For four days last April students at a Emmaus High School in Pennsylvania were forced to watch videos selected by the “student-led” Gay-Straight Alliance.
The videos ranged from “9 Questions Gay People Have About Straight People” to a compilation of clips celebrating “marriage equality.” There was also a video educating students about gender fluidity – the idea there is no such thing as male or female.
“My son expressed to me that he felt bullied by the administration for being a heterosexual man and being forced to listen to LGBT advocacy on a daily basis,” one parent wrote in a letter to the school district.
The East Penn School District claimed the videos, shown during daily announcements, were about anti-bullying and the LGBT movement. But parents argue it was more about indoctrination. And when they asked to see the videos – the school district refused.
“This is a gross violation of parental rights,” Liberty Counsel attorney Richard Mast wrote in a June 22 letter to Supt. Michael Schilder.
Liberty Counsel, a law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious liberty issues, is calling on the district to immediately release what they called “four pro-homosexuality” videos shown as part of the district’s “Unity Week” and “Day of Silence” activities.
“It does not pass the straight face test for the District to claim it need not provide parents with the actual video links, although the District required more than 2,800 students to view these videos, with no prior notice to parents, and no opportunity to opt-out,” Mast wrote.
Parents took their concerns to the school district – but they were rebuffed.
“Since when does a public school in the United States of America have the right to block a parent and tell them they will not allow them to see the controversial partisan programming they are requiring their children to watch,” another parent asked in a letter to the district. “We have every right to expect that our children are not being subjected to partisan indoctrination in our public schools.”
Supt. Michael Schilder said the video presentations were compiled by the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance as part of a student project and are therefore off limits to parents.
“Student work and student expression must always be protected,” he told The Morning Call. “A parent or member of the public has no right to view or access a student’s term paper, speech, or multimedia project just because he or she objects to the topic.”
Parents said they were told they had absolutely no say in what their children were being exposed to at the school house.
I was told by the superintendent (that) parents have no right to view these videos,” one person said in documents provided by Liberty Counsel. “I would appreciate knowing why I was not afforded the opportunity to opt my son out of this targeted, planned, social engineering.”
LGBT activists have accused the moms and dads of being homophobic and anti-gay. However, parents say the core issue is about whether parents have the right to know what their children are being taught.
“For the record, neither Liberty Counsel nor parents who have contacted us object to the District promoting kindness amongst students or fighting actual bullying where it exists or promoting a ‘Unity Week’ that does not delve into matters of sexuality,” Mast wrote in his letter to the superintendent.
Liberty Counsel is threatening legal action unless the school district provides the videos to parents.
“The law is clear that parents, not agents of the state, including teachers, and certainly not GLSEN or its teacher or student affiliates with the GSA, have the right to direct the upbringing and associations of minor children,” Mast wrote.
It does make you wonder why the school district does not want parents to know what was shown to the children. Why the secrecy?
Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver told the Todd Starnes Radio show there is no doubt the school district is trying to indoctrinate students.
“It is troubling that the school district intentionally hides its LGBT indoctrination from the parents,” Staver said. “The school district has harmed students with its radical LGBT propaganda.”
If we could just push all that LGBTQ stuff back into the closet from which it came, we could MAGA!
I think this article fits the definition of 'Q' myself. Stop spreading your indoctrination on open minded people.
I think your response is a typical emotional kneejerk reaction.. this has nothing to do with pushing anything back in the closet and has everything to do with a parents right to know what the kids are being shown at school.
This had absolutely nothing to do with any curriculum and was selected by a club (the gay straight alliance) then all of the kids were forced to watch it...
I don't care if the club getting to pick things then forcing others to watch it was the communist club, the young republicans club, the fellowship of Christian athletes, or the chess club.. that's BS.
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
You can't fix stupid but you can destroy ignorance. When you destroy ignorance you remove the justifications for evil. If you want to destroy evil then educate our people. Hate is a tool of the stupid to deal with what they can't understand.
If we could just push all that LGBTQ stuff back into the closet from which it came, we could MAGA!
I think this article fits the definition of 'Q' myself. Stop spreading your indoctrination on open minded people.
