Friday, May 20, 2005
Not Isolated to Montgomery County?
This letter to the editor appeared in the May 20th edition of the Washington Times. Makes one really wonder about the nationwide scope of all this...
Sex-ed battle rages on
A fierce battle rages in Montgomery County over an expanded sex-ed curriculum that normalizes homosexuality and promotes the notion that gender is determined by a child's feelings, not biology ("Tug of war over sex education in schools," Page 1, Monday). If anyone thinks this "tug of war" is merely a blue-state battle, think again.
Homosexual advocates, smarting from the numerous defeats suffered in the November elections, are gingerly sidestepping the electoral process. Better to collaborate with sympathetic public-school systems and indoctrinate schoolchildren to ensure future acceptance.
Montgomery County, the mini-Massachusetts of the mid-Atlantic, appeared to be low-hanging fruit — but the homosexual lobby tripped again, underestimating the concern even many liberal parents have with the radical homosexual agenda.
Despite the stacked-deck administrative process used by the county to ram through a culturally divisive sex-ed curriculum, reaction was sufficiently energized to institute a lawsuit and delay, if not stop, the curriculum's implementation. In issuing a temporary restraining order against the county curriculum, Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. appropriately turned around the defendants' inflammatory claim that conservative Christians are establishing a theocracy by holding that "[t]he public interest is served by preventing Defendants [i.e., school officials] from promoting particular religious beliefs in the public schools and preventing Defendants from disseminating one-sided information on a controversial topic."
If the avoidance of electoral processes, the casting of wish as fact, the conspiring of government agencies with radical groups endeavoring to shred what's left of America's traditional social mores and the one-sided indoctrination of schoolchildren in gender politics seems undemocratic and un-American to readers, welcome to the no-holds-barred tactics of America's cultural Terminators. Coming soon — to a school board near you.
SAMUEL R. LEWIS
Oak Hill, Va.