Indoctrination  Displaces  Education
Part Three

Political Correctness and Moral Relativism


Political correctness, in this case, is an effort to protect those who are easily offended, and especially their lawyers.  Moral relativism teaches that one belief system is as good as another, and that there is no absolute right and wrong.  (They're wrong.  Absolutely.)

See also Political Correctness vs. Traditional Family Values.



Why black sheep are barred and Humpty can't be cracked:  Traditional nursery rhymes are being rewritten at nursery schools to avoid causing offence to children.  Instead of singing "Baa baa, black sheep" as generations of children have learnt to do, toddlers in Oxfordshire are being taught to sing "Baa baa, rainbow sheep".

Rainbow-colored sheep take Britain by storm.  Has anyone ever actually seen a rainbow-colored sheep?  That's surely what a few British toddlers are asking.  Teachers at nursery schools in Oxfordshire, England, have asked children to change the words of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" to "Baa, Baa, Rainbow Sheep" to avoid the possibility of offending anyone.

Education at Its Finest.  For these professors, words and the literature that they make up have no inherent meaning or value.  Grammar itself is merely an artificial construct.  To the extent that any interpretation or work prevails, it is an indication of only the power of those who espouse that interpretation or work rather than any value intrinsic to the work itself.  No work, according to these professors, is inherently more valuable than any other, and the racial or sexual identity of the author is always more important.

A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness.  Maybe this is how political correctness ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper.  Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.

Anti-liberal universities.  [Scroll down] It is all right in sociology, women's studies or minority studies to express hatred toward men, toward Christianity, toward heterosexually, marriage and all whites.  Modern "liberal" professors usually require students to regurgitate their beliefs and opinions or the student suffers ridicule and disastrous grades.  Students are not allowed to discuss anything that may be disparaging, no matter how factual, about minorities, other religions, gays or feminists.

When sexual "harassment" is a joke.  By the year 2020, every American will be a victim.  Give it another 15 years, and there will be a study that puts every man, woman and child into one aggrieved group or another.

Universities limit students' exposure to conservative ideas.  Diversity is more than skin color.  It includes life experiences and viewpoints.  Missouri universities, especially Missouri State and Drury, lack true diversity.  Students are not exposed to diverse viewpoints because of a huge liberal bias.  Students are far more likely to be taught by liberal professors, read textbooks written by liberal authors and attend liberal guest lectures.  Exposure to conservative views is limited to a handful of conservative professors, guest speakers and outside readings.

Study:  Students Rarely Adopt Politics of Their Professors.  Conservatives complain that college professors lean left when it comes to politics — and the data mostly show that's true.  But new research suggests the personal politics of academics have little effect on what their students think.

No School is Safe and Free from the ACLU.  Many parents remove their children from public schools for various reasons.  Some do so because they believe their kids would excel in a private or religious school and get a better education.  Others do so out of concern for their religious values being impugned by the likes of Planned Parenthood who have been allowed to teach sex education to our children in some parts of the country.

Why Johnny isn't going to college:  It's too bad that male sports are being eliminated on most college campuses.  Except for Texas, USC, and a few other places, radical feminism rules in the athletic departments at the expense of popular male sports.

Cross Removal Stirs Va. College Campus.  [William and Mary's] School President Gene R. Nichol often goes to the 120-seat chapel alone at night to think in the quiet.  Nichol ordered the cross removed in October to make the chapel more welcoming to students of all faiths.  Previously, the cross could be removed by request; now it can be returned by request.  "It's the right thing to do to make sure that this campus is open and welcoming to everyone," Nichol said.  "This is a diverse institution religiously, and we want it to become even more diverse."

Why William & Mary's president is hiding:  By secretly removing the cross from the altar of the College of William & Mary's 275-year-old Wren Chapel last October, the school's president, Gene Nichols, has created a major crisis at the second-oldest campus in the nation.  W&M is perhaps America's highest-ranked college with the lowest endowment.

Update:
William and Mary president resigns in disgrace.  The head of the College of William and Mary, Gene Nichol, has resigned in disgrace.  Several readers send along his resignation letter.  You'll recall that he roiled the campus with his decision to hide the cross at the famous school chapel to make it "less faith-specific."  More recently, he hosted a sex workers show on campus while restricting critics who wanted to tape it.

Call it what you will, it's still failure.  A group of teachers has proposed that the word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils.

Namby-pamby nation:  The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools.  At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues."

Colorado School Bans Tag on Its Playground.  An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.  "It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.  Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.

The Editor says...
When I was a kid, lots of things happened against my will at school -- starting with attendance.  But alas, this is the way the government prepares kids for their long careers in thankless, meaningless, unrewarding dead-end jobs.

