Parents sue Ohio school district over teachers, LGBTQ issues

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lawsuit has been filed in federal court against a Columbus-area school district, with parents claiming teachers are discussing LGBTQ issues with students without parental consent, according to reports.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court is asking that teachers in Hilliard City Schools be prohibited from having discussions on “sexual matters” with students and also that teachers not be allowed to wear badges showing support for LGBTQ students.

Eight parents are part of the lawsuit: Rachel Kattenbach, Daniel and Sarah Kamento, Bethany Bussell, Jennifer King, Tanya Ciomek, Leizl Zirkle and Lisa B. Chaffee, the Dispatch reports.

The parents claim in the lawsuit that “activist teachers” are talking to students as young as 6 years old about sexual orientation and gender identity and that they’re doing it without parental consent, WCMH Channel 4 reports. WBNS Channel 10 says parents filing the lawsuit also cite a survey given to students about what pronouns they prefer.

“Teachers are taking specific actions to hide these conversations from parents,” the complaint says, according to WCMH. “Although, perhaps well-intentioned, this is a recipe for indoctrination and child abuse.”

The school district has not commented on the lawsuit, according to multiple reports.

If your kid’s 2nd grade teacher doesn’t tell him about felching, who will?

I bet calling this parents terrorists will shut them right up. Maybe send the FBI around to give them a stern lecture about how Love Is Love.

The L and the G and the B just wanted to be left alone. AWFLs had to go and ruin everything, like always.

 

Hunter Biden asks judge to stop his 4-year-old daughter, who he had with a stripper, from taking his surname, say reports

Bad Daddy.

 

How Tumblr corrupted the New York Times

This brings us to a New York Times op-ed titled, “Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify As a Man?”, which was published in late December to widespread consternation. The content of the essay has already been thoroughly dealt with by critics, who alleged that its author, Peyton Thomas, indulged in both contextual misrepresentation of Louisa May Alcott’s writings and no small amount of crude gender stereotyping, to support the illegitimate, retroactive transing of the Little Women author. (Among these was noted feminist critic Katha Pollitt, who in a letter to the editor wrote: “What 19th-century woman with genius and gumption wouldn’t chafe at her restricted life and long for the broad freedoms of manhood?”)

But equally interesting, and largely unremarked-upon, was the reaction to the op-ed by a smaller group — one less outraged by the essay’s content and more profoundly amused that the author was given the chance to write it in the first place. Because while for the average New York Times reader, this essay would have been the first time they encountered Thomas’s work, these commentators — who skewed generally younger and far more online — had been watching Thomas make arguments just like the Alcott one for years on the microblogging site Tumblr, where he was a sometimes controversial figure.

When I was a teen, I made friends with this new kid at the school, nice guy, loved horror movies like I did. He lived with his two little sisters and his mother. It didn’t take me long to figure out his mother was dogshit nuts. Come to find out they were in a no-shit cult and very evangelical about it. The mother was a wiry, chain-smoking type–nervous, twitchy, wound tight like a guitar string about to snap. She’d go through extreme manic phases and start telling me about their religion. It was a weird stew of Calvinism, Pentecostalism, and Hyperdispensationalism. (It was, of course, just a money-extraction scheme.)

I was already an atheist by then (although probably calling myself agnostic at the time) and most of this was gibberish, but the one tenet I remembered was the insane notion that everything that had ever been written or discovered or created by mankind was done by a member of their cult, even if said creator was completely unaware that they were a member of the cult. They were responsible everything good in the world and nothing ever bad, you see. Which is how they knew they were on the right path to please God.

Peyton Thomas is sure he is on the right path to please God.