The American Civil Liberties Union, or sarcastically known by me as the "Atheist Control Limitation Union," is threatening to take Kentucky's Boyd County School District to court if it doesn’t find a way to force all of its students to participate in "tolerance training."

Tolerance training is a great idea!  Finally, perhaps religious persecution could be avoided if the students understood that they should respect everyone as equals. Maybe the training could prevent some kids from pressuring other kids into having sex because some of these kids would rather live a good and clean life. Maybe the training could stop other kids from forcing others into peer pressure and prevent others to indulge in drinking or drugs. After all, kids shouldn’t be doing drugs and no kid should be drinking until a legal age. Tolerance training doesn’t sound like just a good idea, it sounds like a great idea.

Oh wait, the ACLU didn’t mean that kind of "tolerance training."

After all, the ACLU wants kids to receive oral sex training and have all the condoms and morning-after pills at every school’s disposal.  Plus, you can’t talk about religion in school (unless it’s about Islam) or else the ACLU believes it’s a violation of "Separation of Church and State." When the ACLU wanted tolerance, it meant tolerance towards homosexuality.

District figures illustrates 105 of 730 middle school students opted out of the training video and 145 of 971 high school students did, too. On the day scheduled for training, 324 students didn't show up.

There is a reason that some of the Kentucky students did not show up for the training course. The ACLU doesn’t have the power to have students tolerate homosexuality if the students don't approve of it.  Plus, the ACLU shouldn’t force this subject on students unless the school has parental consent to do so.

But the ACLU does not see it that way. The intolerant organization along with the Gay-Straight Alliance believes it has a right to force-feed homosexuality down the throats of the American people.  Perhaps there should be a separation of "Homosexuality and State" if the ACLU and gay radical groups continue to impose their ideology.

James Esseks, litigation director for the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project says: "The schools have great latitude in what they want to teach, including what's in training programs, and the training is now part of the school curriculum." Esseks goes on to say, "Parents don't get to say 'I don't want you to teach evolution or this, that, or whatever else.' 'If parents don't like it they can homeschool, they can go to a private school, they can go to a religious school.' "

But parents do have a right to speak out. The tolerance-training video violates the right of conscience of parents and students who believe such behavior immoral. Also, did Esseks forget that the Kentucky's Boyd County School District is only showing these videos because the school district is being forced by Esseks’ organization?

The ACLU shows its true colors everyday by its never-ending liberal bias. What right does it have to take Christmas out of schools when former president Ulysses S. Grant made Christmas into a National Holiday in 1865? What right does the ACLU have to attempt taking "Under God" out of our pledge when the Deceleration of Independence says that our Creator endows us? And most importantly, what right does the ACLU have to take away our moral conscious when over half of the country voted based on moaral decisions? The answer is simple: The ACLU has no right, but its leaders think they have the right to tell us what we should tolerate and not tolerate.

However, understand that "tolerance training" is not necessarily a bad thing. But let's be fair and allow parents and students to make the decision to attend such meetings. Tolerance is meant for all people on all subjects. Sexual orientation, religion, race, and gender should be tolerated together, and no subject within reason should be left behind.

Sources:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41667

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/state/10287153.htm

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/11/27ky/A1-boyd1127-9280.html