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Posted on 02/13/2005 11:00:39 AM PST by DBeers
Attorney Claims Lesbian Teachers Using Schools to Push Homosexual Lifestyle
(AgapePress) - A California school district may be taken to court after a group of high school teachers began blatantly promoting homosexuality in their classrooms.
Recently a group of lesbian teachers in the Scotts Valley Unified School District (Santa Cruz County) started hanging pro-homosexual posters in their classrooms, discussing homosexuality in their classrooms, and providing referrals to homosexual and bisexual organizations to students questioning their sexuality. Numerous parents have complained to school officials, who said they would investigate matters. However, no administrative correction has been initiated in response to the complaints.
Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, says the teachers are engaged in a campaign of homosexual indoctrination, and are using anti-harassment laws as a soapbox for state-sponsored endorsement of their lifestyle. And they seem to be getting the support to do so, not only from the district, but from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and area homosexual organizations as well.
"We know it's a very liberal community," Dacus notes, "a very hostile, intolerant community for the rights of parents, and intolerant towards those people of faith who do not openly accept and embrace homosexuality and other forms of deviant lifestyles." Although he says PJI is not really expecting the Santa Cruz County school officials to implement changes, he says his legal group is "hoping they'll take it under serious consideration."
The PJI attorney feels the school district is being hypocritical since, even as the teachers are engaging in their pro-homosexual conduct under the guise of tolerance, posters celebrating traditional families are not allowed. However, he points out that complaints from outraged parents have had virtually no effect on the school administrators.
The officials have even ignored requests from district parents that the pro-homosexual posters be taken out of the classrooms and pinned instead on public bulletin boards where a student would have the option of reading or ignoring them, or that they be placed alongside posters showing competing viewpoints.
A Hostile Environment for Pro-Family Values A number of the dissenting parents have argued that the students are a captive audience being forced to confront high-pressure influence from militantly pro-homosexual teachers who stand in a position of authority over them, as well as from aggressive homosexual students. According to PJI's sources, a student who is not interested in joining a "diversity club" at school is sometimes subjected to obscene gestures and other forms of harassment from homosexual peers.
According to Dacus, what is happening in some of the district schools is that pro-homosexual teachers are being allowed to create a hostile environment for students who hold faith-based or traditional values that regard homosexuality as immoral. "Pro-homosexual indoctrination, unfortunately, has become not the exception but almost the rule for most California schools as well as for other schools in liberal parts of this country," he says.
But while homosexual groups and the ACLU reportedly claim this type of tolerance and diversity education is needed for schools to comply with anti-harassment laws, the head of PJI says this is misleading. He contends that U.S. lawmakers never meant to enable teachers or school officials to use the anti-harassment legislation as a tool for promoting homosexuality through the public education system.
Nevertheless, Dacus asserts, it is happening and cannot be ignored. "Parents need to wake up," he says, "and they need to realize that public education can actually be a very harmful, very damaging thing for their children if they're not careful." However, the attorney reminds pro-family citizens that anti-harassment laws were not written exclusively for homosexuals but to apply equally to all Americans, including those who hold traditional values.
PJI sent an attorney to address the trustees of the Scotts Valley School Board at a meeting held last Monday, which focused exclusively on the poster controversy. At the heart of the discussion was a complaint filed more than two years ago by a district parent regarding the display of the pro-homosexual posters in district classrooms. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that more than 400 people attended the February 7 school board meeting, which went on until almost 11 p.m.
The Scotts Valley School Board took no action, but board president Sue Roth and Superintendent Stephen Fiss planned to meet again to discuss the issue further. Roth was quoted in the Sentinel as saying she is not sure anything needs to be done, but she would hope the parent who filed the initial complaint will not pursue a lawsuit.
What do you consider "questionable?
This is pure crap! Indoctrinating children by promoting a lifestyle inimical to the children's interest has NO business in any school. It's beyond a matter of tolerance and into a proto-facist environment. The teachers are there to teach a subject. Period. The parents do have an option, which may be hard, but that is to move, for those who can afford to do so. For the others, it means raising holy hell.
