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Parents Worry About Forced Sex Education in Public Schools
National Catholic Register ^ | 02.19.06 | GAIL BESSE

Posted on 02/23/2006 9:36:12 PM PST by Coleus

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1 posted on 02/23/2006 9:36:14 PM PST by Coleus
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2 posted on 02/23/2006 9:36:35 PM PST by Coleus (What were Ted Kennedy & his nephew doing on Good Friday, 1991? Getting drunk and raping women)
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3 posted on 02/23/2006 9:42:24 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Coleus

There is NO WAY I would let a child of mine step foot in a PUBLIC SCHOOL with this type of crap going on! NO WAY!



Meet Rep. Alice Wolf (on the right)


http://alicewolf.org/images/gallery/MHSA_Award.jpg


http://alicewolf.org/images/gallery/Longfellow%20school%20talk.jpg


4 posted on 02/23/2006 9:43:26 PM PST by kcvl
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To: metmom

February 06, 2006
Rep. Alice Wolf: Arrogance of Power


Rep. Alice Wolf, chief sponsor of H1641 -- the bill that would mandate sex/homosex ed -- has told the majority of Massachusetts citizens that they need to agree with her, or they have no business living in Massachusetts! If you don't think the state should have the final say on the moral education of your children in matters of sexuality, just leave the state!


http://tinyurl.com/kmgpd



"That's the way life is," said Wolf, who is also a member of the Legislature's Joint Education Committee. "If people don't want to accept that, I don't know where they can live."


5 posted on 02/23/2006 9:46:33 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

We've been losing this battle since 1985 when we fought the local school board over the same type of curriculum....resulting in yanking our kids out of the crappy and humanistic system and doing our own home schooling...with fine results, I might add!


6 posted on 02/23/2006 9:46:57 PM PST by cowdog77
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To: cowdog77

Do not hesitate to home educate.


7 posted on 02/23/2006 9:50:20 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Tancredo for President.)
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To: Coleus

"It Takes Two" Gay & Lesbian Planning Guide Supplement


When it comes to supporting the rights of the GLBT community, state Rep. Alice Wolf has always walked the talk.


http://tinyurl.com/zcr9u


8 posted on 02/23/2006 9:54:59 PM PST by kcvl
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To: cowdog77

July 8, 2005

Among Rep. Wolf’s priorities vetoed by the Governor were funding increases for two programs operated by the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. The Safe Schools Program not only lost their funding, but also the language mandating that the Department of Education implement the program. Romney also reduced funding for the Commission’s anti-suicide and anti-violence program administered by the Department of Public Health.


9 posted on 02/23/2006 9:57:03 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Mass. is actually doing a pretty good job of making NYS look better and better all the time. I hope they're not too surprised when people start taking them up on the offer to leave the state and they start losing their tax base.


10 posted on 02/23/2006 9:58:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

The Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus - 1973

MGLPC is the most experienced and respected lobbying operation on Beacon Hill working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights. For 30 years MGLPC has represented your many interests with full-time, professional lobbyists.


http://www.mglpc.org/index.php




We've beaten back anti-gay civil rights and adoption measures, and the ‘02 anti-gay marriage ballot initiative. And in ‘03, we sponsored the state's first civil marriage bill.



Together, we’ve made history with one of the nation's first Gay Civil Rights laws. One of the nation's first Hate Crimes laws. And the nation's toughest HIV confidentiality laws. We've beaten back anti-gay civil rights measures, anti-gay adoption measures, and pre-Goodridge anti-gay marriage ballot initiatives. In 2003, in conjunction with GLAD’s Goodridge case which sought the right to marry from the court, MGLPC filed the state’s first civil marriage bill in the legislature: H.3677, sponsored by Rep. Byron Rushing.



We’re fighting the likes of Focus on the Family and their local affiliate the Massachusetts Family Institute, Family Research Council, Traditional Values Coalition, and Concerned Women for America. In prior Constitutional Conventions, Rev. Lou Sheldon, Tony Perkins, Genvieve Wood, Sandy Rios and other national, professional, well-funded anti-gay leaders personally came to Massachusetts to take away gay marriage.


11 posted on 02/23/2006 10:06:56 PM PST by kcvl
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Just wait until the state puts these same sex ed requirements on private schools and home schools...100% state control of what can and can't be taught in private schools and home schools is coming...mark my words.


12 posted on 02/23/2006 10:14:26 PM PST by bigdcaldavis ("HYAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" - Howard Dean; Xandros - Linux Made Easy)
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To: Coleus
These people will never give up.

I was fighting these creeps in the early 80's - had a statewide organization in Maine - umbrellared with other groups across the county..was guest host on talk TV show in Boston where I debated the lesbian group that wrote the book "Our Bodies Ourselves" which is used by Planned Parenthood for sex ed - was a quest ("all expenses paid" to conference in Washington by Phyllis Schlaely's "Eagle Forum" - Reagan was president and spoke at our banquet and we had a private tour of the white house.

