Cousin It
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.
Ah, I was cornfused. It's been a very busy couple of days with 2 pinglists and despotic homosexualists and atheist Christmas haters on the march.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
gidget7 got it exactly right. NO ROMNEY!! He refuses to provide any moral leadership whatsoever.
Cousin It
Thank you and bless you for your testimony. As a proud and longtime conservative, it's insulting to be confused with him (tdadams).
He looks quite fixated. You'll have to pardon my ignorance, but that isn't Goering, is it?
Truth, when filtered through a diseased and tortured mind never returns whole.
No, but close. It's Norway's Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling.
Don't be so hard on yourself, I doubt the dementia has gotten that bad.
And you have still to provide any evidence for your slanderous claim that I use multiple screen names.
You're a coward, to boot, afraid to address me directly.
I can relate, kinda - my business phone number is similar to the phone number for RBC Mortgage, Marshalls Department Store, Togos, and Papa Murphy's Pizza. I have all their numbers handy for when the phone calls come in.
Time to take NO prisoners, people.
"What is going on in the world today?!
This is disgusting!"
"I wonder why the "great" ACLU doesn't have a problem with this, but does anything it can to try to stop Christianity."
The answer to your question is a simple one. The ACLU is headed and controlled by rabid/perverted gay agenda pushers. This is the agenda that the Gay Jihadists in charge of the ACLU want pushed in every school in America.
Below is the short bio of the head of the ACLU:
http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/840/840_headlines_romero.asp
Precedent setting
Anthony Romero is tapped to be the first openly gay and first Latino ACLU head
By Chris Bull
From The Advocate, June 19, 2001
When the American Civil Liberties Union named Anthony D. Romero as its new executive director in May, it touted him as “the first Latino and openly gay man” to head the 81-year-old national civil rights group. If that description is not impressive enough, Romero is only 35, an age when even the most ambitious activists are just beginning to make their marks. His predecessor, Ira Glasser, served in the post since 1978 and guided the organization to the forefront of gay rights battles.
But for Romero, who graduated from Princeton University and Stanford Law School, great expectations are nothing new. Before joining the ACLU, Romero was director of human rights and international cooperation at the Ford Foundation. The son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Romero was born in the Bronx borough of New York City and now lives in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood with his partner of five years.
How about this new position?
I’m proud of being the first openly gay man and Latino to head the ACLU. With my selection, the board was sending an important message about discrimination, prejudice, and injustice.
Some leaders in similar positions have expressed discomfort at being a poster boy.
My whole life has been focused on civil liberties and gay rights, so I actually welcome it as a challenge.
When you first realized you were gay, did you imagine it would be an obstacle?
All of us who grow up gay or lesbian know firsthand—one of the first things we learn is that hate and stigma stand against us. We learn that lesson in the school yard, workplace, and community. We still don’t have basic human rights. I learned from my mom and dad the importance of believing in dourself and fighting for what you believe. They taught me to treat others with respect but also to demand it in return. In college and at Stanford Law school, I learned about civil rights heroes like Harvey Milk and how to overcome those barriers others set up for us
Yup. A slicker version of Bill Weld.
It is past the time for all right thinking Americans to abandon the public school system.
It's homosexuality that is a lie. Males (I won't call them men) who involve themselves in this behavior have refused to accept their responsibility as men.
After a while, it becomes almost embarrassing to watch.
Consider yourself pinged big guy.
Boy you literary giants are big on that spelling thing aren't you? It hurts to be up there with Dane and MineralMan don't it? Oops. I mean DOESN'T it.
Thanks for your research. The more people know the truth about the ACLU and who runs it and why, the soon it will be de-fanged.
"My whole life has been focused on civil liberties and gay rights, so I actually welcome it as a challenge."
This gay activist is a real score for the ACLU - it's like the Orcs and the Urukhai joining forces.
But take heart - Frodo and Sam prevailed and achieved victory!
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