Massachusetts: Gay Topics and Schools

THE AP via the NY Times ^ | February 24, 2007 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

A federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who wanted to keep their young children from learning about same-sex marriage in school. The judge, Mark L. Wolf of Federal District Court, said the courts had decided in other cases that parents’ rights to exercise their religious beliefs were not violated when their children were exposed to contrary ideas in school. Schools are “entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens,” Judge Wolf said. The parents who filed the lawsuit, Tonia and David Parker of Lexington, sued after their 5-year-old son brought home a book from kindergarten that depicted a gay family. Another Lexington couple joined the lawsuit after a second-grade teacher read a class a fairy tale about two princes falling in love.

...a lawyer for the parents, said they would file a federal appeal and refile state-court claims.

[Pharmboy]

Be interesting to see what the Federal Court will say.

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[jim35]

Where is the world into which I was born? Two princes? I'm gonna puke.

[Pharmboy]

You can't make this stuff up...

[Gay State Conservative]

Where is the world into which I was born? Two princes? I'm gonna puke.

It started to die in the mid to late 60's when spoiled,narcissistic,drug addled punks from New York,California and...yes,Massachusetts...decided that the rules just didn't apply to them.

As much respect and gratitude as I have for/toward the "Greatest Generation",their one great failure was that so many of them raised punks like this and that so many of them failed to stand up to those punks.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All judicial activism destroys the entire existence of a "healthy moral fiber" throughout the U.S., but in a slow manner. This is just as bad as having federal politicians create even more favoritism towards illegal immigrants over law abiding U.S. citizens and over law abiding legal immigrants. Favoritism for the ever increasing numbers of illegals throughout the U.S. will eventually destroy the Republican Party as well as eventually destroy conservatism throughout the U.S.! The total number of illegals who will vote in the U.S. will eventually outnumber the total number of conservatives who will vote in the U.S.=good-bye Republican Party, good-bye conservatism, and good-bye U.S.A.! Prove me wrong on all of this!

[Pharmboy]

I am afraid that is just the direction we are moving in. So sad...

[lonerepubinma]

Be interesting to see what the Federal Court will say.

Did you read the first three words of your own post ?

[layman]

Schools are “entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens,” Judge Wolf said

I'm probably just not smart enough to see the connection between 'engaged and productive citizens' and 'two princes falling in love'.

[Pharmboy]

Should have written "...higher Federal Court will say." Excuse me.

[Wallace T.]

Two major flaws of the World War II generation are that they were enamored of big government, having been children of the Great Depression, which was popularly blamed on the laissez faire economics of Hoover (who really was an early version of a RINO) and that they paid too much respect to self-appointed experts. Most of the big spending programs and environmental regulations that plague us today were passed when the veterans of the war against Germany and Japan dominated Congress, in the 1960s and 1970s. Likewise, too many of the World War II generation paid attention to numerous leftists from academia like Benjamin Spock and Alfred Kinsey, who were the forerunners of permissiveness and the so-called sexual revolution. Don't forget that Timothy Leary, the popularizer of the hippie lifestyle, was a World War II veteran. Herbert Marcuse, the philosophical leader of the New Left, served in the OSS during World War II.

[word_warrior_bob]