I think your response is a typical emotional kneejerk reaction.. this has nothing to do with pushing anything back in the closet and has everything to do with a parents right to know what the kids are being shown at school.
This had absolutely nothing to do with any curriculum and was selected by a club (the gay straight alliance) then all of the kids were forced to watch it...
I don't care if the club getting to pick things then forcing others to watch it was the communist club, the young republicans club, the fellowship of Christian athletes, or the chess club.. that's BS.
Just a snap answer during a little fued with propaganda V.
Sounds like they don't want these kids to have their videos uploaded to YouTube and be picked on. If I was one of their members, I'd be scared that some parent will upload it to YouTube so that the Cons can start harassing me. You know how much they love to harass high schoolers. Have you ever seen Vambo post about David Hogg?
To me, this story tells me how bad our culture was with TV. You were forced to watch The TV program? You couldn't close your eyes for a minute or find a cute girl to talk to?
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
So you believe the LGBT community is evil, wicked, and sickening. Got it.
"You're gonna do WHAT?!" -Tim Robbins as Merlin in Top Gun
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
So you believe the LGBT community is evil, wicked, and sickening. Got it.
We all know the Left will stop at nothing to push their agenda.
Trying to twist young minds into becoming LGBT, as they have twisted their minds on so many other issues, is not beyond the realm of possibilities.
So many Liberal tears were shed over the programs to convert people from a life of homosexuality to a life of heterosexuality but no tears are shed for the exact opposite. SHAME!
The school is trying to cover up something by hiding the videos they used to pervert our children's minds.
Come clean so we know what you are up to. Right now, we suspect you are up to evil.
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
So you believe the LGBT community is evil, wicked, and sickening. Got it.
We all know the Left will stop at nothing to push their agenda.
Trying to twist young minds into becoming LGBT, as they have twisted their minds on so many other issues, is not beyond the realm of possibilities.
So many Liberal tears were shed over the programs to convert people from a life of homosexuality to a life of heterosexuality but no tears are shed for the exact opposite. SHAME!
The school is trying to cover up something by hiding the videos they used to pervert our children's minds.
Come clean so we know what you are up to. Right now, we suspect you are up to evil.
This is your fault for keeping us in the dark.
The guy who wanted a constitutional ban on homosexuality weighs in and his thoughts are (checks notes) schools are trying to make kids gay.
This has been another totally-normal-and-insane-at-all opinion from 40.
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
So you believe the LGBT community is evil, wicked, and sickening. Got it.
We all know the Left will stop at nothing to push their agenda.
Trying to twist young minds into becoming LGBT, as they have twisted their minds on so many other issues, is not beyond the realm of possibilities.
So many Liberal tears were shed over the programs to convert people from a life of homosexuality to a life of heterosexuality but no tears are shed for the exact opposite. SHAME!
The school is trying to cover up something by hiding the videos they used to pervert our children's minds.
Come clean so we know what you are up to. Right now, we suspect you are up to evil.
This is your fault for keeping us in the dark.
The guy who wanted a constitutional ban on homosexuality weighs in and his thoughts are (checks notes) schools are trying to make kids gay.
This has been another totally-normal-and-insane-at-all opinion from 40.
Well, nice to see you back to twisting facts into PDF facts.
I never called for a ban on homosexuality, I care nothing for what you practice within your own bedroom.
You on the Left, by keeping us in the dark on what you are secretly teaching our children, have left our minds to wonder. You are not known for your holsum views of family and morality.
I never called for a ban on homosexuality, I care nothing for what you practice within your own bedroom.
You said you wanted to ban sodomy.
Everyone mocked you because you thought "sodomy" meant "gay sex", which led you to copy and paste a dictionary definition of "sodomy" after everyone laughed at you, purposely cutting out the sections that pertained to heterosexual acts.
This lead to more mockery, at which point you clarified that you wanted a federal ban on "gay sex", not sodomy.
Has your opinion evolved from then, and if so, how and why?
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You on the Left, by keeping us in the dark on what you are secretly teaching our children, have left our minds to wonder.
You know there's a thing called parent/teacher conferences, right?
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You are not known for your holsum views of family and morality.
