Politics: First Grade teacher scares children with 'Kerry the baby-killer'

A Rogers School music teacher sent first-graders home on Election Day to warn their parents against voting for pro-choice presidential candidate John Kerry because he "kills babies," according to a School Committee member.

The graphic political lesson so traumatized some of the first- and second-grade students at the Fairhaven school that it prompted a parental backlash and hasty meetings between parents and school officials.

Between Mel Gibson and this, is anyone else wondering if Catholics maybe take the blood and gore of transubstantation just a LITTLE too literally?

I understand she's a devout Catholic, but there's such a thing as separation of church and state. The kids were traumatized. At that age they don't understand death. They think of old people, and now she's talking about babies.