Religions > Atheism > Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
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06 Sep 2005 05:43:07 PM |
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Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father |
Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
By Robert Knight
David Parker questioned pro-homosexual materials in his children's
elementary school.
Lexington Green, where Massachusetts colonists confronted the British
in the opening battle of the American Revolution, will be the site for
a rally to support a father who was arrested for questioning
pro-homosexual materials at his children's school.
Slated from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 6, the rally will
feature David Parker and his wife Tonia.
David Parker was arrested on April 27 at Joseph Estabrook Elementary
School in Lexington after refusing to leave when school officials
declined to show him materials related to the promotion of
homosexuality in the school. He had been alerted to the school's
materials when his child brought home some books, one of which
celebrates "gay parenting."
Massachusetts state law mandates notifying parents before discussing
issues of human sexuality in the classroom.
"What's getting lost in the details of this whole incident is
parental rights and parental notification as it pertains to
education," said Tammy Mosher, Concerned Women for America's (CWA)
Massachusetts state director.
Mosher, who attended one of Parker's pre-trial hearings and hosted
him at a CWA gathering on August 20, said she hopes to attend
Tuesday's rally if she doesn't head south to assist Hurricane
Katrina relief efforts.
"The media are trying to make this out as a Christian issue, an
anti-'gay' issue, but the fundamental issue is parental rights,"
Mosher said. "I don't recall ever signing a form when my kids
entered school that gave total control to the schools to raise my
children."
As for David Parker, Mosher said, "I believe that he's been called
for such a time as this. He doesn't want to become an icon; he's a
man who just wants to have control over what his child learns in
school. He's a very well-educated man; he's not some book-burning
militant."
Michael Heath, president of the Christian Civic League of Maine, who
led the successful efforts to overturn two Maine "gay rights" laws
and is now leading a third "People's Veto" effort, toured Maine
with Parker during the past spring.
"He is the real deal," Heath said. "He and his wife Tonia and
their two young boys need our support right now. We must pray, and
support them with our presence and our finances."
The Lexington Public Schools superintendent has secured a restraining
order.
According to the edict, Parker:
cannot drop off or pick up his children from school;
cannot attend his children's sports events or other school activities;
cannot meet with his children's teachers at parent-teacher conferences;
and cannot vote, since in Lexington, citizens vote at the public
schools.
The Article 8 Alliance, which opposes the promotion of homosexuality in
Massachusetts schools and is working to remove the four Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court Justices who voted to impose homosexual
"marriage" on the state, included this comment on its Web site:
David Parker is clearly, obviously of no danger to anyone. This is
strictly a means of intimidation [emphasis in original]. He has
repeatedly requested that this ban be lifted, but the town officials
arrogantly refuse. They seem to want to want to make him feel as
uncomfortable as they can, and also to send a message to anyone else
who might want to stand up to them.
Parker faces another court hearing on September 21.
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| User: "D-word" |
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06 Sep 2005 07:32:36 PM |
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Rob Wade wrote:
Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
By Robert Knight
David Parker questioned pro-homosexual materials in his children's
elementary school.
Most repeat homophobes are closeted gay men.
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| User: "Threepeat" |
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07 Sep 2005 10:38:20 AM |
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"D-word" <yank_ees_suck@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Rob Wade wrote:
Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
By Robert Knight
David Parker questioned pro-homosexual materials in his children's
elementary school.
Most repeat homophobes are closeted gay men.
oh come on.. thats the weakest possible argument people use. thats like
saying all KKK memebers are actually black under their hoods.
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| User: "BYTE ME!" |
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07 Sep 2005 01:01:29 PM |
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Threepeat wrote:
"D-word" <yank_ees_suck@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Rob Wade wrote:
Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
By Robert Knight
David Parker questioned pro-homosexual materials in his children's
elementary school.
Most repeat homophobes are closeted gay men.
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oh come on.. thats the weakest possible argument people use. thats like=
saying all KKK memebers are actually black under their hoods.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20040202035152/www.apa.org/releases/homophob.h=
tml
New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal
August 1996 Press Release
WASHINGTON -- Psychoanalytic theory holds that homophobia -- the fear,=20
anxiety, anger, discomfort and aversion that some ostensibly=20
heterosexual people hold for gay individuals -- is the result of=20
repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or=20
denies. A study appearing in the August 1996 issue of the Journal of=20
Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association =
(APA), provides new empirical evidence that is consistent with that theor=
y.
Researchers at the University of Georgia conducted an experiment=20
involving 35 homophobic men and 29 nonhomophobic men as measured by the=20
Index of Homophobia scale. All the participants selected for the study=20
described themselves as exclusively heterosexual both in terms of sexual =
arousal and experience.
Each participant was exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli=20
consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual and lesbian videotapes (but=20
not necessarily in that order). Their degree of sexual arousal was=20
measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records =
male tumescence.
Men in both groups were aroused by about the same degree by the video=20
depicting heterosexual sexual behavior and by the video showing two=20
women engaged in sexual behavior. The only significant difference in=20
degree of arousal between the two groups occurred when they viewed the=20
video depicting male homosexual sex: 'The homophobic men showed a=20
significant increase in penile circumference to the male homosexual=20
video, but the control [nonhomophobic] men did not.'
Broken down further, the measurements showed that while 66% of the=20
nonhomophobic group showed no significant tumescence while watching the=20
male homosexual video, only 20% of the homophobic men showed little or=20
no evidence of arousal. Similarly, while 24% of the nonhomophobic men=20
showed definite tumescence while watching the homosexual video, 54% of=20
the homophobic men did.
When asked to give their own subjective assessment of the degree to=20
which they were aroused by watching each of the three videos, men in=20
both groups gave answers that tracked fairly closely with the results of =
the objective physiological measurement, with one exception: the=20
homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of arousal by=20
the male homosexual video.
Do these findings mean, then, that homophobia in men is a reaction to=20
repressed homosexual urges, as psychoanalysis theorizes? While their=20
findings are consistent with that theory, the authors note that there is =
another, competing theoretical explanation: anxiety. According to this=20
theory, viewing the male homosexual videotape may have caused negative=20
emotions (such as anxiety) in the homophobic men, but not in the=20
nonhomophobic men. As the authors note, 'anxiety has been shown to=20
enhance arousal and erection,' and so it is also possible that 'a=20
response to homosexual stimuli [in these men] is a function of the=20
threat condition rather than sexual arousal per se. These competing=20
notions can and should be evaluated by future research.'
Article: 'Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?' by Henry E. =
Adams, Ph.D., Lester W. Wright, Jr., Ph.D. and Bethany A. Lohr,=20
University of Georgia, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 105, No.=20
3, pp 440-445.
--=20
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none=20
more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant=20
to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called=20
Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too =
inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid, or produces only =
atheists and fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of=20
despotism; and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests; but so far=20
as respects the good of man in general, it leads to nothing here or=20
hereafter. =96Thomas Paine
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| User: "Professor" |
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06 Sep 2005 08:23:07 PM |
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"D-word" <yank_ees_suck@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:icydnWtHpf-6qIPeRVn-oA@comcast.com...
Rob Wade wrote:
Parents to Rally in Support of Jailed Massachusetts Father
By Robert Knight
David Parker questioned pro-homosexual materials in his children's
elementary school.
Most repeat homophobes are closeted gay men.
Except for Rob Wade, in real life he's actually a flamboyant queen.
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