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Published: May 21, 2009
“Hecklers repeatedly booed and hissed”
Alameda School Board gets earful over proposed implementation of pro-homosexual curriculum
News from Capitol Resource Institute
In a packed auditorium filled with hundreds of citizens, the Alameda School Board on Monday held its carryover meeting from last Tuesday's contentious hearing about proposed homosexual curriculum.
 Concerned parents began arriving well over an hour before the meeting started, hoping that, unlike last week's meeting, they would be able to find a seat. Moving the meeting to the much larger venue accommodated the hundreds of Alameda citizens passionate about this controversial proposal.
The only speakers allowed during the carryover meeting were citizens who had attended last week's meeting but were turned away by the fire marshal due to the enormous crowd. The meeting lasted five hours, during which citizens addressed the school board about their concerns over teaching the homosexuality-promoting school course. Over 90% of the speakers were in opposition to the curriculum.
Every one of the speakers was courteous and presented well-reasoned, articulate opposition. However, proponents of the curriculum didn't practice what they preach. Hecklers repeatedly booed and hissed when parents and students rose to express their opposition. During her presentation, one young lady was charged by a man angry that he was not permitted to address the audience about his support for the gay schoolwork. Other men in the audience had to defend her from the attacker and forcibly remove him.
Later on, one parent noted he found the bullying from pro-homosexual curriculum audience members hypocritical: "This bullying is taking place by the people you're asking me to entrust my children to!" The gentleman also commented that in the last week he has been labeled a bigot and white supremacist for expressing his opposition to social indoctrination.
Several parents expressed their disappointment at not being consulted in developing the controversial curriculum. The general sentiment among speakers was that the curriculum should be rejected or completely revised, with parental input.
The few speakers in favor of the curriculum repeatedly stated that the proposed course is "just a start" and "the first step" in teaching equality in classrooms. Only a handful of these supporters addressed bullying; instead they pleaded with the board to implement the curriculum to teach other children about their homosexual families. Some even told the board that no parental opt-out should be allowed because the children of the curriculum opponents needed the instruction even more.
On speaker, who was an Alameda principal and teacher for 45 years, explained that teachers would be placed in a very difficult position should the curriculum be taught. She expressed concern over the myriad questions sexual teaching would evoke in young children. She was booed and hissed at by the curriculum-supporters.
CRI's Karen England was also jeered at as she rose to address the school board. During her presentation, England explained that the law does not require the school district to implement the curriculum and that it is not the most effective means to end bullying either.
At the end of the meeting, the school board members were able to ask questions of the school superintendent, who initially introduced the curriculum. The final vote on the curriculum will take place next Tuesday evening, May 26.
To visit the Alameda school district web site, which includes a link to the lesson plans under debate, Click Here.
Members of the Alameda Board of Education
Mike McMahon, Board President
2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501
510-523-2263,?Fax: 510-522 6926
Email: mmcmahon@alameda.k12.ca.us
Ron Mooney, Board Vice President
2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501
Email: rmooney@alameda.k12.ca.us
Tracy Jensen, Trustee
2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501
510-865-6350, Fax:?510-522-6926
Email: tjensen@alameda.k12.ca.us
Trish Spencer, Trustee
2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501
Email: tspencer@alameda.k12.ca.us
Niel Tam, Trustee
2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA. 94501
Email: ntam@alameda.k12.ca.us
Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:47 AM By irene
Its not surprising to hear that those in favor of promoting the gay lifestyle in of all places, a classroom, would be angry and full of venom - a sign of the evil one. Whatever is of God, will always be peaceful. Thats the difference - sadly, many do not see the evil element present during these tirades. Look at all the anger and vicious bashing of the protesters at Notre Dame, particularly by another university president, Patricia McGuire (of Trinity University). To call these defenders of life 'catholic vigilantes' should be a wake-up call for any of us who are still 'sitting on the fence' over another evil such as this pro-homosexual curriculum that may be force-fed to our young. We would do anything to keep our children out of harm's way; let's also unite to protect them from this being allowed - today its this school district, tomorrow it may be yours and mine.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:44 AM By steven
Seems an easy choice. 90% of the people are against the homosexual material.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:14 AM By JLS
It's a choice between perversion and education.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:24 AM By St. Christopher
No sane adult should bring up their children in the Alameda County School District, or in CA generally. This curriculum, of course, will be adopted. And there will be no opt out, as that will be seen as a defeat by homosexual activists that want that time to indoctrinate the children of familys with a sound moral sense (who may be teaching their kids something else entirely). If anything, there should be an immediate effort at a recall election. How can local citizens permit these people to set curriculum to teach these innocent children the vile perversion now pressed on them by homosexual activists. There should be heavy, loud and media intensive opposition to this board. The jeering and bullying by homosexual groups is just the beginning of the oppostion to any dissent. Moral families will be hounded and embarrassed, if not sued by sexual deviants bent on getting to their children. If you must stay there, learn to fight.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:56 AM By wildman
And this will prepare the students for what job? Bathhouse attendant? Meanwhile, time spent on this social experiment will mean less time on the basics, Teaching analytic thought, Math, Science. This is not education, this is brainwashing paid for by us.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:57 AM By Elizabeth
We need to continually pray for people who are homosexual.