You post YouTube tribute videos to a racist sexual predator regularly and once called a dude on trial for raping women in front of their children "cool and tough".
I don't think you really get to chime in on "holsum" morality.
This thread is another example of the childishness on this board. Literally the only one trying to make a coherent bi-partisan take is DC. You guys need to get out of the house.
You change the subject every time you are beaten. It really gets sad after a while.
40: I NEVER called for a ban on homosexuality
PDF: Yeah, you did, remember the time you didn't know what the word "sodomy" was, and altered a dictionary definition, and then after your entire argument fell apart, you clarified that you wanted a federal ban on gay sex?
40: Trying to change the subject I see
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40: The Left doesn't have "holsum" morality, which scares us
PDF: You post tribute videos to a racist con man whose legal team is in the lurch because he forgot to sign the NDA of the prostitute he was seeing when his wife was 8 months pregnant
40: Always trying to change the subject, sad, really
This thread is another example of the childishness on this board. Literally the only one trying to make a coherent bi-partisan take is DC. You guys need to get out of the house.
You're looking for "coherent bi-partisan takes" in a thread about a toddstarnes.com article?
You change the subject every time you are beaten. It really gets sad after a while.
40: I NEVER called for a ban on homosexuality
PDF: Yeah, you did, remember the time you didn't know what the word "sodomy" was, and altered a dictionary definition, and then after your entire argument fell apart, you clarified that you wanted a federal ban on gay sex?
40: Trying to change the subject I see
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40: The Left doesn't have "holsum" morality, which scares us
PDF: You post tribute videos to a racist con man whose legal team is in the lurch because he forgot to sign the NDA of the prostitute he was seeing when his wife was 8 months pregnant
40: Always trying to change the subject, sad, really
Anyone who bothers to read this stuff can see what you are up to and how you play.
It all started with "The guy who wanted a constitutional ban on homosexuality weighs in."
That is not true and you can't prove it to be true.
And now we have come to what you posted above. SHAME!
You continue to change the subject, tell untruths, post half quotes of what I say, take things said in the past out of context and expect we are all so beneath you that we can not see manipulation of facts as you do it. SHAME!
If I was one of their members, I'd be scared that some parent will upload it to YouTube so that the Cons can start harassing me.
I'm well aware that our culture is succeeding in planting fears in you that some entire groups are bad... I also fully understand how important it is to indoctrinate the youth with those same ideological fears... You think the current group of millennials is the first group to ever think of this?
It's been quite the miraculous feat to be honest how they have convinced otherwise intelligent folks like you to buy into it.
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You know how much they love to harass high schoolers. Have you ever seen Vambo post about David Hogg?
Yes, he represents all of us.. I remember last time I was at the con meeting and we all voted him spokesperson.
This thread is another example of the childishness on this board. Literally the only one trying to make a coherent bi-partisan take is DC. You guys need to get out of the house.
You're looking for "coherent bi-partisan takes" in a thread about a toddstarnes.com article?
What difference does it make who wrote the article?
This notion that you can't have a coherent discussion about something because the author of the original source article might be biased or a lunatic is stupid.
This thread is another example of the childishness on this board. Literally the only one trying to make a coherent bi-partisan take is DC. You guys need to get out of the house.
You're looking for "coherent bi-partisan takes" in a thread about a toddstarnes.com article?
What difference does it make who wrote the article?
This notion that you can't have a coherent discussion about something because the author of the original source article might be biased or a lunatic is stupid.
Leaving the source and author out of it, the article is about an idiot who whined that "my son expressed to me that he felt bullied by the administration for being a heterosexual man", and got laughed off.
How much consideration do you think that merits?
Also, a parent can absolutely have their kid excluded from any cirriculum.
I've had a parent pull their kids from Greek mythology segments because of their orthodox religious beliefs. The kids were sequestered from the class and given more historically-based assignments, which I felt was a detriment to the kid, but their choice.
So you understand why I would want to protect a minor's identity.
So when the kids come home from school and tell you they had a class today showing a video explaining the NRA, put together by the Hunting and Fishing Club students but the school won't discuss it with you or let you see the video because it is a "Secret", you wouldn't care to know more?
So you understand why I would want to protect a minor's identity.
