You may remember the story of David and Tanya Parker, a Lexington, Massachusetts couple. David was arrested in 2006 because he insisted on being notified by school officials anytime homosexual topics were discussed in his son’s classroom. He made the reasonable request after his five-year-old kindergartner came home from school with a “diversity” book bag filled with homosexual propaganda.
A year later, the Wirthlin family experienced a similar attack on their parental rights after their seven-year-old read King and King in his second-grade classroom.
The Parkers and the Wirthlins filed suit against the school and appealed it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, unfortunately, refused to hear the case yesterday. As a result, the ruling of the federal appeals court will stand, leaving parents with almost no recourse against the liberal indoctrination running rampant in Massachusetts public schools.
The story of the Wirthlins and the Parkers is told in detail in interviews I held with them in Massachusetts, which you can watch at ivotevalues.org (click on the video “Gay Agenda in Schools”).
Tony Perkins heads the Family Research Council. This article is excerpted from the Washington Update that he compiles for the FRC.
