LifeStyleNews: Highschoolers horrified at gay male kiss in school play, while officials praise exposure

[Patricia M. McBride]

Here is an opportunity to take action on an issue if you choose to.  The school in Hartford made the decision not to inform the parents about what was going to happen, because THEY felt the students should be exposed to this homosexual display.  THEY should never have taken it upon themselves to do something like this without parental consent, but this state also forced homosexual marriage on the residents via their state supreme court.......................judges matter!  Contact information is included.

 

by Kathleen Gilbert

HARTFORD, October 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.coom) - Several students at a Hartford high school expressed horror and left the auditorium when two male members of a city-funded school play shared a passionate kiss onstage on Friday. School officials said they opted against informing parents about the event ahead of time, saying that the students needed exposure to homosexuality, and hailed the “chaotic” reaction as a victory for raising the gay issue.

The kiss occurred during Hartford Public High School’s production of “Zanna, Don’t!,” a play depicting a world in which homosexuality is normative and heterosexuals take up the role of “outcasts.”

The Hartford Courant reported that “screams and loud voices” and sounds of disgust came from the audience during the display of affection, while “dozens” of mostly male students left the auditorium. While some trickled back in, officials had to prevent many from leaving the school building.

School officials had told students that homosexual displays of affection would be featured in the play, and many asked to be excused. One school official cited by The Courant, nursing academy principal David Chambers, said that he had considered sending an opt-out letter to parents before changing his mind. The school reportedly received a number of phone calls from parents following the incident.

The play, available to students free of charge, was a joint effort between Connecticut gay youth group True Colors and a local youth leadership program, and was funded in part by the city of Hartford.

Chambers said that students needed to learn empathy towards homosexuals and exposure to things that would make them uncomfortable. “Our kids are not there yet,” he said. Chambers also suggested that the reaction of disgust was a good sign, indicating a release of students’ inner conflict about homosexuality.

“Even though it’s kind of chaotic, kind of wild and crazy, I see it as very successful,” he said, according to The Courant. “Our kids never deal with this, they keep it inside, and that’s that nervous energy. That’s why they walked out.”

Adam Johnson, principal of Hartford High’s Law and Government Academy, agreed. “This is as important of a topic to discuss as anything in math, anything in social studies,” Johnson said. “I’m completely glad that we did it.”

The Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) condemned the scandal, and called for a protest of the school’s decision, calling it “an outrageous attack on parental rights.”

FIC notes that a bill introduced earlier this year by Republican Sen. Kevin Witkos, which would have mandated that parents be allowed to opt out their children from sexuality instruction in schools, was never given a public hearing. “We will fight for it again next year and every year until it is passed,” said the group.

Same-sex “marriage” was imposed on Connecticut by the state’s Supreme Court in 2008, three years after granting “all-but-marriage” civil unions for homosexual couples.

Hartford Public High School:
860-695-1300

Hartford Public Schools
860-695-8000

Dr. Christina Kishimoto, Superintendent of Schools
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[DURWIN WALTER DAVIS]

Pat; Thanx for recognizing I have very little to NO skills needed in being a quality "gadgeteer", posting it where I knew someone would be gracious enough to direct it to a more favorable place.  I "posted it anyway, anywhere I could", because the National vetting process means nothing if we can't "rule our immediate domain".  At this very moment I'm having a "brain screech" knowing Alvin & Rick and their entourage are flying to Brazil to import more competitors against our existing manufacturers.  Our manufacturers can't get re-tooling loans because the FED pays its member banks a rate of 6% to sit on their money; they don't dare loan it out.  This is what they are instructed, "NOT TO DO"!!!  Thank you again for your assistance.  I will try to get more academic on the blogging mechanics. 

[Patricia M. McBride]

Durwin, I think you posted this on the wrong blog.   It could happen, but am hoping you will get this notice and come back in and put it where you meant it to be............as it is a very worth while comment!

[DURWIN WALTER DAVIS]

Exercise a little graft: 

We need to ascertain why they are still referring to part of this funding being what has been titled in the T-Union article, The Northwest Economic Enterprise Zone Funding.  I have been lead to believe when John Xxxxxxx and myself dare bring up the 44+ businesses that were handed the original $12M plus in return for hiring people to buy votes for the Greater Jacksonville Plan in the northwest section, that this is supposed to be a bitter pill we have to swallow in too recent past history.  (35% of the recipients have hired anywhere near the numbers they promised when handed this corporate charity....it was no other strings attached).  Last year I confronted Ron Barton, formerly head of JEDC, at a JCCI presentation that JEDC gave ,cheerleading their good works,

as to why there can be no demand for return made from noncompliant enterprises and he told me all their capacity is is to shepherd and oversee what was there before they came on watch.  They have no enforcement capability....

So how can they appear to be be giving away more or is this a matching euphemism on the heading?

 

Your Comrade.  B.T.