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The Motley Monk came to this conclusion after reading a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern Region of Michigan by the national public interest law firm, the Thomas More Law Center. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Daniel Glowacki, his brother, and their mother, Sandra Glowacki.
The lawsuit alleges that one of Glowacki's teachers at Howell High School, Johnson ("Jay") McDowell, ordered a fellow student on October 20, 2010 to remove her confederate flag belt buckle because the teacher found it offensive. Daniel "raised his hand and asked Defendant McDowell why it was permissible to display a rainbow flag, which is offensive to some people, but not a Confederate flag, which Defendant McDowell found offensive."
McDowell then asked Glowacki "whether he 'supported' or 'accepted gays,' or words to that effect." Glowacki "responded by stating that his [Catholic] religion does not accept homosexuality and that he could not condone that behavior." McDowell became angry and said "that his religion was 'wrong,' or words to that effect, and ordered [Glowacki] to leave his classroom under threat of suspension."
After Glowacki exited the classroom, McDowell asked if any other students were opposed to homosexuality. One student raised his hand and "McDowell ordered him out of the classroom as well." The lawsuit contends:
During all of his class periods on October 20, 2010, Defendant McDowell did not teach his students about economics or any other subject that was part of the educational curriculum. Instead, he promoted the pro-gay agenda of the NEA [National Education Association], the MEA [Michigan Education Association], and the HEA [Howell Education Association], which was supported by the School District. In each of his classes, Defendant McDowell explained to his students that October 20th was nationally recognized as "anti-bullying" day, and he showed his students a movie about teenagers who committed suicide because they were homosexual.
McDowell was supposed to be teaching economics to the classroom of juniors. However, the lawsuit notes that McDowell was wearing a purple "Tyler's Army" t-shirt as part of the national campaign called "Spirit Day," promoted by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to raise awareness of alleged bullying of homosexuals that led to teenagers committing suicide because they were homosexual.
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One doesn't have to be a neurosurgeon to conclude, as the lawsuit alleges, that McDowell was attempting to indoctrinate the students enrolled in his economics class "into believing that homosexuality is normal and to shift the blame for the destructive lifestyle of homosexuals to those who believe it is wrong and immoral."
As word of the suspensions spread, homosexual activists celebrated McDowell, labelling Daniel and his family "bigots." As the smear campaign grew, Daniel's mother, Sandra, contacted the Thomas More Law Center and filed the lawsuit charging that Daniel’s constitutional rights to freedom of speech and equal protection were violated by the policies and actions of the school district and McDowell.
The Motley Monk would note that preaching the virtue of "tolerance" seems to be a one-way street in the nation's public schools. Or, in the words of the President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, Richard Thompson:
Rather than teach the required Economics curriculum for which he is paid, McDowell, with the full knowledge of school officials, used his position of authority to promote his homosexual agenda at taxpayer's expense.
This case points out the outrageous way in which homosexual activists have turned our public schools into indoctrination centers, and are seeking to eradicate all religious and moral opposition to their agenda.
Let the discussion begin...
To read the lawsuit filed on behalf of Daniel Glowacki, click on the following link:
http://www.thomasmore.org/downloads/sb_thomasmore/HowellPublicSchoolsComplaint--FiledDecember142011.pdf
Some people dont like bullying unless they get to be the bullies.
ReplyDelete[TMM note: TMM purged this comment of its vulgar profanities. It seems that the author is unwilling to express himself in proper, civil terms. TMM would note that second to their most favored tactic, ad hominem arguments, those on the political left seem to resort to the use of profanity, as if that will garner greater attention. TMM thinks not. The same comments could be stated quite civilly without having to resort to the use of vulgarity.]
ReplyDeleteMaybe because the Confederate flag stands for treason in the defense of slavery. Why would a public school - paid for by U.S. citizens' tax dollars - allow treason to be indoctrinated? When you lose the war, that's one of the prices you pay. Ask Germany about how they're doing displaying swastikas?
And the Thomas More Center as a public interest law firm??? Give me a f***ing break. They're the ***wipes who "defended" the public school system in Pennsylvania that tried to include creationism in their high school science curriculum. And they lost. Badly. And the voters in that township did quite the turn-over in their school board the next election, especially after they found out that in federal courts, losers pay costs like legal fees, expert witnesses, etc. Thomas More may have "defended" the school board/township for free, but they left them holding quite a hefty bag.
Thomas More Center is a right-wing Catholic group (redundant much?) that is allied with no one except their fellow ***wipe Bill Donohue. P-uh-lease!
Whether or not one agrees with the Thomas More Center - at least there is one group to counter-balance the ACLU....
ReplyDeleteIt would be good, for some, to remember that the Civil War started as a war over States Rights. For the grace of God, Lincoln elevated the cause into righting the injustice of slavery. Too bad the Federal government didn't learn a lesson, in victory, about States rights. Washington has continued to overstep its constitutional rights when it serves their political agenda. The people be damned.
Freedom of Speech extends to speech deemed inappropriate or offensive to some. If pornography can be tolerated, if most forms of perverted behavior can be tolerated, if the US flag can be burned or desecrated, the Confederate flag can be tolerated as an example of treason.