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.
BTW, since I can't edit my post...
that's why we too homeschool.
Awww, that wouldn't be any fun. The guidance counselors wouldn't get to counsel students, the consultants wouldn't make big fees running workshops and assemblies, teachers wouldn't get to turn in students on a whim, parents wouldn't have to go crazy finding out what degree of intolerance was alleged and determining if their darling actually did the alleged deed, books couldn't be written about tolerance and diversity, lawyers wouldn't be hired to resolve these issues or sue the school, and the hiring of additional school personnel to handle all this wouldn't occur.
See, you'd put a lot of people out of work. No, we can't have this.
It's called attendance records, and yes, they can force this. Compulsory education is just that.
Homosexual Agenda Maximum Ping.
A definite Need to Read, and pass along to others. It sounds as though the ACLU (headed by a homosexual activist, btw) and those promoting homosexuality are getting very desperate. If they cannot convince children that being "gay" is normal and natural, their attempt to totally transform society into their image will fail. Hence the extreme focus in getting into the schools.
(My personal opinion is that they are very afraid Bush will appoint conservative/originalist Supreme Court Justices, and their method of changing society by judicial fiat doesn't look so solid any more.)
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Sure, but only if we can include mandatory:
- heterosexual appreciation sessions
- abstinence appreciation sessions
- pro-life appreciation sessions
- military service appreciation sessions
- America's Judeo-Christian heritage appreciation sessions
...and the list goes on
I'm horrible at spelling and grammar maybe I would have been better off being home schooled. :D
And If we look in the Book of Leviticus, particularly Capter 20, verse 13:
And if a MAN lieth with MANKIND, as he lieth with a woman, Both of TEHM have committed an ABOMINATION: they shall surely be put to DEATH; their blood shall be upon THEM.
And Now, we have so many homosexual's demanding a Vaccine/Cure for AIDS/Gonorrhea/Chlamydia/Herpes/ the "new" SuperAIDS virus (in NewYork City).
They played with Sin and got the consequences.
Yet, GOD still loves 'em all & wants us to show mercy too along with THE WAY to EVERLASTING LIFE & FORGIVENESS.
You know real fascists when they obscure the true meaning of words - as, in the differnce between tolerance and acceptance.
Tolerance - I cannot use my view of you to punish you, simply for your view - can be mandated by law.
Acceptance - I accept you - cannot be mandated by law.
Tolerance does not require an imposition on how you think, only a restriction on your actions due to how you might think. Acceptance, true acceptance, can only occur in how you think. Any attempt to mandate acceptance is contrary to everything about a free society.
The gay activists become more fascistic every day.
"Is it possible to secure a roster of membership to the ACLU...."
An excellent point! Just like companies that employ illegal aliens, their names need to be made very public.
My first reaction to this latest tyranny of the left is to tell them to shove it up their a$$e$, but since that is what they live for, such a statement would not have the desired effect.
So how about a simple "Drop Dead" ?
Like I've said for a long time, we are losing to the homosexual agenda. Nothing will stop it.
Just Say NO!
Just Say NO!"
I agree wholeheartedly, and ask, why oh why do good folks send their kids to govt. school? It costs a whole lotta money to do anything else (except homeschooling I guess, but that means mom has to stay home and not be able to bring in the second income) but I will tell anyone most emphatically, I would rather cut off my right arm than send my kids to a public school. (Might as well call it a pubic school)
Do you have any of the court docs from these cases?
Unfortunately, no. I've never thought about it until you mentioned it.
Not to sound like a hand ringer, but can these people be stopped?I don't know, but they can be mocked: hipsocket.tv.
Okay, HERE it is - pung out properly and all. My comments in the referenced post.
Very Important Article - a Must Read.
We keep saying this, but the news keeps getting worse and worse, and no one is doing any thing about it.
It's time to dismantle government schools altogether. Who the hell gave the government the right to control children? If the gov't can't handle roads, how can they handle children?
Hopefully HIV will stop it.
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