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  • Monday, June 19, 2006

    Gay People are Sometimes Bigots Also, and Vicious at Times

    School Acknowledges that Attack by Group of Kids was "Planned and Premeditated"
    Parental Rights Activist David Parker's Son Surrounded and Beaten-up at School on Anniversary of Same-Sex "Marriage" in Massachusetts; Caps year-long public campaign of anti-Parker hate by activists in town

    By Brian Camenker

    LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS: MassResistance has learned that on May 17 - the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts - David Parker's first-grade son, Jacob, was dragged and beaten at the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach, and genital area.

    Last year David Parker was arrested and made national news over the school's refusal to notify him when adults discuss homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, then in kindergarten. The school system has continued to refuse to notify any parents. On April 27, 2006, Parker, his wife, and another family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school system.

    During the recess period, a group of 8-10 kids suddenly surrounded The teachers' aide apparently determined that since she could not see external bleeding, and since Jacob apparently was not hit in the face, she did not send him to she school nurse. The Parkers were notified by the first-grade teacher within an hour of the incident.

    School authorities told the Parkers that from their investigation they have determined that the beating was indeed planned and premeditated.

    Safe schools? Tolerance? Diversity?

    There can be no question that this beating has little to do with children. It was fueled and incited by adults (and, yes, school officials) in the town of Lexington. And it reflects the culture of extreme intolerance against anyone with traditional beliefs, and the willingness of adults to bring children into adult issues.

    * It cannot be accidental that this happened on May 17 - the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts - a day when emotions were particularly high among certain activists.

    * None of the kids involved were suspended from school. Instead, from what we are told, a "diversity" training session of sorts was held in the first-grade class. What if it had been a "gay" child who had been beaten, or even taunted? Across Massachusetts children are routinely suspended from school for even using the term "gay" in a less than positive fashion.

    * The Estabrook Elementary School library has continuously displayed two particular issues of the local Lexington Minuteman newspaper which depict David Parker in big articles on the front page on a prominent table where kids often go. Those two issues were still displayed after this latest incident. [See MassResistance picture.]

    * Estabrook Elementary School is proud of its long-time involvement in various "Safe School" programs that make the schools "safe" for homosexuality but dangerous for anyone with a different viewpoint. The current rage there is the "Open Circle" program, which has ties to GLSEN.

    * A group of adults in Lexington maintain and regularly update an angry anti-Parker website, www.LexingtonCares.org. In addition to angry anti-Parker diatribes, they meticulously catalog all anti-Parker letters to the editor, newspaper articles, etc. They also organize anti-Parker rallies and demonstrations, and go on TV and radio bashing Parker. The group is led by well-known lesbian activist Meg Soens, who was involved in the infamous GLSEN "Fistgate" conference in 2000. (Soens also runs a second pro-homosexual Lexington website, www.RespectingDifferences.org. )

    * Adults in Lexington have conducted a nasty and hateful anti-Parker letter-writing campaign in the local newspaper, the Lexington Minuteman, that has lasted for well over a year. *The "Lexington Cares" group, and others, have recruited young children to participate in angry anti-David Parker public demonstrations. [See pictures below.]

    David Parker says:

    "We understand that skirmishes happen on the playground. What concerns us greatly is the premeditated, well planned and coordinated nature of the assault.

    "We are aware that the school administration sent notices home with all the young children concerning the Parker arrest, the "King and King" incident and the federal lawsuit. In addition, the school administration prominently displays the front-page Minuteman biased headlines of such incidents in the elementary school library for the children to see, read, and discuss. We also know that activist lesbian mothers and vehement anti-David Parker parents are spewing hateful, inflaming rhetoric to their young children. What kind of atmosphere are they creating? Are their children acting out their parents' hate? Was this attack part of the "group think" that the pro-homosexual crowd espouses?

    "Isn't the school supposed to be addressing safety and preventing bullying and violence? Or are such programs only focused on children with homosexual parents? You can be certain that if this happened to a child with homosexual parents more would be made of this and that "lessons" teaching tolerance and diversity of homosexual behavior normalization would be forced upon the young children."

    Just waiting to happen

    This outrageous incident should not come as a surprise to anyone. The hatred and vituperative nature of the homosexual activists and their allies, both in the schools and in the community, toward anyone who does not agree with their agenda has been well documented. This also clearly demonstrates the complete ineffectiveness and moral bankruptcy of the so-called "safe schools" programs, which cause far more problems than they solve. Unless things are forced to change, more innocent children will be at risk.

    Brian Camenker can be reached via email at mailto:info@MassResistance.com - More information is at Mass Resistance Web Site

    2 comments:

    Mike Airhart said...

    David Parker, the antihomosexual parent, admitted to The Boston Globe last week that the story was false -- his son was beaten over a lunchroom seating dispute, not because of Parker's activism.

    Furthermore, the school district didn't ignore the incident -- it promptly punished the classmate who started the fight, and it considered the matter settled because it was a minor schoolyard fight among first-graders and because Parker never filed any objections to the school's handling of the incident.

    If gay people are sometimes bigots or vicious, this case was not one of them.

    Patrick Townson said...

    You are correct; this was NOT one of those cases; I wish I had had this additional detail when the item was first printed. Thanks for bringing it to light now.

    But ... I still maintain that LGBT people have agendas the same as the antihomosexual people, and _sometimes_ can be as bigotted and vicious as 'straight' guys. And anyway, why do we call _them_ 'straight'? Are we the opposite of 'straight', in other words crooked or warped? I don't think so ... that is just an example of how our language has been abused over the years.

    PAT