I had a bill in the state legislature - etc etc. We fought them pretty much to a standstill here in Maine at the time - the problem is that they operate with largely our tax dollars - and they can keep on year after year...they don't have to find time or money around jobs.

Believe me when I tell you that the things named in the article are very mild compared to what is in the material they use. You would be sick. (They advocate abortion, "Society does not recognize the rightness of abortion" they name objects young girls can use to masterbate, they counsel that you can't know if the gay/lesbian practice is good for you unless you try it - etc etc - and the cartoons border on the pornographic - )

Doctors have testified to the damage too early sex ed - even the right kind - does to minds too young for it. But these gay/lesbian groups know that the younger they can reach kids, the easier to recruit by subliminal education and experience

We will not be able to keep this out of the public schools unless we get school vouchers and they start having to complete for student dollars.

Believe me, I could not afford to put my daughter in private school - but I did. She is now in her 30's and a proud stay-at-home mom of 3 daughters.

We need not only to fight these people but to offer a better alternative.

Parents need the right to give the schools a legal, written notice that they will teak care of their child's sex education and at the same time, demand to see the curriculum - however, these books that are used by Planned Parenthood are "given" to the schools - so are not technically part of the curriculum - ergo, you wont be shown that material.

Make an innocent trip to your local planned parenthood office and take material, leaflets, booklets - Don't let them know you are 'the enemy' but either way, they operate largely on tax dollars - you have a right to have them...go to your local library (I can all but guarantee they are in your school library also) and read the books by the group that wrote "Our Bodies, Ourselves." This is the damaging stuff that is taught in "sex ed"

13 posted on 02/23/2006 10:31:33 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: cowdog77
We've been losing this battle since 1985 when we fought the local school board over the same type of curriculum....resulting in yanking our kids out of the crappy and humanistic system and doing our own home schooling...with fine results, I might add!

More power to you. I think home schooling is a great thing.

That said, I'll go against the grain here and say that regardless of the path we want our kids to follow...they will get the "facts" one way or another...regardless of what we want those facts to be. That is simple reality.

The only way to raise morally strong children is to have a strong home. I, for one, refuse to cave in to fear of information. That information should start at home. Sure, they'll get some at school. But, if I fear that my kids will succumb to everything that my kids could possibly hear outside the home.. I'd never let them leave the house.

You have to trust in yourself to raise children to follow the path you're laid out for your family. If you don't...well...you're f*&k'd...cause they will do what they're gonna do regardless of what you want. And most likely in spite of it. It's all about being proactive & trusting yourself and your children.

That's my 2 cents anyway. This is freerepublic, fell free to disagree. ;-)

14 posted on 02/24/2006 1:27:09 AM PST by mancogasuki (Live Free Or Die.)
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To: Coleus
...that includes lessons on homosexuality and human reproduction.

I wonder how that works.

15 posted on 02/24/2006 1:29:28 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: mancogasuki
The only way to raise morally strong children is to have a strong home.

I agree

I, for one, refuse to cave in to fear of information

I disagree. Children are not mini-adults, able to sort out information from indoctrination. They are also hugely influenced by peer pressure and authority issues. If it was simply "information" they were receiving, that would be one thing, but that information has been assembled and presented in such a way as to persuade and influence them that there's nothing wrong with (fill in the blank), it's just another "lifestyle choice."

16 posted on 02/24/2006 2:13:02 AM PST by dawn53
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To: mancogasuki

Its not fear of information that forces me to keep my kids out of public schools. Its a strong dislike for unionized teachers, who can't pass the tests they hand out, indoctrinating my children. The real issue should be why public schools focus on teaching kids how to have gay sex and how to get pregnant when they aren't teaching the basics very well.


17 posted on 02/24/2006 4:11:15 AM PST by driftdiver
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18 posted on 02/24/2006 5:12:23 AM PST by Born Conservative (Acts of intolerance will not be tolerated at The Pennsylvania State University.)
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To: driftdiver
The real issue should be why public schools focus on teaching kids how to have gay sex and how to get pregnant when they aren't teaching the basics very well.

To create an ignorant, dysfunctional lumpen-proletariat to help vote the Left into power. (That was an easy question.)

19 posted on 02/24/2006 5:24:01 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (A "democratic socialist" is just a communist who happens to be outgunned!)
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To: Coleus
We strongly believe that sexuality and reproductive teachings are fundamental to morality,”

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ALL education is highly moral, ethical, and values ladened. Education can not be neutral in content or consequences politically, culturally, or morally/ethically/or values ( that means religion!). This is especially true when it comes to education regarding human sexuality!

Why is government involved in this business????

It can not possibly be constitutional on a state or federal level.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter9.htm
20 posted on 02/24/2006 5:52:05 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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