Court backs school on gay topics in class.

[mondo joe]

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=55694

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Lexington parents who objected to same-sex families being discussed in their children’s elementary classrooms.

Tonia and David Parker of Lexington sued in April 2006 after their kindergartener brought home a book depicting a gay family. Joseph and Robin Wirthlin joined the suit over a second-grade story about two princes in love.

But the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a judge who ruled last year that parents’ rights to exercise their religious beliefs are not violated when contrary ideas are taught in school. "Public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive," the court said.

[saltpoint]

1. In ROMEO AND JULIET, people are stabbed to death in violent

quarrels and street fights, which passes as business as usual, but the nation shakes in its shoes if same-sex love is a component in a book.

Good for the court to stand up for the First Amendment.