Friend of the Court

In a huge blow to parental rights and Religious freedom, David Parker's lawsuit has been dismissed by Federal Judge Mark Wolf. The lawsuit asked that Lexington, Massachusetts Public schools inform parents when their children, (as young as 6) are to be taught about homosexuality and trans-genderism in the public school classroom, so that parents could opt out their child.

As Parker's lawyers argued in their rebuttal of the ACLU's defense, this “is nothing short of an intentional attempt to wipe the [Parker's] faith away altogether. The obvious and well-pleaded impressionable age of the children, combined with the State's abject unwillingness to even notify the parents that it intends to indoctrinate on these extremely personal topics virtually ensure that if the State gets its way, the [Parker's] children will not harbor the families' beliefs.”

Worcester Police apparently are also investigating Catholic Activist Larry Cirignano on Civil Rights violations and hate crimes for escorting ACLU board member Sarah Loy away from the front of the Vote on Marriage Rally at Worcester City Hall last December 17^th. That court case is April 11th. When Mrs. Loy was out of reach of Mr. Cirignano, she suddenly ended up on the ground, perpendicular to the direction she and Cirignano had been moving.

Natural Law

"No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation."
"Weakening the family is punishing society" [Natural law] "has rules that supersede all human laws (and) does not allow for derogations by anyone."
"The law inscribed in our nature is the true guarantee offered to everyone to be able to live freely and in dignity." Pope Benedict XVI

See you in Court

Two years ago, David Parker's 5 year old had to listen to a Kindergarden story about two 'princes' who fall in love and marry. David asked to be notified in the future when any discussion of a sexual nature was brought up in his young son's class, so that David and his wife could opt out his son.

Lexington Superintendent Paul Ash refused to meet with David Parker, and had David arrested when he refused to leave. The charge was later dropped. Superintendent Ash broke the Law, but since no one enforced it, David Parker has to sue to exercise his parental rights.

Last year David Parker's son was beaten on school grounds by 10 children, many the children of other Lexington parents who are vocal in their opposition to David Parker, having protested in front of his house. All because he wants to direct his son's upbringing and asked to opt out of these classes!

Lexington continues to ignore the Law, and refuses to allow parents opt out their children from any class that discusses same-sex marriage or transgenderism. Some would argue that this is forced indoctrination, especially in light of the Law, which states parents have a right to opt out of any curriculem involving sex ed or sexuality issues.

Four Lexington parents are suing for Parental Rights. This case brings to light exactly what we should expect from the Goodrich decision - the group right granted to gays will conflict with variious other rights including those of religious freedom and parental rights. As Supt. Ash dismissively asserts in the video, "parents do not have a monopoly on morals." With the help of the Massachusetts Courts, those who promote gay marriage as a right are attempting to corner the market on morality.

It remains to be seen if the same court system that "found" a right to gay marriage finds any parental rights left in our Constitution.

Who's persecuting whom?

Another problem with homosexual marriage is the impossibility of exemption for Churches whose Religious beliefs are against these marriages. The SJC has declared that homosexual marriage is a civil right; if this logic prevails, then refusing to keep a married homosexual in your employ for Religious reasons would be the same as refusing to keep an African-American in your employ. The SJC ruling means that a Church cannot fire an openly, married, homosexual who works in their school or hospital, even though this person publicly contradicts Church teaching. Either the Church will forfeit its right to Religious freedom by being quiet, or the Church will exercise its right not to employ a person who contradicts it's Religious faith, and that person will sue. It’s inevitable, and only a matter of time before this issue comes before the Massachusetts’ Courts, first employment, then for refusing to perform same-sex marriages.
This chilling scenario is further disturbing in light of the false claims that homosexuality is genetic, which is not supported by any scientific studies. Identical twin studies show that only 38% of identical twin males are both homosexual, less for women, not the 99-100% correlation that would show a genetic link or ‘homosexual gene’ as portrayed in the media.

The Sky isn't falling?

Many defenders of same sex marriage claim that since it became legal in Massachusetts, the sky has not fallen for traditional marriage. These same-sex marriage proponents argue that marriage is not about children, therefore gay marriage does not affect Traditional Marriage.

It appears however that the Dutch have bought into this argument about marriage not being about children. The Dutch have historically been known as both tolerant and traditional, but that is changing. Out-of-wedlock childbirths have skyrocketed in the last nine years, increasing 2 percentage points every year, and 2.5 points last year, to 33.5% of all births being out-of-wedlock. This increase coincides with the drive for gay marriage that started in the Netherlands in 1990. That drive brought the recognition of same-sex partnerships 9 years ago, and legal same-sex marriage 5 years ago. That's what the chart above shows.
The Dutch used to be known for their liberal social policies while maintaining some degree of tradition themselves. These statistics indicate the Dutch have joined the Scandinavians in eschewing Marriage. Stanley Kurtz at National Review has written some excellent articles documenting this.

We can’t forget the kids in this debate, because as British demographer David Coleman and Holland's premier demographer Joop Garssen pointed out in 2002, this situation produces “burdened children reared in fragile cohabiting families.”

"Marriage is what makes fatherhood more than a biological event. Marriage is the social glue that unites the two halves of the human race to share in the enterprise of parenting--increasing the chance that children will be raised with a mother and a father." said Dr. Matt Daniels, Alliance For Marriage, AFM.