Believing the true believers.  The time is long overdue for our media and our educational institutions to start presenting both sides of issues — and for our schools and colleges to start teaching students how to think, instead of telling them what to think.

I beg to disagree.  Where an argument starts is far less important than where it finishes because the logic and evidence in between is crucial.  Unfortunately, our educational system is not only failing to teach critical thinking, it is often itself a source of confused rhetoric and emotional venting in place of systematic reasoning.

Higher education in decline.  College costs have risen dramatically over the last several decades.  In many cases, it's difficult to find a college where per-student costs are under $20,000 each year.  Most often, tuition doesn't measure the true cost because taxpayer and donor subsidies pay part of the expenses.  While costs are rising, education quality is in precipitous decline, particularly at the undergraduate level.  Part of the reason is the political climate on college campuses, where professors use their classrooms for proselytizing and indoctrination and teach classes that have little or no academic content.

Schools told not to warn parents about lice.  School administrators in Scotland have been told to stop sending letters homes warning of lice outbreaks because they may hurt the feelings of the kids who are infested.

Numerous other examples  of political correctness in public schools.

The Wrong Question to Ask About The Tragic School Shootings:  If the fetish of being non-judgmental means more to you than your children, then what kind of parent are you?

Parent offended by lesson in vocabulary:  Use of a word that sounds like a racial slur has landed a New Hanover County teacher in the middle of a controversy.  Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word "niggardly" to her class last week in an effort to improve her students' vocabularies.

 Related story:   Rolling over on phony charges of racism:  When we succumb to this kind of bullying because we lack the fortitude to stand up for truth and principle, we damage our society and do nothing to abate racism.

Unless It's PC at UT, It's O-U-T:  An attorney with a leading public-interest law firm says the University of Texas is awash in "political correctness," and UT is attempting to silence any views that disagree with the liberal left.

College profs steeped in post-modernism:  73% of polled seniors say instructors don't teach standards of right and wrong.

College Professors Spread Moral Relativism:  Three-quarters of all college seniors report that their professors teach them that what is right and wrong depends "on differences in individual values and cultural diversity," a poll conducted for National Association of Scholars (NAS) reveals.  Only about a quarter of 400 college seniors randomly selected from campuses around the country said their professors taught the traditional view that "there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged."

The Professor vs. the PC Brigade:  If you thought political correctness on campus had gone the way of pet rocks and hula hoops, think again.

Group "Honors" Campus P.C. Extremists "Political correctness is alive and well on the American college campus," says the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which has released its fourth annual list of campus outrages – including student financing of an S&M club and how-to guides on vandalism and arson.

School Cancels Production of 'Ten Little Indians' Over Concerns of Racial Slur.  An Ohio high school has canceled its student theater production of "Ten Little Indians" after local residents complained about a racial slur in the original title of the Agatha Christie novel, which never has been published under that name in this country.  The best-selling murder mystery originally was named "Ten Little N---ers" when it was published in England in 1939.  The name of the book was changed for production in the United States, and the school was using the name "Ten Little Indians" for the play's title.

Boy faces jail for slapping girl's bottomAccused boy's mother:  "It's political correctness gone mad."

More about Zero Tolerance Nonsense.

Sex Education




Funds for Schools that Give Birth Control to 11-Year-Olds?  A middle school in Portland, Maine, has decided to provide birth control pills and patches to its students, ages 11 to 13, and under the policy, parents may never know if their children get the birth control.

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Abstainers Are Killers?  The lesson from the anything-goes crowd is so illogical it borders on the obscene.  In order to "protect the youth" from unsavory sexual messages, we should provide them will all the technology so they can have "safe sex" — even at age 11.  But who is responsible for this bombardment of sexual messaging in our culture that's fueling this fire?

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School Won't Back Down, So Lawsuit Over Contraception Will Proceed.  A conservative civil liberties group said it will proceed with a lawsuit against the Portland, Maine, School Committee for refusing the reconsider its policy on prescription contraceptives for middle school students as young as 11.

Sex Education Lesson:  Beat Up the Virgins.  Today's sex education and teen pregnancy prevention advocates claim that they stand ready with contraceptives and factual information to assist teens and preteens presumably possessed by the raging hormone monster.  The notion that their programs would somehow encourage sexual activity is laughable, they charge.  But a series of videos for teens promoted through a teen pregnancy prevention program, G-CAPP (Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention), mocks the idea of abstinence.

Sex ed planned for fourth graders.  The Springfield School District plans to introduce sex education to fourth-graders next school year, a grade younger than its current practice.  "Kids are developing a little more rapidly," said Kathy Hulcher, who oversees health education for the district and helped lead a committee that re-evaluated the sex education curriculum.

