I share your concern. I agree that parents should be the ones to decide when and how sexuality should be discussed with their children.

However, that isn’t what David Parker demanded. He demanded that there be no mention whatsoever of families that were not heterosexual. He wanted to be notified in advance of any mention of same-sex parents or families.

There are children in that school who have same-sex couples as parents. The school could not enforce the silencing of other children about their own families and found it a ridiculous demand.

Parker wasn’t interested in finding a solution. He was interested in finding something about which he and the school COULD NOT agree so that he could make a political statement and sue the school.

I hear a lot of folks talking about parents having the right to have a say in their child’s education. I agree to a point. But not when another family (in this case sam-sex households with children) have to take a backseat.

Well no, because that would clearly be unconstitutional. As would telling all staff members, students, parents, and general layabouts around the school grounds that they can’t mention the fact that some kids in Massachusetts have a home that is led by a same gender couple.

Further, on the people vs judges issue, it was judges who decided that segregation was unconstitutional. That was a good decision too.

Welcome to living in a democratic republic. Public Opinion does not trump basic rights. That’s why we have A consitution. The legislature can put through any law they like, but if it violates the constitution (state or federal) it’s gone, and whatever was prohibited is now legal.

The constitution is there to protect us from public opinion. So no matter how unpopular we are, we still get treated like full citizens. The law in MA violated that basic concept without a compelling state interest, so it was struck down. In the 4 years it’s been legal in MA, the sky hasn’t fallen.

Speaking of the constitution, no I wouldn’t have agreed with Virgina mandatory church attendance — it goes against the first amendment of the constitution(see a pattern?).

The only reason Gay Marriage is legal in MASS is because a group of judges (not the people) said it was. This is the whole point, politicians and civil “servants” deciding what is good and bad for our culture. Would you have been so quick to defend the establishment if officials decided that church attendance was mandatory as they did in VA in the 1700′s? After all, it was the law.

Hey I have a crazy idea… What if the schools get back to teaching Math and Reading and leave social engineering alone. Their track record is not trending positively. Just take a look at the numbers of assaults, teen pregnancies, gang related activity, teen suicide etc. since the enlightenment of the 1960′s. “If it feels good do it!” – To bad it doesn’t feel good to the ones it is being done to…

If you don’t have to talk about what Mom & Dad do between the sheets in order to explain a Mom & Dad family — then there’s no reason to get freaked out about telling a kid that sometimes instead of Mom & Dad, it’s Dad and Papi, or Momma Joy and Momma Hope.

It’s like they are fighting for the right to ignore an entire class of people.

the school acted in an appropriate manner in all respects.