Massachusetts Parents Galvanized in Continuing to Improve Public School Values

Jim Brown / Teresa Neumann Reporting : May 25, 2005
Agape Press

Note from Founding Editor: Who would have thought that we would begin to see the three monotheistic religious groups of America--Christians, the Jewish Peoples and the Muslim Peoples--- coming together to improve values in our public schools, that of the traditional family values. --Steve Shultz

I have a feeling this story won't go away for a long time. As a matter of fact, it shows every promise of rising to new national, and possibly international, proportions.

Three separate recent events in schools in Lexington, Massachusetts, have galvanized parents in an unprecedented way. School officials there evidently "crossed the line" when they showed a so-called "diversity" video advocating lesbianism, held a "Day of Silence" to remember the persecution of homosexuals, and had a parent arrested for protesting the presentation of pro-homosexual curricula in his son's kindergarten class. (Pictured: David Parker, who was arrested.)

According to Agape Press, Gerry Wambolt of the group Lexington Parents for Respect says area families have had enough. "I wouldn't say it's an attack on Christian values," says Wambolt, "because it's not just that. It's an attack on Jewish values and Muslim values and virtually the values of anybody with common sense who has come into this country and into this town from other parts of the world."

Confrontations between school officials and concerned parents are "coming right down to the common street language of people who are more than beside themselves," Wambolt adds, "and the town is just now beginning to wake up."