Mom Sues Over Ejection From School Assembly On Homosexuality

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 5/13/02 | Matt Pyeatt

[Saturnalia]

Am I the only one who is thinking she got this one from the porn name generator?
"Debra Loveless" Real my arse...

[Reaganesque]

My son was invited to one of these "Assemblies". This one was an overnighter where the students would be locked in the school "for their own safety". I refused to sign the permission slip, however, I decided to call the school to ask what the "Assembly" was all about.

I spoke with the person who was organizing the event and she refused to tell me what would be discussed behind closed and locked doors. Once she figured out I wasn't exactly on her side of the issue, she started talking about how students with religious beliefs are the real threat and how the spreading of religion/religious principles resulted in dead homosexuals. They have plenty to hide. They are a hate group every bit as hateful as the KKK, Hamas or the Neo-Nazis and they are targeting our children behind our backs.

[Puppage]

Welcome to the lovely world of ONE WAY TOLERANCE. Gee, the school didn't like her religious views, but everyone's supposed to be ok with an assembly of deviants?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Locked in the school overnight for an "assembly" promoting homosexuality?

Gee, that certainly sounds safe and appropriate. < /sarcasm>

[banjo joe]

Amazing how a group comprised of 2-3% of the population can make an entire nation bend over backwa... ahhh, never mind.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Welcome to FR.
There are those who want to destroy childhood and the relationship between parent and child by any means. History shows that tyrants and totalitarians of all stripes go after the kids to get their most fanatical adherents.
Even in ancient Athens, in Aristophanes play "The Clouds" a young character says "How sweet it is to become acquainted with new clever ways, and be able to look down with disdain on the established laws."
More recently, The Hitler Youth, the Young Pioneers, the allegorical "Spies" of 1984, and our own crop of "anti-globalists and jihadis" raised up in liberal households.
Its not only about getting the homosexual agenda normalized.

[AppyPappy]

Because she paid for the assembly.

[chatham]

Why should she worry?

Look what the Homosexuals have done for the Catholic Church which has survived for 2000 years,'Til the Homosexuals took over.

Any taxpayer who chooses to monitor an assembly in a public school has the right to do so.

Taxpayers pay for the schools.

[yendu bwam]

There are those who want to destroy childhood and the relationship between parent and child by any means. History shows that tyrants and totalitarians of all stripes go after the kids to get their most fanatical adherents.

Thanks for the welcome. And you're right, most revolutionaries go after kids to support them. Palestinian religious leaders look for kids to be their suicide bombers, rebels in West Africa look for kids to be their soldiers, communist revolutionaries in South America went for the kids first (and were often led by older kids from universities). Part of the problem, I think, is that kids are easily swayed by ideology, given their strong (and generally good) want to fix the problems of the world. It is only when they are older and wiser that they realize that most of the problems of the world are complex and multi-faceted and difficult to resolve. I've talked to a number of teenagers who are for promoting any kind of sex a person wants (including with animals). This is part of their compassion. But little do they think of the longer term consequences for those who engage in such deeds, and the longer term consequences for society as a whole. Part of the problem there is that kids are not taught to think much. And finally, very few kids today believe in right and wrong. Their parents do not inclucate that kind of thinking, and the churches have lost them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

very few kids today believe in right and wrong

That pretty much sums it up. Stay safe.

[ncpastor]

Why was she wanting to attend assemblies her daughter wasn't?

Maybe to find out how her tax dollars are being spent?

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Yeah she is real, saw an interview with her on the news other night, very well dressed, african american mom who made several eloquent statements about her beliefs and what she went through to try and get the school to let her attend.
They also talked to the school board member who INVITED her to attend the assembly and she was livid!

[Wolfie]

Oh man, that's disgusting! I mean, really, at at school assembly of all places...oh, its ejection...never mind.

[gilor]

I wish sodomites would just stay in the freaking closet.

[banjo joe]

Amazing how a group comprised of 2-3% of the population can make an entire nation bend over backwa... ahhh, never mind.

[mommadooo3]

MAAAAAYBE, she's read a thread or two on FreeRepublic, about the lovely and wholesome g.a.y. assemblies that had been held in Boston, Mass.

[JoshGray]

Nope, sorry. She's not complaining because she's a taxpayer -- she's complaining because she's a mother who wants to check out the educational content her daughter receives. Read the article.

I would almost bet that the school restricts visitations for all taxpayers. In fact, I'd even go so far as to bet that most, if not all, public-schools place restrictions on visitations by "taxpayers".

So... try again.

Her daughter was not in the assembly and was suffering no consequences for not attending.

So why did she feel any special right to be there? Were other taxpayers allowed to attend? Were other student-less parents there?

[Nov3]

JoshGray

member since April 11th, 2002

Says it all. Someone needs to either become a moderator or go back to DU

[AppyPappy]

Other taxpayers should have the opportunity to attend any school function within reason. The question is : If she is parent, why are they keeping her out? What are they hiding?

My guess is that GLSEN was afraid to be exposed.

[freedomcrusader]

She was URGED to attend by a school board member. Call me naive, but I think if a board member asks someone to attend a school event, he/she is very unlikely to think that she is not allowed to attend. Strange...