ADF: Minn. elementary students shouldn’t be indoctrinated in homosexual behavior
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4497 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE ADF: Minn. elementary students ADF attorneys warn Minneapolis Public Schools that protecting children MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund are urging the Minneapolis Public Schools not to implement a program that would instruct kindergartners and other elementary school students to embrace homosexual behavior. “The government should promote and encourage strong families,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks. “When school officials have to choose between protecting children in those families or furthering the homosexual agenda, the choice is obvious: protecting our children comes first.” The Human Rights Campaign, which devised the “Welcoming Schools” curriculum, targeted Minneapolis Public Schools for implementation of the project. ADF attorneys sent a legal memo to school district officials advising them of the project’s true intent. “HRC says the program is designed to stop bullying, even though its true intent is to promote the homosexual agenda,” Nimocks explained. “If HRC merely cared about bullying, they would simply endorse the school district’s vigorous ‘Bullying and Hazing Policy.’ Parents and school officials need to be aware of what HRC is really trying to do.” “According to its own statistics, HRC represents only 4.1 percent of American adults who identify themselves as homosexual, but it is attempting to implement its agenda on our children and the remaining 95.9 percent of American adults who don’t identify themselves as either ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian,’” said Nimocks. ADF attorneys warn in the memo that embracing the philosophies HRC promotes would open the floodgate in public schools to multiple practical and legal problems. “Especially within schools, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other intimate places will no longer be protected from members of the opposite sex once ‘gender identity’ becomes standard behavior for students,” the memo states. “From an enforcement standpoint, school officials would be unable to discern whether a boy who is using the girls’ restroom is a sexual predator, prankster, or one who sincerely believes that he is somehow a girl.” The full text of the April 24 legal memo is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/MNPubSchoolsMemo.pdf. ADF is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. |