The Liberty Tree Lantern

Comments on this article:

• “This is nothing-Wait until the Liberals gain complete control. The Public School system is corrupt. Parents who love their children should support “VOUCHERS”.All prominent politicans send their kids to private schools and want to deny you the same priviledge. Parents must organize to make a political impact. I’m retired after 32 years in the system and am proud of never sending my children to the public schools.”
• “To the poster taht thinks we are just bellyaching. Would the ACLU be belly aching if a public school teacher took her students on a field trip to a Christian wedding in a church The law must be applied equally. If no religion in school then homosexuality must stay out as well. Secular-Humanism is defined as a religion by the supreme court. It is inappropriate for any teacher to discuss or involve students in their personal lives. This teacher was wrong and should be fired just like every teacher that has brought up religion in public schools.”
• “What happens to the child that does not get parental permission to go on the class field trip? That child has to stay at school and do work all day or the parent keeps them home from school and gets counted absent. Either way the child gets punished because they don’t get a reward while the other children do. This age should be safe from many of the contraversies such as same sex marriages and for that teacher to put them in front of her as some sort of shield is a terrible thing to do. This teacher knew it was contraversial and yet she chose to put them and their families in the midst of the fire. How many teachers get married during school hours? Where I live, we have wonderful public schools but I would not want my child attending the public schools there.”
• “Perhaps the parents signed a “blanket” field trip permission form for this year and the school took full advantage of it. If this is the case, we, as parents, should demand that each field trip or other activity in/out of the school that is moral in nature have a separate form. I think that the school breached its trust with parents by doing this, if they had the “blanket” form. Either way, the powers that be in the school that allowed it should be censured.”
• “I remember years ago a grade school class attended a field trip to a court room. It was a divorce proceeding. Voices were raised. There was name calling, gavel pounding, “objection!” sounding. Who gets the house?! Who gets the kids?! Who gets the dogs?! Kids were crying, some remembering their own parents’ divorce, some fearful of this could happen to them. “…God, please protect these little innocent children from the evils of this world!!!” one poster here says. I’m a Christian, but I’m not fixated on homosexuality! I read the rest of the Bible too! Ask yourselves why you can’t focus more on Mal.2:14-16? See why God has REALLY abandoned us, (U.S.)!”
• “During the last presidential debate, both candidates expressed concern over the fact that American school’s are failing. Our students are far behind the world when it comes to things like math and science. This story shows exactly why. The Left is more concerned about teaching a sexual practice instead of educational fundamentals. The pathetic thing is, we are being forced to teach our children about sex before we want to because we are having to explain about homosexual sex first.”
• “I can’t comment on the “damage” issue – but I wonder if this field trip would have been considered or even allowed had it been a trip to a church service or some other religious event? What a shame that the homosexual agenda seems to be pushed in the seemingly most innocent of ways, while Christians are continually ridiculed and labeled as “haters” when any objection is voiced.”
• “The things we see, even as adults work to desensitize us. That is why we must guard our hearts. Adults have the benefit that everything we process goes through our moral and intellectual filter: we have the ability to reject something we disagree with. Small children don’t have the experience or mental capabilities of doing this. That is why bding subjected to this type of thing, this early could be damaging.”
• “To the poster who states that “if you love your kids remove them from public school and home-school them” I want to congratulate you on a job well done. But I do take offense at your opinion that we do not love our children if we choose to place them in public schools. See I’m married to a very fine school teacher who happens to be a very fine Christian father and man. Now, I feel that you need to give credit where credit is due to “whom” it is that allowed your children to turn out so well. Because I don’t think you had as much to do with it as you think you did.”
• “Like my teenage daughter said after a Life Action revival for teens, the last part of a nation to completely degrade before its fall is homosexuality. How much longer will we be a nation under God?”
• “This was SO innappropriate and ridiculous!!! Children of that age are just barely able to understand the concept of marriage, let along one between lesbians. They probably shouldn’t even attend a wedding between a man & a woman at that age, especially six or seven-year olds. They’d be bored and could be disruptive. In my area, the norm is not to invite children, mainly for this reason. And as another commentor said: “Field trip?” Where was parental permission? Or DID parents approve, and if so, that’s even a bigger problem. Whoever said they wouldn’t be invited to a heterosexual wedding as a field trip was right. This was a blatant attempt to again spread the gay agenda by exploiting children. That teacher should be severely reprimanded – she used those children for her own purposes. What she did was shameful.”
