Todd Starnes, host of Fox News & Commentary, had an interesting report recently on how lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) group in a California high school has publicly shamed students who opposed their views and teachers have allowed it.
The Queer Straight Alliance at Acalanes High School, in Lafayette, lectured students in several ninth-grade English classes on 29 January 2015 about LGBT issues. Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), which is representing the parents, said that the students, ages 14 and 15, were instructed to stand in a circle. Then, they were grilled about their personal beliefs and their parents’ beliefs on homosexuality.
"The QSA had students step forward to demonstrate whether they believed that being gay was a choice and whether their parents would be accepting if they came out as gay," PJI attorney Matthew McReynolds said. “Students who did not step forward were ridiculed and humiliated.”
PJI is a law firm that specializes in religious liberty cases. They are representing several families who had children in the freshman classes – some of whom also are angry because there was no parental notification of the LGBT lecture.
"Singling out students for ridicule based on their moral or political beliefs is a Marxist tactic that should have no place in the United States of America," Dacus said.
During the lecture, the Queer Student Alliance provided students with the names of the gay and lesbian teachers at the high school. They also had students line up to demonstrate where they fell on the “gender spectrum."
"It was an exercise in gender fluidity," the parent of one child told me. "They told the students that one day they could come to school feeling like a boy and the next day they could come to school feeling like a girl.”
Students were given a handout with LGBT terminology – including words like pan-sexual, demi-boy and gray gender.
Demi-boy/girl is defined as someone who only partially identifies as a man or woman. Gray gender defines someone who feels as though they sort of fit inside the gender binary, but that their gender is more hazy and undefined.
"Acalanes High School and the district have defied common sense, ignored the law and broken parents’ trust," McReynolds said in a prepared statement. "These administrators are acting like schoolyard bullies. If they think intimidation is going to work on us or these parents, they are greatly mistaken."
"It was a public outing,” one parent told me. “My child is being raised in a family with conservative values. We are a Christian family. What bothers me the most is the school is being dishonest and secretive about what’s happening. My son’s value system and our belief system is not being respected on a many levels."
And from a very practical point – she wants to know why the Queer Student Alliance was allowed to take over an English class.
"There’s no other club at the high school that gets face time in front of freshman English classes for an entire period," the parent said.
So why is Acalanes High School outing students who may not agree with every facet of the LGBT agenda?
The Queer Straight Alliance at Acalanes High School, in Lafayette, lectured students in several ninth-grade English classes on 29 January 2015 about LGBT issues. Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), which is representing the parents, said that the students, ages 14 and 15, were instructed to stand in a circle. Then, they were grilled about their personal beliefs and their parents’ beliefs on homosexuality.
"The QSA had students step forward to demonstrate whether they believed that being gay was a choice and whether their parents would be accepting if they came out as gay," PJI attorney Matthew McReynolds said. “Students who did not step forward were ridiculed and humiliated.”
PJI is a law firm that specializes in religious liberty cases. They are representing several families who had children in the freshman classes – some of whom also are angry because there was no parental notification of the LGBT lecture.
"Singling out students for ridicule based on their moral or political beliefs is a Marxist tactic that should have no place in the United States of America," Dacus said.
During the lecture, the Queer Student Alliance provided students with the names of the gay and lesbian teachers at the high school. They also had students line up to demonstrate where they fell on the “gender spectrum."
"It was an exercise in gender fluidity," the parent of one child told me. "They told the students that one day they could come to school feeling like a boy and the next day they could come to school feeling like a girl.”
Students were given a handout with LGBT terminology – including words like pan-sexual, demi-boy and gray gender.
Demi-boy/girl is defined as someone who only partially identifies as a man or woman. Gray gender defines someone who feels as though they sort of fit inside the gender binary, but that their gender is more hazy and undefined.
"Acalanes High School and the district have defied common sense, ignored the law and broken parents’ trust," McReynolds said in a prepared statement. "These administrators are acting like schoolyard bullies. If they think intimidation is going to work on us or these parents, they are greatly mistaken."
"It was a public outing,” one parent told me. “My child is being raised in a family with conservative values. We are a Christian family. What bothers me the most is the school is being dishonest and secretive about what’s happening. My son’s value system and our belief system is not being respected on a many levels."
And from a very practical point – she wants to know why the Queer Student Alliance was allowed to take over an English class.
"There’s no other club at the high school that gets face time in front of freshman English classes for an entire period," the parent said.
So why is Acalanes High School outing students who may not agree with every facet of the LGBT agenda?