Posted on 10/15/2007 8:09:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Nima Eshghi, an attorney for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), told attendees at the Greater Boston PFLAG annual meeting Sept. 24 that the federal lawsuit by a pair of families against the town of Lexington for including LGBT-themed books in the elementary school curriculum has had a chilling effect on other schools. She said last spring a lesbian couple with a daughter in a Watertown elementary school contacted GLAD to complain that the school had pulled the book And Tango Makes Three, a true story about a pair of male penguins that became mates and raised a baby penguin, from the library shelves in response to parent protests. The couple spoke with the librarian and the school principal and urged them to restore the book to the library, but they were rebuffed.
“Ultimately the school said, ‘We just don’t want to be sued like Lexington.’ And they kept the book out,” said Eshghi. She said the couple chose to pull their daughter out of the school. Eshghi said GLAD did not get involved directly in the situtation, and she does not know which school the couple’s child attended.
Eshghi said opponents of LGBT-inclusive curricula [] have exploited state parental notification laws around sex education by asking schools and courts to apply them to any discussion of LGBT families or people.
“What these parents groups [] are trying to do is take very, very narrow opt-out and parent notification rules that exist at the middle school and high school level purely for sex education, and only to be used in certain narrow circumstances, and they are trying to take that, bring it down into the kindergarten, first and second grade level where kids are not talking about sex. They are talking about who’s in a family.
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I have a relative who is a (30-years-dry) alcoholic. There has been some arguement that some people, because of their genes, may be predisposed to having alcohol addiction. He sturggles every day against doing something that his body thinks would be really fun...but he knows it is wrong for him and bad for those around him, and makes a thinking, moral choice not to do it. By this addle-plate concept, I should walk up to him and say, "Hey, you can't help it! God or Nature made you this way! Let me buy you a beer!"
Humans are not animals. Some animals eat their own young, but this has not (yet) been suggested by the Left as a good thing.
The practice of homosexuality is, and always has been, a choice. I don't care what science says or ever will say about predisposition. The poor beggers who must lie to themselves that they are "gay" are really just victimes of being SADD (that is, medically affected with Same Sex Attraction Disorder.) We are more than animals; we can choose good or evil. The problem is that so many want to choose evil because for a moment it feels good to them, and then blame everyone else for their choice.
When my daughter turned 10, I got her a single-shot 22. She loves it.
Nice
We lived in Brooklyn, NY and my parents wouldn’t even let my sister and I have water guns. They were afraid we’d kill each other outside, then bring it into the house.
Now I need to make up for lost time.
just say to to homosexual penguins!
But do you have a pet penguin??
;)
Nope
My mother-in-law went immediately into a panic when she heard that I’d bought my daughter a rifle. Once she calmed down enough to talk in coherent sentences, it turned out that she just assumed I was going to hand the child a rifle & ammo and then let her go about her merry way.
As is usually the case with people who don’t know anything about firearms, how they are handled, or the people that use them responsibly, the fact that she’d only have access to the rifle at a certified range under direct adult supervision never even occurred to her.
She was actually afraid that my daughter might shoot herself in her sleep. Oh yeah, everyone puts their child to bed with a loaded firearm! It’s just the NRA way. LOL!
No, the adults sleep with the pistols.
“The male penguins did not “become mates.”
Exactly. It sounds like this book means to confuse children on what a mate and therefore a family actually is.
If homosexuality was not a choice God would be unjust for condemning the practice throughout scripture.
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