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Fresno’s Unified School Board President Brooke Ashjian Needs Lessons in History and Tolerance
On Wednesday night, during a heated discussion at the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) Board of Directors meeting, the board president, Brooke Ashjian, equated the LGBT community to Ottoman Turks who perpetrated the Armenian Genocide.
The discussion centered on the California Healthy Youth Act, a law requiring schools to teach medically accurate sex education, inc
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I totally agree with the stance of Brooke Ashjian in apposing the indoctrination of our Armenian schoolchildren with the LGBT crap. I wonder why does Armenian Weekly allow for such a pro-homosexual agenda article to be published in it. Or is it because…Armenian Weekly receives financial backing from organizations like the Soros foundation that are working to disseminate social, political and moral chaos in the entire world?
you are nothing but a narrow minded fool who supports censorship, even at the expense of our children’s’ mental and physical health, I am no supporter of special interest, and no you cannot be converted to homosexuality, it is simply impossible, unless you really are and want to come out…so lets please leave our ignorant insecurities aside and teach our children to be tolerant and harmonious with other citizens, let’s teach them proper sexual conduct to keep them safe from disease and unwanted pregnancies, before it becomes to late
Keep your religion out of politics.
Equating education of human sexuality with the Ottomans who perpetrated The Genocide or the Nazis who perpetrated The Holocaust is not only ignorant but also dangerous (as it diminishes the threat posed by the actual thought police: The religious right).
Shame on Ashjian for this weak attempt at trying to brand himself and his cause as victim.
I am appalled at Ashjian’s comments ! The Armenian community and their leaders should cry out for Ashjian’s resignation and make sure that he does not speak for Armenians in Fresno and at large .
I am also appalled! The intolerance and prejudice are disturbing enough, and have absolutely no place on a school board. But then to equate a law requiring medically accurate instruction to the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire is beyond belief. We have worked long and hard for genocide recognition– to make this sort of comparison is disrespectful to the sufferings of our ancestors. I am embarrassed to hear this from a fellow Armenian and agree with the call for resignation.
if you have strong religious beliefs, then send your children to a private school, in public arenas, all citizens have equal rights and representations, let’s all remember that the stone age of the apes is over, at least for the modern world… if you want to live in a primitive society, oppressed by archaic religious non-sense, I hear Senegal, and most of the muslim world is an ideal place for you to move…
bon voyage, yerthas barov, chveradarnalu npatakov