Speaking of tenacious – two sets of Massachusetts parents simply won’t give up their battle against a Lexington Public School.
David and Tonia Parker and Joseph and Robin Wirthlin raised the red flag earlier this year after learning their children’s teacher read them King & King: the controversial fairly tale featuring same-sex love. The “immoral” imposition violates their parental rights, they say.
A local court tossed their case earlier this year, but the fearsome foursome refuse to fold: they took the issue federal.
[The parents] were in federal appeals court in Boston on Wednesday seeking to have the case reopened.
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The three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday gave both sides 10 days to file supplemental briefs before beginning deliberations on whether the lawsuit could be reinstated.Both sets of parents involved in the suit were members of an organization pressing for an amendment to the Massachusetts constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.
School superintendent Paul Ash stands by his teacher’s decision, saying they the school’s interested in “teaching children about the world they live in.” Too bad the same can’t be said for the parents.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
The two Christian ayatollahs of the Christofascist movement…..Robertson and Falwell, both established universities with graduate programmes in law. Liberty and Regent Universities Schools of Law are aggressively hired by the Bush administration. The leaders are spending their time in courts of law attempting to legally return to the status quo ante when sodomy was a criminal act.
In the case of the King and King, it seems that the Christofascists are looking for an appropriate Queen ….how to figure, eh???
Kelley
Its wrong and its a waste of time. If you introduce that into schools curriculum the hours spent on it would be more than students being taught about the civil war and its something kids will learn at home anyway if they have gay parents. Impressionable young children do not need to be indocnriated to this at such a young age. Why is it that Same sex marriages have such a low rate of staying in a commmitted relationship. Even when committed the rate of infedility is much higher than in heterosexual marriages. Cmon people is this really how you want to raise your children.
Kelley
I would like to add that the book King and Kings is about a prince who marries another prince and they live “happily ever after.”
How realistic is that? Not the part about the prince marrying another prince but the part that its that simple and they live happily ever after. it is not realistic.
adamblast
Kelley, dearest, it’s a fairy tale. Same as Cinderella. It’s not supposed to be realistic.
And why is it all of a sudden *indoctrination* to suggest that two people can live happily ever after whether they’re boys or girls? You’re a bigot. Go back to your home schooling and your tiny little world.
Kelley
I accidentally wrote Kings and King, which is actually a more appropriate title.
I think all parents should home school their children.
Gregg
“the hours spent on it would be more than students being taught about the civil war” – Kelley
Thanks for you unsubstantiated bigotry, Kelley. Your comments are all over the place, which makes sense since you can’t possibly have a clear thought in your head and continue to think the foolishness that you do.
The kids aren’t be “indoctrinated”. They are being taught about the real world, and are learning tolerance for differences. With the Internet, TV, media, books, etc – these young kids already KNOW about gay people. They are simply being given a context to understand their relationships.
It is a fairy tale, and so, of course it is unrealistic. Cinderella is unrealistic. Gingerbread houses in the forest are unrealistic. So are talking bears and pigs and wolves. Though I would guess that you yourself believe in talking snakes, because you clearly shun anything from the tree of knowledge.
I hope you have no kids, or if you do, that they are smart enough to outgrow your stupidity.
ryan charisma
Kelley,
You’re a biggoted cunt.
Die off.