What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You About Abstinence:  From the media to the classroom, teens today are constantly being inundated with "safe sex" claims.  They will become sexually active anyway, the thinking goes, so let's teach them how to do it "safely" – that is, with contraception.  Teenagers are told it is fine to practice "safe sex" and abstinence is given short shrift.  But that lie could ultimately destroy them.

Exposing Failed Radical Theories and Policies.  A growing body of findings from objective social science research is providing defenders of the truth with the ammunition they need to counter the phony ideologically-biased research that dominated policy discussions in the aftermath of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.  While the radicals of the 1960s are still administrators of foundations, heads of leftist organizations and members of the tenured faculty of American universities — their remaining bastions of power — slowly, but steadily, these radicals are becoming more and more obsolete, like their enablers in the mainstream media.

Arkansas Parents Uncover Volumes of Vile Literature in School Libraries.  An Arkansas mother who succeeded in getting three sexually explicit books removed from Fayetteville school libraries says she has found there are more than a hundred books of that nature in the school district.  Now a mental health counselor is recommending a parental audit of all the books in the city's school libraries.

Teacher Reassigned for Anatomy Drawings.  A teacher has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, a school spokeswoman said Friday [1/26/2007].

Judge rules sex-education curriculum violates First Amendment rights.  A federal judge in Montgomery County, Md., has issued a temporary restraining order to stop the teaching of a sex-education course because it violates the First Amendment.  I can't remember any other case in the last 30 years in which a judge sided with parents against a curriculum adopted by a school board.

Veggie porn in school?  Most states derive their sex-ed curricula, in whole or in part, from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, a group with a decidedly liberal view of these matters.  SIECUS promotes sex ed starting in kindergarten, when children should be taught the proper names for body parts and the difference between good touch and bad touch.

Attack on decency.  During the 1960s, the education establishment launched its agenda to undermine lessons children learned from their parents and the church with fads like "values clarification."  So-called sex-education classes were simply indoctrination that sought to undermine family/church strictures against premarital sex.  Lessons of abstinence were ridiculed, considered passe, and replaced with lessons about condoms, birth control pills and abortion.  Further undermining of parental authority came with legal and extra-legal measures to assist teenage abortions with neither parental knowledge nor consent.

The Left Launches an Offensive Against School Abstinence Programs.  Rep. Henry Waxman, one of the U.S. House of Representative's most liberal members, has taken aim at federally-funded abstinence education programs, accusing many of them of promoting misleading information regarding abortion and sexually-transmitted diseases. … It is important that Americans understand that Rep. Waxman is a leading proponent of condom-distribution programs.  He is not simply an unbiased observer in this situation.

School System Pays for Squelching Student's Viewpoint on Homosexuality.  A federal judge in Detroit ordered the Ann Arbor Public School system to pay $102,738 in attorney fees and costs to the Thomas More Law Center, which defended a student who expressed her religious views against homosexuality.

In Scotland ...
Schools told to give pupils gay sex advice.  Official guidance on how to teach Scottish schoolchildren about gay sex is being issued for the first time since the abolition of laws which banned "promoting" homosexuality in schools.

Texas Textbook Debate Revolves Around Issue of Abstinence.  Official debate over abstinence-only health textbooks in Texas public schools has ended.  Opponents of the proposed books — among them Planned Parenthood and the Texas Freedom Network — claim the texts should include lessons on condoms and birth control.

Women's Group Fired Up About "Fistgate 2" A national women's group is joining other conservatives in condemning a homosexual activist group's promotion of homosexuality in Massachusetts schools.

Teacher's porn lesson a shock.  [An Australian] teacher who told a class of teenage boys to research pornography online has been allowed to keep teaching.  Mark Heiberg won a promotion after Victoria's teacher watchdog dismissed a complaint about his assignment entitled:  "Is Nudity and Pornography the same thing?"

Pro-Gay Sex Education is on the Rise.  Those who think that granting homosexuals the right to marry won't affect them might want to reconsider in light of a recent National Public Radio broadcast about how instruction in gay-sex techniques is showing up in sex education classes in Massachusetts.

Mom's Resignation from National PTA:  My mother has resigned from the National Parent-Teachers Association.  And that is a significant thing, for my mom has been a leader in the local PTA in our hometown for the past 25 years.  She is fed up with the overwhelming political correctness that rules the National PTA, evident in its partnership with Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) at its recent convention.  "I do not think the gay agenda should be addressed with my dues money," my Mom explained.


Acceptance and Promotion of Homosexuality


School kids are being taught to accept perversion as normal behavior.  This is the inevitable result of liberal "envelope pushers" having control of the sex education curriculum.



