'State interest' argued in teaching homosexuality
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Lawyer for parent says school's agenda amounts to 'indoctrination'
www.wnd.com
February 14, 2007
Lawyers representing a Massachusetts school district named as a defendant in
a parent's civil rights complaint have said teachers at Estabrook Elementary
School have a "legitimate state interest" in teaching the homosexual
lifestyle, and parents have no input into those decisions.
The arguments came in a recent hearing on the district's motion to dismiss
the complaint filed by David Parker, a parent whose concern over the
school's promotion of the homosexual agenda to grade-schoolers prompted a
meeting with school officials, for which they had him arrested for
trespassing.
According to a report from the activist group MassResistance.org, those
arguments echoed the claims made earlier in the case when a brief in support
of the school's position was filed by a collection of homosexual advocacy
organizations.
"The state must fight 'discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation' in
ways that 'do not perpetuate stereotypes,'" the lawyers for the school
district argued. They also explained to the judge that, in their opinion,
parents have no right to control what ideas the school presents to
elementary schoolchildren, and if parents disagree with that dictate, they
can take their children elsewhere.
"Once I have elected to send my child to public school, my fundamental right
does not allow me to direct what my child is exposed to in the public
school," said the school's lawyer.
[ed. Just shut up and cop whatever perverse crap they throw at our
children in other words...given they weren't so keen to "sit on the sidelines
and cop it" when they *weren't* teaching homosexuality - this strikes
me as extremely hypocritical...]
Dozens of parents' rights supporters of the Parker family braved freezing
temperatures to offer moral support to David Parker in the hearing on his
case against school officials in Lexington, Mass.
Parker was represented by lawyers Jeffrey Denner, Robert Sinsheimer and Neil
Tassel, who argued before Judge Mark Wolf that what the school calls
"diversity training" more accurately would be called "indoctrination," since
several viewpoints were absent from the school's presentations, and only the
pro-homosexual position was present.
And lawyers said the school "ultimatum" to "remove yourself and go somewhere
else" was vulgar.
"American values rely on religion. Religious rights trump the secular.
Parents have the right to direct the moral upbringing of their children,"
said Sinsheimer. "It is the Constitution that protects the minority segment
from the majority. The Parkers choose to send their children to the
Lexington Public Schools to be part of the fabric of the community."
The elementary curriculum promoting homosexuality, he said, was specifically
intended to change a child's outlook of the world to something that his
parents didn't teach him.
An ACLU lawyer, however, told the judge that "it is a tremendous bonus" for
children to be given information of which their parents wouldn't approve,
and that teaching children homosexuality when their parents' Biblical
beliefs do not support that has nothing to do with a violation of religious
freedom, according to the MassResistance.org reports.
"David Parker's dilemma . threatens the parental rights and religious
freedom of every Massachusetts parent, and indirectly every parent in
America," said John Haskins of the Parents' Rights Coalition.
"As the Lexington schools themselves are arguing, the state's right to force
pro-homosexuality indoctrination on other people's children arises directly
from former Gov. Mitt Romney's nakedly false and unconstitutional
declaration that homosexual marriage is now legal."
Haskins said when the Massachusetts state Supreme Court demanded homosexual
marriages in the state, it didn't have the constitutional or legal authority
to order the governor to act or to order the Legislature to make any
changes.
Officials said Wolf usually announces a decision within several weeks of a
hearing, and that's what is expected in this case. Parker's lawyers are
scheduled to supplement their oral arguments with written briefs this week.
The brief filed earlier by the Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU, the
Massachusetts Teachers Association, and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
in support of the school's homosexual promotions said parental rights "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."
Brian Camenker, a spokesman for MassResistance.org, said the high-profile
groups must see Parker's claims "as quite a threat to their ability to push
their message on children."
He said his organization, a "pro-family action center for Massachusetts"
which equips citizens to fight attacks on freedoms, constitutional
government, children and parental rights, can see the "true agenda" of the
homosexual organizations in their demands.
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 elementary-age son. The school took that position
despite a state law requiring such notification.
Then in April 2006 the same school chose to present the same
single-perspective information, and again refused to notify Parker, who
followed with the federal civil rights lawsuit.
Just days later, David Parker's son, Jacob, was beaten up at the school,
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 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.
The arguments on behalf of homosexuals were remarkably similar to a recent
European court's conclusion.
The European Human Rights Court several months ago concluded in a case
involving similar objections that parents do not have an "exclusive" right
to lead their children's education and any parental "wish" to have their
children grow up without adverse influences "could not take priority over
compulsory school attendance."
That court said a German family had no right to provide homeschooling for
their children. The family had argued the public school endangered their
children's religion beliefs and violated the family's Christian faith.
[ed. Christian viewpoints have been decreed not to exist...the state will
decide what truth is or isn't, and you WILL endorse them!...]
Irrelevant, said the court. "The parents' right to education did not go as
far as to deprive their children of that experience," it said.
[ed. Especially when that experience is of a Marxist angle - don't want
kiddies missing out on that!...]
"The (German) Federal Constitutional Court stressed the general interest of
society to avoid the emergence of parallel societies based on separate
philosophical convictions and the importance of integrating minorities into
society," the European ruling said.
In Germany, the situation has continued to deteriorate for homeschoolers,
with one 15-year-old student recently being taken into custody by a SWAT
team and ordered by a judge to a psychiatric ward of a hospital because she
was being homeschooled. WND's latest update on that situation has confirmed
authorities now have removed the teen from the psych ward, and she has been
taken to a location that is being withheld from her parents and lawyer.
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news:45d2f29b$0$31835$5a62...@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
> 'State interest' argued in teaching homosexuality
> Lawyer for parent says school's agenda amounts to 'indoctrination'
> www.wnd.com
> February 14, 2007
>
> Lawyers representing a Massachusetts school district named as a
> defendant in a parent's civil rights complaint have said teachers at
> Estabrook Elementary School have a "legitimate state interest" in
> teaching the homosexual lifestyle, and parents have no input into
> those decisions.
>
> The arguments came in a recent hearing on the district's motion to
> dismiss the complaint filed by David Parker, a parent whose concern
> over the school's promotion of the homosexual agenda to
> grade-schoolers prompted a meeting with school officials, for which
> they had him arrested for trespassing.
World Nut Daily .... what else ...
Even just MENTIONING homosexuality, to these Nazis, is called promoting
it.
Seig Heil!