Posted on 04/08/2002 10:02:09 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
Contact: Attorney Brad Dacus (916) 857-6900 (Pacific Justice Institute)
School Invites Planned Parenthood Without Parental Notice
Arcata, CA - As a freshman at Arcata High School, taking Health class is a requirement as part of the curriculum. Recently, as part of the course outline, school administrators invited guest speakers from Planned Parenthood to address the class of freshmen. The topic to be covered by Planned Parenthood was sexual education, but more specifically "homophobia" and homosexuality.
The school administrators who invited Planned Parenthood to the class, failed to give prior notice to the parents, nor did the school obtain parental written consent for this presentation.
As part of an icebreaker, Planned Parenthood asked the class to stand in a circle. Questions were then asked of the class regarding "homophobia" and homosexuality. Whenever a question was asked that applied to the students, the students were asked by Planned Parenthood to step into the middle of the circle, facing their peers. One question was "Does your religion believe against or think homosexuality is a sin or something wrong?"
Feeling humiliated and singled-out, only a few students stepped forward. "This made me feel very uncomfortable," claimed one of the freshmen students. "I felt like I was being judged as a bad person ... my classmates stared at me like I had done something wrong."
"This line of questioning equates to religious-based harassment and violated both state and federal law when it was performed without prior written parental consent," said Brad Dacus, President of the Pacific Justice Institute. "On behalf of the student, the Pacific Justice Institute has agreed to offer any legal assistance and represent parents throughout the administrative complaint process."
The Pacific Justice Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other civil liberties. P.O. Box 4366, Citrus Heights, CA 95611 Phone (916) 857-6900 Fax (916) 857-6902 www.pacificjustice.org
Keep in mind that this took place in Kalifornia. The vast majority of public schools are not as seemingly hopeless as of yet. Let us keep fighting to keep these things from happening everywhere...including Kalifornia. Don't give up.
(I'm in Ireland and am not familiar with the phrase/group/body)
Sure, they administer baby-killing factories - and make a good deal of money at it.
Oh, yea, and they get Federal tax $$'s, too.
Was that too blunt?
Um, more like an un-American thing.
Ehhh..~scratchin' me head~...all I can say is :only in America! :-)
See, in America, planned Parenthood is proof positive that America has embraced an evil tradition of defining people as one defines cattle, and of treating such people as cattle injected with hormones or whose babies are to be slaughtered for more meat and economy in the plate of the "poor" (the "poor", yet another group of people arbitrarily named as one names cattle colors, classes and cults).
Thanks for the explanation :-)
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