-Caveat Lector-
get in the game bill
this was posted twice last week
and dismissed
this is a program teaching tolerance, not homosexuality.
you know - turn the other cheek
hate the sin love the sinner
like that y'all
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> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:04:16 EST
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> Subject: [CTRL] School District Sued for Forcing Gay Propaganda
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> School District Sued for Forcing Gay Propaganda
> Dawn Rizzoni, CNSNews.com
> Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2002
> Angry parents are suing a California school district for "authorizing
> pro-homosexual presentations" to be shown to elementary school pupils as
> young as eight.
> The parents say school employees forced the kids to attend the play "Cootie
> Shots," even though the parents had signed opt-out forms to prevent their
> children from being exposed to sexually-oriented discussions.
>
> The play was performed last year at two elementary schools that are part of
> the Novato Unified School District in California's Marin County.
>
> Fringe Benefits, a group describing itself as a "coalition of theater
> activists dedicated to building bridges between gay, lesbian, bisexual and
> transgender youth and their straight peers, teachers, and parents," presented
> "Cootie Shots" on Feb. 26, 2001 at Pleasant Valley Elementary School and on
> Mar. 2, 2001 at San Ramon Elementary School. The audience was third, fourth
> and fifth graders.
>
> "Cootie Shots," also the title of a book, refers to the schoolyard taunt that
> children use to brag that they have been inoculated against the "cooties" of
> other children who might be different from them in some way. The book is
> meant to "promote tolerance and celebrate diversity," according to its
> authors, Norma Bowles and Mark E. Rosenthal.
>
> The Novato School District Diversity Program has similar objectives.
>
> "The [Novato Unified School] District's goal is to make sure that children
> feel safe in school and part of that feeling of security comes from knowing
> that unkind things will not be said to you or about you by other children or
> adults," according to a statement from the minutes of a March 20, 2001 school
> district meeting.
>
> However, Brad Dacus, spokesman for Pacific Justice Institute, a non-profit
> legal defense organization representing the eight parents in the lawsuit,
> said the play contained "homosexual overtures" that led children to believe
> that homosexuality is acceptable and that those who don't approve are
> "hate-filled bigots."
>
> Despite the opt-out forms the parents had signed and returned to the schools
> to exclude their children from programs such as "Cootie Shots," Dacus said
> that no students were excluded and that school staff members ended up telling
> the parents that many of the opt-out forms had gotten lost.
>
> Dianne Pavia, a spokeswoman for Novato Unified School District, was unable to
> comment about the lost forms. Nor would she comment on specifics of the play,
> because of the lawsuit, except to say that it was not meant to advance any
> agenda other than the safety of children.
>
> The assembly's purpose was to "work with kids around the issue of bullying,
> name-calling, and harassing of all kinds," Pavia said. These issues are a
> "national concern for all parents" and the school district is dedicated to
> making their schools "as safe a place as possible for all students."
>
> Undermining Parents' Rights
>
> Dacus insists that the core issue is parental rights and that his clients'
> rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
> were violated.
>
> "This lawsuit is the first in a major litigation campaign to combat school
> districts who attempt to undermine the statutory and constitutional rights of
> parents," Dacus said. "We intend to aggressively sue every school district
> that similarly violates the rights of parents."
>
> The parents seek unspecified financial damages in their lawsuit, plus a
> permanent injunction to prevent programs such as "Cootie Shots" from being
> shown to students in the future without parental notification and written
> consent, Dacus said.
>
> Whenever "irreconcilable damage has been done to children," Dacus said,
> Pacific Justice Institute will make it as costly and painful as possible for
> offending schools. Dacus said his organization wanted schools to know that
> there's a "high price to be paid" for ignoring parental rights.
>
> One skit in the play that angered the parents was "The Parable of the
> Stimples," during which a group of "funny noise-making people" are ridiculed.
> The script states, "BUT the BIG PROBLEM was that everyone was taught that
> making funny noises was BAD! Wrong! Something to be afraid of!"
>
> During the play, Stimple Gilbert is sent to the principal's office after
> making a funny noise, only to discover that the principal himself is a secret
> noisemaker.
>
> When Gilbert's parents discover that Gilbert is a noisemaker, they react with
> embarrassment. They tell Gilbert not to make the noise so that he can be
> "normal like them." Soon, Gilbert discovers that people are "afraid" of the
> noise.
>
> At that point, the narrator encourages the audience to save Gilbert by making
> a loud noise themselves.
>
> "Make a noise for Gilbert!" the narrator says. "Make a noise for all of the
> Stimples in the world."
>
> In an interview with TCG Books, Norma Bowles, one of the book's authors,
> spoke about a parent who had previously complained about the book's content.
>
> Whose Definition of 'Social Justice'?
>
> "After seeing the show, this parent apologized to the other parents and to
> the teachers and administrators and bought a book on tolerance for the school
> library. We subsequently went back and did theater for social justice
> workshops for every child in that school."
>
> In an online journal at AskPlay.org, the book's other author, Mark E.
> Rosenthal wrote about his determination to get his message out to students.
>
> "We've got it!" he wrote in a May, 1999 entry. "Three assemblies! For a
> s******* of kids. 100 or more per show, depending on how many parents do the
> wrong thing and refuse permission."
>
> In a later entry, Rosenthal wrote, "I AM BURNING ... Those stupid
> m************ are at it again ... A****** parents are posting signs around
> the school we're visiting Monday, urging people to keep their kids home to
> protest the show ... They still hate us. And I still hate them right back."
>
> The lawsuit was filed in December. No hearing has been scheduled yet.
>
>
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