Posted on 06/19/2006 4:32:55 PM PDT by DBeers
(AgapePress) - The young son of a Massachusetts pro-family activist was physically assaulted by fellow elementary school students on the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in the state.
On May 17, first-grader Jacob Parker was beaten up by a group of eight to ten kids on the playground at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington. Just weeks before the assault, his father and mother had filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school.
Last year, David Parker was arrested and jailed for refusing to leave the school until officials agreed to grant him the right to opt his son out of classroom discussions on homosexuality. The Massachusetts father believes the assault was incited by parents who are upset with his opposition to homosexuality.
"What we're concerned about," Parker says, "is actually the environment being created in the schools, where children, maybe in the normal course of scuffling, will translate the aggression that they may be hearing from parents and administrators to other children."
The pro-family advocate suspects the physical attack on his son may have occurred because parents and school officials are angry over his stand for traditional marriage in Massachusetts and have allowed these feelings to influence kids who attend Estabrook Elementary. Also, he notes, back issues of the "biased" Lexington Minuteman newspaper were placed on a table in the school library for children to read the local coverage of the lawsuit.
Parker feels the Bay State's schools employ a large double standard when it comes to protecting students from bullying and discrimination. If the assault against his son had been perpetrated on a child of homosexual parents, "lessons teaching tolerance and diversity or homosexual behavior normalization would be forced upon the young children," he contends.
"What we have in Massachusetts," the activist points out, "is large sums of money being earmarked for children being bullied from gay households or gay children." However, such funding really "shouldn't be earmarked and directed on that basis," he insists. "It should be for all the children -- not earmarked to protect just one particular segment of society."
Parker says his case against the Lexington schools is fundamentally about freedom of choice for parents to raise their children in the interest of their well being, health, happiness, and development as productive members of society.
While that society allows its citizens the freedom to cross "the God-given and nature-dictated boundaries" of gender, the Massachusetts parent asserts, to do so is a treacherous path to follow and is not the path of freedom he and his wife choose to offer to their four- and six-year-old children.
"We all want what's best for our children," Parker says, "although differences exist in how parents accomplish this goal." The freedom to define what is best for their own families and how to achieve these goals should extend to all parents, he contends, regardless of color, culture, religion, or sexual orientation, and this "parental sovereignty" should not be undermined by school officials or other external authorities.
You're twisting into a pretzel to explain the unexplainable. I don't know many other parents on this forum or in the real world who are buying it.
It makes sense that you'd laugh because you have nothing else left. Nearly all your posts on the Parker story have been debunked, despite your repeated attempts to zot anyone who disagrees with you.
Conservatives don't act that way unless they are incredibly insecure.
You have not sold me. Stick a fork in it -it is done... I have moved on I suggest you do the same...
Oh, I'm quite sure it's not "done". In fact, I'd bet my house that you'll be posting more about this bogus Parker story.
And continuing to try and have anyone who posts facts zotted. I can see how frustrating it is to you that you've been unsuccessful to date.
And, btw, I don't take advice which threads to post on from the likes of you.
OMG. Now I've heard everything.
Those few of us trying to post mainstream news articles are the ones who have been shouted down and called a cabal of homo-gandists and worse.
Anyone who didn't buy into Parker's ridiculous story have been so labeled by you and others and you're talking to me about trying to squash this story? ROFL. Really.
Oh, I get it. So the news articles you have all posted are absolutely correct (despite being proven wrong on more than one occasion) and the news articles I've posted are all incorrect. Got it.
(walking away shaking my head at the lunacy that comprises Free Republic these days)
LOL. This story has less credibility than Nifong's impeccable search for the truth. In spite of some tap dancing, no one is really buying Parker's stories much any more.
I guess I was not specific enough. This attempted diversionary trip has been played out...
And yes, you are correct when again David Parker makes news it will be posted or pinged out when it is noted AND I suspect the homosexual activist groups will again rush to publish their version of reality AND some may even parrot such delusion again on FR...
Homosexual activist groups? That's the best you've got?
You've been outted as someone who doesn't mind having the agenda be pushed to the exlusion of facts.
You'll have to show me which of my links is a promo-homo activist group. I'll be waiting. tick tock
I can see that with the exception of one or two freepers, very, very few believe Parker's obviously bogus story.
All common sense seems to have left a few freepers, but thankfully between those posting on the open forum and my freepmail, I can see that most people have the good sense to know when they're being played.
I went to college in Boston and if you're trying to infer that the entire media in Boston, the Children's Service, the DA, the police, the Superintendent, all the school aides, the children themselves who were interviewed, are all biased and lying, I feel really sorry for you.
That may be true, but that may be more of a reflection on the people you hang around with than an argument.
I'm starting to think you don't have the sense God gave you at birth, Aquinasfan. One can easily look at the early theads of the Parker story and now these later threads; more and more freepers aren't buying Parker's ridiculous story.
You have a good evening.
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