California's SB 1437

Bill Would Force Schools to Support Homosexuality.  Gender-neutral bathrooms in public schools?  Girls running for prom king?  Those are just a few of the possibilities which could result if the California Legislature passes SB 1437 which would force schools to adopt an exclusively pro-homosexual message.

California Assembly Passes SB 1437.  A bill which prohibits any California textbook from "portraying homosexuals negatively" been passed by the California Assembly and sent to the state Senate for a concurrence vote.

Tell California Officials to Oppose Pro-Gay Bill.  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did say last month that he would veto SB 1437 if it reaches his desk — but there is no guarantee he will follow through on that statement.  That's why it's imperative he and Assembly members hear en masse from Californians and others about why SB 1437 is a bad bill.

Gay Bill Battle Continues.  SB 1437 would ban teachers, textbooks, instructional materials or school activities from reflecting "adversely" upon people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. … The measure initially was wider in scope, seeking changes in social science curriculum to recognize the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.



Irmo principal to resign after gay club approved for school.  The principal of Irmo High School has opted to resign rather than share his campus with an organization for gay students.  Irmo High School Principal Eddie Walker confirmed to The Associated Press he is stepping down in the summer of 2009.

Toledo Blade Article Gets University Employee Fired.  [Scroll down]  You know, I have often wondered why the civil rights establishment has allowed homosexual extremists to co-opt the mantle of civil rights for their own twisted agenda.  [Crystal] Dixon is exactly right.  I can no more "decide" not to be white as she can "decide" not to be black. … But, it is possible to decide not to be gay.  It is something eminently under the control of the individual to change.  It is a behavior, not an unalterable fact.

College Suspends Administrator for Op-Ed on Homosexuals.  The University of Toledo has suspended with pay one of its administrators for writing a newspaper op-ed that questions whether homosexuality is a civil rights issue.  The school said the administrator was suspended precisely because her views on homosexuality do not comport with those of the university, a state institution.

'Day of silence' generates controversy.  The silent observation is meant to highlight the plight of gay students who feel they must hide their sexual orientation for fear of harassment, bullying and discrimination, according to those who are taking part.  Those opposed to the activity say it is really a veiled movement to promote a homosexual lifestyle in public schools.  A number of Oregon City High School students and some teachers took part, writing their thoughts rather than speaking. … The school announced the day of silence over the school intercom, but Wallace said no notification was given parents.

'Be Happy Not Gay' shirt gets OK.  A US federal court has granted permission for a teenager to wear a T-shirt with the slogan "Be Happy, Not Gay" during a Christian day of action on Monday held in response to a gay rights protest.  The high school in Neuqua Valley, Illinois, had banned student Alexander Neuxoll from wearing the T-shirt in class on Monday, when a Christian group is organising a "Day of Truth" to show its opposition to homosexuality.

High School Officials Assign Racist "Gay" Porn.  Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois, had assigned the pornographic book "Angels in America:  A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" to students as required reading.  When a group of outraged parents found out, they filed a formal complaint.  Now the book has been changed to an "optional title," meaning kids may still select the book for peer study under the direction of a teacher.  The book is replete with profanity, overt racism through multiple uses of the N-word, an explicit description of a sex act involving Mother Theresa and some of the most graphic, vile and vivid depictions of homosexual anal sodomy every put in print.

"Gay" Sex Kills?  Can you imagine officials at a middle school, junior high or high school setting aside a day to promote "tolerance" for heavy smoking and drinking among children?  How about a day where teachers encourage kids to "embrace who they are," pick up that crack pipe and give it a stiff toke?  Neither can I.  The public would go ballistic, and for good reason.  But that hasn't stopped officials in thousands of schools across the country from promoting other politically correct and socially "in-vogue" behaviors that — both statistically and manifestly — are every bit as dangerous as the aforementioned frowned-upon behaviors.

Oklahoma lawmaker threatened with legal action for practicing free speech.  Oklahoma state lawmaker Sally Kern has had to obtain legal representation in the wake of a barrage of tens of thousands of hate-filled emails and threatened lawsuits after she spoke publicly about the dangers of the radical homosexual agenda.  During a recent speech at a Republican club meeting, Sooner State Representative Sally Kern said she was concerned that the homosexual agenda would destroy the nation and that the threat the movement poses is as big a threat to the nation as terrorism.  She also told how young public school children are being indoctrinated into believing that the homosexual lifestyle is normal.

Librarian sues OSU to get his job back.  A former Ohio State University librarian accused of sexual harassment after recommending a conservative book for freshmen has filed a lawsuit against the university and some of its faculty.  Scott Savage, who said he resigned because of personal and professional attacks on his character, asks for his job back and for OSU to be forced to change its sexual-harassment policies.  OSU is "an aggressive proponent of the homosexual lifestyle by virtue of its practices and policies," Savage says in the lawsuit, filed in federal court because he says his civil rights were violated.

