Not only will Harvey Milk Day make California school children learn about homosexuals, but lesson plans about homosexuals will make them learn about homosexuals, too! America's school children will be irrevocably harmed.
The Alameda Unified School District, outside Oakland, will "forcibly" teach six 45-minute lessons about LGBTs each year to students in grades K-5 under something called Safe School Community Lesson 9. Ahhh! It's gonna turn 'em gay! And make 'em do gay things! It might even make them start cross-dressing … at school!
Which led Kevin Snider, chief counsel of conservative legal organization Pacific Justice Institute, to file a lawsuit on behalf of 20 parents.
Supposedly, the suit it's about parental rights. Without giving parents the ability to "opt out" of having their children participate, it's tantamount to … oh, what did Pastor Dion Evans say it was? Oh, right: "If in defiance of sound reasoning and fairness to all students and parents this curriculum is adopted tonight it will cause a strong reaction. Instead of bringing us together and healing divisions, it will cause even greater division, alienation and suspicion."
Suspicion! Like the type generated by the Christian Broadcast Network's above report.
Moving forward, let's also give parents the right to opt their children out from learning about other "alternative" lifestyles, like Kenyan tribes, Native American mystics, and religious people.
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Black hate gays….In toronto they are allowed to have their own school to protect "black culture"..is black culture one of intolerance and hatred??? Look at Toronto ….
Haterosexuals doing want they always do; spreading hate.
@alan brickman: thats a pretty strong generalization. Im black and i love gays. im even writing a book thats half way finished to support them and help end the divide between straight and gay. No black culture isnt one of hatred and discrimination, in every group there are some who are ignorant and intolerant. I dont judge all white people by the actions of the KKK, nor do i hold Germans to the actions of Hitler, and the list can go on. if youre going to make a comment about the video and single out the one ignorant pastor who opposed the school's teaching about gay lifestyle, then maybe you shouldnt post anything at all because im sure hes not the sole individual standing in the way. i believe there was a shot of various white parents holding up protest signs??
The truth is that there are a few blacks involved in the anti-gay campaign in Alameda, but most of the participants are white and Asian. Dion Evans, although leading the recall effort now, wasn't real prominent initially.
The local Mormons have been heavily involved in this from the beginning. Since Evans has stepped forward, they have let him garner more of the spotlight. There is a pattern among anti-gay right wing hate groups to try to put forward black faces to the public. They seem to think that black folks can't be called bigots as easily.
So, race is an issue in this case, but it is mostly the cynical manipulation of race by white folks to try and immunize themselves against accusations of bigotry. Unfortuantely for them, people in Alameda aren't the least bit reluctant to call someone a bigot, regardless of the color of their skin.
@John: I wish I had written that
As someone who grew up in Alameda (AHS class of '88, go hornets!) I'm proud of the stand taken by the three School Board members who voted for this curriculum. John is correct: Dion Evans is a useful idiot for the various anti-gay groups behind the recall effort and law suit. It saddens me (and pisses me off) to know that two of the plaintiffs suing the district were friends of mine in high school. The good news is that recall petitions have a high failure rate in Alameda. Hopefuly the lawsuit will be seen for what it is, frivolous, and thrown out.
I wish I had this lesson in school!
Off topic, but that anchorman at the beginning was looking pretty ripe for a fucking. You know he takes it up the bottom, not even being snarky…