So when the kids come home from school and tell you they had a class today showing a video explaining the NRA, put together by the Hunting and Fishing Club students but the school won't discuss it with you or let you see the video because it is a "Secret", you wouldn't care to know more?
Was it during class or daily announcements? They're completely different. If my child ever felt bullied by the announcements, I'd probably have to send him to live with you, in your little safe space.
“Since when does a public school in the United States of America have the right to block a parent and tell them they will not allow them to see the controversial partisan programming they are requiring their children to watch,” another parent asked in a letter to the district. “We have every right to expect that our children are not being subjected to partisan indoctrination in our public schools.”
I don't care, ever, what the topic is - this applies. The government and school boards do NOT - ever - trump the Parent.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
It must really be sickening if they are too scared to show what they are showing the kids. Normal schools have no problems showing curriculum materials. Only evil needs to hide in the darkness.
I think that school district is about to gain some new superintendents because nothing motivates parents to get active like knowing that the school system is doing wicked things to kids against the parents wishes.
I'm just glad my kids are not forced into going to public schools. I might be poor but I will do everything in my power to stop them from having to suffer that kind of abuse.
So you believe the LGBT community is evil, wicked, and sickening. Got it.
It's a lifestyle of sin that goes against the teachings of the Bible so yes it is wicked. It does make me sick to my stomach literally to see it in public. It's gross to most people who haven't been programmed to tolerate it. Forcing kids to go against their parents upbringing by pushing a hidden agenda at a place where their minds should be safe is evil.
They are well aware they have to subvert the youth to gain acceptance because their lifestyle choices are not acceptable to anyone who follows the teachings of the Bible.
Personally I'd rather not know what goes on in someone's bedroom gay or straight. Just keep your bedroom to yourselves.
You can't fix stupid but you can destroy ignorance. When you destroy ignorance you remove the justifications for evil. If you want to destroy evil then educate our people. Hate is a tool of the stupid to deal with what they can't understand.
For clarity sake... So people that love each other make you sick to your stomach...literally? Do you instantly throw up or is it a delayed reaction? Do you hate all public displays of affection? Do you hold hands with your wife in public? Why is it that when you see two people holding hands in public you immediately think of what they may or may not do in their bed? Do you do this with all couples or just same sex couples? If you answered yes to holding your spouses hands in public... Should I, if I were to see that, imagine what you and your wife do in bed?
Agreed. It was dumb of them to make it about student privacy is completely dishonest and shameful. However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
Agreed. It was dumb of them to make it about student privacy is completely dishonest and shameful. However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
You are sounding more and more like a Mad Maxine Minion every day...
Agreed. It was dumb of them to make it about student privacy is completely dishonest and shameful. However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
You are sounding more and more like a Mad Maxine Minion every day...
Clem, stop playing in the mud.. you're better than that.. it's not about the videos and how tame or provocative they might be, it's about forcing kids to watch a series of videos advocated by a club (the gay straight alliance).. and refusing to inform the parents it was happening or allowing them to preview the videos first...
If they gave the fellowship of Christian athletes club the same respect and allowed them to hand select videos of their choosing and forced the student body to watch them without notifying the parents or giving them the opportunity to preview them, the ACLU, the democratic party, and all of the people mocking this would be swarming like locust demanding that people be fired.. and you know it.
And none of them would be pacified by watching the videos after the fact and saying, "Oh, those are no big deal."
However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
The kid never said he felt bullied by the video, he said he felt bullied by the administration ABOUT the video..
He felt that he was being bullied for being a straight man by the administration, because they showed him these videos. Either way he got bullied by a BuzzFeed video.
However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
The kid never said he felt bullied by the video, he said he felt bullied by the administration ABOUT the video..
He felt that he was being bullied for being a straight man by the administration, because they showed him these videos. Either way he got bullied by a BuzzFeed video.
However, if you're getting bullied by a BuzzFeed video, you're a bigger snowflake than Vambo.
The kid never said he felt bullied by the video, he said he felt bullied by the administration ABOUT the video..
He felt that he was being bullied for being a straight man by the administration, because they showed him these videos. Either way he got bullied by a BuzzFeed video.
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