ACLU to sue to force Gay indoctrination at schools

[Broken Glass Can]

Support of gays pushed in schools

The ACLU has threatened to file for a court order to enforce attendance.

[Cyrus]

This thread will need a strong disinfectant soon.

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[Broken Glass Can]

The story from a liberal source, to satisfy Cyrus:

pridesource.com

Controversy lingers over student gay rights group

CANNONSBURG, Ky. - Ten months after the Boyd County school board settled a lawsuit over a student gay rights group, the controversy continues to divide the northeastern Kentucky community that surrounds the high school.

As many as one-third of the students have skipped the settlement's requirement of tolerance training, an hour-long video.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the suit against the district, said it may return to court in an effort to enforce mandatory training for students who missed it.

And now the school district is facing a possible lawsuit from an Arizona-based law group affiliated with several conservative Christian organizations. The group wants the district to adopt a formal policy by Nov. 30 allowing students to opt out of the training.

[lastchance]

Stupid, stupid, stupid. As a high-schooler myself, our high school does have these types of things, "Day of Respect, (gets you out of class)" and they do try to force attendance by making you absent every time you skip it.

Still, you're not going to get mandatory attendance. It's just not possible. Kids have better things to do than get a dose of brainwashing. My school is liberal and I've still heard things about it being called brainwashing.

Try to force attendance all you want. You can't make kids attend class any more than you can make kids attend this video. In fact, what that school does over there sounds much, much LAMER than what they try to do at my school.

Students really couldn't care less about this type of training. It gets you out of class, and that's all.

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The Federal Equal Access law under which the ACLU challenged the school and made it allow the group to function was actually sponsored by religious groups to give them the ability to start religious clubs.

[elwoodblues]

So the school settled a law suit with the ACLU. The original lawsuit was about the school banning a gay group on campus. The terms of the settlement included the school requiring a tolerance video. The school is not requiring attendance and the ACLU is suing to enforce the settlement and somehow we should be mad at the ACLU? If the school didn't want to require attendance, don't agree to the original settlement agreement. The ACLU is just suing to enforce a legally binding contract (the settlement agreement.)

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So the school settled a law suit with the ACLU. The original lawsuit was about the school banning a gay group on campus. The terms of the settlement included the school requiring a tolerance video. The school is not requiring attendance and the ACLU is suing to enforce the settlement and somehow we should be mad at the ACLU? If the school didn't want to require attendance, don't agree to the original settlement agreement. The ACLU is just suing to enforce a legally binding contract (the settlement agreement.)

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Did the settlement say anything about forcing students to attend, or did it just require that the school show the video? In most areas, students can already opt out of sex education without any penalty. Why should these videos be different?

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ACLU release
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The settlement requires that the district treat all student clubs equally and conduct an anti-harassment training for all district staff as well as all students in high school and middle school

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The club in question was the Gay-Straight Alliance formed to combat "rampant" harrassment. It is not a homosexual club per se.

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“This club has never been about anything but making a safe space for students who are harassed on a daily basis in our school,” said Kaye King, faculty adviser to the GSA. “We’re glad the school finally understands that and is taking steps to address the harassment in our district on a wider scale.”

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[sillyarms]

I agree with alot of the things the ACLU does but, they are wrong in this spot. It is not the job of our government to teach us morality. I personally wouldn't mind schools having a chapter about gay sex in sex education classes, but a "tolerance training video" is designed specifically to teach our children how to think. We cannot allow the government to teach children moral values(even if we agree with them). The risk is just too great. All it takes is to put one psychopath in power.

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!"-- Adolf Hitler Hitler Youth

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[wacki]

Excellent post,

I agree. If we force morality on our children then we might as well force religion. Bad idea in both cases.