The judge cited the Supreme Court’s recent decision establishing parents’ right to opt kids out of LGBTQ+ inclusive lessons.
A Boston judge has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts dad who sued his local school district to ensure his five-year-old son is never exposed to books featuring LGBTQ+ characters.
As the Boston Herald reported, the father, identified in court documents as Alan L., is described as a “devout Christian” who objects to the inclusion of certain children’s books featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the kindergarten curriculum of Joseph Estabrook Elementary School, where his son, identified as J.L., is enrolled.
Religion = denial of reality.
It should be illegal for religious people to indoctrinate children with their religious beliefs.
But in USA they have turned it on its head, and made it illegal to teach the truth because of religious superstition!It’s the same as the “basic biology” argument. Twisting something to the point it breaks in order to justify their hate. The Bible has gay people in it.
In the Bible, one of the people that Jesus heals is the slave of a Roman soldier. In the original Latin text, the word they use is for a kind of male slave kept as a consort/sex slave. King David, one of God’s chosen, is a bisexual man who had multiple wives and a male “friend” who “loved him in a way that no woman ever could.”
Being gay or bi was so normal back then that they never bothered to spell it out, not thinking that centuries later some heretics would twist their words to spread their hate.
I see this as a complete parenting fail. It is not your job as a parent to ‘protect’ your child from the world, it is your job to prepare them for it.
That poor kid is gonna need a lot of therapy later in life after he/she moves out on their own.
Dad in the future: “Son, you never call or visit. You’re always so busy.”
Parents like this ultimately hope the child never moves out. It is a cult.
Parents like this hope the child moves out when they graduate high school and get rich so their kid can care for them when they’re old.
That is a very silly take.
You realize they don’t really care? They just do it to exert control over public institutions. It’s a way of threatening and eventually firing progressive teachers. Majority of those court cases are manufactured by right-wing think tanks and the parents are just some random people. In many cases the “victims” suing were not even real. It doesn’t matter. The Supreme Court will eventually take the case and give Christians another win.
The politicians who confect the controversy may do it for that reason, but you’re making a mistake if you think the ordinary believers are anything but sincere in their beliefs.
How do they square it then? Well, that’s easy: they themselves weren’t really exposed to gay people growing up and they turned out just fine - they hate gay people, just like God intended.
I honestly think that people following this line of people just really can’t imagine that people are that prejudiced, but they do be like that.
They sure are homophobic but they don’t normally sue schools to shield their children from LGBT books just like they don’t normally go to court to let them discriminate gay couples in their bakery. Lawsuits like that cost money. If you appeal and appeal up to the Supreme Court it costs serious money. These lawsuits are politically motivated hit jobs sponsored but right wing donors and executed by right wing think tanks. People really need to realize this is how they operate now. Those are not some grassroots movements or random Christians trying to “protect” their kids. Those are all well prepared, targeted actions, sometimes planned and executed over many years. This is how they overturned Roe v. Wade, this is how they took control over public libraries and this is how they will take over education.
I don’t think “most people don’t have a billion dollars to use the US court system” says much about what they’d do if they did have a billion dollars.
Yeah, the money to fight it may be donated by people with ulterior motives - or it may be donated by a million true believers - but that doesn’t change that there are true believers, and trying to pretend they don’t exist will lead you to say stupid things and fight back in the wrong way.
I’m not saying no one rally believes this shit. I’m saying believers are not the real problem. How would you fight believers? Ban religion? The problem are the corrupt institutions and weak laws. The solution is to pass laws that actually protect people. Roe v. Wade wasn’t abolished because people started believing harder. Support for abortion is actually fairly stable and grew in recent decade. What changed is that Republicans took over the Supreme Court and cooked a state level lawsuit that let them abolish it. All those cases are like that. Getting mad at “true believers” will lead you to nowhere. You should be mad at Democrats for failing to pass laws on federal level when they had the chance.
