Posted on 10/20/2005 9:48:30 AM PDT by Crackingham
Lexington, Mass. — David and Tonia Parker are asking their neighbors in this liberal town for one consideration: Tolerance. The Parkers believe homosexuality is immoral. So they were appalled when their son brought a picture book home from kindergarten that showed families with same-sex parents. To ensure his "spiritual safety," they demanded the right to pull him out of class whenever homosexuality was discussed. To deny them that right, they say, would be intolerant of their faith.
School administrators offer a different take on tolerance. They say it's their job to expose children to the world's diversity. Supt. Paul B. Ash refuses to whisk the Parkers' son away if a classmate with same-sex parents brings a family photo for show-and-tell, or a lesbian couple volunteers at the Halloween party.
Similar debates have roiled communities across the nation as conservative parents challenge classes, books and after-school activities that they say promote a one-sided view of homosexuality as normal. They have notched victories in several states. But the dispute here has gone further than most.
David Parker has been banned from school property. Ash has been flooded with hate mail from across the country. There have been protests and counter-protests; the local newspaper received so many letters, many condemning the Parkers as bigots that the editor stopped printing them. Ash talks of the school's obligation "to be more than tolerant" to children and parents of all backgrounds. Parker asks: Where's the tolerance for him?
"Real respect, real tolerance, is not pushing your beliefs on other people," Parker said. "What people do in their bedroom, that's their business. What they tell my children in school about these subjects — that's my business."
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Right on ... We don't need anyone indoctrinating our kids into to something that will hurt them in anyway ... to hell with the gay movement ........
They are only shooting themseves on the foot ...... just think how many voter they have lost ... But just the same it's wrong and should be stop ,...
Welcome to FR, newbee. I see you registerd a couple of weeks ago and have only made a couple of posts. Keep reading and be educated and informed.
Many liberals who pushed to have homosexuality accepted are now shocked that they gays are not content with being accepted, their lifestyle choice must be portrayed as as good if not superior to normal relationships, despite the fact that homosexual couples tend to stay together MUCH shorter times than unmarried hetero couples. In a recent survey, well over HALF of all homosexual men had claimed to have had sex with over 100 other men and an astonishing 37% claimed to have had sex with over 500 other men, most whom they had never met and have never seen since.
Their lifestyle is abhorrent and the casual sex among many, many partners is why homos are generally MUCH sicker than the general population.
This is NOT a losing battle; in fact it is a battle that must be won. Lexington prides itself on being the birthplace of the American Revolution. We have a new revolution on our hands and David Parker is leading the charge.
What Freepers in other parts of the country need to realize is that this battle has to be fought in Massachusetts, currently the only state with "legalized same-sex 'marriage' " (though legalized only through judicial fiat). Massachusetts is also the birthplace of a lot of homosexual agenda concepts that are then pushed out to the rest of the country. 25% of the the country's GSAs (gay-straight alliances) are in Massachusetts, but spreading to a high school near you in the not-too-distant future.
Ronald Reagan didn't accede to communism; David Parker is not going to accede to coercive indoctrination of his children (see davidparkerfacts.org for an audio clip of ACLU attorney Harvey Silverglate DEFENDING David Parker's position against "coercive indoctrination".
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