Or, another reason why the ACLU is one of the most despicable organizations on the planet.
In a move that has taken some parents by surprise, the school department has announced that it is banning traditional “father-daughter” and “mother-son” activities, saying they violate state law.
Supt. Judith Lundsten said the move was triggered by a letter ifrom the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a single mom who had complained that her daughter had not been able to attend her father-daughter dance.
Lundsten said school attorneys found while federal Title IX legislation banning gender discrimination gives an exemption for “father-son” and “mother-daughter” events, Rhode Island law doesn’t.
Was Title IX really intended to put government between parents and their children during activities like picnics and dances? Or is the ACLU more than happy to misuse the courts to jam the state in as a wedge between families?
This little case is one more reminder that for all the rightful focus on the economy in our politics, the culture war has never stopped.
When you people figure out only threats of force or threats of breaking up the United States peacefully are going to change this situation, you’ll be on your way to a solution. Sad, but true. Nothing else is going to work.
You keep trying to play a game of “appeal to independents” while the liberal auxiliaries are running around doing stuff like this, you are going to lose. Start standing up and start drawing lines.
Or admit you are not worthy heirs to those that built and sustained this country.
Yes.
Soooo, nothing else to do? The judge should have thrown this out and ruled for Rule 11 sanctions (or whatever RI’s equivalent is.)
Trouble initiated with a Lesbian. Bank on it.
As a boy who grew up without a father (drunk driving single car accident when I was 3) I think this is stupid. When I was a boy, no one had “mother-son” activities, but they did have “father-son” activities all the time, and I definitely felt left out. I couldn’t join the “Indian Guides” (which I really wanted to do) because the boys who were in the group needed a father with them. Both of my uncles lived out of town, one of my grandfathers wasn’t up to it and the other had already passed away. My one grandmother had remarried, but her husband was distant and elderly, a nice man but not suitable for this sort of thing. Anyway, the “Indian Guides” (or whatever they were called) didn’t make accomodations, and I didn’t get to join. Later, my boarding school had a “father-son” dinner, and my grandmother’s second husband stood in for my dad in that, but it was a quiet, long evening. We basically had little to say to one another, and he was generally a quiet, taciturn type anyway.
When I reached adulthood, and got to know him a bit better, he turned out to be a nice guy, but not someone who bonded with children well.
Anyway, how about we ban everything because someone somewhere will be left out?