This has become a federal lawsuit on which WND has reported extensively according to David Parker, his child being in class at the Estabrook Elementary in Lexington, Mass. Children as young as kindergarten are being taught this as part of their education. 

Mr. Parker landed in jail overnight, concerning his child being taught lessons on homosexuality and he profusely objects to these lessons.  The lawsuit resulted in a court verdict that essentially concludes that parents have no rights to control what their child/children are being taught. 

Arguments submitted by the court ruling adoption by a lot of pro-homosexual organizations, which stated they had the rights to children in public schools.  Parker however, confirmed for WND this case is being prepared for appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court due to the far, reaching impacts of the ruling.  Parker also told WND unless this case is overturned “it now would allow teachers in elementary schools to influence children into any views they wanted to, behind the backs of parents, to a captive audience, and against the will of the parents if need be.” 

Superintendent Paul Ash told a parent that the school would not cooperate when a parent wants to know when homosexuality is being taught.  This was the latest confrontation by the traditional values advocates at Mass Resistance. 

"We are not required to inform parents in advance of teaching units that include same gender parents or required to release students when such topics are discussed," Ash told the parent in an e-mail posted by Mass Resistance. "The appeals court dismissed the claim that parents have a right to require the school provide advance notice or the right to remove their children.” "In addition, the school committee has decided that teachers must be able to teach topics they feel are appropriate without the requirement parents be notified in advance," Ash wrote. 

Parent, Shawn Landon requested to be notified when such material would be promoted.  His concerns were followed by an announcement from the school saying it was “creating an inclusive environment and embracing diversity” by the expansion of alternative lifestyles being promoted.  “A group of administrators, teachers, and community members formed the “Windows and Mirrors’ subcommittee to develop a comprehensive, inclusive K-5 Diversity curriculum which promotes acceptance and understanding of the diversity of our town, country, and world, and includes both historical lessons on civil rights and contemporary lessons of families,” Ash announced.

“Contemporary lessons of families,” Ash also shared will include a focus on “gay and lesbian parents.”

Mr. Landon after hearing of the school’s plans wrote the principal at Estabrook, Martha Batten, “I will absolutely require prior notification to any discussion, education, training, reading or anything at all related to homosexuality.  It is quite clear by the e-mail I just received that you have a very specific agenda and my family will be exercising our rights to be notified and not to participate.  This goes against everything we believe and practice.” 

The e-mail was forwarded by Batten on to Ash and Ash responded that the court’s have “established Lexington’s right” to teach diversity units, which include stories which show same gender parents. He also stated there is no need for the school to let parents know or permit the parents to withdraw their child/children if the news got to them.  A solution was offered, Landon would review the materials ahead and he would know what indoctrination would be presented at a later time.  “If your child happens to be placed in a class with a teacher who will be teaching the four of five diversity units, you will then know what will be taught and will be able to talk to your son or daughter about the topics at home” according to the superintendent.

Landon’s response was with his “disappointment.”  "Your complete rejection of my basic rights as a parent is nothing less than outrageous and discriminatory," he said. "It is entirely unacceptable. I must insist that I be notified prior to my child being exposed to this horribly offensive material."

"Good for you, Mr. Landon!" officials at Mass Resistance posted. "It's about time more people stood up and were counted. It's actually amazing and outrageous that people like Paul Ash … are allowed to be educators… What kind of human beings would do this to parents and children?"

According to Parker he and his lawyers will seek permission to submit a dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court over such indoctrination.  The ruling from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Parker said concluded it is no burden on parents’ free exercise of religion to have their child/children taught ideas at public schools that violate the parents’ religious teachings. 

"But that ignores the fact that the most basic free exercise is your teaching your children right from wrong in their formative years," he said. "That is completely being undermined by the rulings of these federal courts so far.

"Teachers are being postured to have a constitutional right to coercively indoctrinate little children, [into whatever they choose to teach,]" he said. "It's not just exposure to an idea, to the [offensive] books, it's the teacher's manipulating the mind of children to embrace dangerous ideologies, because the teacher happens to believe it's a good ideology.”

"It brings these battlegrounds to the psyches and minds of little children," Parker said. "Their little minds should not be the battleground for culture wars.”

"Proper boundaries have to be established. This is absolutely of national significance. No parent wants to put their very little children in positions in which they're minds are being used as battlegrounds," he said.

Parker warned such agendas would cause public schools to implode, an issue California is already facing as reported by WND.  A coalition of organizations is encouraging parents with resources to be able to remove their children from public schools.  The goal of the coalition is to take 600,000 children from California’s public districts, with a new state law that requires indoctrination that is not only pro-homosexual but also affirms bisexuality, trans sexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices.   

"The human secularist religion of the [National Education Association,] buttressed by the power of the state, will now turn public schools into the next secular synagogues," Parker said. "[They say], 'We're just preparing the kids to be citizens.' But it's a religion. It is a devious and evil form of religion."

Lexington, Mass., was ruled by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that school district can teach children contrary ideas without violating their parents’ rights to exercise religious beliefs. 

"Public schools," opined Judge Sandra L. Lynch, "are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student agree with or affirm those ideas, or even participate in discussions about them."

In 2006 WND reported U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf originally dismissed the civil rights lawsuit suggesting there is an obligation for public schools to teach young children to accept and endorse homosexuality.  If this topic is approved Parker said why not any other topic up to and including Nazism?

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