Radio Host Threatens Lexington Superintendent
Apr 7, 2008 9:24 am US/Eastern
Radio Host Threatens Lexington Superintendent (WBZ TV)
Reporting Paul Burton
LEXINGTON, Mass. (WBZ) ― An Internet radio talk show host based out of New Jersey has threatened the superintendent of schools in Lexington over the new diversity curriculum in town.
He is urging listeners and readers of his Web site to use force and violence against Paul Ash.
"I'm horrified of this particular Web site," Ash told WBZ. "Certainly I'm disturbed that there's threatening language in there."
The controversy stems from the new diversity curriculum the superintendent will introduce to his kindergarten through fifth grade students next year. The lessons deal with same sex marriages in the context of family.
"In our schools we have gay and lesbian families. This curriculum is not about sexuality at all," Ash said.
"For example, it's a picture book and you turn to a page and you see a family with a grandmother raising a child. You turn to a page you might see two mothers raising a child."
But its enough to anger the talk show host who wrote on his Web site: "I would laugh if concerned fathers donned ski masks and gloves, took a ride over to the this arrogant (expletive) house and knock the living (expletive) out of him."
"I'm disturbed by that. I'm disturbed for my family," Ash said.
"He has to expect that people are going to be extremely angry over what he's doing," said Lexington parent David Parker, who objected to the same-sex curriculum in the past.
Parker said he's not surprised by the threats.
"You can put it under any guise you want but little children don't need other adults asserting sexual proclivities to them and normalizing it and parents are in an outrage," he said.
"We can't be deterred by individuals that are attempting to intimidate teaching children to love one another and respect one another."
Ash says he's also received an angry e-mail from a parent about the diversity curriculum.
Lexington police say they are taking these threats seriously and are taking measures to protect Ash and his family.
Radio Host Threatens Lexington Superintendent (WBZ TV)
Reporting Paul Burton
LEXINGTON, Mass. (WBZ) ― An Internet radio talk show host based out of New Jersey has threatened the superintendent of schools in Lexington over the new diversity curriculum in town.
He is urging listeners and readers of his Web site to use force and violence against Paul Ash.
"I'm horrified of this particular Web site," Ash told WBZ. "Certainly I'm disturbed that there's threatening language in there."
The controversy stems from the new diversity curriculum the superintendent will introduce to his kindergarten through fifth grade students next year. The lessons deal with same sex marriages in the context of family.
"In our schools we have gay and lesbian families. This curriculum is not about sexuality at all," Ash said.
"For example, it's a picture book and you turn to a page and you see a family with a grandmother raising a child. You turn to a page you might see two mothers raising a child."
But its enough to anger the talk show host who wrote on his Web site: "I would laugh if concerned fathers donned ski masks and gloves, took a ride over to the this arrogant (expletive) house and knock the living (expletive) out of him."
"I'm disturbed by that. I'm disturbed for my family," Ash said.
"He has to expect that people are going to be extremely angry over what he's doing," said Lexington parent David Parker, who objected to the same-sex curriculum in the past.
Parker said he's not surprised by the threats.
"You can put it under any guise you want but little children don't need other adults asserting sexual proclivities to them and normalizing it and parents are in an outrage," he said.
"We can't be deterred by individuals that are attempting to intimidate teaching children to love one another and respect one another."
Ash says he's also received an angry e-mail from a parent about the diversity curriculum.
Lexington police say they are taking these threats seriously and are taking measures to protect Ash and his family.
posted by David Parker at 3:55 AM
