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.
We are in a battle for our children and grandchildren to be able to grow up and not be fresh market meat for homosexual predators in schools, churches and other areas.
How Elites Impose Gay Marriage from the Top Down
by Nicholas Stix
“Homosexual activist groups have been among the most influential players in the same-sex marriage campaign. Working behind the scenes with political leaders, news editors, public and private managers and educators, these groups have for the past thirty years wielded increasing power over what Americans may see and hear and say and do. Often at taxpayer expense, they have imposed a situation in which gays and their agenda must always be depicted in a positive manner, and their critics demonized. Some activist groups have increasingly hijacked public institutions, which they use for gay political organizing, same-sex marriage politicking, and most importantly, sexual recruitment.
“One such powerful activist group, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, pronounced ‘glisten’) has developed a curriculum promoting same-sex marriage to schoolchildren. One of the lesson plans instructs educators, ‘Elicit laws or customs that students feel are reflective of current marriage practice and … the underlying attitudes/beliefs. These practices reflect the ideas that marriage requires compatibility, economic interdependence, and that marriage is first and foremost about love – not procreation.
But promoting same-sex marriage is just the tip of the iceberg for GLSEN, which functions in the schools through homosexual teacher-activists. The group, which was founded in 1990 by Kevin Jennings, was originally named GLISTN, as in the ‘Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network.
“GLSEN Los Angeles sells a homosexualist curriculum that starts in kindergarten, ‘cootie shots’ (which as a traveling ‘play’ has also reached tens of thousands of young school children), whereby it seeks to impose homosexuality on all subjects.
“In ‘Play Wedding,’ designed for K-2, ‘Two little girls play dolls and talk about a wedding between two men one of them attended.’ In ‘La Peluca de Su Mama,’ which is also promoted for K-2 pupils, ‘A Latino boy is mocked and teased by his classmates for trying on his mother’s wig.’ In ‘Billy Tipton,’ for grades 3-6, ‘Billy, a jazz musician and heartthrob, who lived her/his entire life as a man, shares his/her story.’ In three other lessons, little boys are encouraged variously to wear dresses, don their mother’s high heels, and paint their fingernails bright orange.
“GLSEN activist and ‘Cootie Shots’ co-editor and theater director Norma Bowles claims, ‘We started hearing from parents and teachers that something like this was needed for elementary schools. As young as first and second grade, kids are calling each other names like sissy and queerboy. Long before kids even know what it means, the put down of the day is “That’s so gay.”
“First and second graders speaking that way? Parents calling for a pro-gay curriculum? I don’t think so. In fact, in 2002 parents in Novato, CA sued to protect their children from being exposed to ‘Cootie Shots.’
“According to World Net Daily reporter Diana Lynne, Fringe Benefits Theatre’s Web site has said that it is ‘dedicated to building bridges between gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youth and their straight peers, teachers and parents.’ However, in news reports, the group sells its productions as simply ‘promoting diversity.’ And the group has since made it impossible to reach it directly. Now, although Fringe Benefits is supported by taxpayer dollars, one must use intermediaries such as the radical leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site to reach the group.
“GLSEN activists have preyed on sexually confused (which many adolescents are) children as young as 12, and have told 14-year-olds that the latter are ‘transgenders,’ an incoherent notion that claims that one can have a sexual identity that contradicts one’s body. The ‘therapy’ for such confused souls involves chopping off a child’s sexual organs, constructing useless facsimiles of the sex organs of the opposite sex, and counseling the mutilated child that he (it?) is what he is not.
“GLSEN’s most powerful organizing tool has been ‘Gay-Straight Alliances’ that homosexual activist-teachers organize and manipulate at their schools. GSAs operate under the ruse that children as young as 12 have not only full-blown sexual identities, but a political consciousness of conflicts involving sex and sexual orientation.
“Homosexual activist groups have parlayed their power into the creation of a fifth group, which I call the homosexual ‘shadow government.’ Thus do some states and municipalities have homosexual activist advocacy institutionalized as part of government – ‘Commissions for Gay and Lesbian Youth,’ ‘Commissions on Sexual Minorities,’ etc.
