The American Civil Liberties Union has certainly taken an interest in disrupting the traditions of one Rhode Island school district lately. Earlier this year, the freedom-squashing ACLU (naturally) took up the cause of a 16-year-old atheist student offended by a “controversial” prayer banner donated by the graduating class of 1963.
In the end, the school buckled and removed the donated banner while the student’s lawyers stuck the city with $173,000 in legal fees. Agree or disagree with that decision, but the ACLU was not finished dissecting the school’s so-called offensive practices.
Recently, the left’s favorite group of lawyers turned their focus to the same school district after one parent complained that the traditional father-daughter dance amounted to gender discrimination. Not satisfied, the ACLU also pressured the school to end its mother-son baseball game.
In a statement, an ACLU spokesperson explained why the events are supposedly discriminatory.
“Not every girl today is interested in growing up to be Cinderella,” the spokesperson stated.
That statement seemingly states that, to the ACLU, if an event doesn’t appeal to 100 percent of those who might possibly attend, the event is discriminatory and must be banned. Could anyone imagine a world where each opportunity for entertainment must appeal to the entire population?
Since everyone doesn’t like acting or singing, should there be no drama or choir clubs in schools?
To his credit, the city’s mayor stated unequivocally that he feels the decision was ill-advised, saying it was made in “the name of political correctness.”
The district’s superintendent, though, seemed to support the new policy.
In an internal letter, he said, “[T]his is a public school system and under no circumstances should be isolating any child from full participation in school activities and events based on gender.”
Leftists continue to deny there are any differences between the two sexes, which likely helps justify the ongoing cry for gender to be a non-issue in marriage. Traditional parents, though, still see the need to reinforce the gender roles the human race has embraced since the beginning.
Within one year and one school district, one can easily see how the ACLU and its liberal amen choir wants nothing more than to redefine this nation and what it means to be American. Beginning in grade school, students are now told boys must not act boyish; girls cannot embrace the girly; and no one, under any circumstance, may be allowed to pray (or even be in the same room as a written prayer) to Jesus Christ.
We cannot let them hijack our future generations and must realize they are well on their way to doing just that.
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I went to a couple of father/daughter dances when my daughter was young. There were also mother/son dances. While the ACLU is composed of extra terrestrials, it would be OK if they made them parent/child dances. This situation is the least of our worries from the ACLU.
Why is the ACLU running our country along with Obama and his croniesand the unions? that kind of stupidity went out with ERA.
They are running our country because not enough peole are standing up to them. Always heard the majority rules. Stand up and do what you feel is best. What are they going to do? Make them spend their money trying to halt all activity we feel are fair, not just because a few radicals dont like them.
The majority of Americans no longer have a back bone or pride and willing to stand up and say Kiss My A$$. Or Sit Down and Shut Up.
Well, since it is like that, not all people love chocolate, water, eggs, etc. So that absolutely means that these items must be banned. Not everybody is thrilled with BO either. Those of us who are not should get together and demand that he be banned from the white house. Hey, it worked against God and the bible, why not a LIAR?
This is a sad, sad state of affairs for our country.
sic&selfish ugly child thieves, defathering still is an unwritten hate crime, an insane reality, the world upside down, divorce is child abuse, single moms (fatherless-defathered (lesbian) households are no families and children&fathers are amde asa broken&incomplete, are an implicit fraud, children’s human right on normal familylife is systematically violated, divorced children are being discriminated, not normal families! 2 beasts conspiring, pseudological lies femini$$m-samesex-atheism riding U$A-UN are destroying the world!
ACLU is a criminal organization.
Beam me up scotty, this isn’t any intelligent life here anymore.
The humans have lost their will to stand up for themselves and just what’s right.
Nuke this world and start over. Unreal, what happened to this once great world?
How in the world is a father/daughter meal a violation of freedom of any kind. If you don’t want to attend, don’t, but don’t try to shut down a lovely tradition out of your lack of empathy and whatever else meanders through your brain. Get real. Stay home and let other people enjoy their right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Your happiness is yours to handle your way, and their to handle in their way. Grow up!