School Promotes Homosexuality to 1st-Graders

(Wilmington, NC) According to this story in the Wilmington Star (reg. req'd.), Barbara Hawley, the librarian and media coordinator for Freeman Elementary School, ordered a library book for 1st-grade students that celebrates male homosexuality and marriage. After parents objected, the program to indoctrinate children on male homosexuality was defended.

"We have a lot of diversity in our schools," said Elizabeth Miars, Freeman's principal. "What might be inappropriate for one family, in another family is a totally acceptable thing."

Miars then compared parents' objections to homosexuality to complaints about religious books. For any action to be considered, parents must file a written complaint with the New Hanover County School System.

My take is simple. The situation at Freeman Elementary School is wrong and it should not have occurred. For public elementary schools to have an agenda to teach homosexuality while prohibiting the Ten Commandments is bizarre. I don't know how the school authorities get any sleep at night.

[Update] Parents Michael and Tonya Hartsell, along with Channing and Beth Hatcher, filed complaints concerning the book and a school committee, by a vote of 8 to 3, has decided that it will be available only to adults in the Freeman Elementary School library.

The authors, Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, of the Netherlands, have said they didn't set out to write a controversial book. School officials have said they didn't intentionally order a book with a gay theme.

Right! Apparently, what they did do was order a book that they had not read. And where in the universe can I find the logic that says an elementary school library should have an adult reading section? Boneheads!

Of note is a comment by Heather Stoker, a parent on the committee, stating that the book promotes diversity and focuses on love, not homosexuality. Hey, Heather! You're wrong. And your comment calls into question your parenting skills. Make sure and let everyone know how well your offspring matured after being inculcated in homosexuality at the age of 6. Ten years from now, you may be petitioning the American Medical Association to recognize the Excess Diversity Disorder.