Saturday, February 24, 2007

U.S. court upholds same-sex teaching to children

Reuters reports:
A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a suit by two families who wanted to stop a Massachusetts town and its public school system from teaching their children about gay marriage, court documents show.

The families last year filed the suit asserting that the reading of a gay-themed book and handing out to elementary school students of other children's books that discussed homosexuality without first notifying parents was a violation of their religious rights.
Great moments in public education.Here's the Boston Globe story on what's going on in some elementary schools.