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Posted on 01/23/2005 10:42:25 PM PST by TheConservativeCitizen
Unless you have been living in a cave the last few days you are aware of those wacky Christian Right nutjobs taking inexplicable swipes at the beloved cartoon character SpongeBob and the notion that we should all simply love and respect each other. What could possibly be wrong with that?
The answer, of course, is that the Mainstream Media has once again shown themselves to be completely inept in actually researching a story and attempting to behave as journalists. The reporting on this story has been little more than juvenile sneering and jeering from the sidelines while making no attempt to actually report what the story is about. Their lack of investigative and objective reporting is disgraceful as always, but perhaps not entirely unexpected. It has fallen instead to the world of bloggers, commentators and pundits to report what the media has chosen to bury, distort and ignore.
Despite the attempt by his detractors to make this a Dr. Dobson vs. SpongeBob debate there is a little more to it than that. From the outset, let's be clear that this issue is not about objections to any specific cartoon characters. Instead, Dr. Dobson is concerned that these popular animated personalities are being exploited by an organization that's determined to promote the acceptance of homosexuality among our nation's youth. – Focus on the Family Website
So where would such an idea come from?
The We Are Family Foundation produced a guide entitled Writing for Change coupled with a ‘gateway’ video featuring a myriad of familiar and beloved puppet and cartoon characters singing a rather benign modern rendering of the song ‘We Are Family’. The guide was published in partnership with the Oregon State University Difference, Power and Discrimination Program whose mission statement reads...
(Excerpt) Read more at mensnewsdaily.com ...
My blog can be viewed at www.conservativecitizen.blogspot.com if you are interested.
thanks,
David Huntwork
column author
***The original link in the story to the teacher's guide: www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/TEACHERS/Wfc.asp was removed sometime Sunday***
I saw this link get pulled!
When I first went to the site the had all kind of stuff for parents and teachers - some of it gay-related. When I went back to copy it POOF! it was gone.
Many of the links for resources led to tolerance.org
I've been looking for a copy of the teaching guide for about an hour. Can't find it anywhere. Did anyone get a screen shot?
***Did anyone get a screen shot?***
No, and I'm kicking myself. I'll know better in the future.
How about Google's cache of the site?
It's there!
In Google's cache (sans images)
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:5G0owfEw230J:www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/TEACHERS/Wfc.asp+&hl=en&client=firefox-a
I didn't find it there. I'll try again.
You'll have to feed the links from the cached page back into Google and get the cache one at a time.
It's all there.
SECTION 1
These activities are designed to be
completed in 5 to 10 minutes.
1.1 Questioning Order
Respond to ordered phrases; discuss hierarchical ranking in language.
1.2 Generating a Description
Conduct a “write and pass” exercise; define identity terms ("gay" or "old.")
1.3 Rating Your Behavior
Complete a worksheet; expose student behaviors as they relate to “-isms.”
1.4 Talking About Being "Out"
Answer worksheet questions; discuss perceptions of sexual orientations.
1.5 Uncovering Attitudes About Sexual Orientation
Write definitions; explore the impact of homophobia and heterosexism.
1.6 Looking at Looks
Write freely about experiences with appearance bias.
1.7 Treating People in Parallel Manner
Rewrite sentences to give parallel treatment to various groups.
1.8 Respecting Age
Debunk the myths behind adjectives associated
only with certain age groups.
1.9 Seeing the Whole Person
Rewrite sentences to "put the person back in."
1.10 Appreciating Diversity
Fill in the blanks, and raise awareness about perceptions of diversity.
1.11 Comparing Instead of Contrasting
List the similarities between groups of people; analyze the effects of emphasizing similarities.
1.12 Challenging Your Assumptions
Identify the "norm" conveyed in each sentence; rewrite each sentence to avoid assumptions based on factors like age or race.
1.13 Adapting to Cultural Differences
Respond to provided scenarios; devise respectful responses to cultural differences.
1.14 Developing Definitions
Write definitions; expose assumptions about various factors that affect people’s status and others' treatment of them.
1.15 Questioning the "Norm"
Identify societal norms; discuss assumptions about how or why certain attributes define the “norm".
1.16 Re-conceiving Notions
Complete worksheets in order to reveal preconceived attitudes about ethnic groups.
1.17 Uncovering Impressions
Fill in the blanks; expose factors that contribute to students' impressions of people who are different
1.18 Interrupting Lesbian- and Gay-Baiting
Learn how to break the cycle of lesbian- and gay-baiting.
1.19 Seeing Racism as Systematized
Explore the concept of racism as systematized
rather than random or individual.
1.20 Changing Your Perspective
Create advertisements for three different audiences; learn how one might communicate with diverse audiences.
1.21 Recognizing Slanted Words
Examine the power of slanting verbs and nouns; identify how they depict people favorably or unfavorably.
1.22 Recognizing Slanted Words 2
Dissect the use of slanting in online news media.
1.23 Challenging the Pseudogeneric "Man"
Generate gender-free, inclusive nouns and pronouns.
1.24 Creating Gender-free Nouns
Generate gender-free, inclusive nouns.
Good work.
Question: Is this particular teaching guide the one that is supposed to be used with the March 11 Video?
Can you copy and paste the text into our thread?
***Question: Is this particular teaching guide the one that is supposed to be used with the March 11 Video?***
Not sure.
But there's enough homosexual agenda stuff here to nail them to the wall.
Are we talking about a single file, or group of files? How large? What format? (.htm, .html. or what?)
btw - I found another site that has what appears to be the same lesson plan, word for word. http://www.tolerance.org/teach/web/wfc/pdf/section_1/1_05_uncovering_attitudes.pdf
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***btw - I found another site that has what appears to be the same lesson plan, word for word.***
Yes - many of the original links lead back to tolerance.org
If I can get the cached pages, depending on size, I can host them on my website for a little while. I have limited space, and have to delete files from time to time to make room for new ones.
***If I can get the cached pages, depending on size***
100 kb each roughly.
I am pulling all I can right now.
I can zip and mail them to you. Freepmail me.
Some of the links are to .pdf files which are gone (but which probably reside on tolerance.org.
I don't have any programs for extracting zipped files, so please make sure it's self-extracting.
Good night.
You were right about the pdf files.
The ones you found are the same ones referenced in the html pages I pulled from Google's cache.
If you can find all the pdf file we can basically recreate the teacher's resource site in total.
It is heavy gay-agenda stuff. The fact that they pulled it means they know they were about to get caught red handed.
How can we get this out to a wider audience?
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