Doesn’t this open the way for a parent to sue the school over Christian symbolism? A parent could should take that school to court over a Christmas tree.
yes and you know it doesn’t work that way
I mean yes but also You’re out of touch if you think the judges value internal consistency like that.
no wonder the system is a joke
It’s Heads-I-Win and Tails-You-Lose in the Trump-stacked court system.
You’re looking at the judiciary as some kind of impartial machine, but you need to see it as a Vegas Casino, where you can maybe win a hand or two here or there but the game is stacked against you by design.
There is no world in which a conservative court bans Christmas Trees or Crosses or any other Christian iconography, because these courts are run by evangelical Christians for the benefit of evangelical Christians. You might as well ask a Chinese court to remove images of Mao from the classroom or an Iranian court to outlaw the Koran.
Pledge of allegiance should be banned too
it absolutely does
Christianity has harmed more people that LGBTQ people have. Many types of Christians have to try and save you by converting you. LGBTQ folks aren’t trying to convert you.
Compare the number of Christians convicted of child sex crimes vs the number of LGBTQ+ who have and it paints a pretty one sided picture.
I bet the numbers per capita are pretty similar.
You’d probably lose that bet
Why do you think that? Is it because of all the news you’ve read about Catholic priests?
What do you think the balance of news was like before that story came out?
The bull hypothesis has got to be that people all have the same base line propensity. The only thing I know that changes it is themselves being abused as children.
Numbers wouldn’t be meaningful, only percentages.
It would be the same result either way
It would probably be a pretty similar percentage. Plus lots of LGBTQ+ people are also Christians. What would they be counted as?
It’s not just Christianity. Religion is the excuse to be hateful
I don’t believe in Christians
Ok, no more Bible. After all eve came from Adam’s rib right?
Now all I can think of is Eve pleasuring herself with a human rib.
New kink unlocked.
Giggity, but is rib just another word for penis?
TBF, everything is another word for penis.
No, it was a pun for “life” in the Sumerian original.
Penis bone, or baculum
It would explain the Mcrib
Some Athiest should sue to get all religious texts banned in that district, using this ruling as direct precedent.
Do you think they read the Bible? (Or read any books at all?)
The average American has a sixth grade reading level and some 14% are functionally illiterate (https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/education/adult-illiteracy-us).
Do you know how hard the bible is to read even as a literate person? Even if they did read it, most wouldn’t know what they were reading.
Correct, either Adam or Eve was canonically trans.
Yeah, so men are giving their own rib. That’s kinda gay. Not that I mind being called gay, even though I’m straight (I tried sucking dick. Twice! Not my thing) 🤓
Kid is going to have a rude awakening when he runs a web query on his dad and everything that comes up has “gay” in the title.
Dad vs Reality lawsuit incoming.
Your Religion = What YOU can’t do, NOT what I can’t do.
That very much is not what religion is about, in general.
Ban books that show people wearing clothes with mixed fabrics! Its against mah religion!
Why do fundamentalist Christians choose homosexuality specifically as their hill to die on?
Leviticus 19:19
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.”
Deuteronomy 22:11
“You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.”
This guy is probably one of two types: a) He’s a culture warrior who gets a little thrill if he makes life a bit harder for the gays because he was told they are the enemy or b) he needs to uphold his current cultural zeitgeist because if people are allowed to do the things that make them happy then what’s stopping him from banging his hot neighbor Greg and if he can do that he’s wasted his life married to a person he’s not actually attracted to and it was all a lie. So he goes super hard on being anti-gay to stop those intrusive thoughts. Stay occupied. Don’t think about it. Hate hate hate.
Or c) this parent is a pawn being used by right wing interests.
Ding ding ding
That is when you know you are losing when you have to hide the truth from your kid.
Death. At this point, I just wish death upon these hateful people.
Bigotry ftw
I didn’t even find out what gay people were until like 5th grade. This is all completely unnecessary to achieve their bigotry.
To think, if we’d had this kind of majority 20 years ago, we could have removed the entire study of evolution from high school criteria.
is never exposed to books featuring LGBTQ+ characters
Bad news on that Bible, buddy
