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Mom ousted for taping gay acceptance `lies' (Forced off property at High School Gay Awareness Day)
The Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, December 16, 2004 | Jessica Fargen

Posted on 12/16/2004 10:05:07 AM PST by presidio9

Two parents, shocked at frank talk during a gay and lesbian awareness day at Newton North High, were forced off the property after one parent whipped out a video camera and started taping.

``This does not belong in curriculum,'' said Kim Cariani, who said four police officers and the principal told them they would be charged with trespassing if they did not leave.

``It's against my religion. It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face.''

Each year, some students at Newton North forgo classes during To BGLAD: Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day with assembly-like sessions including ``Out at the Old Ballgame'' and ``Color Me Queer.'' Students are not required to attend.

Cariani kept her two kids home during the day, but she was curious.

Cariani and another parent, Brian Camenker, were in the audience when adults in a panel discussion talked about being gay. When one man told the students he was attracted to his sister's husband, Cariani said she started to record the ``propaganda, false information and lies.''

The principal demanded Cariani turn over the videotape or leave, Camenker said.

``They took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and if we came back on the property we would be arrested for trespassing,'' he said.

Tom Mountain, a columnist for the Newton Tab, was also barred from the assembly ``for the safety and security of the children,'' he said he was told.

Newton schools Superintendent Jeff Young said it is a violation of school policy to tape or photograph students without parental permission. Cariani refused to give up the tape, so they were asked to decamp, he said.

The awareness day, held for the past 10 years, is one of several ways the schools highlight diversity, Young said. Students who don't want to go can go to the library or computer lab.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: article8; briancamenker; diversity; education; educrats; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; pc; pedophilia; recruitment; sexliesand; students; thegaystate; tolerance; videotape
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To: HostileTerritory

If that were only so. Unfortunately and very sadly it is not so. They are taught HOW and that it is normal and healthy. I have known students to drop out of school and wait for an opening in a charter school, they were so repulsed by these programs. And refused to attend a school that promotes these programs. I couldn't blame them.


361 posted on 12/16/2004 2:17:48 PM PST by gidget7 (God Bless America, and our President George W. Bush)
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To: Modernman

Her kids didn't attend school that day and there was no academic instruction for them. She's forced to pay for this crap with her taxes. She has every right to be there with a camera!


362 posted on 12/16/2004 2:17:57 PM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: Rodney King

Different freeper. Terri Adams, Don's sister -- she was also attacked, but he was knocked down. Her handle is TAdams8591


363 posted on 12/16/2004 2:21:25 PM PST by bvw
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To: little jeremiah; Osage Orange

Not sure why that post got pulled. It wasn't meant as an insult.


364 posted on 12/16/2004 2:21:50 PM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: presidio9

What do you expect from a congressional district that time and again elects Barney Frank to Congress.


365 posted on 12/16/2004 2:25:30 PM PST by Beckwith (John, you said I was going to be the First Lady, as of now, you're on the couch . . .)
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To: Texas Songwriter
Is your position on each subject a matter of moral relativity or can you say anything in and of itself is violative of decency?

Is that a question to me?

FMCDH(BITS)

366 posted on 12/16/2004 2:29:53 PM PST by nothingnew (Kerry is gone...perhaps to Lake Woebegone)
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To: Humidston

I was thinking the SAME thing. Good point.


367 posted on 12/16/2004 2:31:15 PM PST by TAdams8591 (BORK SPECTER!!!)
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To: hardhead

You've got that one right. It's time to bale out.


368 posted on 12/16/2004 2:31:17 PM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: presidio9
I applaud her effort. Good for her. And yes if this was a school play, or another traditional school event, no one would have said a word, she would have been allowed to stay and finish taping.

The administrators don't want parents learning the TRUTH.