“In Massachusetts, in what has become known as ‘fistgate,’ thanks to the dissident Web site MassNews, state education officials have joined with activists to push homosexual practices on school children. Two parents, Brian Camenker and Scott Whiteman, publicized a March 25, 2000 talk by state education and health officials, at a GLSEN-sponsored conference, who graphically described and praised any number of homosexual sex acts, most notoriously ‘fisting’ (forcing one’s fist and in some cases, forearm into another person’s rectum or vagina), and who downplayed the need for safe sex (forget about chastity), before an audience of children and educators. The officials had indoctrinated children as young as 12 to talk about homosexual acts. A 12-year-old girl said of homosexuality, ‘Don’t knock it, til you’ve tried it,’ ‘How do you know you don’t like it?,’ and that it ‘has a glorious history.’
“One homosexual teacher-presenter had her seventh-grade students prepare a film to convince administrators that homosexuality was normal, and ‘not about sex.’
“When Camenker and Whiteman played their tape on a local radio show, the education officials, Julie Netherland and Margot E. Abels, were fired. Netherland sued Camenker and Whiteman, arguing that they had violated her ‘privacy.’ Note that while the taxpayer-sponsored talk took place at Tufts University, the officials said that its content was identical to what they typically taught in the public schools.
As the Seattle-based group, Parents and Teachers for Responsible Schools (PTRS) reports, “The City of Seattle and the Seattle School District have created departments, paid for with public money and staffed by public employees, to advocate for homosexual civil rights, which include the right to marry, adopt, conceive children through artificial insemination, and to receive legal status equivalent to that afforded race under law. These departments, the Seattle Commission on Sexual Minorities (‘SCSM’), and the District's Sexual Minority Advocacy Council (‘SMAC’) are part of their respective Office of Civil Rights.
“PTRS reports that homosexual activists first used ‘AIDS education’ as their Trojan horse, to get a foothold in the public schools. Since then, GLSEN has fabricated problems, including abuse and discrimination, encountered by allegedly homosexual children, as a pretext to spread its publicly-funded ‘safe schools’ program across the nation. ‘Safe schools’ is a second Trojan horse, which GLSEN uses to push homosexuality and same-sex marriage on school children at ever younger ages….”
WTF are you talking about. I don't support or condone the homosexual agenda for the public schools or any school for that matter.
Seems like you're the nutjob, or at least have a chip on your shoulder.
Enough of this garbage, the NEA is run by gays to ensure that they always have new members. Absolutely no goverment monies should go to schools that behave this way.
BTW many, if not most, subjects that parents might find objectionable are merely kept off the radar. School officials feel that they have the right to "educate" your children without your knowledge, since you are too ignorant or narrow minded to do it yourselves.
Trespassing?!!! Since when the homosexual activists are the OWNERS of the local public schools?
Do you want to know what they teach to children in Newton? Then read about the Fistgate
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Grampa Dave is on my ping list! Thanks though.
She is a citizen, taxpayer and a parent. Maybe she wanted to see if should should give permission to her children too or to show them what they miss? Since it could be a very valuable edifying and decent program she would be able to show the film to persuade her neighbours to send their children as well.
Or do you susspect that there was something wrong which had to be hidden from the public record, do you? Are you against the police cameras in the parks and in the rest areas near highways?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302891/posts
Freakazoids on aisle 9.
Correct - and their embedded PR people are here on this FR thread as usual.
What about refunding the tax money for the school days wasted on promotion of buggery? Should the tax money be spent on subsidizing the sexual molestation of school children?
In Newton schools the Christmas Pageant would be considered a hate crime.
I also believe that the gay agenda helped President G.W. Bush get re-elected.
I now believe in my heart that the ACLU, et al. trying to ban Christmas will also backfire and this country will take a giant step to the RIGHT and the churches will be more crowded soon.
Just let them keep talking ---- common sense and the RIGHT way will prevail.
"Since then, GLSEN has fabricated problems, including abuse and discrimination, encountered by allegedly homosexual children, as a pretext to spread its publicly-funded ‘safe schools’ program across the nation. ‘Safe schools’ is a second Trojan horse, which GLSEN uses to push homosexuality and same-sex marriage on school children at ever younger ages….”
Documentation showing that the "saftey in the schools" issue is a ruse by GLSEN and other homosexual organizations. It all started with bogus statistics on "gay" youth suicide: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1026551/posts?page=206#206
Thanks for the link to "Fistgate".
I'm absolutely horrified -- and speechless (which doesn't happen often).
Let me understand this? We are not allowed to have a nativity scene celebrating Christmas on public property BUT it's ok to have these wierdos push there twisted agenda on public (governmental) school property? Something that is not nice is happening to America......
It shouldn't be on SCHOOL PROPERTY!
If you want to know more about homosexuality, go to a porn shop.
Listen to Mass. Depts of Education and Health instruct children on the mechanics of homosexuality
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