{"id":3141,"date":"2009-03-07T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2009-03-07T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:13:07","slug":"court-actions-taken-with-gay-abandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/court-actions-taken-with-gay-abandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Court actions taken with gay abandon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in school we used to play truant on the simple principle that we could learn more interesting things outside school than inside; our parents would take the contrary view, hinting that, if we continued in this direction we would come to no good. Now, parents of primary school children are removing their charges from school to avoid tendentious homosexual indoctrination. Who can blame them? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1160067\/Parents-face-court-action-removing-children-gay-history-lessons.html\" target=\"_blank\">Waltham Forest Council can<\/a>, apparently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents face court action for removing children from gay history lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Parents face possible court action for withdrawing their children from lessons on gay and lesbian history.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Waltham Forest Council said: &#8216;As part of the borough&#8217;s policy of promoting tolerance in our schools, children are taught that everyone in our society is of equal value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The council does not condone any unauthorised absence from school and action has been taken.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A part of <em>the borough&#8217;s policy of promoting tolerance<\/em> is evidently being completely intolerant of parents who don&#8217;t agree with the school curriculum. And they clearly think that <em>everyone in our society is of equal value <\/em>as long as you are not someone challenging the prevailing cultural prejudices; if you are, they will sue you.<\/p>\n<p>In the 21st Century, we call this academic freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in school we used to play truant on the simple principle that we could learn more interesting things outside school than inside; our parents would take the contrary view, hinting that, if we continued in this direction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/court-actions-taken-with-gay-abandon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}