Self-Anointed "Christians" Fight For Right to Gay Bash

With the wave of teen suicides that has struck the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's district, not to mention the ongoing Justice Department and Department of Education investigations, one would think the Christianists might be backing off a bit on their demand that they be able to openly and freely torment LGBT school students. However, that assumption would be wrong. Totally wrong. A group calling itself the Parents Action League - not surprisingly comprised of conservative "Christians" - is fighting to retain the school district's policy that purges the districts schools of any mention of homosexuality. In addition, the group of haters has demanded that teachers teach about the “ex-homosexual” movement and “gay-related immune deficiency.” Never mind that ALL legitimate experts have more or less declared the "ex-gay" movement to be fraudulent and ineffective. The Twin Cities Daily Planet looks at the foul agenda of these, in my opinion, hate filled and mentally ill parents (two, Brian Lindquist and Mike Skaalerud, are pictured above). Here are some highlights:

A slew of conservative Christian parents — and even an orthodox rabbi — implored the Anoka-Hennepin School District to purge schools of any mention of homosexuality and demanded that teachers teach about the “ex-homosexual” movement and “gay-related immune deficiency.” One district member even assailed Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign as vulgar and accused the popular columnist of teaching children about “three-ways.” Several people testified using little more than versus from the Bible that are often used to demean and degrade the LGBT community.

The controversy in the district is over the sexual orientation curriculum policy also called the “neutrality policy” which says that LGBT issues are not to be discussed in the district’s schools. Six students are suing to eliminate the policy on the grounds that it makes for a hostile school environment

But the Parents Action League, a group of conservative Christians, want the policy to remain. Brian Lindquist and Mike Skaalerud presented a resolution and list of demands that the Parents Action League wants to the school board to fulfill including incorporating “ex-gay” therapy into the school resources.

Here's a sampling of the batshitery and ignorance set out in the resolution submitted by these knuckle dragging religious extremists:

[T]he theme of school safety is being used as a pretext to advance a much broader agenda, the legitimization of homosexuality and related conduct to impressionable school children . .

the Parents Action League in Anoka Hennepin School District 11 demands the following ten actions be taken by our school board.

1. A new division within the student support services and a special section on the District 11 website devoted to student of faith, moral conviction, ex-homosexuals and ex-transgenders.

7. Provide the history of gay-related immune deficiencies and acquired immune deficiencies and the medical consequences of homosexual acts.

9. Provide the following pro-family, ex-homosexual, ex-transgender information and websites to all counselors, school psychologists, classroom teachers [the list was submitted to the board and not spoken at the meeting]

10. Provide pro-family, ex-homosexual and ex-transgender videos to secondary media centers.

In effect, these lunatics want the public schools to have a quasi-department of faith and to teach religious belief in the public schools. These people need to be defeated and exiled into the political and social wilderness. And their beliefs, with all due respect, need to be thrown on the trash heap of history. They are dragging the nation backward towards ignorance and superstition.