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Contact: Brad Dacus, President, Pacific Justice Institute, 916-857-6900
VALLEJO, Calif., Nov. 17 /Standard Newswire/ -- Tensions are expected to come to a head tomorrow in Vallejo as LGBT activists defend efforts to promote gay families to elementary-age students.
The controversy centers around three films, "That's a Family," "Let's Get Real," and "Straightlaced," that promote the idea that gay relationships are just as normal as any other family structure. The films are being mandated as part of a legal settlement between the ACLU and VCUSD. A parent questioned the District's refusal to allow objecting families to opt out of the instruction, which has been mandated for all students in the District - including first-graders. The Vallejo City Unified School District governing board will hear from the community and discuss the issue Wednesday night beginning at 5 p.m.
Pacific Justice Institute plans to have an attorney in attendance at the school board meeting, representing local parents. PJI has also sent a public records request to the District, seeking to uncover the truth behind bullying and harassment in the schools. In the nearby Alameda Unified School District, when a pro-LGBT curriculum was being pushed, allegedly to combat anti-gay bullying, PJI obtained public documents showing that harassment and bullying based on sexual orientation was virtually nonexistent in the district. Instead, there were numerous incidents of racial and gender-based bullying, which was not addressed at all by the controversial curriculum.
PJI Chief Counsel Kevin Snider commented, "All too often, we have found that anti-bullying curriculum does not actually address the major causes of schoolyard bullying, but only the small number of incidents based on politically-favored characteristics like sexual orientation. We are calling on the school board to adopt a curriculum consistent with state law that covers all students and protected classes, not just a few." Snider also noted that, in the blockbuster Prop 8 case now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the staunchly pro-LGBT California Teachers Association argued that state law "does not require public schools to instill private moral values regarding same-sex marriage in children."
About The Pacific Justice Institute: Pacific Justice Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other civil liberties. Pacific Justice Institute works diligently, without charge, to provide their clients with all the legal support they need. Pacific Justice Institute's strategy is to coordinate and oversee large numbers of concurrent court actions through a network of over 1,000 affiliate attorneys nationwide. And, according to former US Attorney General Edwin Meese, "The Institute fills a critical need for those whose civil liberties are threatened." "Through our dedicated attorneys and supporters, we defend the rights of countless individuals, families and churches... without charge."
