Now who would force schoolgirls into lesbian role-play? Would it be some sadistic sex-maniac? The correct answer is the Principal of Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York.
As part of an ‘anti-bullying presentation on gender identity and sexual orientation’ given to a class of 8th-graders (that’s 13-14 for us Brits), at least one of the girls was instructed to ask another girl for a kiss.
The story was reported by Todd Starnes of Fox News, who was immediately castigated by the liberal press. Alternet accused him and Fox news of having got the story about a ‘forced lesbian kiss’ wrong. But Starnes never said there was a forced kiss, only that the girls were forced to ask for one. Another blogger said, amid bad language, that Starnes was wrong to call it ‘lesbian role play’, but it is difficult to know what else to call it.
But the line Starnes took was defended in eloquent terms by another blogger, Mr Conservative whose post is worth a read. (In the US, we should point out, a ‘conservative’ is someone concerned to defend the status quo, including the Christian faith, the institution of the family and basic morality.)
According to the local paper, the PoughKeepsie Journal, parents were especially angry that no notice was given about the class, which included the now mandatory sex education propaganda about it being OK to have sex ‘when you are ready’.
‘”I am furious,” said Mandy Coon, whose daughter was in the class. “I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it’s okay for her to have sex?”’
Comments like that, of course, betray the 20th-century thinking that so many parents have. Times have moved on. The State is now your child’s parent, Mandy. You are just her birth mother. Or so it seems.
Mandy Coon told reporters that her daughter said, ‘Mom we all get teased and picked on enough. Now I’m going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her.’
The case illustrates that anti-bullying classes run by homosexuals, or designed to further the gay cause, are not about reducing bullying, they are about desensitising and indoctrinating with the ruling State philosophy that homosexuality is not just acceptable but good and to be promoted.
Tolerance towards homosexuals will hardly be increased by such lessons, but maybe just one child will start to think ‘maybe I’m gay’ and be recruited to the lifestyle.
This side of the pond, we have Sir Ian McKellen, Stonewall and organisations such as School’s Out driving the push to normalise homosexuality.
As the US National Organisation for Marriage points out, such lessons will become the norm in schools the moment ‘gay marriage’ is legalised, as it was in New York in July 2011.
The story has implications for the United Kingdom. We should never think things can’t get worse.
It has always been normal that when a married couple arrive in England (or elsewhere) from abroad, it is accepted that they are married, and no proof is required of exactly what ceremony was used in the foreign country to bring about this status. At least, in some circumstances a certificate might be asked for, but there will no investigation into who or how somebody waved the magic wand, as it were .
If gay marriage is now legal in New York, what happens if a gaily married couple travel to almost any other American state or almost any other country ? Their status there can’t be so secure.
If, as appears likely, this ‘anti-bullying’ programme increases bullying, no doubt they will use it as a springboard for even more of the same – or worse…
You are right – things can indeed get a lot worse.
It seems that the anti-bullying brigade, to judge by those castgating Todd Starnes, don’t mind stooping to bullying themselves.
This is generally the way with the vociferous liberals and PC militants. They are all for free speech and expression–expect for those who disagree with them. They make it clear that all their detractors ought to be silenced. Amazingly, they cannot see the hypocrisy in their attitudes. Hardly surprising, when we’ve been constantly indoctrinated by a lefty-liberal media for at least three decades.
I am not saying the right wing are any better. In many ways they are the same as the actual left and liberals.
Judging by the recent voting in the British regional elections, many voters have reacted against this in-your-face liberalism. I read lots of comments on blogs and news media forums by those who have turned against the main parties for Ukip. People voting for Ukip are sick of the PC Brigade and the main parties which have, when not openly encouraging and promoting liberalism, are not condeming or contradicting it.
‘They are all for free speech and expression–expect for those who disagree with them. They make it clear that all their detractors ought to be silenced. Amazingly, they cannot see the hypocrisy in their attitudes.’
That sounds like a perfect description of Christian fundamentalists who want the freedom to publicly preach against homosexuality whilst demanding that ‘blasphemy’ on page or stage be illegal.
Except that we don’t want or try to get our detractors silenced. Apart from that minor detail, spot on.
Attempting to have people prosecuted for broadcasting/ writing a musical that you wouldn’t like is not an example of trying to silence? Silly me…
No, because they are not detractors. They are not putting forward an argument, just being insulting. And that is because they lack civility and the basic knowledge of how to behave.
Being forced by the teacher for a child to ask another child of the same or opposite sex for a kiss is an adult bullying a child, that school teacher should be taken to court for child abuse and dealt severely as an example that they have no right to abuse those who are under their care!
Unfortunately as in most walks of life now as society is unraveling at pace those who are in charge seem to be people with no morals and no conscience and seem to have no fear of the law as the law lets them get away with the things they are doing, you only have to look here in the uk for examples, our greedy bankers,our politicians and those in charge of the nhs, until people stand up and make these people accountable for breaking the laws of the land then it will only get worse
My mind is boggling – I always though freedom included freed to say “No” not just “Yes.”
Would the same school instruct boy-boy & boy-girl kissing in class?
What happens when a teacher asks a pupil for a kiss? Or vice versa?
All this goes far beyond the courtesy kisses used as greetings in many countries (& churches) which have no sexual connotation.
Are there ANY standards of right & wrong with these PERVERTS? Or is “pervert” both an unacceptable word & an unacceptable concept? And, of course, the concept of “right & wrong” must now be unacceptable….
In 1991 when my son was 15, he had a part in a school play which required him to kiss one of the girls, and the unmarried female teacher who directed the play demanded that this should be done enthusiastically and very thoroughly, during rehearsals and in the actual performances. Not only that, but she gave them the key to her office in the school so that they could go there whenever they liked, to practice. They had had no previous friendship, nor did one ensue.
I thought at the time that this was rather odd. On the other hand, putting myself in his shoes, if this had happened to me at his age I would not have complained.
Well, you couldn’t make that up. There appear to be some rather strange adults around who get a peculiar vicarious pleasure over the thought of young people engaging in sexual activity. We have one here in drama. But quite a few of them appear to be especially active in the sex education arena. Funny that they are drawn to that particular arena.