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Sex: |
The category assigned at birth, usually male or female, that is determined by a combination of biological factors including genitals, chromosomes, and hormones. Not every infant falls clearly into one category or the other (see intersex below.) |
Intersex: |
Term used for people whose sex at birth is not entirely clear. Intersex infants are often born with ambiguous genitals and are surgically modified, "assigned" either a male or female sex. Many intersex people today speak out against this practice and are challenging the medical field to stop it. The old term for intersex people (hermaphrodite) is considered somewhat derogatory. |
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A person's internal sense of being male, female, or something in between or outside the two. Since gender identity is internal, it's not clearly visible to others. For transgender people, their biological sex and their gender identity do not match. |
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Person who occasionally wears clothing typically associated with the other sex. Cross-dressers are most often heterosexuals who are comfortable with their sex and not interested in changing it. Cross-dressing is not necessarily related to sexual orientation or erotic behavior. It is but one form of gender expression. The old term (transvestite) is considered somewhat derogatory. |
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(Also called "gender confirmation surgery"): Surgical procedures that change a person's genitals and/ or other body parts from one sex to those resembling the other sex. Can include "top surgery" (breast augmentations for female transsexuals, or breast reduction or removal for male transsexuals) and "bottom surgery" (the creation of a vagina or a penis and testicles). |
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Women, usually lesbians, who dress in men's clothing, often for fun or to perform. |
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Judges: 2004 Queer Youth Leadership Awards
http://www.diversitycenter.org/qytf/2004qyla/judges.html
Community leaders met on April 12th at the Santa Cruz AIDS Project Conference room to select the Awardee's for the 2004 Queer Youth Leadership Awards. The judges selected six Queer Youth Leaders, two Allies to Queer Youth and two Organizational Allies to Queer Youth. QYLA thanks the five youth and five adults who volunteered to select the Awardee's.
Kevin West
2002 QYLA Awardee
Kevin is an 18 year old FTM who sees youth and adults working to create a safe place not only for queer youth, but for everyone!
Carmelita Lima
2002 QYLA Awardee
Carmelita is a graduate of Watsonville High School and currently enrolled at Cabrillo College. She is preparing to move to Washington, D.C. where she will be volunteering in community service with Americorps.
Chris Knarr
2003 QYLA Awardee
Chris currently is a Biology major at Cabrillo College and plans to attend medical school after receiving his Bachelor's degree.
Amanda Edwards
2003 QYLA Ally to Queer Youth Awardee
Amanda is a junior at Watsonville High School and the president of the WHS Gay-Straight Alliance. She is a public advocate on Queer Youth issues and speaks to peers and adults on behalf of GSA and the Queer community.
Nirika Hernandez
2002 QYLA Awardee
Safe Schools Project of Santa Cruz County, Coordinator
Nirika is a senior at Santa Cruz High School and an active member of SCHS's Rainbow Alliance for teh past four years. She has also been a "National Day of Silence Organizer" for the past four years as well. She is currently finalizing college plans and looking for a job.
Antonio Rivas, City Council Member
City of Watsonville, District 3
Counselor, Alisal High School, Salinas
Supervisor Mark Stone
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, District 5
Former member of the Scotts Valley Unified School District, Board of Trustees
Darlene Wilcox
PVUSD Equity Team
GLSEN Santa Cruz, Treasurer
Second Grade Bilingual Teacher, Salsipuedes Elementary School
Cynthia Druley
Cynthia is a leader and member of Triangle Speakers, member of the Queer Youth Task Force, and former QYLA Ally to Queer Youth nominee. Currently a school administrator, Cynthia divides her time between her job, her partner and being a mom to her terrific son.
Paul Marcelin-Sampson
Independent Computer Counsultant and founder of the Metro Riders Union/La Union de los Pasajeros, and advocacy group for bus riders in Santa Cruz County. Paul lives in Santa Cruz with his husband Joe.
