Intolerance and hatred are ugly attitudes, yet in today’s schools,
hostility is often the greeting for traditional values. Adults are
likely to be treated like adversaries at their neighborhood schools if
they don’t want acceptance of homosexuality or cross-dressing to be a
part of youth education.
Here’s a list of twenty recent
events in the battle over homosexuality. It is
just a small representation of many such incidents nationwide.
1. A conference for teachers, middle and high school students at
Tufts University in March 2000 erupted in a controversy that became
known as “Fistgate.” Students at one of the workshops, billed
for “youth only ages 14-21,” learned explicit details of high-risk
homosexual practices, including the practice of “fisting” which
involves the insertion of a fist into a rectum or vagina. The
instructors were three professionals from the Massachusetts
Departments of Education and Health. A workshop participant secretly
taped the workshop and when tapes were released to the public, a
firestorm of controversy erupted, but the liberals prevailed in
Massachusetts, and the conference has returned to Tufts every year
since, just without that particular workshop. GLSEN, the Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network, one of the conference
sponsors, sued the person who taped the workshop and another
pro-family activist who wrote about the workshop. It is estimated
that these two could incur over $200,000 in legal defense costs. The
three workshop instructors were meanwhile dismissed, but one was
later re-hired.
2. Middle school students were recruited in West Virginia
schools to serve on “civil rights action” teams. Students as
young as sixth grade were trained by local police to listen for and
report statements of peers that were “hateful” regarding
homosexuality. The project was funded by the U.S. Safe and Drug Free
Schools program. The effort, which originated out of the state
Attorney General’s office, came to a halt last year once pro-family
groups exposed it through the media. In Maine, 2,000 students
attended a Civil Rights Team conference in April 2003 as part of a
similar effort in that state. Pro-family volunteers and pastors
tried to hand out literature at the conference with a different
viewpoint, including testimony of an ex-homosexual. Apparently
organizers of this taxpayer-funded event had coached the students in
advance, because many students refused to accept the brochures at
this conference on “diversity,” where students heard one young woman
speaker describe her testosterone hormone therapy to change her
gender to male.
3. The national 2003 Day of Silence (DOS) event, organized
by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN),
was observed in April by a reported 200,000 students in 2,000 middle
and high schools. Students and some teachers remained silent all day
to protest “discrimination” against homosexuals. At Evansville High
School in Wisconsin, Christian students who countered the DOS by
praying and sharing Bible verses in the school commons were given
unexcused absences. The Silence students, by contrast, were
permitted to publicize the event through posters and over the
intercom, as well as being given a “safe room” for use that day if
they believed they were being harassed.
4. Over 2,000 people protested the forced establishment of a
homosexual club at the high school in Boyd County (Ashland)
Kentucky. The ACLU sued the school which eventually succumbed to
pressure. The club proceeded as an approved non-curricular activity
in 2003.
5. In Novato, CA (Marin County), parents sued the schools after
a pro-homosexual play called “Cootie Shots” was shown to two
elementary schools. Parental opt-out forms were ignored and
children saw the play without parental notification or approval. The
play portrays those who don’t accept homosexuality as hateful and
bigoted. The suit was dismissed by parents in 2003. The former
principal had been replaced by a parent-friendly administrator, and
a working parental opt-out program established. “Cootie Shots”
includes the song, to be performed by a grade school age boy,
“Mommy’s High Heels,” in which the boy is supposed to proudly reveal
he’s wearing his mom’s shoes.
6. Belying the usual claims that homosexual clubs for youth don’t
focus on homosexual sex, members of California “gay-straight
alliances” (GSA’s) marched in the San Francisco Gay Pride parade
on June 29, 2003.These high school and some middle school students
mingled alongside openly nude men and topless women as well as
proponents of sado-masochism. Simulated sex acts were performed
along the parade route, and signs like “Sodomize me, it’s legal!”
celebrated the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Texas’
sodomy law. Police stood quietly by and made no attempt to arrest
the naked celebrants. The homosexual advocate group GLSEN (the
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) brought many of the
GSA members to the parade in a yellow school bus. The organization
PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) also
marched in the parade.
7. At Murphy Junior High School in Stony Creek, NY (Long Island) in
2002, a middle school homosexual club was formed following an
“outreach” effort by the homosexual club at the local high school.
The author of a graphic homosexual novel called Rainbow Boys was
invited to speak to the middle school group. This book includes
graphic descriptions of heterosexual oral sex as well as homosexual
anal sex between a 17 year-old boy and an adult male he recently met
via the Internet. Parents and students who objected to the high
school and middle school promotion of homosexuality were reportedly
verbally harassed to the point of police involvement. As a result,
the principal of the middle school and several teachers have
reportedly left the school.
8. At James Madison High School, Vienna, VA, students heard a
homosexual man, formerly married with children but now living with a
homosexual lover, speak at a school assembly in March 2003 on the
need for homosexuals to be able to adopt children. The speech
was part of “Sexual Equality Awareness Week.” One class called
“Combating Intolerance” gave extra credit for attending
presentations by PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays). No opposing viewpoint was offered to students.
Reportedly, PFLAG brochures are distributed to guidance counselors
at the school. (For a review of PFLAG’s acceptance of sexually
deviant activities, see Mission America’s report, “The World
According to PFLAG: Why PFLAG and Children Don’t Mix” at
www.missionamerica.com
.)
9. The award-winning
student news publication of Upper Arlington High School,
Columbus, OH, published a ten page insert in April 2001 about
“growing up gay.” It featured a detailed biography of a “gay” male
student, including abuse by his father, and his visits to homosexual
bars. Sidebar articles included one depicting Exodus International and
ex-homosexuals as frauds, and repeating unsubstantiated claims about
one man’s return to homosexuality, without contacting him for a
statement. Another sidebar spoke glowingly about a local church which
performed homosexual commitment ceremonies. Phone numbers and web
sites supporting youth homosexuality were also published. One letter
in opposition and a paid ad about coming out of homosexuality were the
only opposing viewpoints offered in a later issue. Administration
officials supported the publication’s right to publish this misleading
material.
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