Have you noticed how much anger they have inside of them?
It must come from much pain, deep down.
Pray for our brothers and sisters who are attracted to the same sex!!!!!
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:20 AM By judy
Why don't you teach the ABC's and let the parents take care of the rest.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:22 AM By Barbara
Parents just don't get it. They can't win. They need to take their kids out of government indoctrination centers and teach them at home. There are all kinds of teaching aids parents can use to provide their kids a superior education at home. Of course, that takes some sacrifice, and most parents are too busy.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:55 AM By dbwheeler
I'm sure most of us wholly sympathize with the familes being forced to accept programs for their children that are not just immoral but against common sense (and civil rights). What I find ironic is that schools are promoting homosexuality yet the Catholic Church has been villified and castigated for its homosexual priests. I remember my high school having a lesbian art teacher who was openly having an affair with one of her students. This was back in the early sixties in the midwest and parents had no idea something like this was going on. Is this what the homosexual agenda is? Are they creating a homosexual playground with innocent children as easy prey? It's obvious that they will stop at nothing to force society into accepting their deviant behavior. It makes me truly angry that they dare compare their aims with the black civil rights movement of the fifties. Martin Luther King would be appaled and dismayed!
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:05 AM By Anne T.
None of this should even be discussed in public schools. Children should not be told some person's sexuality or lack of it, or with whom they are going to bed. We would not have dared to ask a teacher about their sex life when I was in school, neither did they ask us about ours. High standards of behavior among the students were enforced. My high school dances -- and in California -- certainly were not like the ones in the movie Grease. I hate that movie because the students in our public high school would have been kicked out of school if they had done such things on campus. They might have been doing it off campus, but definitely not on campus. All is needed is to stop the name calling among students so they can at least learn the basics. No wonder our schools are in a mess, the taxpapers vote down the propostions for them, and many of the children cannot even read or write, or do math, the simple basics. Instead they are shooting each other.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:32 AM By Lot
With enough parents applying alot of pressure the school board will have to stop the nonsense. These people work for us and parents have every right to decide what is appropriate for their children. The teachers and administrators are answerable to the PARENTS, they are not kings and queens who make all the decisions. This is ridiculous. The teachers and staff need a good dose of reality and constant flow of feedback from parents. We don't give up so easy -- these people are supposed to work for us. The radical views of a tiny elite are not going to set policy for our children!
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:50 PM By Val D
Rein in the impluse to charge every kid with a hate crime
Censoring students at Oxford? That is so gay
Welcome to the Oxford college where students can use the word gay to refer to a homosexual man but not to describe a rubbish pool shot.
Maria Grasso
In the quad at Merton College, Oxford, scruffily-clad students scurry to their lectures. But behind this everyday student scene, there lurks a rather bizarre controversy.
The trendy college is renowned for its LGBT-friendly ethos (that’s LGBT as in ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender’), yet it has become a rather unlikely setting for a university-wide controversy over homophobic remarks. Recently, fourth-year Merton student Andrew Godfrey complained about some of the language being used by his fellow students. This led to official action by the executive of the Junior Common Room (JCR) warning the student body to refrain from ‘unacceptable and extremely offensive’ behaviour ‘even if you are not being intentionally malicious’. Students were reprimanded for contributing to ‘an uncomfortable atmosphere in college’.
What was the ‘unacceptable and extremely offensive’ behaviour? It consisted of limp-wristed impressions and the use of phrases such as ‘Oh don’t be such a poof!’ and ‘You missed that shot, you big gay!’ during a heated game of pool in Merton’s swanky Games Room.
In response to Godfrey’s complaint about this behaviour, the college’s JCR president, Laura Davies, sent out the following email to students (drafted by Godfrey in collaboration with student welfare and LGBT representatives): ‘JCR members have raised concerns after groups have been overheard in the Games Room and other communal areas of college using terms like “gay” and “poof” as joking insults. Please be aware that using language like this is unacceptable and extremely offensive, even if you are not being intentionally malicious and think you are being ironic or witty in some way. It creates an uncomfortable atmosphere in the college.’
