Virginia parents succeed against pro-homosexual book

Parents in one Virginia County have successfully forced the removal of a book, which promotes homosexuality, from their local elementary school.

The book, titled And Tango Makes Three, is based in part on the story of two male penguins that temporarily form a couple to raise a penguin chick. Peter LaBarbera with Americans for Truth About Homosexuality says he is not surprised that the homosexual propaganda piece is still showing up in elementary school libraries.

"One of the more insidious aspects of the homosexual agenda has been its willingness to manipulate young people's minds to promote homosexual behavior," he warns. "We shouldn't be talking about homosexuality to kids who are years away from understanding ... what normal sex is ...."

Critics say the book does not explain that the real penguins -- on which the story is based -- split-up as soon as a potential female partner was introduced into their environment. And one of them later mated with her.

"In other words, the homosexual activists recommend a story, which is ... not even a true story," LaBarbera argues. "The penguin who returned to normalcy, of course, the kids don't know about that.

LaBarbera admits he is not surprised at the willingness of homosexual activists to use deceit to promote their agenda. "The homosexual activists know that they have to change minds very young and equate homosexuality with love before the parents can inculcate their own values," he continues. "So that's why these books are insidious, because they're ... trying to change these kids' minds and their moral framework ...."

The book is now only available to teachers and parents in Loudon County, Virginia, elementary schools. Middle and high school students can read it with no restrictions and without permission from or notice to their parents.

For the most part, the Bible is only banned in the gummint ignorance factories known as public schools. They are the parochial schools of secular humanists and various other anti-Christians and anti-Americans.

It will take a few more decades before homeschooling and private schooling will be the norm. First defund the gummint skewels. Sell off the real estate, returning the proceeds in the form of tax relief. Lay off the entire staff of each gummint skewel system. Establish PRIVATELY funded parent owned and controlled academies. If the NEA or AFT organizes a faculty of such an academy, abolish the academy and start over. Abolish the federal Department of Edumakashun and all federal funding and all federal regulation. If interscholastic tiddlywinks competition fails to survive, so be it. Likewise, the other tax-funded extravagances for which gummint skewels are known. Speed the decline of the gummint skewels by every weapon at our command (but most particularly by fiscal resistance). Regard private academies as ours until proven otherwise on an individual basis and defend them accordingly. Likewise homeschooling.

Easiest part of the job: Defeat the gummint skewels in every available genuinely academic competition until the public comes to regard the gummint skewels as the third-rate "academic" frauds that they are.

To all: Be aware that SoftballMominVirginia (Post#4) is a gummint skewel teacher and actually a defender of that system.

In what way is the Bible banned in public schools?

You are wrong, I do not defend the public school system as a whole. It cannot be defended. I do however believe that I have made the right decision within my family. Yes, it included public school and yes I teach children with special needs how to read.

Interesting article from the Times - about a year old, but still valid.

Headline: The Case for Teaching The Bible

excerpt

....public-school courses on the Bible nationwide. There aren't that many. But they're rising in popularity. Last year Georgia became the first state in memory to offer funds for high school electives on the Old and New Testaments using the Bible as the core text. Similar funding was discussed in several other legislatures, although the initiatives did not become law. Meanwhile, two privately produced curriculums crafted specifically to pass church-state muster are competing for use in individual schools nationwide. Combined, they are employed in 460 districts in at least 37 states.

Guess all these districts are breaking the law.....who knew?

Plus, guess I broke it today when I read the Bible during silent sustained reading, and another student broke it when she read her Bible and still another broke it as she reviewed her Torah for her Bat Mitzvah.

Such scoff-laws we are.

Horrible, I know.

Gotta scoot for a bit. Little one just openned her “other” bible, one of my cookbooks and I need to supervise so my kitchen isn’t destroyed while fixing dinner!

TTYL

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