Schools would be forced to teach that homosexual relationships are identical to heterosexual ones
Image via WikipediaThe advocates of same-sex “marriage” argue that it will have little impact on anyone other than the couples
who “marry.” However, even the brief experience in Massachusetts, where same-sex “marriage” was
imposed by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court and began on May 17, 2004, has demonstrated that the
impact of such a social revolution will extend much further—including into the public schools. In September
2004, National Public Radio reported, “Already, some gay and lesbian advocates are working on a new gay-friendly curriculum for kindergarten and up.” They also featured an interview with Deb Allen, a lesbian who teaches eighth-grade sex education in Brookline, Mass. Allen now feels “emboldened” in teaching a “gay-friendly” curriculum, declaring, “If somebody wants to challenge me, I’ll say, ‘Give me a break. It’s legal now.’” Her lessons include descriptions of homosexual sex given “thoroughly and explicitly with a chart.” Allen reports she will ask her students, “Can a woman and a woman have vaginal intercourse, and they will all say no. And I’ll say, ‘Hold it. Of course, they can. They can use a sex toy. They could use’—and we talk—and we discuss that. So the answer there is yes.”3 The parents of a kindergarten student in Lexington,
Massachusetts were upset when their son’s school sent home a book featuring same-sex couples with the
child in a “Diversity Bag.” David Parker, the child’s father, met with his son’s principal to insist that the
school notify him and allow his child to opt out of discussions of homosexuality in the classroom. State
law specifically guarantees parents the right to opt their child out of any curriculum involving “human
sexuality issues.”4 Nevertheless, the principal refused, and because Parker was unwilling to leave without
such assurances, he was arrested for trespassing and spent a night in jail—“stripped of my shoes, my belt,
my wedding ring, and my parental rights,” as he later put it.5 Lexington school superintendent Paul Ash
evaded the state law by insisting that books about homosexual couples dealt with “family experiences” and
“diversity,” not “human sexuality.”6 Six months later, the criminal charges against Parker were dropped—
but Ash continued to bar Parker from all school property,7 meaning that he is “banned from voting,
teacher-parent conferences, and school committee meetings.
