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.
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Homeschool bump!
If you can't legislate it, get the black robed dictators to make it happen!
Indeed. Yet another reason to homeschool.
Never. This is an abomination.
Children shoudl be taught to respect others without regard for their orientation but under no circumstances should people be appreciated based on behavior.
Makes writing that big monthly check to my daughter's private Christian school that much easier.
Kentucky? Sheesh.
How about a mandatory ACLU is evil seminar. Not to sound like a hand ringer, but can these people be stopped?
Question:
Is it possible to secure a roster of membership to the ACLU....
It would be nice to get a list ---- and check it twice...
Semper Fi
I'm only worried about what God thinks about it. Ta heck with the aclu.
There's been a lot happening in Kentucky lately. I think it started (or started to accelerate) when the ACLU went after a small school in Kentucky...
And when can we expect to see the "appreciation of the christian lifestyle" seminars begin?
so much for teaching, Math, English, History, Science and all the normal classes that we all took.
If everyone, including teachers, would just shut up about their "sexuality," then maybe someone would learn to read or do math in a school.
This is similar to the old Communist "reeducation camps."
Pure totalitarianism.
Perhaps they should have mandatory ex-gay training...
Fisting classes coming to a public school near you, courtesy of the ACLU.
Time to RICO the ACLU(All Criminals Love Us.)
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