Camdenton school district & The Clockwork Orange Missouri seems to attract national attention in the continuing battle between homosexual activists and pro-family groups.
The state found itself on the national stage in 1997, a case involving state social worker Larry Phillips, who was fired after he objected to the state’s licensing of homosexuals as foster parents. Phillips’ supervisor informed him that “his religious beliefs were affecting his ability to do his job effectively” and that he was “too moral.” The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 3-0, in favor of Phillips, that an employee’s religious beliefs with regard to homosexual behavior could not be taken into consideration when making employment decisions.
Now Missouri finds itself again in the national spotlight, only this time the legal battle involves homosexual activists, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a local school district. As The Pathway reported in our Aug. 23 issue, the ACLU – founded by agnostic and Communist-leaning Roger Baldwin in 1920 – has embarked on a nationwide letter writing campaign in an attempt to intimidate schools into not using Internet filtering software to block homosexual websites. The letters claim such action is unconstitutional and subject to “potential litigation.”
The ACLU’s bullying is being coordinated with homosexual activists who recently filed a federal lawsuit against the Camdenton R-III School District because it would not comply with the ACLU’s demands. Homosexual groups say school systems cannot force blanket bans on homosexual-related informational and cultural websites on school computers. Specifically the lawsuit, filed by four homosexual organizations, claims Camdenton is blocking websites advocating homosexual and transgender rights, “while allowing access to comparable websites that take anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender positions.” It asks the court to order Camdenton to stop using its “sexuality” filter.
Let us see this for what it is. The homosexual movement has a sexual agenda that it wants to impose on our children. The school district is allowing student access to websites highlighting homosexuals’ contributions to history, for example. But the school district continues to block sites it deems inappropriate – in other words, sexually explicit content that has nothing to do with history or any other school subject for that matter. This is nothing more than an attempt to circumvent parents and to deepen the federal government’s involvement in local, public schools. Christian families should continually evaluate whether it is in their best interest to continue to turn their children over to Caesar (the government). Will our children be loyal to Caesar or to God? It is not enough that children are now being taught history based on someone’s sexual orientation. Now pornography and objectionable and developmentally inappropriate sexual behavior websites could be forced upon them.
Why won’t our schools teach that homosexuals die at a younger age? Why won’t our schools teach that homosexuals are far more susceptible to mental illness? Why won’t our schools teach that homosexuality is an unhealthy, dangerous lifestyle? Why won’t our schools teach that pedophilia is Hollywood’s dirty little secret? If we want to be fair and balanced in our approach, include these subjects.
I am reminded of Alex DeLarge, the narrator and protagonist in Anthony Burgess’ novel, The Clockwork Orange. DeLarge is a sociopath who robs, rapes and murders for amusement. One cannot help but feel that amusement, as in sexual lust, is behind the homosexual movement – at the expense of innocent school children. With DeLarge, freedom is grossly distorted, becoming license to do as one pleases. Intellectually, he knows his behavior is wrong, but seems puzzled by those who wish to reform him. He fantasizes about the mayhem he intends to perpetrate while listening to Beethoven, which is really a façade to mask his real objectives. To the homosexual movement and its supporters, tolerance is its Beethoven façade to mask its real intentions.
To the Camdenton school district’s credit, they are resisting. Tom Mickes, counsel for the school district, told The Washington Times that school officials have a review process in place. “We took a look at it and our track record, at least with these (ACLU) folks, has been that we have opened those (requested) websites.” But Mickes said this time school officials decided to keep the “sexuality” filter in place to protect students from inappropriate materials.
“No offense to the Easterners, but we want to run our school district based on what our citizens and the kids in Missouri need, not what somebody in New York wants,” Mickes said.
DON HINKLE / editor