O'Reilly: Federal judges are 'pinheads' in gay children's book case

[meegbear]

On last night's O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly and his panel spar over inclusion of gay families and relationships in class discussions in public schools.

"Only in Massachusetts," O'Reilly quips. "Well, maybe in Berkeley and San Francisco..."

In April of 2006, Tonia and David Parker sued Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts, after their son, Jacob, brought home the book Who's in a Family?, which includes gay parents. Joseph and Robin Wirthlin, parents of Joseph Jr., later joined the suit after the their son's second grade teacher read King & King, about two kings who fall in love, aloud to the class. The plaintiffs claim "indoctrination."

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of the federal suit, disagreeing with the plaintiffs, who contended that state law required the school to notify them when their children's teachers were going to provide or discuss the books in question. On the "indoctrination" claim, the court, acknowledging public education's role in preparing children for citizenship, opined that the materials were not meant to hinder a child's religious upbringing, but to acknowledge the existence of different people and points of view.

Because the books in question did not explicitly discuss human sexuality, nor were they used for sex education, Estabrook did not see a need to apply the state's notification law.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/OReilly_outraged_by_gay_fairy_tales_0205.html

[terrya]

1. Apparently, San Francisco and Berkeley aren't part of America.

According to that piece of shit.

It is absolutely correct to educate children about different types of families. After all, some of those kids may be part of those same kind of same-sex parent families.

[hulklogan]

2. I'm going to close my eyes and pretend O'pieceofshit doesn't exist

Like all the fundagelical nutjobs do when they want to pretend LGBT families don't exist.

[davidinalameda]

3. for him to call anyone a pinhead

is like Bushie calling someone a drunken cokehead

[xchrom]

4. even the Irony Gods couldn't top that.

[NMMNG]

5. Sadly such legal battles are taking place all over the country

TN wants to make it illegal to mention the existence of LGBTs in elementary and middle schools. They also want to make it illegal for any unmarried sexually-involed cohabitating couple to adopt--whether they're straight or gay. Anything to harm gay people.


The ACLU had to step in to fight for students' rights in a FL high school. Wearing clothing with GLBT logos, having rainbow stickers on their clothing or even talking about the fact that they were GLBT was deemed "disruptive" and caused accusations that they were part of a "criminal group". And not to be outdone by TN, bigots in FL are pushing a "Pro-marriage amendment" that would harm not only same-sex couples but unmarried straight couples who receive a variety of benefits through employers and other venues.

The bigot lobby is loud and strong. We need to fight harder and now that the bigots are going so far as to harm people besides GBLTs perhaps we can get more people to help us out.