Can students not take a joke anymore? Can they not handle the use of words such as ‘gay’ or ‘poof’ in a slang context?
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:31 PM By Life Lady
If someone were standing in a place where they were going to get slammed and hurt badly, would anyone in their right mind ignore the danger and allow them to be hurt? The answer to that is clear: a rational person would do what they could to help that person from getting hurt. Well, its no different here. Your children are going to be hurt by this so-call curriculum, which is actually organized crime, in that it is an organized push to indoctrinate vulnerable children to accept homosexuality (which is actually a crime, only people have made it legal now). First of all, when was the last time anyone allowed a member of any school board to come to your home to tell you how to parent your child? When was the last time anyone allowed a member of any school board to come to their home to tell parents how to teach their children their own moral standards, as acceptable by the board of education. This cirriculum is obviously over-stepping the bounds of the school board's rights to instruct children. To allow this to occur would be tacit acceptance of the homosexual agenda they are attempting to shove down your throats. Seems pretty clear to me. Parents in that school district ought to look for a good attorney, and file a lawsuit against the school board. Everyone else should think about doing the same. If you don't you will have to continue to fight these skirmishes. They are "testing the waters" and Alameda is the first place to test. Push them back, folks, all the way to the wall. They are pushing you, push back!
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:24 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
Lot, in this case "the good dose of reality" would be called RECALL!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founder & Chairman
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:25 PM By Linda
Callifornians need to take back their schools and their government. Good for the people who showed up to protest this attempt to teach their children evil. The kids will find out soon enough about homosex and it sure doesn't need to be taught as a legitimate lifestyle in the schools.
On a humorous note, when I was about 12 years old one of my friends told me that there were some women who liked to kiss other women. My shocked reply was "what do they call them?" She thought for a moment and said, "I think they call them Beans." (Lesbians)
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Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:52 PM By Brenda
Why do not more people home school? There are so many co-ops around to help you. THere is a school in San Jose that teaches children all day Tues and Thurs, then the kids so their homework at home M, W and Friday. The cost is MINIMAL. There are so many wonderful alternatives out there. The mom could still work part time if she had to and still home school as there are so many co-ops out there. Hope that helps.
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 9:33 AM By Jim Reed
Greetings,
The general public is unaware of the foundational principles behind the same-sex marriage issue. The gay activists do not want these foundational principles discussed. They will do all they can to keep the argument in the emotional and sensational arena and out of the arena of the calm, settled survey of rational truth.
I have written a couple of essays that may be of help. Please read them. Please pass them on to as many people as you can and ask them to pass them on as well.
"Top Ten Excuses to Excuse Homosexuality" and "Why is the Moral Question Missing?"
Read them on christianlifetools.org on the Homosexual Issues Page
Blessings to you,
Jim Reed, pastor
Lake Murray Church
5480 Lake Murray Blvd.
La Mesa, CA 91942
619.697.7770
lakemurraychurch.org
christianlifetools.org
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 9:59 AM By Jim
I would consider underpaying your school taxes - and do it en masse and let them know why.
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 10:29 AM By Anne T.
Although I could not join them at this time, I would like to thank Karen England and the rest of the parents who took the heat and stood up for what is right for the children. God bless them.
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 12:41 PM By William Smyth
Why am I not surprised that a news article put together by Capitol Resource Institute is not factual. I was there. There was no attack on a speaker. The man was upset with the board for allowing someone who started their comments by saying that they were not present at the prior meeting. No one else who wasn't present was being allowed to speak. Was the moment tense, yes. In the end a single person tapped him on the shoulder and escorted him out. The audience which was primarily from Alameda was roughly split in there position on the curriculum. It was the speaker's list that was heavily weighted to the opposition. England (the outsider) was booed because she spoke twice, which the board allowed because it wasn't against the rules.
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 3:23 PM By JLS
Jim, how does one underpay school taxes?
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Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 3:41 PM By Common Sense/Wisdom
Yes Jim how does one underpay school taxes? If we don't have an answer to that question, why not just home school, lets see these schools shut down, lets see more of these school officials/politicians lose their jobs then they can see that parents mean business, perhaps with a loud action outcome of pulling our kids out of these schools, they will give the power back to the parents and avoid controversial topics, but wait, the homosexual agenda promoters will get hostile, they might even gain power at making homeschooling illegal just so they can have their way, they may even force private school to teach their agenda's. Oh my what did these liberal politicians do to our beautiful country. They have poisoned it with their immortal views! We may never come back to common sense but live in utter dismay! What ever happened to those simple days, where we taught our kids the basics like math, language arts, science, handwriting etc. Yup those were the good old days. (and I'm not that old, tee hee,) times have changed drastically just within these past 10 years, I blame it also on the Clinton Years! Those coming out of the closet sure don't help. We have people with mental health issues controlling this state!
