Here's today's Washington Watch Daily commentary from FRC Radio:
To what extent will the public schools go to indoctrinate our children? They apparently will ford every stream and climb every mountain, including Brokeback Mountain. That is why one family is suing the Chicago Board of Education. Twelve year-old Jessica Turner was forced to watch the movie about illicit homosexual behavior during class. Her grandfather said, “This was the last straw. [T]he lawsuit was necessary because… [this] was against our faith.” According to reports, a substitute teacher showed Brokeback Mountain at Ashburn Community Elementary School without parents’ knowledge or consent. The lawsuit claims the woman shut the classroom door and told students, “What happens in Ms. Buford’s class stays in Ms. Buford’s class.” The film, which follows two gay cowboys, is rated “R” for nudity and sexuality. In other words, the movie’s hardly appropriate for adults—let alone children. But unfortunately, these are the drastic measures teachers are willing to take to indoctrinate our kids with the homosexual agenda. And unless more families tell the school to take a hike, these attacks on children’s innocence will continue to climb.
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Comments (7)
And then they have the nerve to clamor for more funds for "education".
For stuff like this? No thanks!
May 16, 2007 1:36 PM | Comment Permalink
I agree that BBM is inappropriate for children.
And I don't think the school is the place for movies (period).
And R-rated movies definitely should require parental aproval upfront.
May 16, 2007 1:37 PM | Comment Permalink
I agree. Totally inappropriate for children, but come on, the actions of one substitute teacher of questionable intelligence represents the whole public school system? Ummmm.......
May 16, 2007 4:46 PM | Comment Permalink
It is absurd to try and turn this into anymore than an isolated incident. Most in the gay community are in agreement that showing ANY R-rated movie to eighth graders without parental permission is wrong. Especially one with sex (of any variety). But this is not a statement on public schools. This is simply one individual who made a really bad decision. Yet true to form, the "pro-family" movement is trying to turn it into a larger issue so as to convince their peeps that militant gay activists are replacing the morning pledge with daily recitations of Larry Kramer's ACT UP speeches!
May 16, 2007 5:03 PM | Comment Permalink
I also think that BBM would bore most 12 year olds to tears.
I rather liked the movie myself, but I wouldn't recommend it to kids.
May 16, 2007 6:32 PM | Comment Permalink
A teacher showes children an R-rated movie, and the FRC immediately starts screaming "The gays did it!"
Sadly, nothing out of the ordinary on this blog. The FRC isn't alone in imagining that there is some type of secret society trying to turn children gay.
May 17, 2007 3:55 AM | Comment Permalink
Will you censor this? I hope you don't because, as Christians, you should be willing to listen and to hear, not just to say and be heard. I find the condemning of the educational teaching of Brokeback Mountain to be very un-Christ-like of all of you. Jesus taught TOLERANCE and ACCEPTANCE of your fellow man, even if s/he was a sinner. Somewhere, you lost that when you started condemning to sinner instead of the sin by fighting against hate crime legislation and by spreading hate against homosexuals.
Unfortunately, when you let yourself be consumed by the unrighteousness of others (or your perception of their behavior as unrighteous in the first place), you become farther away from God and from Jesus.
Matthew 7:1-7 "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you... You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Has the log in your eye gotten so large that you cannot see even this? I know that you will not print, but someone will read it.
Jeff
June 4, 2007 11:27 PM | Comment Permalink