Boy Beaten After Father Requests Notification on Gay Class

Boy Surrounded and Beaten at Lexington’s Estabrook Elementary School after Father Exercised Statutory Right to be Notified of Kindergarten Classes about Homosexuality
            After Lexington resident David Parker exercised his statutory right last year to be notified in advance of classes about homosexuality at his son’s kindergarten class at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington so that he could request that the boy be excused from attending them, his son (who is now in first grade) was surrounded this month by a group of students during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach and genital area.
            The Parker family has been the object of constant harassment in a campaign led by a lesbian activist, Meg Soens.
            The disgraceful, frightening and on-going episode is recounted by Brian Camenker at MassResistance.com.

On May 17 - the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts - David Parker's first-grade son, Jacob, was dragged and beaten at the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach, and genital area.
Last year David Parker was arrested and made national news over the school's refusal to notify him when adults discuss homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, then in kindergarten.

       The school system has continued to refuse to notify any parents. On April 27, 2006, Parker, his wife, and another family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school system.
       During the recess period, a group of 8-10 kids suddenly surrounded Jacob and grabbed him. He was taken around the corner of the school building out of sight of the patrolling aides, with the taunting and encouragement of other kids. Jacob was then positioned against the wall for what appeared to be a well planned and coordinated assault. Many children stood, watched silently, and did nothing as the beating commenced.
       The group of kids surrounded Jacob and he was beaten and punched. Then, as he fell to the ground, another child was heard saying to the group of children, "Now you all can finish him off," and as he was down on his hands and knees, the beating continued on his back. Then, fortunately, one little girl ran to contact the oblivious playground aides to stop it.
       Four of the attackers were from Jacob's first-grade class; the others were from other classes at Estabrook.
       The teachers' aide apparently determined that since she could not see external bleeding, and since Jacob apparently was not hit in the face, she did not send him to she school nurse. The Parkers were notified by the first-grade teacher within an hour of the incident.
       School authorities told the Parkers that from their investigation they have determined that the beating was indeed planned and premeditated.

        Safe schools? Tolerance? Diversity?
       There can be no question that this beating has little to do with children. It was fueled and incited by adults (and, yes, school officials) in the town of Lexington. And it reflects the culture of extreme intolerance against anyone with traditional beliefs, and the willingness of adults to bring children into adult issues.
       It cannot be accidental that this happened on May 17 - the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts - a day when emotions were particularly high among certain activists.
       None of the kids involved were suspended from school. Instead, from what we are told, a "diversity" training session of sorts was held in the first-grade class. What if it had been a "gay" child who had been beaten, or even taunted? Across Massachusetts children are routinely suspended from school for even using the term "gay" in a less than positive fashion.
       The Estabrook Elementary School library has continuously displayed two particular issues of the local Lexington Minuteman newspaper which depict David Parker in big articles on the front page on a prominent table where kids often go. Those two issues were still displayed after this latest incident.
       Estabrook Elementary School is proud of its long-time involvement in various "Safe School" programs that make the schools "safe" for homosexuality but dangerous for anyone with a different viewpoint. The current rage there is the "Open Circle" program, which has ties to GLSEN.
       A group of adults in Lexington maintain and regularly update an angry anti-Parker website, www.LexingtonCares.org. In addition to angry anti-Parker diatribes, they meticulously catalog all anti-Parker letters to the editor, newspaper articles, etc. They also organize anti-Parker rallies and demonstrations, and go on TV and radio bashing Parker. The group is led by well-known lesbian activist Meg Soens, who was involved in the infamous GLSEN "Fistgate" conference in 2000. (Soens also runs a second pro-homosexual Lexington website, www.RespectingDifferences.org. )
       Adults in Lexington have conducted a nasty and hateful anti-Parker letter-writing campaign in the local newspaper, the Lexington Minuteman, that has lasted for well over a year.
       The "Lexington Cares" group, and others, have recruited young children to participate in angry anti-David Parker public demonstrations.

Statement by David Parker:
       "We understand that skirmishes happen on the playground. What concerns us greatly is the premeditated, well planned and coordinated nature of the assault.
       "We are aware that the school administration sent notices home with all the young children concerning the Parker arrest, the "King and King" incident and the federal lawsuit. In addition, the school administration prominently displays the front-page Minuteman biased headlines of such incidents in the elementary school library for the children to see, read, and discuss. We also know that activist lesbian mothers and vehement anti-David Parker parents are spewing hateful, inflaming rhetoric, and probably also to their young children. What kind of atmosphere are they creating? Are their children acting out their parents' hate? Was this attack part of the "group think" that the pro-homosexual crowd espouses?
       "Isn't the school supposed to be addressing safety and preventing bullying and violence? Or are such programs only focused on children with homosexual parents? You can be certain that if this happened to a child with homosexual parents more would be made of this and that "lessons" teaching tolerance and diversity of homosexual behavior normalization would be forced upon the young children."

Who is Meg Soens?
The following capsule about Meg Soens is from the Unitarian Church during a campaign they called "Marry Week Honors Loving UU Same Sex Couples":
      “Celia d’Oliveira and Meg Soens, Lexington, Massachusetts
      "Meg Soens and Celia d’Oliveira were among the Massachusetts same sex couples who applied for their marriage license on May 17, 2004. They were married in a small family ceremony in May, and had a larger wedding celebration in a UU church for their family and friends in October. Meg Soens writes, ‘It has been amazingly, surprisingly affirming to get married. After 17 years together and four children, Celia and I saw joy and pride in our relationship reflected in our families’ faces when we took our vows. All together, and publicly, they told us through their presence and their words, ‘we love you, both of you, and honor your commitment to each other.’”
       Soens continued, “Until we got married it seemed like we were on weak ground, that at any time a tremor could turn the modest fissures between where my family stood and where our straight friends and neighbors stood, into an unbridgeable chasm. Now, no matter what happens, whatever else the federal government does to try to shame us or deny our basic unity as a family, we feel inextricably connected to the world of our friends. In my deep heart’s core I know we stand on the same ground.”