• “I like the option of home schooling but pulling your kids out of public schools is more like putting your head in the sand. Instead you should run for the school board or get elected to a state office. Get involved. As Christians we are called to reach out not reach in. Stop hiding and start working. Fix the problem. Californiahas its problems because Christians decided divorce was ok. That marriage was about love and that we fall in love so we marry. I am sorry but you must choose to love and marriage is so much more than love. This is also why so many “Christians” do not follow Jesus completely.”
• “I had my child in private Christian school and after my divorce could no longer afford it. I would put her back there in a minute but it’s just not possible. There are many of us out here in my situation and public school is our only option right now. Yes, school vouchers get my vote! Even Obama had to admit it worked in DC during the debate last night. This is only going to get worse folks, if Obama/Bidenare elected with Pelosi and Reid to back them up, every liberal law in the land will get passed. Sad, really sad.”
• “My children would not have my permission to attend a gay wedding. Everything is so corrupt in California that parents are apathetic to what is happening right in front of them. To me this is disgusting. My teens would not even have my permission to attend a gay wedding. I know my son would be a disruption which is why I wouldn’t want him going. He knows the difference between right and wrong!”
• “I believe the cost of homeschooling or private schooling is not the real issue at hand. Our household makes less than 30,000 a year and our daughter goes to private school, and wears second hand store bought. We drive twenty miles one way. I cannot homeschool, I tried and survived another year would mean failure. Private school meant giving up just about all extras: not running the Ac,doing without treats on the grocery bill,no trips to the movies,no buying any entertainment, and getting rid of cable. If we had to sell our second vehicle, we would, because it has been worth every penny, and every sacrifice. At many PS scholarships are offered, and if you still feel you cannot afford it talk to your church.”
• “Next, I think the children should be taken to a hospital to see dying AIDS patients.”
• “Does anyone out there vote anymore? Why have people in CA. sat back and let things get so far out of conrol, everywhere really. I can’t imagine growing up in the times of today. Nobody wants to stand up and say, thats wrong or NO! It is to easy to sit back and let others run our country into the ground.”
• “This is not an issue of public school vs.home schooling. I can’t believe that someone could accuse parents of children who go to public schools as BMW,Sony, or other name brand, “stuff-mart” materialistic people who don’t love their children! We love our children, they go to public school. My daughter started a Bible study at her school in 6th grade! Don’t keep your Christian children out of public schools! Love them enough and equip them enough to send them out to be Lights in a dark world!!!!! And keep the schools accountable. Not everyobe cab home school, and we are far from driving BMW’s. We shop at Target, don’t have cable and our children don’t have cell phones. So you who is pointing out the sliver in others eyes, check the plank in your own.”
• “I wasn’t raised a Christian and I remember, as a child, the first time I came into contact with the concept of homosexuality. It didn’t scar me or damage my psyche . . . it didn’t make me want to be gay . . . it didn’t alter my moral fiber . . . That being said . . . I think that if the teacher wanted her students to witness her marriage to another woman then she should have sent invitations to the children’s parents . . . then they could have decided if their children wanted to be a part of this or not. If it was a field trip then we all know the parents HAD to give permission . . . so nobody was forced to witness this wedding. I don’t think field trips like this are necessary . . . but I think the damage some of you commenters are afraid of is ridiculous.”
• “So what actual “damage” could have been done to these children? Isn’t it OK for them to want to wish their teacher good luck on her special day? This just might teach children that all persons are equal under the law. That there’s not one law for some and one for others. Isn’t that the American way? So stop bellyaching.”
• “We did away with the Rose Bird California Supreme Court when enough people disagreed with them. I think it’s time to do away with this one as well.”
• “Please dont say you can’t homeschool if you are poor or a single parent. We dont have much money. I buy our books used for one to five dollars. We get hand me downs (clothes)from other people. Sometimes we can’t get around because of no gas money. We have on occassion eaten popcorn as a meal because we are almost out of food. It can be done. But it takes total sacrifice from the whole family. I also have a single friend who works evenings so she can homeschool her kids. It can be done and WE are living proof of it.”
