Below is an email that I just received from Article 8 Alliance/MassResistance leader Brian Camenker. When you read it...be horrified! And realize that if CHRISTIANS SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING ABOUT THE GAY ACTIVISM GOING ON IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MORE SUCH INCIDENTS ARE IN STORE FOR ANY FAMILY (ESPECIALLY CHRISTIAN ONES!)THAT ADHERES TO TRADITIONAL MORALS AND VALUES.
I will let the story speak for itself. I'll be back on Friday to comment further.
Christine
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** June 14 Email Update **
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In this special email update:
David Parker's first-grade son surrounded and beaten up at school on anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts.
School acknowledges that attack by group of kids was "planned and premeditated."
Caps year-long public campaign of anti-Parker hate by activists in town.
Young children also polarized and confused by homosexual normalization programs in schools.
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 Jacob and grabbed him. He was taken around the corner of the school building out of sight of the patrolling aides, with the taunting and encouragement of other kids. Jacob was then positioned against the wall for what appeared to be a well planned and coordinated assault. Many children stood, watched silently, and did nothing as the beating commenced.
The group of kids surrounded Jacob and he was beaten and punched. Then, as he fell to the ground, another child was heard saying to the group of children, "Now you all can finish him off," and as he was down on his hands and knees, the beating continued on his back. Then, fortunately, one little girl ran to contact the oblivious playground aides to stop it.
Four of the attackers were from Jacob's first-grade class; the others were from other classes at Estabrook.
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, http://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, http://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. (Pictures can be viewed at website).
Statement by David Parker:
"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, and probably also 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.
YOU CAN TAKE ACTION:
1. Stop the homosexual programs that help cause this.
This horrific incident exposes the poisonous nature of the state-funded "safe schools" program, which are thinly veiled homosexual propaganda -- that makes schools "safe" for gay activism but dangerously unsafe for anyone who doesn't agree. The Massachusetts Legislature is now poised to quadruple the funding for these programs -- to nearly $2 million! Governor Romney MUST veto this when it happens later this month.
Contact Governor Romney's office. Tell him that he must veto ALL money in the 2007 budget for homosexual programs in the public schools. Give our schools back to the parents and children! He needs to get that message!
State HouseOffice of the GovernorRoom 360Boston, MA 02133Phone: (617) 725-4005(888) 870-7770 (instate use only)FAX: (617) 727-9725To email the governor:http://www.mass.gov/Agovwebmail/WebMailPageControl.ser?level=101
2. Tell the activists that their anti-David Parker hate has no place in America.
This anti-David Parker website in Lexington (ironically called "Lexington Cares") obsessively incites and catalogues rhetoric, intimidation, and activism against David Parker and his family. http://www.lexingtoncares.org/Contact them at: http://www.lexingtoncares.org/ContactUs.html
This second website coordinates the homosexual activism against David Parker and his family in Lexington: http://www.respectingdifferences.org/
Note the confusion techniques that both of these websites use to incite people against citizens with traditional values.
Please help MassResistance continue to do our job! If we don't win the fights going on in our Legislature over the next several months, our schools and our lives in Massachusetts will be changed forever.
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Update: Lifesite News Article Link on incident.
P.S. In my absence from the blogosphere today, please feel free to share your thoughts on this topic!
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UPDATE 6/20/06 - The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools An assessment of the risks and liabilities associated with policies and programs that normalize homosexual behavior in public schools
[A word of warning: Some of the contents included in the above pdf paper link may be very disturbing to some readers].
I was deeply upset last night when I read about this young boy's beating. It is too much of a coincidence that this boy was targeted for his parent's Christian beliefs and their objection to homosexual indoctrination going on in Massachusetts schools.
ReplyDeleteI only have a quick minute today, but wanted to add this.
I sincerely feel that the groups that promote gay activism in schools are placing those with different beliefs (e.g. that homosexual behavior is sinful, dangerous to health, and a deviant type of behavior)in a dangerous and unsafe place. Their mantra of promoting the pro-homosexual agenda in schools under the guise of "safe schools" and "fighting hate" is creating even more division and grief for parents and their children that don't want exposure to such behavior and information (especially at such a young age!).
What about students who get harrassed and teased for having red hair or freckles; being skinny or fat; tall or short?
One alternative is for schools to drop the pro-gay indoctrination agenda and use a teaching method that promotes "safe schools" and "fighting hate" for ALL STUDENTS. A good one that was utilized when my kids were in high school was Breaking Down the Walls. This a a much better alternative for helping kids get along with eachother despite their differences.
