School Forced To Pull The Plug On Sex-Ed Class...

In a major win for the parents of Montgomery County students in Maryland, the public school system yanked a controversial sex-ed curriculum that was to have begun today. A U.S. District judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed against the school district. The lawsuit charges that the course is unconstitutional and promotes homosexuality.

A few days ago, I highlighted the controversy. School officials banned the right of parents to sit in on the course to find out what their kids were being taught on the weak rationale that their presence would "hamper" the educational process. This, despite the fact that school policy encourages parents to visit all other classes.

Judge Williams agreed with the two groups that filed the lawsuit -- Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC) and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) -- who argued that the curriculum is biased toward homosexuality and dismisses religious perspectives on the subject.

Montgomery County Public Schools "open up the classroom to the subject of homosexuality, and specifically, the moral rightness of the homosexual lifestyle," the judge wrote in his decision.

"However, the Revised Curriculum presents only one view on the subject -- that homosexuality is a natural and morally correct lifestyle -- to the exclusion of other perspectives.

"The public interest is served by preventing [school officials] from promoting particular religious beliefs in the public schools and preventing [the officials] from disseminating one-sided information on a controversial topic," Judge Williams wrote.

This judge will no doubt be branded a bigot and a homophobe by gay activists. And we'll get the standard arguments from the Left that gays are being discriminated against in this case. The problem with that argument is that this is actually a case of religious discrimination because it does not respect the rights of those who have certain religious beliefs about homosexuality.

Judge Williams, a Clinton appointee, makes the specific objection to:

[A] portion of the curriculum that "discriminates between religious sects in that it prefers those sects that are friendly to the homosexual lifestyle."

And that's the true irony of this case. If the school curriculum was being transformed to teach creationism to the exclusion of evolution, the ACLU would be up in arms and Liberals all over the country would be expressing outrage over the fact that the rights of atheist were being trampled on. It would be front page news in the NY Times and Washington Post.

But once again, Liberals have their double standard. Presenting one point of view or pushing a certain agenda is only unacceptable to them when they disagree with it.

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