• “Just wait until your friend Obama is president and this kind of outrage will be commonplace. My friends who are liberal have said, “Oh, it doesn’t affect me if someone wants to be gay or lesbian.” Now, you can plainly see that it does affect “me.” Children in kindergarten and first grade ought to be learning how to read, write and learn (in this day) how to use computers, not how to be introduced to the idea of gay marriage. It is no wonder that so many people are pulling their children out of public school and home schooling just so they will not have to put up with this garbage!”
• “As a nation, some people better wake up of after the first of the year, we’ll have less to say about what happens and those who think socialism is the way to go will probably find out they weren’t so bad off to begin with. Churches and conservatives will be labeled even more as nuts and more attempts to silence us will be evident! This is minor, guys, compared to what could happen to this nation! Ask people in Canada about socialized medicine and then ask the doctors who have given up their practices and can’t find replacements! So sad!”
• “The person who said that public schools belong to the people is exactly right. Why should Christian tax payers have to pay for private schools or homeschool their children so that liberals can socially indocinate kids on the taxpayers dime? Why do Christians always have to get out of the way for liberals? It’s time for us to take back our schools. It’s no small wonder that our kids are so far behind. Today’s educators are too busy socializing children to teach them. How selfish is that?”
• “This is SICK!!! What do they want this country to become? Parents of these children definetly better take some action!!! God, please protect these little innocent children from the evils of this world!!!”
• “I am not opposed to same sex unions because I am not here to judge others. However! I am opposed to them taking our tradition and forcing us to change it just because they want us to. Let them start their own tradition! Certainly parents had to sign permission slips for their child to go on this field trip, was it not explained what it was for? This goes to the parents head as well as the school for allowing such a trip for so young a child! As for the person claiming we don’t really care for our kids unless we home school them, I love my kids more than my life! Yet I don’t have a clue how to home school them or teach them advanced algebra or trig. I barely remember sentence structure and what they are called! Some parents just don’t have that choice. Good for you that you do, but don’t judge me because I can’t do the same!”
• “Why dont the parents bring a law suit against the school! “I WOULD NOT” allow my child to attend this filty act! This is just anouther way for the homosexuals to promote thier disgusting lifestyle. Now im talking to you Christians! Lets stand up and make yourself be heard and lets stop this nonsense!!! They are lucky im a Christian and live in a different state becuase I might have done something very bad to that teacher if I lived there!. I sure hope the parents had said something about this garbage!!! Hope they spoke up!!!”
• “As a first grade teacher I am appalled that a teacher even thinks it is appropriate to take her kids to a wedding, let alone a lesbian wedding. How does this relate to the educational standards a teacher is supposed to be teaching. This kind of experience should only be shared with a parent. If I was a parent of students in this class I would have not let my child go to this wedding. What is this world coming to????”
• “Behaviour like this of the public school system is the exact reason my childrren are homeschooled…God is part of their curriculum….”
• “We as Christians have sat back for long enough! More worried about the pocket book than what is happening to our country!Conveinence religion! We get what we get on Nov. 4! Think about it!”
• “The public schools are irredeemable and should be abandoned by all believing parents. Parents are responsible before God for educating and training their children. God will always provide for His people, and he will provide for dedicated parents who are committed to rearing their children according to the Holy Scriptures, regardless of whether they think they can afford to home school. Quite simply, they can’t afford not to.”
• “As I sit here, I am deeply saddened by not only this article and the young, precious children who were exposed to this….but also by the person who posted “…if you love your children, take them out of public school and homeschool them.” As a widowed disabled mother of a young son, I am unable to homeschool. That does not mean that I do not love my son. I love him immensely! I wish he could be homeschooledor in a private school, but it is not possible. Please, please, please think before you speak out with a statement that could be potentially hurtful.”
• “This is outragous and ridiculus. that teacher should and her so called fiance should be sent to a mental health hospital. this homosexual thing is getting way out of hand I think we need to do something. They need a spiritual awakening in California, I see a storm coming! Homosexuality is totally disgusting and those kids don’t need to see it.”
• “Well now…a famous dictator once said…”Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin. The school system has been taken over completely. Evil prevails when good people do nothing. It’s time to take back our schools, remove social engineering, restore REAL education (remember reading, writing and arithmatic???) and stop letting this insidious indoctrination run rampant! Our tax dollars are supporting this. You have a voice…use it!”
• “Most schools require parental permission to take a child on a field trip. Make sure you know where the destination of the field trip is and what will be offered in the field trip. This is one field trip my child would never go on and the school district would be sued if they took my child!”
