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Massachusetts "Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth" Outlines 2008 Assault on Public Schools at Meeting in Brockton

By Mass Resistance

The state-funded Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender ("GLBT") Youth met in Brockton and outlined their bold plans for pushing homosexuality and transgenderism further into Massachusetts schools in 2008. They described how they are intimidating local school officials who resist, holding training sessions for school-based homosexual activists, and organizing the GSA clubs to "normalize" these behaviors throughout the school. They held a special "closed" meeting earlier in the day to discuss this with student "leaders" from several local schools.

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Shoe Giveaway at S.C. Schools Called Unconstitutional

By CitizenLink

Americans United for Separation of Church and State is threatening two South Carolina school districts with legal action if they continue to allow a church-sponsored shoe giveaway.

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Lawsuit Targets History Teacher's Comments

By David Haldane

A Capistrano Valley High School student claims James Corbett violated his constitutional rights with 'highly inappropriate' and offensive statements regarding Christianity.

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Federal Abstinence-Education Funding Extended for Six Months

By CitizenLink

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to extend the Title V abstinence-education program for six months.

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UC Riverside a leader in courting home-schooled students

By Elaine Regus

Robert Wilkinson learned physics and chemistry from his father.

Family vacations to his native Canada doubled as educational field trips.

When it came time to apply to college, Wilkinson was long on experience but short on written transcripts.

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Student Complains After She is Kept Out of Men's Locker Room

By CitizenLink

A student is accusing Massachusetts' Northern Essex Community College of discrimination for not allowing her to use the men’s locker room.

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More Muslim Girls Bringing Faith Onto the Field, Court

By The Associated Press

Dewnya Bakri loves her faith — and the feeling of sinking a three-pointer.

The 20-year-old Muslim has found a way for much of her life to balance practicing Islam and basketball, including wearing a headscarf and long pants on the hardcourt, even if it’s meant taunts from others as she blazed trails on her middle school, high school and college teams.

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University of Montana Sued after Christian Group is Silenced

By CitizenLink

The Alliance Defense Fund has sued the University of Montana School of Law for failing to recognize a Christian Legal Society (CLS) student chapter because of its beliefs.

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Alabama Picks a Bible Textbook

By David Van Biema

Alabama has become the first state in the Union to approve a textbook for a course about the Bible in its public schools, and its surprisingly uncontroversial decision may prove to be a model for others.

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Younger Generation More Likely to Find Porn Acceptable

By CitizenLink

College students — male and female — tend to find pornography acceptable. That's according to a study by Brigham Young University, to be published in the January issue of the Journal of Adolescent Research.

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Who's the Boss?

By Lee Wishing

Did you remember to buy a present for your boss on Boss's Day? The teachers of the Susquehanna Township School District in central Pennsylvania didn't experience the embarrassment of forgetting the chief because two of their colleagues, who happened to be union representatives, bought the principal a gift. When they repeatedly asked the other teachers to kick in $3 to recover the $200 they spent, some of the teachers balked. At the annual meeting of Pennsylvanians for Right to Work last week, a young eighth-grade math teacher, Ryan Mellinger, noted the irony of the teachers' negative response to the union representatives' cajoling for contributions.

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Harvard Professor Brings Gambling into the Classroom

By CitizenLink

Poker as an educational tool?

Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and a handful of law students have formed a poker club to supposedly aid in legal training. Nesson also markets poker software to younger kids to help with math skills.

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California Law Opens the Door to Gay-Activist Group

By CitizenLink

'They are ready to go in and take over our schools with gay, lesbian and transgender issues.'

California's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) is using the state’s new pro-gay school-curriculum mandate to further its agenda.

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Lawmakers Rush to Defend Christmas

By Jennifer Mesko

U.S. House and Wisconsin Assembly take up resolutions to call it what it is.

Lawmakers have had enough of the "holidays," and they are reminding America the "holiday" that is coming is called Christmas.

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ADF Files Motion against University
to End Religious Discrimination

By CitizenLink

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed a motion Monday against the University of Wisconsin-Madison on behalf of the Roman Catholic Foundation, which has been denied recognition by the school.

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Americans Don’t Read: What Are the Consequences?

By Luke Sheahan

A couple of weeks ago the National Endowment for the Arts released a study titled To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence. The press release states that the report drew from over forty sources “including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and associations.” It was a truly comprehensive undertaking making its findings all the more disconcerting because they are likely true.

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Fla. School Board Votes to Teach Sex Ed to Fourth-Graders

By CitizenLink

The St. Lucie, Fla., school board voted 4-1 to teach a graphic condom-education curriculum to fourth-graders. The explicit curriculum — Get Real about AIDS — includes teaching children how HIV is contracted.

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Appeals Court Considers State Responsibility for Illegally Strip-Searching Children

By Liberty Counsel

Liberty Counsel argued at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving a state worker who made two elementary children undress without parental consent.

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Christian Student Club Allowed to Use School Bus

By CitizenLink

A Louisiana school that denied a Christian club access to school buses for a field trip reversed its decision last week after attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed a lawsuit.

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APA Shuns Academic and Religious Coalition on Homosexuality

By Jennifer Mesko

Focus on the Family and 20 million Americans have been denied input into an American Psychological Association panel on homosexuality.

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Teen Birth Rate Rises After 14-Year Decline

By CitizenLink

Report bolsters case for abstinence education.

Teen births are rising for the first time in 14 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports birth rates for 15- to 19-year-old girls plunged 34 percent between 1991 and 2005. In 2006, the rate rose 3 percent.

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