Mission:America - Fighting the Gay Agenda in Schools

Mission:America - Fighting the Gay Agenda in Schools

Feds Use Minneapolis Schools to Test Pro-Homosexual "Blueprint"

Once again, bullying is just a convenient tool to promote a radical “gay” agenda. Another school district has just caved in to organized and well-funded “gay” activist bullying. Only this time, some of the bullies were also from the Obama administration. Trying to be a good parent today is becoming more and more difficult. And if you are a Christian, especially if your kids are in public schools, you have to fight more battles than usual. Parents in Minneapolis were being diligent, were monitoring what the schools were teaching on the issue of homosexuality. The school board of the Anoka-Hennepin district had passed a policy of “neutrality” on homosexuality several years ago. Teachers and school staff were not going to take a position on homosexuality, because this subject was best covered by parents in the home. But after the tragic suicides of several students, homosexual activists jumped on the school, saying “neutrality” wasn’t acceptable, even though bullying about homosexuality was not found to be a cause in these students’ deaths. But that’s not the way these pressure groups and their lawyers wanted to spin this, and they took advantage of the situation and sued the school district. The reason every school needs to learn from Minneapolis, is that our federal government got involved. That’s right— both Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, and the US Department of Education launched an investigation and entered this suit— on the side of current and former students who claimed the school allowed them to be unrelentingly bullied over homosexuality— and the school board finally caved under pressure. One brave school board member voted “NO” on the settlement and then submitted her resignation The suit was brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, with GLSEN and the federal agencies also signing on—and each of these students will receive $45,000 from this settlement. The school has also been forced to set aside $500,000, just to start with, to fund sweeping pro-homosexual indoctrination programs for students and teachers. The settlement demands that the district hire a mental health consultant, an equity coordinator and a Title IX coordinator, and be monitored for five years by these two federal agencies as they apply Title IX federal law to justify these actions. But wait, you may be thinking. Title IX has nothing to do with sexual orientation, but is about sex discrimination—as in, male and female. Get the picture? There’s no federal law that actually applies, so the Obama Administration will just pick one and make it work. Our radical pro-homosexual president and his staff will disrespect the law once again. The Parents Action League, a group of concerned area parents, collected well over 1,000 petition signatures from citizens in the school district to keep the neutrality policy. Homosexual groups presented a petition with thousands of signatures, but it turns out only 49 of them were from the district. Meanwhile, left-wing media told untruthful accounts of the situation. An article inRolling Stone is entitled, “School of Hate: One Town’s War on Gay Teens.” This twisted account even reported a false number of teens who committed suicide and the reasons for these tragedies and blamed the suicides on evangelical Christians and even Michelle Bachman. An excellent article by Laurie Higgins critiquing theRolling Stone smear piece is here. As if all this hysteria wasn’t enough, federal civil rights officials are saying this so-called “remedy” will be their blueprint for school districts throughout the country. So get ready: watch for the professional “hate” hucksters of the Southern Poverty Law Center to roll into your town with the Department of Justice. And parents, don’t rely on the school board. Perhaps hire your own law firm.