Co-chairs of 2004 QYLA Judging Process:
Zachary Davenport - 2001 QYLA Awardee
Gail Levine - Vice Principal, New Brighton Middle School
Steve Trujillo - Educator, Diversity Center Board Member
Either sue the school or pull the kids out I guess. If the parents sue, their kids will be harassed by their "teachers." If the kids are pulled out, the parents will have to figure out where they should be educated. Then perhaps after the children are removed from the fray, the parents can sue the board for school tuition.
How ironic that "liberal" is now synonymous with intollerance and hatred from the left.
No..it's not six of one, half dozen of another.....When a gay woman is a "girls gym" teacher...she can walk thru the locker rooms, and could easily observe students in various stages of dress, or undress as it may be.....Whereas a man "girls gym" teacher could not.
IF, you are a woman and you are attracted to women....you shouldn't be allowed a "free pass" to look at naked or partially dressed young women.
FWIW-
Before I learned how nasty these freaks are, I used to say "you should feel sorry for them." Sodomites and lezbeans with enough power will teach new things about what "sex harassment" is...
>They keep calling themselves Lesbians, but few of them look Greek.
Been engaged in a bit of 'lesbianage', have ya?
When you move you put your children's welfare first, and worry about the homo's agenda last.
By the way, chances are that most of these parents are liberals. They just draw the line at this kind of thing.
Now that's brilliant. Liberal parents vote into office liberals who allow homosexuals to do as they please in a school setting, and I'm suppose to do the "Oprah thing" about those liberal parents "drawing a line"? Kinda late isn't it?
I worry about the kids who haven't a say in what their idiot parents do to put them in harm's way. The adults get what they asked for.
"... Currently there is a great deal of literature going around to the nation's schools that has been prepared by homosexual teachers. This material tells children that they have "legitimate sexual alternatives." This may not create homosexuals; but certainly will contribute to any sense of insecurity and gender role doubts that are normal in children (especially pubertal and early teens).
Instead of contributing to their freedom to think and feel and explore their world; it can significantly contribute to their anxiety and confusion. Teenagers commonly experience homosexual feelings and even a homosexual experience. This usually leads to a normal heterosexual development. The preceding literature of "legitimate sexual alternatives" can only add to their doubts, insecurity and depression. It will increase the tendency toward suicide. Please recall the earlier comments about the potential organic brain effects of this type of stress.
Currently the gay/lesbian community is presenting the concept that homosexuality can be a normal and reasonable choice. The material on the subject, with that opinion, is being offered to many school systems in United States. Therefore, many students in high school and college who experience conflict and anxiety about their sexual feelings and activities with the opposite sex may take the less tension-evoking position of seeing themselves as "bisexual ."
It is not uncommon during the teenage years for individuals to struggle with their homosexual and heterosexual fantasies (both conscious and unconscious). This may even result in some homosexual activity. This is not unusual in the normal transition from adolescence to the adult world for those teens who are basically heterosexual. However, for those who are like the preceding group with marked sexual tensions, they may move to a "bisexual" defensive position, particularly when it is enhanced by some of the current literature from the gay/lesbian community.
For those teenagers who find their homosexual fantasies and feelings ego dystonic, they are more likely to more easily work through this period of tension and discomfort. Support from the gay/lesbian community in accepting their homosexual feelings as ego syntonic will make their transition to full heterosexuality more difficult and tension laden. It may take these individuals years to recognize their fundamental heterosexual position. (Socarides, 1965, 1979) What effect it has on brain development and the sexual/hormonal neuronal axis is likely to be significant..."
But don't you know, we have to have a longer school day, a longer school year, and oodles and oodles of "more" money because there is just so-oo-oo much more students have to know today?
Did you happen to read the Bergen Wretched yesterday? There was an article about a math/science magnet school in Paterson that is going to send some of its students to Europe on a class trip (what a waste of time, effort, and money). A teacher actually was quoted as saying that one of her students asked if they were going to take the bus.
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Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
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