What else would you expect from a "meditation" teacher?

Daniel Kasten is a teacher at Greenhill School, a private school in Addison for grades K-12. I can't imagine what kind of parent would send his child to this school.

Kasten teaches English, world religions, and meditation. He is so proud of the Greenhill students for their recognition of gay rights. He says most young Americans recognize that we live in a different and far better nation today. I'll agree that it's far different from what it was several decades ago, but I cannot agree that it's better.

Kasten is a Methodist. He criticizes the denomination for threatening "clergy with ecclesiastical trial and dismissal if they 'practice' homosexuality themselves or officially bless the unions of gay congregants." He says that, for modern Christians, such policies raise questions about the church's commitment to loving relationships and to social justice. I guess I'm just one of those old relic Christians from the dark ages who thinks the church's commitment to biblical truth is a lot more important than having a promiscuous man in the pulpit or blessing a sham marriage between two perverts.

One of the reasons I wouldn't send my kids to Greenhill is the school sponsored club called True Colors. True Colors is "an alliance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning and straight members of the Greenhill community." I wouldn't want my kids going to school with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered and discussing the birds and the bees with them. If they are "questioning," they need to come talk to me, not some mixed up confused teenager.

Kasten just gushes over True Colors' big project for the year -- the Day of Silence. Students remained silent "in support of those whose voices were muted for so long by legal and social discrimination." Doesn't that sound lofty and grand? Isn't it the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? On second thought, if we could get all those weirdos involved in a Decade of Silence, maybe we'd have a chance at turning around the morals of this country.

"New generation recognizes gay rights." The Dallas Morning News; July 31, 2011; p. 5B.