Public Schools Pressured to Embrace Porn, but Not Prayer

• By Alan Sears
• Posted Sep 6, 2011
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Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the Leftist legal and political agenda is its unqualified determination to propagandize and sexualize children – while attacking their religious freedom.

The ACLU, for instance, has launched a “Don’t Filter Me” initiative, threatening to sue seven school districts across the country unless they deactivate Web filters on their library and classroom computers that block student access to sexually explicit material. Why? Because some of the sites blocked belong to groups advocating homosexual behavior and the ACLU claims that not allowing children to access those sites violates their constitutionally protected rights.

“School districts shouldn’t be bullied into exposing students to sexually explicit materials,” says ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman. “The ‘Don’t Filter Me Initiative’ would be better named the ‘Public School Porn Initiative.’ The ACLU is pushing its radical sexual agenda on children by intimidating school districts with a long string of scare tactics disguised as a concern over censorship. In truth, these school districts have no obligation to cave to the ACLU’s unwarranted demands. Our children come first.”

In response, ADF attorneys have sent letters to the seven school districts in New Jersey, Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and California, assuring them that the ACLU’s arguments lack legal merit, and reminding them that districts have broad authority over what materials students may access on the Internet. ADF also explains that the ACLU’s demands could result in the districts violating state laws that prohibit distributing harmful sexual materials to minors.

Meanwhile, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has been flexing its anti-Christian agenda by threatening local schoolteachers and administrators with lawsuits if they participate in private prayer gatherings with people in their community.

On Sunday, July 31, Pascagoula High School staff and faculty members voluntarily joined parents and students outside of the school’s main entrance to pray for the new school year. Outraged, the FFRF demanded that the school district take decisive action to prevent any such event from happening again.

In response, ADF attorneys sent a letter to Pascagoula officials on August 18 reminding them that school administrators and teachers have the constitutionally protected right to participate in religious activity when done so in their private capacities as parents and/or citizens.

“Public school principals, teachers, and staff members should not be threatened for exercising their constitutionally protected right to organize and participate in private, religious events in their personal capacities,” Cortman says. “Contrary to what the FFRF is arguing, this is not a government establishment of religion by any stretch of the imagination – except theirs.”

The battle for our children’s souls goes on and on, as bullies like FFRF and the ACLU try to shame them away from their Christian faith, or seduce them into a sexualized view of the world. Please pray for our ADF attorneys, and for all of the parents, teachers, and community leaders who are standing to defend our children against the onslaughts of an increasingly corrupt culture.