You read that right.<\/p>\n
The Daily Caller\u2019s Caroline May<\/a> reports that the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded and won a ban on any public school event that limits participation to mothers and sons or fathers and daughters, such as traditional dances.<\/p>\n The reason: the events perpetuate \u201cblatant gender stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n As usual, the school sponsoring the offending dance was caught in a legal vice grip:<\/p>\n Although the federal Title IX anti-discrimination law does provide exemptions for such events, state law does not, but rather explicitly bans \u201csex discrimination in \u2018\u2026any and all school functions and activities,\u2019\u201d Superintendent of the Cranston Public School System Judith A Lundsten explained in an August letter sent to \u201cPartner Organizations\u201d and posted in full at WPRO<\/a> News in R.I.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Already, one Republican candidate for Rhode Island state senate, Sean Gately, has made this a campaign issue, promising to introduce an amendment to the state law so that it tracks Title IX to allow exceptions for events like father-daughter dances.<\/p>\n If Gately can figure out a way to make the ACLU reimburse the school district for the hours spent in responding to this wasteful drain on public resources, he should run for governor.<\/p>\n Of course, the main problem with the ACLU in this and other instances is more than the waste of public resources.\u00a0 It\u2019s making a living by using the law to harass the very society the law was meant to serve.<\/p>\n No one who passed Rhode Island\u2019s version of Title IX intended it to outlaw father-daughter dances.\u00a0 Had the ACLU\u2019s position been a publicly acknowledged purpose of the legislation when it was proposed, the law\u2019s authors would have been laughed out of the chamber.\u00a0 Whenever this issue gets a hearing in court \u2013 and Gately willing, it will \u2013 the reviewing court should do exactly the same to the ACLU\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n Enough of the madness.\u00a0 If people really want to stop making every argument political and thus polarizing, we must start by making less of our disputes a cause of legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You read that right. The Daily Caller\u2019s Caroline May reports that the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded and won a ban on any public school event that limits participation to mothers and sons or fathers and daughters, such as traditional dances. The reason: the events perpetuate \u201cblatant gender stereotypes.\u201d As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1454,1045,2283,3601,2014,3310,3824],"class_list":["post-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-aclu","tag-discrimination","tag-frivolous-lawsuit","tag-public","tag-rhode-island","tag-school","tag-title-ix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15882,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}