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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:43 AM Nov 2015

Alabama Education Official Warns Of 'Homosexualist' Common Core Takeover







http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betty-peters-common-core_563e2a82e4b0307f2cadb27e?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&section=politics


Alabama Education Official Warns Of 'Homosexualist' Common Core Takeover
She also thinks coloring books are indoctrinating children to do "transgender stuff."



Posted: 11/07/2015 02:09 PM EST

An Alabama Board of Education member is drawing criticism for making a number of outlandish claims about the Common Core during a recent GOP luncheon.

Betty Peters, the state school board member for District 2, in the southeast part of the state, spoke at a meeting of the Republican Women of Coffee County Oct. 21 during which she espoused views on the Common Core, "transgender values" and the "homosexualist" takeover of education in Southern states.

Peters tore into the Common Core standards as an example of federal overreach and claimed the program allows "homosexualists" to influence schoolchildren, The Southeast Sun, a newspaper based in Enterprise, Alabama, reported this week.

“I understand Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi are the three Southern states targeted by the radical, left, homosexualists to change our students’ perspective,” Peters said, according to the Sun. “We have gone past gay, lesbian and bisexual and we're now into gender fluid spectrum.”

"As I said when I first campaigned and I’ve said it every time since, we need to get back to the basics: Reading, writing and arithmetic from first grade on," Peters continued. “We need to be teaching the ‘c’ part which is Christian values, not Muslim values, not transgender values. We need to be teaching the old Biblical values."

When asked to clarify why she believes Southern states are being targeted by liberals and the LGBT community, Peters said in an email that she did not have time to reply in detail, but sent The Huffington Post a link to this article.....................

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Alabama Education Official Warns Of 'Homosexualist' Common Core Takeover (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2015 OP
"homosexualist?" Now there's a word one doesn't see very often. longship Nov 2015 #1
Oh for Christ's sake......... dixiegrrrrl Nov 2015 #2
......I can't even Person 2713 Nov 2015 #3
Actually, she's got it exactly ass-backwards. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2015 #4
While this lady is clearly a 'whack job,' PatrickforO Nov 2015 #5

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. "homosexualist?" Now there's a word one doesn't see very often.
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:54 AM
Nov 2015

"gender fluid spectrum"??? Whatever the Sam Hell that is.

How Orwellian!

These people are nucking futs!
R&K

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
5. While this lady is clearly a 'whack job,'
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 11:25 AM
Nov 2015

the sad thing is that it is our children who are victims of this kind of thinking.

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