Any Muslim students at the school?
“”Optional Title,” according to the principal, means that the student may select the books to study with peers and be guided by the adult, male teacher.”
Oh, it’s OK then. I feel better.
Group protests Pulitzer-winning play
Deerfield Review - March 7, 2008
Deerfield High School is again under fire by a North Shore Christian group because the school offers the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” to college-bound seniors.
North Shore Student Advocacy called for School District 113 Superintendent George Fornero, Deerfield High School Principal Sue Hobson and all involved teachers to resign or be fired by the School Board.
The group claimed a victory when, after its complaints, the school district made “Angels” an option rather than required reading in the Advanced Placement English literature course. Parents and students have to opt in to read this play as well as “The Plague.”
Last year, “Angels in America” author Tony Kushner talked to the class about the play, how he wrote it and produced it.
The story is about two couples whose relationships are disintegrating. It is set in the United States in the 1980s against a backdrop of greed, conservatism, sexual politics and the discovery of AIDS.
Lora Sue Hauser, executive director of the Christian group, complained that the book is replete with profanity, overt racism, an explicit description of a sex act involving Mother Theresa and vivid depictions of sodomy.
“After almost 15 years of school advocacy and reviewing many objectionable books and curricula, I have never seen anything this vulgar and harmful to students,” Hauser said.
She said her group also talked to the Lake County state’s attorney’s office and claimed that office concurred that the play violated the state’s obscenity statute prohibiting adults from “distributing harmful material to minors.”
State’s Attorney Michael Waller disputed that claim, saying the play did not violate any criminal statute.
The book and the class curriculum were approved by the Advanced Placement College Board, she added. The students who “opted in” for the class will not be reading it until April. The class is limited to seniors, and 51 signed up to take it, but not all have made their choice of one or both books.
Votsmier said the play also has been taught in Highland Park High School.
The school district and the Christian group clashed last year over a freshman orientation session where students talked about bullying and other issues and included gay students relating their experience in high school.
Matt Barber, director of cultural issues with Concerned Women for America, said his jaw dropped when he read the book.
“This isn’t a First Amendment issue. This is about school officials betraying the community trust. Heads need to roll here. Assigning this racist, pornographic smut to high school kids is nothing short of child abuse,” Barber said.
Votsmier said no one has been asked to resign, and there have been no voluntary resignations. She said the teacher of the course feels the students have the maturity and thoughtfulness to read this book and learn from it.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/deerfield/news/831040,de-angels-030708-s1.article
An example of the same kind of public schools Judge Croskey has ordered all California homeschoolers to attend.
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Sounds like “A Catcher in the Rye”
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson: Bill for Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers 2:545 http://www.religioustolerance.org/virg_bil.htmRegarding the pro-homosexuality aspect of this book, Romans 1:25-27 tells us that same-sex sexual relationships are a consequence of idolatry. In other words, such relationships are a consequence of disobeying the 1ST COMMANDMENT, a major aspect of the GREATEST COMMANDMENT, to love the jealous God with all your being.
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
To hell with Homer or Dante, bring on the gay porn!!! /s
Your teen age girl or boy is to study sexually stimulating porn with an adult male teacher guiding them along? Guiding them along to WHERE and WHAT.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the current crop of public school administrators and teachers who involve themselves into these types of too-close relationships and initiate "study groups" for sexual-content books with their young students are privately sexually-unstable themselves mixed in with having absolutely no morals or ethics of any kind.
If some male teacher started this kind of pornographic "study" in a "group" situation with a daughter of mine, I'd file charges against him as soon as I could get a lawyer.
What bothers me is that the article states the porn book came to light only because ONE parent objected. The liberal swells in Deerfield obviously don't care too much what their kids are reading and I bet that "one" stoolie parent has been drummed out of the village's Junior League Society already.
Leni
Something doesn’t add up.
The reviews of this book on Amazon and it having enjoyed a run on Broadway both fail to indicate this as porn. The idea’s of how the Gay community viewed how the rest of the world looked at them during the Regan era may be disturbing to some. But then again we could say the same of some works of Shakespere.