Children's Book About Same-Sex Penguin Couple Causes Flap in Virginia.  A children's book about two male penguins that hatch a chick together has been pulled from school library shelves in Loudoun County, Virginia.  Parents complained that the book has a gay agenda and have called for its removal.  But supporters say the book's removal is censorship.

The Editor says...
Yes, it's censorship.  So what?  Censorship has an important role in elementary schools.

Family of girl, 12, sues after 'Brokeback' shown in class.  A suit was filed on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who claims she suffered psychological distress when a teacher showed in class the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mountain." … According to the suit, a substitute teacher introduced herself as Ms. Buford to Jessica's class at Ashburn Community Elementary School … She then said, "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," the suit claims.

'Gay' cowboy love scenes 'traumatize' schoolgirl, 12.  A 12-year-old girl who says she was traumatized when her teacher showed the film "Brokeback Mountain" featuring love scenes with homosexual cowboys is suing the Chicago Board of Education for $500,000.  "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," is what the substitute teacher told eighth-grade students at Ashburn Community Elementary School after showing the R-rated movie, according to a lawsuit filed Friday [5/11/2007] in Cook County Circuit Court.

One more reason to switch to home-schooling...
School challenge:  Transgender student is age 9.  For school officials in Haverford Township, the challenge was daunting:  What do you do when a 9-year-old student, with the full support of his parents, decides that he is no longer a boy and instead is a girl?

The Editor says...
The problem is "daunting" only because common sense and basic decency have been thrown out of the schools along with the Bible.

School disciplines students for using the term 'gay'.  The president of the Pacific Justice Institute says officials at a California public school are having their free-speech rights violated in the name of "tolerance" for homosexuals.  The school, he says, could soon find itself facing a lawsuit for telling elementary children they cannot use the word "gay" in a derogatory manner.

Outrage over San Diego school's involvement in 'gay pride' parade.  A San Diego, California, school district has rebuffed efforts by 12 Christian men and women to prevent minor children from being exposed to the city's 33rd annual homosexual pride parade.  This group, dubbed the "San Diego Twelve," is calling on the district school board to bar a K-8 charter school from once again marching its students under the school's banner in this summer's "San Diego LGBT Pride" parade.

Judge orders 'gay' agenda taught to Christian children.  A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the "gay" agenda taught to Christians who attend a public school in Massachusetts, finding that they need the teachings to be "engaged and productive citizens."  U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf yesterday dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by David Parker, ordering that it is reasonable, indeed there is an obligation, for public schools to teach young children to accept and endorse homosexuality.

You're Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage — You Must be a Member of the Ku Klux Klan.  Without question, the comments comparing Justin [Boone] and his teammates to members of the KKK were rude, offensive, and thoroughly unprofessional.  Moreover, given the fact that Justin is an African-American, these comments were especially derogatory, inflammatory, and demeaning.  The teachers should be reprimanded and disciplined for their rank unprofessionalism.

Just Say No to these Pro Homosexual Materials at School.  Some tolerance lessons taught to our kids — learning respect and civility toward people of all races and ethnic backgrounds — are valuable.  And certainly, we need to stop the cruelty involved in bullying.  Unfortunately, many of the lessons in our schools have been corrupted by adding to these positive messages the poisonous myth that accepting homosexuality and "transgendered" behaviors is desirable, while objecting to them — even in a civil way — is "harassment," "discrimination" and even "bullying."

School prepares for transgender second grader.  The issue of being transgender usually pops up with students in high school.  Now a second grade Colorado boy wants to dress as a girl and be addressed with a girl's name.

The Editor says...
In the good old days, this kid and his parents would all be taken to the gates of the city and stoned.  Then their house would be burned down.  The next couple to consider converting their son to a daughter would then have a reason to reconsider.

Does Your School Promote Homosexuality?  The activities and policies listed in this article may sound nice, but in reality protect and promote homosexuality and sexual promiscuity, putting students directly in harm's way instead of cautioning them about risky behavior.  Is your school jumping on this foolish bandwagon?

Transfer denied for kids taught by transsexual.  Five parents who asked to transfer their children out of Batavia High School classes with a transsexual teacher have been denied, according to Batavia district Superintendent Richard Stutzman Jr.

Gender Terrorism:  The Transgendered Agenda Most Americans would be outraged at how rapidly revolutionary ideas about gender are invading our classrooms.  But discussions about cross-dressing, sex change surgery and even abolishing gender altogether are now part of the trendy "gay" agenda and are such are gaining widespread acceptance by teachers, the NEA, and school boards.

