LEXINGTON, MA - APRIL 19. Lexington public school officials have told Rob and Robin Wirthlin that since "gay marriage is legal" they may describe homosexual relationships to their son in second grade, without notice, and that parents may not opt their child out of such discussions. The Wirthlins are livid.
Son comes home with bizarre story. On March 24, their second-grade son came home from the Estabrook Elementary School and repeated to his mother the story read to him earlier that day about men getting married to each other. His teacher had read the book "King and King" to the class, in which a prince doesn't want to marry any princesses, but instead falls in love with a princess's brother and marries him in a big palace wedding. Mrs. Wirthlin remembers that it was so startling to her son that he described details of the book such as that "the queen even shed a tear." It obviously made an impression on him.
And here is the school administration position:
Support by town's school administration. As described on two Boston-area TV news reports, Lexington Superintendent Paul Ash and School Committee Chairman Helen Cohen, both with a history of promoting the normalization of homosexual behavior in the schools, both supported the actions by the principal. Ash gave reporters his public statement that sexual orientation and homosexual relationships do not constitute "human sexual issues" as described in the Massachusetts parental notification law -- M.G.L. Ch. 73 Sec. 32a. Therefore, Ash has instructed teachers NOT to give parents any notification on these topics! And Helen Cohen appeared on TV saying that since there are so many homosexual "parents" in Lexington, she believes they must "affirm" homosexuality in the public schools for the sake of the kids.
Someone needs to get it through these folks heads.........there ain't no right way to do the wrong thing. That's all there is to it.