Trial Postponed for Mass. Dad Fighting Homosexual Curriculum at Son's School
by Mary Rettig
September 21, 2005
(AgapePress) - The trial of Massachusetts parent David Parker, which was originally scheduled to take place today (September 21), has been postponed. The Lexington man was arrested in April after he attempted to get his son opted out of homosexuality discussions in school.
According to Brian Camenker of the Massachusetts pro-family group Article 8 Alliance, the main issue for Parker is that the Lexington School District has banned him from all school property. Camenker says he believes the school district is just using bullying tactics. But at the same time, the district attorney involved in the case is running for State Attorney General. Camenker feels the D.A. does not want to make "a big deal" of this case.
"They want to figure out some way of doing a plea bargain," the Alliance spokesman says, "but David Parker's lawyers insist that, unless this whole business of this no-trespass order is addressed, they're not going to agree to anything."
The no-trespassing order being imposed against Parker by the school district prevents him from setting foot on any Lexington Schools property, including coming onto school grounds to pick his son up from school, using school-owned walking paths where he used to take his son for recreation, and going to polling places on school property.
Parker feels the ban is unnecessary, and that it is being imposed largely to be hurtful. He had hoped the matter would be addressed in the trial originally scheduled for today, and that the ban might be lifted. However, that proceeding has been stalled because of the head of the school district.
"The Superintendent of Schools has said he hasn't had time to make a decision yet," Camenker points out. "Now, one has to think, it's been all summer. It's been in the news. How can he not make a 10-minute decision? But this is what he claims."
Camenker says the judge in Parker's case has given the superintendent one more month to decide whether to keep the no-trespass order in place, or whether to discontinue the ban preventing the Lexington dad from setting foot on school grounds.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
