View homosexual film, or school faces lawsuit

You read that right (Hat tip: WorldNetDaily). Here are the relevant details:

Ten months ago, the district settled a lawsuit with the ACLU over the right of a student group, the Gay-Straight Alliance, to meet on campus. The year-long litigation strained relations in the conservative northeast portion of the state. In addition to allowing the group to meet on campus after school, district officials agreed that all students, staff and teachers would be required to receive "tolerance training."

So what do you think the kids and their parents did? They opted out of this so-called training, and on the day that the "training film" was to screen, 324 students played truant. Result? The ACLU is now threatening to sue the school district for a second time if the district does not somehow force the students to watch the film.

Now what are they going to do? Tie students to their chairs, brace their heads, and tape their eyes open? This is worse than absurd.

The ACLU litigation chief, in response, says this:

The schools have great latitude in what they want to teach, including what's in training programs, and the training is now part of the school curriculum. Parents don't get to say I don't want you to teach evolution or this, that or whatever else. If parents don't like it they can homeschool, they can go to a private school, they can go to a religious school.

Well, counselor, I'll take your word for that and encourage every one of those families to homeschool their children. And when you and your allies in the teachers' unions threaten to haul those parents off to jail for encouraging truancy, I will remind you of your words as WorldNetDaily printed them this day.