I really think that the gay activist agenda going on in schools needs to be exposed for what it really is...homosexual indoctrination. I plan to use my voice and writing on this issue because so much is at stake for our children and grandchildren!
Isn't it strange that we haven't seen any reports about this incident in the mainstream media? But people will learn about it through blogs and articles like Kevin McCullough's New liberal strategy: Assault 7-year-olds
ReplyDeleteGreat work/post Christine! I have posted a reminder with your link.
ReplyDeleteAgain, most American's 'reality' is like a Gollywood forced fed diet of....nonsense! No offense, CA just happens to be the breeding ground for insanity..;) With your voice, I will be forced to tell my daughter, 'Not all nuts live in Ca'...I'll hate when I have to say that.
Unfortunately, Brian Carmenker's "facts" were made up, and the boy who was punched and the boy who punched him remain friends--to the point of still going over to each other's houses to play after the incident. But of course you wouldn't know anything about that because the lie conforms to what you want to believe is the truth.
ReplyDeleteYeah Mark,
ReplyDeleteSome (MANY!) live in Massachusetts!
heh heh
;-)
Charles,
ReplyDeleteI am glad to hear that one of the boys who beat up young Jacob has reconciled his friendship with him. However, this does not negate the many facts surrounding this incident that you have clearly chosen to ignore:
1. Four of the attackers were from Jacob's first-grade class; the others were from other classes at Estabrook.
2. School authorities told the Parkers that from their investigation they have determined that the beating was indeed planned and premeditated.
3. Anti-Parker websites and rallies.
4. *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. (Pictures can be viewed at website).
5. We also know that activist lesbian mothers and vehement anti-David Parker parents are spewing hateful, inflaming rhetoric, and probably also 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."
6. 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.
Sadly, You have been a victim of great misinformation. The school, and the parents of the children have all verified this story has been blow up.
ReplyDeleteOnly 2 students were fighting.
It was not premeditated.
It had nothing to do with homosexuality or gay rights, it had to do with lunch table seating.
Why are you still promoting this story when it is will known at this point to be false hate propaganda?
I have yet to meet a first grader with a political agenda. You should correct the story and offer and apologee for everr postint it without all the facts.
This is nothing more than passive violence that fuels the fires for hatred and violence against gays. Stop making gays look like monsters. It is wrong and you know it. No wonder hate crimes against gays are up.
There are so many lies in this post and on your blog about gays and lesbians it sickens me. What is christian about lies? Bearing false witness. This makes me sick to my stomach to see how proud you all are of these lies.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Sorry Joe. It appears that you and "Charles" have been duped into the new "spin" job going around about this incident. Otherwise, why would the superintendent need to ask the district attorney to investigate it?
ReplyDeleteThe following is some additional information that has come to light about this incident.
Lexington, MA, school superintendent asks District Attorney to investigate beating of David Parker's first-grade son on two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts.
Superintendent acknowledges in press release that move comes from pressure from MassResistance!
Local police and state Dept. of Social Services also requested by schools to conduct investigation.
At the same time, Lexington school officials begin nasty public spin campaign against the Parkers to discredit them. Superintendent writes bizarre, rambling account of incident in press release.
WORSE: School officials leak "facts" to local pro-gay group prior to superintendent's press release. Gay group issues its own press release day before Superintendent's press release.
Why did school wait a month to act?
Lexington school superintendent Paul Ash has announced that he is requesting the Middlesex County District Attorney, as well as the Lexington police department and Massachusetts Department of Social Services to investigate the May 17 beating of David Parker's first-grade son by a group of kids during recess.
As we reported in last Wednesday's email: on May 17 - the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts - David Parker's first-grade son, Jacob, was led to a secluded area and beaten by a group of kids 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.
MassResistance has chronicled the hostile and at times virulent anti-David Parker campaign both inside the Estabrook Elementary School and throughout the Lexington community by a pro-gay group in Lexington organized specifically to target Parker, which many believe has incited young children in the town and especially at the Estabrook Elementary School.
Read the full MassResistance account here.
Last Wednesday, June 14, after a month of waiting to see if the school system would act on its own, MassResistance finally brought this terrible incident to light. The next day it was in the Boston Globe and on the front page of the local Lexington Minuteman newspaper. Your calls and emails, we're told, flooded the school and the superintendent from across the country.
Two days later, in his press release, dated June 16, the superintendent publicly acknowledged that pressure from MassResistance forced the school to confront the issue and to admit and act upon the seriousness of the matter - in the face of growing outrage.
