Posted on 07/15/2005 8:46:10 AM PDT by scripter
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing school districts in California and Kentucky in an attempt to force them to conduct mandatory homosexual appreciation sessions for students and staff.
In south Los Angeles, the ACLU of Southern California, along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), reached a settlement requiring mandatory attitudinal training at Washington Preparatory High School.
“The training is a model for the state,” said Christine Sun, staff attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, in a press release.
The sessions, according to the NCLR release, include: “mandatory day-long faculty training on diversity, discrimination and harassment, focused primarily on issues pertaining to actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Some teachers, in discussions with students, reportedly called homosexuals “sinners,” “wrong,” “unholy,” “not supposed to live like this,” and “faggot,” according to the ACLU. The training will be conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, which produces materials that castigate Christians and others as bigots for not accepting homosexuality.
Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the ACLU went back to federal court on July 6, claiming that Boyd County High School has not lived up to a 2004 settlement that forced the school to conduct mandatory “anti-harassment training” focusing on “sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.”
After the settlement, which also established a “gay-straight alliance” club, parents pulled many of the students out of school on days when training sessions were scheduled. The students were given unexcused absences and not required to make up the sessions. The ACLU noted that about half of middle school and high school students attended the mandatory sessions and that an hour-long video dealt with bullying issues in general instead of focusing on “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Before the settlement, school officials who had opposed the “gay” club and the new policy said they would teach students mutual respect without focusing on homosexual issues.
"The ACLU continues to use a law license to bully school districts and harass parents in order to brainwash their kids about the 'normalcy' of homosexuality," said Jan LaRue, Concerned Women for America's chief counsel. "Having them dictate the content of anti-bullying training makes as much sense as having Bill Clinton teach abstinence classes."
In February, the Alliance Defense Fund sued the Boyd County Board of Education over the settlement, contending that it amounted to a First Amendment violation of the rights of students whose faiths tell them that homosexuality is wrong.
Parents, led by the Rev. Tim York, pastor of Heritage Temple Free Will Baptist Church, called the training “a form of recruitment” for homosexuality, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. “They (the ACLU) want to control the district,” York told the newspaper. “They don’t believe in parental rights.”
For more on the ACLU, read ACLU: Guardians of Liberty or ‘Card-carrying Hypocrites’?by Jan LaRue, Sarah Markwood and Megan Roberts.
Indeed. If only folks would stop pushing the sexuality for all to see. Here's a message to those who flaunt their sexuality... "We don't want to know!"
Probably, the ACLU is like a terrorist group, they attack little obscure towns that don't have the funds to defend themselves. Then when they cave to the Mighty ACLU's demands they have a precedent for future cases.
Hey, you and I think so much alike are you sure we're not twins ?
There were a number of folks saying just that a few months ago. The school didn't have the funds to fight the ACLU...
Bring back stoning.
What are they gonna do? Take the kids on a field trip to a bathhouse?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Some laws need to be change with respect to the ACLU.
If I was forced by judge's order to do this training, I most definitely would include as much language as possible about the high death rates of gays with aids, show pictures of these people withering away.......literally anything possible (within reason for kids) to show how depraved this lifestyle can be.
Believe it. - and the p-whipped citizenry go along with it.
George Orwell might as well have stayed in bed for all the good his writing did, except as a 'Tyranny For Dummies' handbook.
"I'm only worried about what God thinks about it. Ta heck with the aclu."
I think He told us... Sodom and Gomarrah.
So I am guessing that wouldnt be the right venue for my KY joke.
Not KY! But definitely for your Al Queda jokes.
The ACLU is funded by these guys and the nation-states behind them.
"Hey Guys! I got an idea! Let's use their freedoms to defeat them!...the dumb infidel Crusaders! Let's hire the ACLU!"
I'll bet you're taller.
Seriously, this would so easily be handled by addressing behaviors instead of attitudes. Simple rule: "Everyone, teachers and students, will behave politely toward everyone else at all times." If you want to "hate" someone because he's black, tall, short, smart, or homosexual - fine, hate him, but you'd better behave politely at all times, or you're (detention, suspended, expelled, in quick sequence.) No worries about "respect," "tolerance," or any other mind-control nonsense.
They might end up getting leftist judges to force 'homosexual appreciation' classes, but they can't force parents to send their kids to school that day.
I remember reading something about forcing kids to attend diversity training (or something similar) at some schools. Maybe EdReform remembers the article.
"I think He told us... Sodom and Gomarrah."
I've told people tons of time, you think God destroyed Sodom and Gomarrah because they couldn't do pizzas right? Fearing God is the begining of wisdom.
Exactly. Kentucky.
There was an article posted not long ago that talked about how people were moving away from the cities and to the suburbs -- beyond even that to the country to escape this liberal disease/plague that has infested the more urban areas. The only problem is that now, with the urban areas more or less conquered, they've set their sights on the rest of us.
Kentuckians are sick of it. I don't know of anyone (including the gay man I work with) who approves of what they're trying to (pardon the expression) ram down our throats. And some of these good old boys just may only take it for so long before they make it clear that crap isn't welcome here.
But then there are some people like my dear mother-in-law whom I love, but is a dingaling, that say, "That'll never happen here." And the crazy thing is that I keep showing her evidence to the contrary, but she keeps chanting that mantra. Oh well, at least she isn't a yellow-dog democrat. We've got quite a few little pockets of those still around.
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