Posted on 10/06/2011 11:02:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
High school cancels ‘partisan’ Constitution Day Alex Pappas -- The Daily Caller 52 mins ago
Conservatives in Georgia are outraged that a speaker’s Constitution Day presentation was canceled at a local high school after complaints from Democrats.
The reason behind the complaints is that Mark Fritz, the man who volunteered to do the presentation to the students during the week of Sept. 17, is a member of the local tea party.
Pickens County High Principal Eddie McDonald eventually agreed to stop Fritz from speaking after being bombarded with emails and phone calls, he said.
McDonald told the Pickens County Progress that he had no problem with the presentation at first because Fritz pledged not to mention the tea party movement or speak from a partisan perspective. He also previewed an outline of his address with school officials.
“We were okay with that,” McDonald said, “but there were a group of people that got word of it, and I was bombarded with calls and emails.”
An outline of Fritz’s presentation obtained by The Daily Caller shows no mention of the tea party movement.
Federal law requires schools that receive federal money to have such a program during the week of Constitution Day.
David Robinson, the leader of the Democratic Party of Pickens County, told the newspaper, “Our main problem with him was that he had no qualifications to speak other than personal opinions he had.”
Eric Gray, the communications director for the Democratic Party of Georgia, told the superintendent of the school system in an email that Democrats are “concerned about the partisan nature of this event.”
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Oh but if it was some guy from OWS or ThinkProgress, they must assuredly would have had a problem too, right?
Ping.
I wish they wouldn't cancel me, though. I'm too young!
(sort of)
I guess the part about Freedom of Speech really got their pink panties in a wad..........
That's all ANYBODY has...............
They want only ‘their view’ of the Constitution, ‘a living, breathing document’, to be disseminated to the young skulls full of mush..........
This is a tacit admission that the ideology of democRats is inherently anti-Constitution.
Democrats think the ACLU is the only source outside the Communist Party USA -or CAIR that can give an acceptable presentation on the Constitution they love to fundamentally change to advance their queer causes.
Well, Eddie, given that, tell us how you would rate yourself as a role model for the students.
Our politicians should be demanding this jerks resignation.
A speaker addressing how to get the most our of queering each other, wouldn’t have been excluded.
They’re actually concerned the kids might learn something that isn’t part of the indoctrination program.
What the left would do now if the school system was politically incorrect, is they would make this treasonous idiot a target for every scandel and rumor they could conjure for as long as the target was present.
Life would be a mine field of constant outrage and misery for the target until they got their enemy out. This is what conservatives should do. It is not safe to be politically incorrect; we have to make it even less safe to be a treasonous, anti-constitutional Marxist.
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