The undergraduate Student Government Association (SGA) at Northeastern University in Boston voted down a proposal to bring Chick-fil-A fast-food chain to campus. During the weeks preceding the vote, students, faculty, staff and alumni, denounced Chick-fil-A for their support of traditional values, including natural marriage. Chick-fil-A’s presence here would be “a blow to our campus brand […]
A Connecticut high school musical caused a public walkout after two men in the cast kissed during the performance, reports CBS Connecticut. The kiss occurred during a performance of the musical “Zanna Don’t!” at Hartford Public High School. “There was a public walkout by a bunch of students (when the kiss happened) … mostly male,” […]
Dear Friends of the Family, We have written a lot about going back to school and the threats facing our children inside and outside of the classroom. But the level of indoctrination is at an all time high, and with economic conditions not improving, many parents have to worry more about putting dinner on the […]
Just last year, teenage activist Sean Harrington was given a Citizenship Award at our annual banquet for his ultimately successful quest to get the Pledge of Allegiance reinstated in Arlington public schools. Despite this victory, secular and liberal forces are working to remove the Pledge from schools in Brookline. Brookline Political Action for Peace says […]
Dear Friends of the Family, Students are back in school, and the American Civil Liberties Union is there as well, suing to get schools to remove content filters from their computers. According to a recent story in the Washington Times, the ACLU and other gay rights groups say schools systems are unconstitutionally imposing blanket bans […]
A coalition of pro-family organizations have launched an effort, StopSB48.com, to repeal the law recently approved by the legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown mandating that public school classes include instruction on the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals in history. Pacific Justice Institute is spearheading the effort. They have submitted paperwork […]
Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) last week signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools. The law requires public schools to include contributions of people who are gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgender in social studies classes. The new law, […]
According to our friends at CitizenLink.com, the federal government will now officially—for the next 5 years—fund one of the largest gay activists groups in the nation devoted to promoting homosexuality to public school kids of all ages. GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) has been award an annually renewable grant from the CDC funding […]
Recently, classes in a California elementary school were given a gender diversity lesson that featured single-sex geckos and transgender clownfish, and parents are in an uproar over the content of this in-class presentation. Fox News was allowed to sit in on the lessons that were presented by an outside anti-bullying educational group called Gender Spectrum, […]
Staying on the theme of teen sexuality and education, Frank McNamara, Jr. (former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts) has a fantastic column in today’s Boston Globe on condoms and sexual abstinence. In talking about moves to make condoms even more readily available for free to children as young as 11 (the mayor of Philadelphia offers to […]