The California homosexual activists' assault on schoolchildren:  On May 11, the California State Senate passed Senate Bill 1437.  The bill demands "no teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their … gender … [or] sexual orientation." ... If a boy decides to come to school in a dress, teachers may not even request that he change clothes.

Parents' Suit Challenges Gay-Themed Book.  Two couples who say a suburban school district undermined their parental rights by giving out and reading storybooks with gay themes without telling them first have filed a federal lawsuit against school officials.  The couples claim the officials broke state law, violated their civil rights, and were trying to teach their children about a lifestyle they consider immoral.

Uninvited guests:  How hospitable should Christian campuses be to visitors who oppose their beliefs?

Pinch Me If I Am Paranoid.  A bill is close to passing in California that would make all government (public) schools mandate a "positive" portrayal of homosexuality in their textbooks and literature.  However, many of these same schools will not allow the mention of the word Christmas or Easter for fear that it will in some way "indoctrinate" the kids into Christianity.

Same Sex "Marriage", Homosexuality, and the Education of Children:  The legalization of same sex liaisons as "marriage" in the U.S would drastically alter the nature of what is taught to children in schools, community groups, camps, churches and in the media.  Currently, a high-pressure campaign by homosexual activists, supported by the National Education Association, is underway to promote acceptance of homosexuality among children, and a great deal of headway has already been made through the establishment of homosexual clubs, adoption of pro-homosexual school policies, the showcasing of homosexual literature, special occasion speakers, and so-called anti-bias programs.

Catholic League:  Homosexual High School Teacher Was Rightly Fired.  Jeff Crouse, a 45-year-old former seminarian, has been fired from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas after school officials learned he was trolling for same-sex dates on the Internet.

Homosexual Book for First-graders:  A North Carolina couple is outraged by a book their first-grade daughter brought home from the school library in which a prince finds his true love — in the form of another prince.

15 Good Reasons to Oppose 'Sexual Orientation' (Homosexuality) Codes in Schools

Falling Boulder:  Many American schools have sponsored pro-gay speakers, allowed pro-gay art displays, and sanctioned clubs called "Gay-Straight Alliances."  But Colorado's Boulder Valley School District is going a step further, advancing new curriculum standards that would require students to "demonstrate" their acceptance of homosexuality.

Gay Crime Syndicate?  The left’s latest experiment with segregation has certainly started out with a bang.  This September, New York City opened the nation’s first taxpayer-funded school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens — Harvey Milk High School — and a crime wave is already underway.

Is Harvey Milk High School really a good idea?  This is the new American myth.  Gone is the "rags to riches" ethic.  Now it's "woe is me.  Give me some special treatment."  In this country, it is now taken for granted that the principles by which our culture has traditionally functioned are no longer deemed appropriate.

California Tells Christian Club it Must Admit Non-Christians and Homosexuals.  A new Christian club at California State University–San Bernardino was recently denied official recognition by the university because it required its members to adhere to Biblical principles of morality.  Some of these principles, as explained by the student organizer, Ryan Sorba, include abstaining from premarital sex and homosexual relations.

School Sexual-Orientation Survey Not Approved.  Parents are angry and school leaders are promising action in response to a "Heterosexual Questionnaire," approved by two teachers, that asked students questions such as:  "If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?"  Hundreds of Port Washington High School students were told to submit written answers and discuss the survey.

Government Schools Promote Same-sex Marriage.  "Any parent who leaves his or her child in the hands of homosexual activists does not love that child.  They are declaring their indifference," said Robert H. Knight, director of Culture and Family Institute.  "It's a form of child abuse.  They're allowing their children to be seduced into immoral and dangerous sexual behavior."

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Colleges to avoid, part II.  Parents thinking of sending their children to Georgia Tech should visit the university website or stop by the campus to get a sense of how far the university has fallen in recent years.

Male, female, or other:  can I check all three?  On college campuses, psychotic is very trendy.  Next fall, my university will follow the lead of other schools by adding an 'other' category to the gender section of admissions forms so that "students will now be able to express exactly who they think they are."  In short, unfortunate delusions are to be treated as perfectly acceptable.

Comments on gays broadcast at school raise furor.  A teacher who condemned homosexuality as part of a broadcast at Miami Sunset Senior High has come under fire.

Under the radar:  Gay-rights groups are quietly but aggressively advancing their agenda.  While the news media focused on immigration last week, California Democrats focused on completing the transmutation of public-school social science curricula into a punctuated series of pro-homosexuality tracts.

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The Hetero-flexible Gene.  The recent New York Times article on the Cuddle Puddle at Stuyvesant High School unwittingly undermines the legal strategy of the Gay Rights movement.

Baptists:  Probe homosexuality in schools.  A resolution urging churches to investigate the level of homosexual advocacy in their local school districts will be presented to the Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee for possible consideration at the denomination's annual gathering [2005].