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Posted Saturday, May 23, 2009 3:48 PM By victoria
Sounds as though they have little or no control over their meetings. They should provide security to remove those who boo and heckle.
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 11:31 AM By WWJD
Please read the curriculum before getting upset. Here are some samples. For the record, I am a heterosexual father of a boy in Alameda public schools.
The kindergarten Activity:
Ask students to return to their seats to draw a picture of their own family.
Post and/or share out.
The 3rd grade lesson: Respect and tolerance for every type of family is important and expected.
Vocabulary Words:
Adoptive parents
Adopted Children
Birth Mother
Birth Father
Blended Family
Divorced Family
Mixed family
Foster Parent
Grand parent family
Single parent family
Step Parent family
Guardian
Two Moms
Two Dads
Extended Family
Multi-generational Family
Out of the vocabulary words only 2 relate to homosexual families. The reality is that my son has been in public school with children from every type of family since day care. His best friend in his Kindergarten class had two moms. He befriended the boy because they liked to play the same games in the school yard. I am pleased that he is being made aware of the different families of his friends. Just as I am upset that an older boy called him a “fagot” on Wednesday. Also, while not said directly, being taught the golden rule. “Love as I have loved.”
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 4:54 PM By JLS
WWJD, you'd better find out why your son was called a "faggot". Odds are he is being directed in a bad way, and the other kids are pointing this out to him. Understand that kids typically call it like they see it. Dismiss from your mind the idea that the homosexual agenda is "neutral", or that it does not have a potent "power" behind it. Your son needs your protection, not your negligence. And negligence it is if you are informed about God and human nature. The Church is called to teach and disciple others, not ther reverse of being taught and discipled by those who are not following Jesus.
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 6:52 PM By Anne T.
WWJD, the little boy should not be called names or allowed to be called a name since it is not his fault, but parents should be ashamed that they have put this child in this position and should seek to rectify it. The mother should find a good father for him and get married or raise him by herself. The same goes for a male who has such a child. He needs to find a good mother for the child and get married or remain single. It does the child no good to tell them that they have two fathers or two mothers. I have even listened to children who parents (heterosexual) never married, and I know it does affect the child. One little boy said in a classroom one time that he hated weddings. When the teacher ask him why, he said that his parents had never married.
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 6:58 PM By Anne T.
I would add that the chief shame is that many of these children are deliberately put in this situation without any thought as to how it will affect them. It is one thing to have a child by accident in a moment of passion (not deliberate) when unmarried, and another situation to deliberately put a child in such a situation. Both are wrong, though, and should be repented of and rectified in some way.
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Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 7:19 PM By Anne T.
Another option, of course, is adoption to a heterosexual couple where the child can have both a mother and a father. Children are not stupid. They catch on really, really, fast that when someone tells them they have two mothers or two fathers, someone is wrong with that scenario. They know it is not normal, and will recognize it as more so as they get older and understand how children are born naturally.
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Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 4:35 PM By Gary Elfner
I don't understand why people would be fighting a system that will not be changed. The public schools are very successful, doing exactly what the humanists have designed them to do. Parents need to remove their children from the public school system and home school them. There are too many curriculums and helps available today for anyone to say it is not for them or they cannot do it. If they truly love their children they would remove them from the harmful public school system ASAP.
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Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:28 PM By Anne T.
WWDJ, if it was your son who was called the bad name, I certainly would follow JlS advice about protecting him. I think it is good that he is friendly to the other little boy, but there is no way that I would let a son of mine go to the child's house in a situation such as that.
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Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:44 PM By Anne T.
On the other hand, WWJD, the other little boy might be teaching your son some bad habits which the other children have discovered.JLS, is right. You should find out why he was called that.
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Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:40 PM By JLS
Gary Elfner, some people are fighters, and want to mix it up in public schools for the sake of Jesus. What a mission ground, huh? But like the different functions of monasteries, friaries, dioceses, laity there are many ways in which the Church engages the world. Vatican II seeks to engage the world, to missionize it; the mirror image is the world seeking God, and if the wagons of the Church are circled, then the world will attack relentlessly just like kids will "test" adults such as parents and teachers. The world wants Jesus, but does not know it ... the Church teaches and disciplines the world. Can't do it remotely, but have to mix it up, elbow to elbow. Jesus teaches us that it is not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out. The more a man's hands are callusced, the more work he can do; the more pain he accomodates, the more accomodating he is to others. Look at the level of pain that Jesus accomodated for the purpose of accomodating us who inflicted it.
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Posted Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:45 AM By Jane
How many mothers did Jesus have? Jesus stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers? Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother."
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