in calendars at the beginning of the year, and some e-mails were sent out.
While the event was not mandatory, she said, "Classes are scheduled to attend various workshops, but if students are uncomfortable or their parents are uncomfortable, the students can instead go to the library."
Camenker and Cariani, who kept her two children home that day, were in the audience when adults on a panel discussed being homosexual. The video recording began when one man told students he was attracted to his sister's husband.
The principal demanded Cariani turn over the videotape or leave, Camenker told the Herald. District policy prohibits taping or photographing students without parental permission.
"They took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and if we came back on the property we would be arrested for trespassing," Camenker said.
A local newspaper columnist, Tom Mountain of the Newton Tab, also was barred from the assembly "for the safety and security of the children."
Camenker told CWA he sent a copy of the event schedule to the school superintendent and all eight school board members prior to the event, advising them that parents would be at school that day monitoring activities.
At a "gay day" two years ago, Camenker said, a 20-year-old male wearing a dress spoke to students, telling them he was taking female hormones but hadn't yet had his penis cut off
Last year, a boy was suspended for making fun of another boy who came to school in makeup and a dress.
Schools in Newton, the hometown of openly homosexual Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, adopted a "Respect for Human Differences Mission Statement" in 2001, which in part says: "The Newton Public Schools will provide a climate that actively promotes social justice where children perform at the highest levels," listing amont the "human differences" sexual orientation.
The school district also is committed to multiculturalism, stating, "Effective multicultural education suggests a re-examination of the history, social constructs and dynamics related to race, class, gender, ethnicity, economics, and culture that impact curriculum and instruction. Multicultural education includes rigorous curriculum and inclusive teaching that challenges all students and staff. We are committed to developing a philosophy of multicultural education that can be infused across transformed curricula."
Camenker's Article 8 Alliance supports a Parents Rights Bill in the new Massachusetts Legislature that would change attendance rules to make sex-related programs and courses "opt-in" instead of "opt-out" and would include all school programs and activities.
Massachusetts taxpayers pay about $1.5 million annually for a Gay and Lesbian Youth Commission that aggressively promotes homosexuality in public schools and helps schools create "Gay/Straight Alliances," student clubs that press for acceptance of homosexuality.
The school's website notice about "To BGLAD" includes the long-discredited "fact" that one in 10 students is homosexual, CWA says. Most researchers place the population at only about 1 percent.
Camenker said he is working on a plan to bring in former homosexual Stephen Bennett to speak to students about overcoming homosexuality.
An outline of Wednesday's event on the district's website included these descriptions of these sessions:
This is way past disgusting.
I just knew Barney the Frank was behind this!
Well, at least they are keeping the kids away from journalists....bad influence ya know.
"Whatever happened to reading, writing and arithmetic?????"
It's still there, except now it's "redeing, riteing, & erithmatic".
MA is so far down the road on this stuff in their government schools. It's terribly sad for those parents who cannot escape the system....or don't even know how their kids are being indoctrinated.
I wouldn't let my children go to school that day. I am not a tolerant person. I don't think I am wrong though.
My oldest in is Catholic elementary school. Her sister will be following her soon. I don't care what the cost is, but my kids will NOT be setting foot in a public high school.
It's interesting that they fear the video camera. Like cockroaches fearing the switch-on lightbulb. If they're going to act this way, we're going to publicize it.
Let the sun shine in.
This is an example of how "harmless" homosexuality is. The activists want it to infiltrate every corner of society especially the education establishments for obvious reasons.
http://www.forthechildreninc.com has ACTUAL AUDIO RECORDINGS of these homosexual lessons. Make no mistake, the same recruiting materials are in use in all these public schools.
It is not enough to just pull your kids out, this is what homos want in order to marginalize dissenters. The children who remain ARE A DANGER TO ALL CHILDREN.
Well, He's behind something....
Incredible! ::::shaking head in dismay::::
The "Authorities" appear to be trying to snatch the minds, if not the bodies, of this woman's two children!
Finally, a case that could out homosexuality as a "religion".
These school administrators are an evil nest of vipers and they exist at taxpayer expense. The ONLY solution is school vouchers. I would bet that if a fully vouchered school payment system went into effect, no more than 5% of the parents in MA (and 1% elsewhere) would spend their vouchers in these x-rated "schools".
Check out 'They Live' sometime. Similar idea, but with a bit of 1984 thrown in.
Well, we can thank MA again for the current state of education, with T Kennedy's fingerprints all over the current educational triumph, No Child Left Behind. Thanks Mr. President for playing politics with the minds of children.
I don't think these people want to leave any child's behind. They're all for it.
"It's against my religion," she said. "It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face."
The State of Massachusetts is not going to conform to her religion. If she doesn't like what the state is doing, she should not turn her children over to the state schools.
"This is so incredibly objectionable," (Camenker) said, according to Concerned Women for America. "The parents are so outraged that this is being pushed on their kids that they don't know what to do. To use children's minds this way without even letting the parents know is horrible."
There is no way a parent could not know what is going on in these schools. The state will not rest until every child is indoctrinated in the new Political Correctness. It is willful blindness on the part of parents to presume that the state will respect their wishes in these matters.
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