This article is soaked with liberal bias:
Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies.  Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.  Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality.  But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Forcing the "Trans-Gendered" Agenda on the kids.  What this whole story is about is a mentally ill old man who had his male parts cut off and is taking hormones to stop his body hair from growing.  Not to make light of any type of mental illness, but wanting to have your parts cut off by its very nature means you need to have your head examined.

"King And King" Promotes Perversion.  America's parents need to realize that homosexual activists are very serious about taking over our schools and brainwashing our children.  They want to indoctrinate our kids with the lie that homosexuality is normal and healthy, and that anyone (including their parents) who believes differently is a homophobic bigot.  If you want to get scared into action, check out the website of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network.  They conduct seminars promoting the teaching of homosexuality to children as young as kindergarten age.

Gay Seminar Upsets Parents.  Parents of a student who attended a taxpayer-funded summer educational institute are upset that the program included, without their prior knowledge, a seminar that promoted homosexuality.

The Editor asks...
Why is it necessary (and how is it possible) to promote homosexuality if, as they claim, "you're born that way"?

Court says high school can enforce dress code against anti-gay T-shirt.  The ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals addressed only the narrow issue of whether the dress code should be unenforced pending the outcome of the student's lawsuit.  A majority of judges said, however, that Tyler Chase Harper was unlikely to prevail on claims that the Poway Unified School District violated his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion for keeping him out of class when he wore a shirt with the message "homosexuality is shameful."

[You can bet that the ruling would have been different if the message on the T-shirt had been different.]

Same story:
Public schools can ban anti-minority messages.  Public schools can prohibit students from displaying messages that attack gays or other persecuted minorities, a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday [4/20/2006] in the case of a Southern California youth whose T-shirt proclaimed that "homosexuality is shameful."

The homosexual agenda.  Homosexual activists have set a well planned and well financed agenda that started in the 1960s and now includes not only tolerance of their lethal lifestyle but acceptance with privileges as a special class, as a minority group.  The key target is our youth.

ACLU Seeks Mandatory Homosexual Sensitivity Training.  The American Civil Liberties Union is suing school districts in California and Kentucky in an attempt to force them to conduct mandatory homosexual appreciation sessions for students and staff.

 Editor's note:   The notion of "mandatory homosexual appreciation sessions" is quite a large step in the downward spiral of our traditional culture.  Students may be encouraged to appreciate certain things, but when have they ever been required to appreciate anything?  Look up the word "appreciation" in the dictionary, and in its definition you'll see words like gratitude, admiration, favorable judgment, etc.  These students are now being told that tolerance is not enough — approval of homosexuality is now mandatory.

Public Libraries, The Left, and the Corruption of Children.  At the Upper Arlington Public library, near Columbus, the public library is embroiled in controversy for having allowed two explicit homosexual publications to sit in the foyer.  The foyer serves as a gathering place for elementary school children before school.

Temple University Faces Suit After Trying to Have Christian Student Committed.  Back in 1999 Temple University sponsored the controversial and blasphemous play Corpus Christi, in which Christ is portrayed as a homosexual.  Michael Marcavage, then a Christian student at the Philadelphia school, complained to administrators.  Temple officials eventually tried to have Marcavage committed to a mental institution because of his opposition to the play.

Not only must you tolerate perversion, you must do so quietly.
WPU Censures Student-Employee for Expressing Biblical Beliefs Against Homosexuality.  A 63-year-old campus technician and student at a New Jersey university who sent a private e-mail describing lesbianism and homosexuality as "perversions" has been formally reprimanded by the school for violating its non-discrimination policy.

An Investigation of the Biblical Evidence Against Homosexuality.  Certain school systems today actively teach youngsters the idea that we must embrace every concept that society popularizes, else we will be unloving and intolerant.  Thus, many children are quietly convinced from a very young age that if they do not give everyone "complete and total acceptance," then they are bigoted and mean spirited.

On the use and abuse of labels:  The homosexual lobby [has] succeeded in getting some public schools to use the terms "harassment" and "bullying" as thinly disguised weapons to suppress the free speech of those who don't subscribe to their view that the state and society should affirmatively validate the homosexual lifestyle.  Students who simply utter opinions contrary to the prescribed dogma are stigmatized as harassers or bullies, when they engage in no harassment or bullying whatsoever.

UConn Students Divided Over How To Greet Scalia.  A same-sex kissing booth is not exactly what you'd expect to greet a U.S. Supreme Court justice visiting Hartford next week.  But for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his conservative rulings, strongly worded opinions and a recent hand-to-chin gesture that caused a stir outside church, it might not be that farfetched.