But more anti-Parker spin by Superintendent and other school officials.
Unfortunately, the Superintendent and other school officials now appear have begun a nasty, even vicious PR campaign against the Parker family, and the public's perception of the facts surrounding the incident. This is reflected by the bizarre, rambling account of the "facts" in the press release, which largely contradicts the Parkers' account of what happened, which at the time school officials had generally acknowledged.
(We are also concerned that that the superintendent's decision to get the Department of Social Services (DSS) involved is a retribution of sorts against the Parkers. We don't see any reason for it. The DSS has a sordid reputation for terrorizing families and threatening to take their kids away from them. We will be monitoring that.)
Read the bizarre press release from Lexington Superintendent Paul Ash here.
It gets worse - school officials leak "facts" to local pro-gay group.
Prior to the Superintendent's press release, the Estabrook librarian and other school officials apparently spoke privately with the local pro-gay Lexington group, "LexingtonCares", that has devoted itself to a year of virulent attacks on David Parker.
On Thursday, June 15 - the day before the Superintendent's press release LexingtonCares issued its own anti-Parker press release which presents yet another "official" spin story of what happened. In the press release, LexingtonCares references information they received from the Estabrook principal, assistant principal, nurse, teacher, and school librarian!
The obvious question: Why are these school officials talking to a local homosexual activist group about this incident? This is not only extremely unprofessional, but troubling and offensive.
Read the "LexingtonCares" press release here.
It goes without saying that the hypocrisy surrounding this is breathtaking. If this had been the other side - for instance, a child with "gay" parents who had been assaulted - they would have practically closed the schools over it. But when this incident occurred, it appears to have been downplayed as much as possible. School officials determined that neither the school nurse nor the police should be called - that the school would handle it. No one was suspended from school; instead (as the Superintendent mentioned) they got yet another session of the pro-homosexual "Open Circle" diversity program.
The bottom line: A lot of people want to know why it took the school system an entire month to take this seriously. If we hadn't publicly raised the issue they would still be trying to sweep it under the table. That's why citizens' groups like MassResistance are so important.
We'll stay on top of any developments in this.
The bottom line: A lot of people want to know why it took the school system an entire month to take this seriously. If we hadn't publicly raised the issue they would still be trying to sweep it under the table.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me?
The school in fact dealt with this immediately. Within an hour the parents had been contacted. The one child who assaulted the other was disciplined, and wrote an apology that was accepted by the other child. There was a class room discussion about bullying and fighting. The two children are back to being friends.
Let's turn this around: why has it taken one month for Camenker and Parker to suddenly start making claims that they already know to be false?
And why are you repeating these obvious lies, despite all the evidence to the contrary?
grantdale,
ReplyDeleteObviously, you choose to ignore the history and facts surrounding and leading up to this incident. Bottom line is that the school downplayed it for several reasons. You only need to go to the websites I cited to read about those reasons.
In addition, I think that covering up and making this incident a "non-issue" is a primary goal of the school officials and the gay activist lobby with whom they always side with.
Why?
Because it would only add fuel to the fire of why there needs to be a comprehensive state by state effort (like Ohio's at this link) to expose The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools An assessment of the risks and liabilities associated with policies and programs that normalize homosexual
behavior in public schools.
In the end, no matter what evidence was given that this had nothing to do with gays, you will never believe it anyway. You are so convinced gays are evil people, you wouldn't hear anything that contradicts your beliefs anyway.
ReplyDeleteYou keep claiming that if this was a child being beaten up for being gay, it would all be different. The real truth is that kids are beaten up for being gay everday. You don't even hear about it because the schools don't do anything to stop it. Anti-bullying laws don't protect gay kids. Even in California the bullying laws have failed to pass because it protects gays kids. In states where they do have anti-bullying laws, the laws only passed if sexual orientation was removed from the language.
It is pretty clear, you will never see gays as anything less than evil and that is far from accurate and pretty sad. It is sad you carry such a mudd colored view of others just because you want to.
christinewjc:
ReplyDeleteFirst, you shouldn't put quotes around my name. I am a real person.
The case was referred to the district attorney because of the propensity of David Parker to sue the school district, not because of the actual merits of the case.
I do believe the attack was premeditated--kids will fight over things like seating in a lunchroom. It is an unfortunate part of life. But Brian Camenker's account doesn't square with anything the children involved said happened.
You can choose to believe what you wish to believe to be the truth. I will say a prayer for you on Sunday.