Posted on 05/03/2005 7:03:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
Two parent-backed groups filed a lawsuit against a Maryland school district today to block a sex-ed curriculum that advocates homosexual behavior and includes a video illustrating condom usage using a cucumber.
Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, or PFOX, complain the pilot program for 8th through 10th grade in six Montgomery County Public Schools, scheduled to begin Thursday, presents sexual variations and behaviors, including homosexuality, as morally equivalent to traditionally accepted norms.
The curriculum never refers to husband and wife, but, instead, redefines family as "two or more people who are joined together by emotional feelings or who are related to one another."
Mathew D. Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, which represents PFOX and Citizens, said the school board "has been captured by radical homosexual advocacy groups whose only agenda is to promote their political goals without respect to the consequences."
"The homosexual sex-education curriculum is inaccurate and unashamedly hostile to certain Christian views," Staver said. "When sexually transmitted diseases are epidemic in some portions of the country, especially among same-sex behavior, it is inconceivable that a school board would promote such activity without presenting any associated medical risk."
The instruction includes:
* "Fact: Most experts in the field have concluded that sexual orientation is not a choice."
* "Fact: Sex play with friends of the same gender is not uncommon during early adolescence and does not prove long-term sexual orientation."
* "It is no more abnormal or sick to be homosexual than to be left-handed."
* Many religious denominations do not believe that "loving people of the same sex is immoral (sinful)."
* "Heterosexual parents are consistently not found to be more loving or caring than gay parents."
* "Jesus said absolutely nothing at all about homosexuality."
* "Religion has often been misused to justify hatred and oppression."
* "One's sexual and emotional orientations are fixed at an early age ... certainly by age five."
* "Human sexuality is a continuum."
* "Many homophobic responses are born out of a fear that one's own sexual orientation may not be entirely heterosexual."
* "It is perfectly natural to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender."
* "[A]bstinence until marriage" is detrimental to "GLBT youth."
The curriculum also says it's OK to "question our definition of "promiscuous.'" The material refers to "fundamentalists" and "evangelicals" who mistakenly believe people overcome same-sex attraction. The program thus encourages referral of these students to "sensitive clergy" who can help them "reconcile their religious beliefs."
One video used in the program features a high school girl illustrating condom usage with a cucumber, stating that condoms should be used for "any oral, anal or vaginal sex."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum featured an excerpt from the seven-and-a-half minute video on its website.
PFOX and Citizens said every teacher resource they proposed to the board from an "ex-gay perspective" was rejected.
David Fishback, board chairman and chairman of the curriculum committee, called reorientation therapy "dangerous," resulting in "extremely bad outcomes."
Any discussion that homosexual preferences may change would "be destructive," he said.
The two parents groups also argued that the curriculum's discussion of dangerous sexual activity without any discussion of its health risks violates the state law and school policies.
The board, the groups said, refused to include information regarding sexually transmitted diseases arising from same-sex behavior, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Surgeon General.
As WND reported, the Montgomery County board appointed an 11-year-old girl to the panel charged with recommending a new sex-ed curriculum.
Parents must sign permission forms for their children to participate in the sex-ed curriculum, which is part of a semester-long health education program, the Washington Post reported. Families also have the option of putting their children in an alternative, including an abstinence-only program. But the opponents argue the opt-out provision discriminates against these children because it forcibly segregates them.
I don't think they were "captured", I think they were willing coconspirators.
Sounds to me like they define family as "two or more people who are joined at the sex organs and agree to split the rent."
Don't forget the collection of showtunes, as well.
* "Jesus said absolutely nothing at all about homosexuality."
Oh, it's OKAY to use Jesus to promote homosexuality, but not to educate about his actual teachings?!?!?
It would seem the only time it is appropriate to bring up the Bible is if it can be used to excuse sinful behavior.
...but doing the bone dance with Mr. Sphincter can lead to other catastrophic health problems, AIDS being fatal.
I wonder do they have a pro-smoking class? A pro-driving while intoxicated class? These "activities" are just as harmful and preventable.
Haha. Lefthanders are sick, sick people. Those who are ambidextrous are apparently comparable to bisexuals. That's great fun.
Well, a sex organ and whatever bodily organ the party of the second part is willing to defile.
They are some sickos. I can't believe an 11 year old is on the panel for recommendation.
I was just at WND looking at that.
I have no problem with homosexuals simply because they are homosexual. Many of them are otherwise fine people. But I do have a problem with the gay agenda. It wishes to redefine everything as if homosexual relations are equal to heterosexual relations -- it does not want to slightly modify our system, it wants to replace it with something drastically different.
To my simple mind, one that enjoys side-by-side comparisons, the "mere" fact that heterosexual relations create life while homosexual relations don't is enough for me to conclude the first is infinitely superior to the second.
Well, they aren't excluding it. Same with polygamy.
* "Fact: Sex play with friends of the same gender is not uncommon during early adolescence and does not prove long-term sexual orientation."
* "Human sexuality is a continuum."
with this one?
* "One's sexual and emotional orientations are fixed at an early age ... certainly by age five."
That said, if this is true:
Parents must sign permission forms for their children to participate in the sex-ed curriculum, which is part of a semester-long health education program, the Washington Post reported. Families also have the option of putting their children in an alternative, including an abstinence-only program. But the opponents argue the opt-out provision discriminates against these children because it forcibly segregates them.
these parents are just as whiny as libs. Segregated? WTF? They have what they want! As if their silly lawsuit to shut down the program doesn't somehow segregate your kids FURTHER! If they want this stopped, they need to get the school board to end it or get elected to the board themselves. It's a policy decision--a bad one, mind you, but a policy decision. You don't sue to end those, you get elected.
"Instead of what, forcing this behavior down the majorities throat?"
May I commend you on your poor choice of words, given the topic? ROFLMAO!
That actually comes from Planned Parenthood and their role in Recruitment.
Yep, what drugs were to the 60s and 70s hippies, homosexual encounters are to the liberals for at least the last 20 years.
* "Jesus said absolutely nothing at all about homosexuality."
This is ABSOLUTELY FALSE! - Jesus read from the TORAH many times in synagogue, and most likely covered those passages that condemn homosexual acts. Jesus did not come to repudiate the Old Testament, but to fulfill its prophecy and to write the new covenant between God and man in the hearts of man (Jeremiah 31:31).
The New Testament writers so no need to repeat the TORAH that Jesus read, but instead concentrated on the NEW testament that Christ gave.
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