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.
if this sort of nonsense keeps up, I know EXACTLY how they will "handle" them.
If your kid has missed a lot of school, they could make an issue of it. But they can't stop you from keeping you kid out for a week if his/her attendance has been good otherwise.
Well, you know... kids are going to do it anyway, and it would be irresposible for schools not to teach them how to do it safely. The school nurse will provide the KY and latex gloves.
/sarcasm off
They already have the playbook.
Yeah, I'm like that. I'd like to put about 90% of the government out of work!
A friend here was telling me recently about the Christian school her children attend. She said the school does not permit any "personal relationships" at all. No hand-holding, no hugs, no arms around the waist, no notes in class, no talk about sex at all. The students get demerits if they break these rules, with the demerits adding up to higher degrees of disciplinary action.
It eliminates a lot of problems. I can't see how anybody would care whether a person is feeling "fondly" about someone of the opposite sex or the same sex, since everyone is required to keep their feelings entirely to themselves, and focus on education.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I believe the title should read "ACLU Seeks Mandatory Heterosexual Reeducation Camps."
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005
Information here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413875/posts
There you will find information about the bill, links to contact your congressmen and state representatives, and links to Stop the ACLU, among others.
ACLU...NEA... What's the difference?!
Home school. Go for it!
Home schoolers since 1982. It works.
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