Gay Rights Activists Arrested at Liberty.  More than 20 gay rights activists were arrested on trespassing charges Friday [3/10/2006] when they stepped onto the campus of Liberty University, the school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Judge Halts Pro-Homosexual Sex-Ed Class.  A group of parents took their opposition to the sex-ed courses to court last week, arguing that they depicted homosexuality as a natural and morally correct lifestyle and did not offer any contrary opinion.

S*x for Dummies:  The strangest aspect of the Montgomery curriculum is the insistence that students should ponder their gender identity.  In plain English, this means boys should examine whether they really want to be boys, and girls should wonder if they should be girls.  This is a current obsession in the world of sex ed, apparently inserted here to accommodate transvestites and transsexuals.

Homosexual Activists' Conference Angers Conservatives Conservative, pro-family organizations are blasting a homosexual activist group for continuing its campaign to "indoctrinate children in the nation's public schools by convincing kids that homosexuality is a normal and healthy lifestyle."

Young Activist Claims School Censored Protest Against Homosexual Event.  Members of a high school conservative group in California are saying their First Amendment rights were violated when they tried to protest an upcoming pro-homosexual "Day of Silence" event.

High School's Rainbow "Diversity" Flag Doesn't Fly With Some Parents.  A rainbow-colored homosexual pride flag has created a stir in a Michigan high school.  Members of the Howell High School Diversity Club recently hung the flag to promote different types of sexual orientation within the homosexual community.

Mom Wants Pro-Homosexual Poster Out of Arizona Elementary School.  At issue is a wall poster at Washington Elementary School in Winslow [Arizona] that includes information about the school's female art teacher and features a rainbow flag symbolizing homosexual pride.  The poster urges acceptance of all people, regardless of their race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Are SpongeBob's Pants Really Square?  Should the public school system be used to encourage sexual attitudes in children, especially attitudes to which their parents might object?

"Tolerant" Homosexuals are Intolerant of "Ex-Gays".  Following a "Gay Pride Week" observance, a Virginia school system rejected the idea of allowing ex-homosexuals to address its student body.  Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says "ex-gays" seem to have no standing at all.

Attorney Claims Lesbian Teachers Using Schools to Push Homosexual Lifestyle.  Recently a group of lesbian teachers in the Scotts Valley Unified School District (Santa Cruz County) started hanging pro-homosexual posters in their classrooms, discussing homosexuality in their classrooms, and providing referrals to homosexual and bisexual organizations to students questioning their sexuality.  Numerous parents have complained to school officials, who said they would investigate matters. However, no administrative correction has been initiated in response to the complaints.

Suspension of Student Spawns Lawsuit Against San Diego School District.  Promotion of homosexuality is OK, but expression of faith is silenced.

In Defending Marriage — Take the Offensive!  For more than 40 years, the homosexual activist movement has sought to implement a master plan that has had as its centerpiece the utter destruction of the family.  The institution of marriage, along with an often weakened and impotent Church, is all that stands in the way of its achievement of every coveted aspiration.  Those goals include universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, discrediting of Scriptures that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting of special privileges and rights in the law, overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia, indoctrinating children and future generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any two or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.  These objectives that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago have largely been achieved or are now within reach.

Hiding truth from schoolchildren.  The boy featured in an 'educational' video about gay issues is no longer gay.  But that little detail is being repressed.

Homosexual Agenda in Public Schools Marches Forward.  GLSEN has achieved stunning progress over the past six years in our public schools by shifting the debate away from parent authority to sexual orientation, student safety, equal access, and anti-discrimination.

Homosexual Teacher Tells Class:  "I'm Married".  A middle-school teacher discusses his gay "marriage" in front of students.  In response to a few negative comments, he equated his "marriage" to historical topics ranging from suffrage and bigotry to the Magna Carta.

Stealth Agenda Trumps Academic Success in Schools:  Gov. Gray Davis and Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin preoccupy themselves with the sexual orientation of students.  Using the themes of "safe schools" and "tolerance," they have implemented policies that have paved the way for the normalization of homosexuality in the state's schools.

"Sexual Orientation" Codes are Harmful to Schools:  "'Sexual orientation' school codes are invariably used to advance one-sided, pro-‘gay' programs and classroom teachings," said Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst at the Culture and Family Institute.  "This bias violates parents' rights and the beliefs of the majority of students who oppose homosexuality."

The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools:  An assessment of the risks and liabilities associated with policies and programs that normalize homosexual behavior in public schools.

British schools 'will have to promote gay rights'.  New gay rights laws will force schools to teach homosexual equality, one of the country's most respected judges warned yesterday [1/8/2007].  Teachers who tell pupils homosexual sex is wrong will be guilty of breaking the law, former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern said.

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