ACLU and Gay Groups: We Have Rights To Your Children!

Posted on October 6, 2006

When indoctrinating people it is best to start with the youth and the schools. If the parents get in the way you should sue them. I mean, what right do parents have over their own children? WND is covering this one pretty good. What is this? One more for the list of reasons to homeschool. Here is the background.

David Parker was arrested and jailed in Lexington in April 2005 over his request – and the school’s refusal – to notify him when adults discuss homosexuality or transgenderism with his 6-year-old kindergartner. That despite a state law requiring such notification.

The incident made news around the nation and even Gov. Mitt Romney agreed with Parker.

However, in April 2006 the same school presented the book “King and King,” about homosexual romances and marriage, to second-graders and again refused to provide notification.

Parker and other parents followed with the federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging school officials and the town were refusing to follow state law.

Just days later, David Parker’s now-first-grade son, Jacob, was beaten up at Estabrook Elementary in Lexington, officials said. MassResistance said a group of 8-10 kids surrounded him and took him out of sight of “patrolling aides,” then pummeled and beat him.

Joining David and Tonia Parker in the lawsuit were Joseph and Robin Wirthlin. They allege district officials and staff at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington violated state law and civil rights by indoctrinating their children about an immoral lifestyle, circumventing parental responsibilities.

The school is claiming a state law permitting parents to pull their children applies only to classes in which such sensitive topics are the main focus, and the books promoting homosexuality were not the main focus.

In Massachusetts, the ‘gay’ groups said: “If a parent chooses to have his or her child attend the public schools, that child has a right to a broad and high quality public education, not one constrained by individual parental beliefs.”

Really, do our public schools really think that the ‘broad” topic of sexual orientation is appropriate for six year olds? Do you? I mean should the focus be on learning to read, write, etc.? If you are o.k. with your six year old learning about this topic at such an early age, do you think other parents should have the right to opt their children out? All the more reason to homeschool children, yet many parents work two jobs just to make ends meet and it is near impossible.

It really is sad that our schools push these sensitive and controversial indoctrinations on such young kids. But when it comes to religion in schools, especially Christianity, you will find these same radical groups pushing for broad education in this case, fighting against it. In the cases against religion the argument is that not everyone believes in it and that one belief should not be promoted above another. That is called religious tolerance. It has gotten so bad that one school recently threatened punishment on a young girl for reading her Bible at lunch time. However, when comes to gay tolerance, what someone else believes doesn’t seem to matter. As a matter of fact, the ACLU and the gay activist groups are filing a friend of the court brief stating that this parent should have no right to file a civil rights lawsuit in this case and furthermore has absolutely no right or say so in what his child is being taught. Of course, having a right like that would jeapordize their indoctrination agenda.

A collection of ‘gay’ organizations has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Massachusetts lawsuit, claiming they have every right to teach their doctrine to grade-school students.

Parental rights, according to the brief filed this week, “have never meant that a parent can demand prior notice and the right to opt a child out of mere exposure to ideas in the public schools that a parent disapproves of.”

That includes, according to the brief, religious or any other ideas.

The new brief was filed in a Massachusetts District Court lawsuit by Lexington parent David Parker, whose civil rights case is pending, by the Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and others.

“The amici organizations urge this court to grant the school defendants’ motion to dismiss because the scope of the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children, as asserted by the plaintiffs, would undermine teaching and learning in the Lexington public schools,” the brief alleges.

Glib Fortuna left a comment that deserves to be added to the post and is a good summary.

The Left’s MO is to drag children into adult political battles. The ACLU wants to ensure that parents have as little influence on their own children as possible so as te ensure a greater liklihood that children are indoctrinated as the ACLU sees fit. The ACLU’s positions that parents have no right to be notified when non-academic, sexual topics will be brought up in school (in first grade for Pete’s sake), that parents have no right to opt their children out of such activities, that poor parents may not have the option of choosing schools that they feel will best suit the goals the parents have for a child, that parents have no right as taxpayers who fund the schools to have input regarding the curriculum, that parents have no right to know if their daughter is pregnant and seeking to murder her child, that towns don’t have the right to keep convicted sex offenders away from children are sick windows into the dark soul of a fascist organization. I bet the ACLU applauded the recent ruling upholding the outlawing of homeschooling in Germany.

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3 Responses to “ACLU and Gay Groups: We Have Rights To Your Children!”

Glib Fortuna on October 6th, 2006 2:12 pm

The Left’s MO is to drag children into adult political battles. The ACLU wants to ensure that parents have as little influence on their own children as possible so as to ensure a greater likelihood that children are indoctrinated as the ACLU sees fit. The ACLU’s positions that parents have no right to be notified when non-academic, sexual topics will be brought up in school (in first grade for Pete’s sake), that parents have no right to opt their children out of such activities, that poor parents may not have the option of choosing schools that they feel will best suit the goals the parents have for a child, that parents have no right as taxpayers who fund the schools to have input regarding the curriculum, that parents have no right to know if their daughter is pregnant and seeking to murder her child, that towns don’t have the right to keep convicted sex offenders away from children are sick windows into the dark soul of a fascist organization. I bet the ACLU applauded the recent ruling upholding the outlawing of homeschooling in Germany.
Clay on October 6th, 2006 3:22 pm

It has been identified that American students lag far behind students in Europe and other countries. Other than teacher’s unions being part of the problem, the introduction of leftist agenda into school cirriculum has done the most damage. There is no room in public school education for teaching anything regarding homosexuality, (whether pro or con) or sex education for that matter.

If we expect to continue to be the world’s leading nation in technology we had better ensure that our schools are providing top notch education to each and every student enrolled.

The ACLU, as usual, is on the despicable side of the issue.

If the court sides with the ACLU on this one, then the only possible justice that could result is the opening up of school vouchers to parents so that they can ensure their children can get the best quality education possible. They need good strong reading, science and math skills. They don’t need to be up on each and every sexual perversion, method or lifestyle choice to be a success in the job arena.

Once these vouchers are distributed, I venture to predict there will be no shortage of empty desks left in the liberal controlled public schools.

That will be a good thing.

Then, liberals and the ACLU can send their children there to be indoctrinated in all of the things liberalism finds precious.

In the meantime, the US can begin to repair the damage that has been done to it’s students and begin rising back up to be able to compete with students from around the world.
kerwin_brown on October 7th, 2006 1:39 pm

Parental Rights were well known when America became a country and are one of the natural rights that the Declaration of Independence stated it is the duty of the government to secure. They were not secured by the federal Constitution except for in the case of the Ninth Amendment.

The federal courts could create such a right like they did the right to privacy but it is really up to the legislation of the federal government and the states to do so.

The right to privacy is not a natural right because it not something that comes to man as a gift of God except as regard his/her own property in his/her own possession which is an aspect of the right to property.

I suggest that family groups get together and push for an Amendment to state and federal Constitutions to protect parental rights. Some state constitutions may already have such Amendments.