"Spurious Lawsuit" Defined

The Ex-Recall group is threatening to sue the MCPS school board. Who's surprised?

Well, I'm surprised. I'm surprised by the dumbness of the letter they sent, which was posted on a school listserve. This John Garza is apparently an attorney ... he starts like this:

I represent the Citizens for Responsible Curriculum, Inc. (CRC), a rapidly growing and dynamic group of concerned parents, taxpayers and citizens in Montgomery County. The CRC Board has authorized me to transmit this letter to you in an effort to sound the alarm felt by many in the County about the future health effects sure to follow the implementation of the new sex ed. curriculum.

By separate letter CRC and individual parents and teachers will make demand on the Board to stop implementation of the new sex ed curriculum. This request will be made to avert several lawsuits already in preparation to be filed in Federal Court and with the State Board of Education. These lawsuits will outline the Board’s failure to follow its own procedures, the gross factual inaccuracies in the new curriculum and the unconstitutionality of setting up a "separate but equal" curriculum that offends children and teachers with deeply held religious faith so as to promote the gay lifestyle. (Not that I need to remind you, but religious discrimination is actually in the Constitution). A request will be made to establish a new, unbiased, Citizens Advisory Board which will submit a curriculum that does not offend anyone, is implemented following the established procedures, contains accurate information, and is constitutional. In addition to this future request, I write this letter to alert you to the future litigation you are seeding with the new curriculum.

In sum, they're gonna sue MCPS unless they cancel the new sex education curriculum and let these jokers plan a different one.

Man, in a way I hope they do this. There hasn't really been anything funny on TV since Johnny Carson left. Like, let me see them prove in court that anybody is "promoting the gay lifestyle." Can they even prove that there is a gay lifestyle? Let's see them prove that it is possible to create a sex-ed course that "does not offend anyone." I want to see the exhibits for that one.

He attaches something called The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools. Have you seen this piece of work yet? These guys in Ohio have put together this document purporting to prove why it is illegal for schools to teach about homosexuality. Here's the summary from their document:

This report has documented the concern that the health of students in many schools across the country may have been compromised and their First Amendment rights may have been denied. Attorneys have affirmed that any of these situations may constitute grounds for legal action. Accordingly, they have agreed to consider any case pertaining to harm done to students by any school-sanctioned activist organization. Please contact Citizens for Community Values immediately for assistance in contacting one of these attorneys. The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools

I suppose if they go through with this, you and I will end up paying for lawyers to defend the public school district, instead of textbooks and computers.

But, y'know, ya can't stop reading this stuff -- this is some ... scintillating literature. Check this out:

As a trial lawyer I see the following happening about 5 to 7 years from now. Many young people having graduated from the County School System find themselves infected with HIV, suffering from many STDs, dispite [sic] condom use, including the new extremely virulent strains now coming from Europe, having other serious medical ailments as of result of long term anal sex, including cancer. The empirical data from institutions such as the Center for Disease Control now show that those who choose the gay lifestyle significantly shorten their lifespan.

For example, Oxford University found that gay and bisexual men shorten their life expectancy by 8 to 20 years. (This recourse is banned under your curriculum) (smoking only shortens ones lifespan by 5 years). These young people find that they are not "gay" but had chosen that lifestyle as a result of the indoctrination which began early in their school life. They will point to this School Board as the group who started the slide with the new sex ed. curriculum. They will point to the "safety" Trojan horse injected into the public schools by the gay community and swallowed by the Board...

I wonder if this guy voted for the Presidential candidate who kept complaining about "spurious lawsuits?" I'll bet he did.

Irony is a hard word to define, but we may have come upon an instance of it.

And, now I'm thinking about this comment: young people find that they are not "gay" but had chosen that lifestyle... Do you see what he's saying here? He's admitting that sexual orientation is not a choice. Some people are gay and some people only choose homosexual behavior. Ah, let me wipe the tears from my eye, this is rich. What would their Dr. Throckmoron say to that?

And what's that, at the end? I didn't catch it, something about Trojans, and injecting something, and gay people, and somebody swallowing something? What is the message here, really?

To summarize this very professional legal document, the logic is this: Kids will take these health classes, become gay, get sick, and die. Then how you gonna feel?

See? They're just trying to make the world a better place.