Schools Approve Use of Porn 2
"The display board consisted
of clippings about homosexual partner benefits and depicting victories
of homosexual rights [advocates]. ... There was a picture of two
homosexual men together calling them a family and one with children as
family. ... It was one-sided," Downs told WorldNetDaily. When he
complained to the principal, the teacher of 22 years was allowed to post
opposing material on a bulletin board. But after the principal received
staff complaints that his material was "disrespectful," "offensive,"
"upsetting," "objectionable" and "derogatory," he was ordered to take it
down and threatened with disciplinary action.
"They could just complain and
I was ordered to remove mine ... and I would complain about theirs and
nothing would ever happen," said Downs. "The principal said if I didn't
like it, I could walk with my head down. I'm not going to walk with my
head down." Instead, Downs sued, claiming his constitutionally protected
free-speech rights were being violated.
The district took the
position that the bulletin boards were not free-speech zones but
contained approved curriculum material. That argument prompted a court
order for the district to produce everything posted on bulletin boards
on schools throughout the district in observance of "Gay and Lesbian
Awareness Month." Four boxes of material collected from 50 of the
approximately 650 schools in the district were produced.
"There were ads for porn
movies and where kids can go to see them and ads for sex boutiques,"
describes Downs. "When we saw the filth, the free-speech issue was no
longer important. Getting the filth out of the public schools [became]
the focus." The "filth," however, was precluded from Downs' court case
but has been allowed in a sequel suit filed on behalf of a LAUSD
student. That case is pending in the 9th Circuit Court.
LAUSD's legal department
referred WorldNetDaily to its outside counsel for comment on the
lawsuits. Calls to the law firm have not been returned.
The school district prevailed
in Downs' suit with a summary judgment in its favor in district court,
affirmed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2000. Judge
Stephen Trott wrote the appellate court's opinion that "We do not face
an example of the government opening up a forum for either unlimited or
limited public discussion. Instead, we face an example of the government
opening up its own mouth: LAUSD, by issuing Memorandum No. 111, and
Leichman High, by setting up the Gay and Lesbian Awareness bulletin
boards. The bulletin boards served as an expressive vehicle for the
school board's policy of 'Educating for Diversity.'"
Promoting 'diversity' and
'safety'
The California Student Safety
and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 required the State Board of
Education to revise state curriculum to "include human relations
education, with the aim of fostering an appreciation of the diversity of
California's population and discouraging the development of
discriminatory attitudes and practices. ... Acknowledge lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender historical figures, events, concepts, and
issues in the revisions of content standards and curriculum frameworks,
when appropriate. Identify and expand the available lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender resources for school library materials. ...
Propose legislative or budget language to fund research of promising
programs preventing discrimination, harassment and violence based on
actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity."
The board cites studies
indicating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth to be at
greater risk for being victimized and more likely to experience anxiety,
low self-esteem, depression, to abuse substances and contemplate or
attempt suicide. According to the California Alliance for Pride and
Equality , "Students who describe themselves as lesbian or gay are five
times more likely to miss school because of felling [sic] unsafe.
Twenty-eight percent are forced to drop-out."
The 2000 statutes required
schools to prevent any "hate-motivated incident," which is defined as
"an act or attempted act which constitutes an expression of hostility
against a person or property or institution because of the victim's real
or perceived race, religion, disability, gender, nationality or sexual
orientation. This may include using bigoted insults, taunts, or slurs,
distributing or posting hate-group literature or posters, defacing,
removing, or destroying posted materials or announcements, posting or
circulating demeaning jokes or leaflets."
The 2000 statutes picked up
where the 1999 Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act
left off, tapping into $100 million allocated by the legislature for
"preventing and responding to acts of hate violence."
In addition to being bound by
state statutes to promote homosexuality in its "diversity" and "safety"
programs, schools face the threat of lawsuits by advocacy groups such as
the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network if they fail to address
"student-on-student abuse based on sexual orientation." On its
website, GLSEN applauds a "landmark settlement" received by a
Pennsylvania 'gay' teen.
Said Executive Director Kevin
Jennings, "The court's decision to award 19-year-old Timothy Dahle with
a settlement of $312,000 to compensate for the pervasive anti-gay abuse
he faced in the Titusville Area School District is breathtaking."
Jennings further concludes, "There are clear lessons to be learned by
school administrators and staff ... that teachers and staff take a risk
– a risk that can have dire fiscal implications on their districts –
when this kind of maltreatment goes unchecked."
There is evidence "diversity"
programs that promote homosexuality are effective. A
Hamilton College Gay Issues poll released in August finds two-thirds
of high school graduates favor legal recognition of homosexual
marriages, 71 percent believe sexual relations between same-sex adults
should be legal, and 71 percent of graduates would allow 'gay' men to
serve as Scout leaders.
(from Jen) doesn't it ever occur to anyone that the
reason the suicide rates and drug abuse of gays is not because of the
consensus of society but because of the unhealthy lifestyle, both
physically and mentally? San Francisco, so proud of the gay
population that to be straight is to be frowned upon, still shows high
incidences of suicide and drug abuse among gays. God condemns
homosexuality for a reason, it is HARMFUL, mentally, physically,
spiritually and it defiles the land. Again, if someone insists on that lifestyle,
that's your choice.
But DO NOT FORCE THOSE IDEAS ON OUR CHILDREN!
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