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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Mon May 11, 2015, 03:59 PM May 2015

Fox Pundit Todd Starnes: President Obama 'Radically Dismantling The American Family' w/LGBT Rights

On the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program, guest-host Craig James addressed a recent vote by the Fairfax County, Virginia, school board to add legal protections for gender identity to the school district’s non-discrimination policy, despite protests from Religious Right activists.

Fox News commentator Todd Starnes, who championed the effort to block the nondiscrimination provision, appeared on James’s show to denounce the board and attack the Obama administration for barring such discrimination under Title IX. “Your public schools are being turned into public indoctrination centers,” Starnes told James. “Moms and dads, they’re going to have to take back their schools or else this is going to happen in other districts around the country.”

James, incensed by the board’s decision, warned that similar protections for gender identity are “going to invade the rest of America, these other school districts.” “What in the world are we doing not waking up and seeing what’s taking place to our country?” he asked.

Starnes told listeners to rise up and fight Obama administration officials who are “radically deconstructing the American family … through the public school system.” Parents, he said, should “indoctrinate” their own children “the way we see fit.” He alleged that the administration was willing to “risk poor children going hungry by yanking the funding for free lunch” if the school district didn’t approve the non-discrimination measure.

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Fox Pundit Todd Starnes: President Obama 'Radically Dismantling The American Family' w/LGBT Rights (Original Post) big_dog May 2015 OP
Checking to see if family is still intact............... leftofcool May 2015 #1
I can feel my family being wrenched apart by the happiness of people I don't know . . . Journeyman May 2015 #2
Um, the American family has been doing a bang-up job of dismantling itself for quite some time now. tanyev May 2015 #3
another day, another repuke racist rant Skittles May 2015 #4

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
1. Checking to see if family is still intact...............
Mon May 11, 2015, 04:03 PM
May 2015

Yep. Hubby is in recliner. Dog taking her afternoon nap. I'm on DU. Life as normal.

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
2. I can feel my family being wrenched apart by the happiness of people I don't know . . .
Mon May 11, 2015, 04:30 PM
May 2015

but whom I favor in their quest for basic human recognition.

Oh, wait. No. It's just a wrenching pain in my ass. I think I need a craig-ectomy.

tanyev

(42,550 posts)
3. Um, the American family has been doing a bang-up job of dismantling itself for quite some time now.
Mon May 11, 2015, 05:07 PM
May 2015

Giving LGBT more rights and protections is just one way of promoting some reconstruction.

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