369 posted on 12/16/2004 2:34:07 PM PST by TAdams8591 (BORK SPECTER!!!)
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To: presidio9
If it was up to me, I would have preferred the stealth approach, maybe go in with a "wire" or a tapedeck and if I could, hide a video "spy" camera on my somewhere but the bare minumum would be the tapedeck at least. I'm reminded of an ad in one of my old electronics catalogs (1955/1956) for Cameradio (local Pittsburgh outfit) that sold a spy's portable wire recorder that used a watch as a microphone and you hid the wire drive and electronics unit, complete with minature vacuum tubes, somewhere on your person. I heard stories when Nikita Khruschev toured the US in 1959, one of his KGB agents had a minature still camera behind one of his buttons in his overcoat. Now with more modern stuff, it could be much easier. Yeah, I think she should have used a more stealth approach, maybe with a hidden tape deck. Maybe planting a radio bug and tuning in the fun stuff on your FM radio from the safety of your car would be a cool idea, ala "Boys From Brazil," but is a bit overkill and I think it would be illegal. Suffice it to say, it would be cool to get some concrete data on what goes on in these meetings. Maybe the term "cold war" is correct on the two generally opposed ideologies we have here in America (traditional vs. progressive) and the world, much more correct than we realize if we use Cold War tools for intelligence gathering. Being the radio electronics geek that I am, there are times I thought of things like these. Trouble is, I'm no James Bond, can't even touch a hair on his head, I'm terminally nearsighted and clumsy anyways. I'd make a good "Q" though. B-)

Seriously, we need to knoe the trite in schools such as this and I do applaud this lady's efforts. We must never forget the public schools are tax funded and that money comes from us so we should have more of a say and oversight in these things. Most parents don't want this PC garbage.
370 posted on 12/16/2004 2:39:33 PM PST by Nowhere Man (We have enough youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?)
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To: Texas Songwriter; MineralMan
BTW, I notice mineralman wouldn't give me a real answer. I believe he's a low-level-troll (LLT).

FMCDH(BITS)

371 posted on 12/16/2004 2:42:33 PM PST by nothingnew (Kerry is gone...perhaps to Lake Woebegone)
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To: EdReform; little jeremiah; ItsOurTimeNow; wideawake; Grampa Dave; Aquinasfan

The Log Cabin FReepers are like roaches. You can't get rid of them no matter how hard you stomp.


372 posted on 12/16/2004 2:46:16 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: Rodney King; scripter
Please do not confuse either my brother (Don Adams) or myself (Teri Adams) with tdadams. WE are both quite conservative, have been for a very long time and our views are drastically different from tdadams.
373 posted on 12/16/2004 2:46:45 PM PST by TAdams8591 (BORK SPECTER!!!)
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To: little jeremiah
I refer to he/she/it as 'Cousin It'. And I no longer directly address the twerp.

Also, Cousin It employs multiple screen names in an attempt to bolster its weak arguments. It doesn't work, but It just keeps on trying.

One of its recent posts was pulled. It was aimed at me.

374 posted on 12/16/2004 2:54:21 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: TAdams8591

Ok, sorry, it was you Terry that I was thinking of when I saw tdadams. My apologies.


375 posted on 12/16/2004 2:55:43 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along)
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To: Osage Orange

ROFL!!!! They are one and the same! Mutliple screen names. Bwahahaha!


376 posted on 12/16/2004 2:56:15 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Also, Cousin It employs multiple screen names

You sir, are a liar.

377 posted on 12/16/2004 2:57:24 PM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

When a quisling hurls an insult, it has no effect because there is nothing to feel toward it but pity. It's similar to the kind of pity I'd feel for any diseased animal.


378 posted on 12/16/2004 3:01:22 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker; little jeremiah
When a quisling hurls an insult, it has no effect because there is nothing to feel toward it but pity. It's similar to the kind of pity I'd feel for any diseased animal.

Calling you a liar is not an insult- it is the truth. You have repeatedly slandered me by claiming I use multiple screen names on FR, but you have never been able to provide any proof for your lies.

379 posted on 12/16/2004 3:03:47 PM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TAdams8591

You and the (now banned) tdadams are worlds, nay, universes apart!


380 posted on 12/16/2004 3:04:06 PM PST by little jeremiah (The "Gay Agenda" exists only in the minds of little jeremiah and his cohort. - Modern Man)
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