• “Regardless of “morals” ~ this is an absolute WASTE of school funds. California is begging for the Federal government to give them money for a deficit that will soon “shut down” the educational system. Haven’t these people heard of museums??? The only reason that schools are concentrating so hard on “experiences” and “diversity” is because it distracts from the fact that they are unable to provide basic EDUCATION. How fabulous that a bunch of kids will be “tolerant” but not be able to spell it….”
• “I in no way endorse a school sanctioned field trip to a same sex wedding however the teacher knew nothing of this as it was a surprise planned by one of the parents BUT sanctioned by the school. Two parents did not allow their children to go but eighteen children were in attendance. I also do not endorse pulling my children out of public school as they are our greatest missionaries in one of the greatest mission fields available to us. This means we must do a better job of preparing them at home and not putting them in a bubble so that they can live in a world that needs Jesus. Why take the only light out of the darkness that the school may ever have.”
• “This is why I home-school! What really bugs me is that taxpayers have to put up with this. I have to say…if one of my kids had a gay teacher I could live with it, but when they start poisoning kids’ mind with this evil it’s horrific. What’s wrong with these parents?”
• “This field trip was the idea of one of the parents of the children. No one was forced to go. They all had to have signed permission slips like any field trip. Two children’s parents declined to let them go, so they spent 90-minutes (the actual time of the field trip) sitting in with a different class that day.”
• “This is just an abomination. I would never allow my child to attend such a “field trip.” We, as a nation, need to do something about this. Private and home-schooling are NOT the answer; they are not accessible options for everyone, such as single parents and the poor & working class. Private schools are expensive, and homeschooling pretty much requires a parent to stay home. Some people can’t afford to do so! And it’s not about buying BMW’s and Sony, as one poster put, it’s about paying bills and mortgage. Public schools belong to the people of this country, and we need to take charge of them again and stop letting ridiculous liberal minority educators boss everyone around. Our children are too important to let them fall victim to this pathetic rhetoric–all children, not just those born to parents with good jobs.”
• “Forcing children to view an ungodly,perverted,abnormal wedding is totally Evil.”
• “I have posted over and over again, if you love your children, take them out of public school and homeschoolthem. If you value BMW and Sony and Basset more than your children and their future ( which could immensely affect your future) leave them in public school, and both parents can work and buy things. We homeschooledour children who bothturned out to be exceptional students in higher education, exceeding almost every prior student at their schools. Now both are successful, well-adjusted, productive citizens who can, amazingly, think for themselves. They can also read, write and do arithmetic. They also have a foundation of morality and common sense that will be difficult for anything to erode as they proceed in their life experience.”
• “Christians have been reactive for too long. It is not time for prayer, just as God told Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.” (Exodus 14:15) We have come to believe that prayer resolves everything. Sometimes God wants us to march forth and act; now is the time to act, not the time to pray.”
• “”As a nation, we have collectively lost our minds. There are not even words to describe the damage that has been done to these children’s perception of morallity. Dear Lord, please take your people from this land of Sodom.” Yes. And be quick about it.”
• “Enroll your children in America government run socialistic indoctrination system (aka public) and you will reap what they sow into those young minds. If you don’t like what they “teach” then remove them and enroll them in a private school you agree with or better yet home school them. Home schooling is a safe and honorable alternative.”
• “Excuse me, but when my kids go on a field trip I must give my permission! Did the parents allow this? We have lost our minds in this country! God help us!”
• “Unbelievable ! Pray for our country, we’ve lost site of God’s word.”
• “My, my, my…We all have only 2 choices to make in everything we face, God or Satan. If you are not following God and His Law, you are following Satan. That’s simple, isn’t it? The Bible is our handbook for living, it’s all in there, finances, prosperity, teaching of our children, healing, behavior, everything! Find a good Word teaching church, immerse yourselves into what God has to say on any topic. Choose God’s way and not your own. God wants His strong and not fearful. May God Bless.”
• “I’m all for same-sex marriage, but a personal event such as a wedding should not be used as a field trip. If the teacher wanted to invite her students to her wedding, she should have sent an invitation to the parents.”
• “As a nation, we have collectively lost our minds. There are not even words to describe the damage that has been done to these children’s perception of morallity. Dear Lord, please take your people from this land of Sodom.”