The lectures were given by other students who told about their feelings and what it’s like to be gay. School officials threatened those who were reluctant to sign the contract. School administrators deny that this was the case, but the students and their parents insist this is exactly what freshmen were subjected to.
Last year parents complained when the school asked students to match sexually deviant terms with their definitions. And these are not isolated incidents.
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, asserts that “Schools in many states are opening their doors to outside gay-rights groups who conduct so-called gay-awareness events or diversity days. And there are now more than 3,000 pro-gay clubs in high schools nationwide.”
On the other side, a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court arose out of an incident that occurred back in 2002. Then-senior Joe Frederick decided to display a sign that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” along a parade route. His principal confiscated the sign and promptly suspended him for five days. Recalls Frederick, “And furthermore, after quoting Thomas Jefferson, ‘Speech limited is speech lost,’ Ms. Morse (the principal) responded, ‘You’ve just earned another five-day suspension.’”
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, correctly notes that “While Christians generally support the right of schools to maintain discipline, there has been a disturbing trend in recent years of schools prohibiting only Christian speech while allowing other speech antithetical to Christian belief.”
For example, in one case heard by the infamous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court upheld a school’s right to ban a student from wearing a T-shirt bearing a biblical reference to homosexuality. The school allowed a pro-homosexual message by other students. In this case, the ACLU, true to form, argued in favor of censoring religious speech.
Says Hausknecht, “And the Ninth Circuit — in a previous case — had held that parental rights’ ended at the schoolhouse door. Taken together, it’s obvious that liberal, activist courts are trampling the rights of Christians while paving the way for secular, anti-Christian indoctrination.”
Indeed, the public school system has become one of the largest repositories for gay activism in the United States.
Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for America, observes that “If you can maintain control of undeveloped and impressionable youth and spoon-feed them misinformation — lies and half-truths about dangerous, disordered and extremely risky behaviors — then you can control the future and ensure that those behaviors are not only fully accepted, but celebrated.”
Although public schools in Wilson County thus far appear to be immune to this trend, we saw with the ACLU’s lawsuit against our school system just a few months ago how intolerant non-Christians can be to any type of Christian speech or activity in public schools. In far too many school districts, though, it’s gays in, Jesus out. And they have the full blessing of teachers unions, civil libertarians, and left-wing courts.
Many public schools consider it their duty to instill certain “moral” values in the students at the expense of academics. It is therefore no wonder that homeschools and private schools, especially private Christian schools, flourish, especially here in the Bible Belt.
Keep in mind that sending one’s child to a public school, where you don’t have to invest the time that homeschool parents must invest and don’t have to invest the money that private schools require, is often the path of least resistance. And yet an increasing number of parents are leaving the path of least resistance in the best interests of their children, and stories like these illustrate why.
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