Posted on 03/03/2005 4:28:44 PM PST by franky
We Are Family Video To Be Delivered To 61,000 Elementary Schools March 11
WAFF pulls information from web site following AFA article
If you have children or grandchildren in elementary school, you need to know about a new video being sent to 61,000 elementary schools. The “We Are Family” video will be delivered on March 11. It is produced by the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF), a pro-homosexual organization. Homosexual organizations have long used the schools to promote homosexuality.
When AFA alerted supporters about the video in our January AFA Journal, WAFF threatened to sue AFA for exposing the pro-homosexual content on WAFF’s Web site. WAFF attorneys threatened to sue us unless we recanted our statements, removed the article from our Web site, and issue an apology to WAFF. We refused. Thus far, WAFF has not sued AFA, primarily because they had no cause.
The AFA Journal article focused on a video project involving the 1970s hit song, “We Are Family,” co-written by WAFF’s founder, Nile Rodgers. The video features over 100 characters from children’s television. A teacher’s guide will accompany the DVD to encourage discussions after children view “We Are Family.” The video will also air over the Disney Channel, PBS and Nickelodeon on March 11.
Under the guise of promoting tolerance for other categories such as race, gender, age, disabilities, etc., the WAFF Web site openly promoted homosexuality as a normative lifestyle. There was a “Tolerance Pledge” that encouraged signers to pledge respect for homosexuality, and work against “ignorance, insensitivity and bigotry.”
While everyone should promote tolerance, a promotion of homosexuality should not be thrust on little children and unexpecting parents. It is absolutely wrong for schools to be used to promote the homosexual lifestyle.
While there is nothing questionable in the video itself, the site included a teacher’s guide to use with the children to discuss the video that aggressively normalized same-gender attraction and same-sex marriage. There was also a recommended reading list for children and adults that included such illustrated children’s books as the lesbian tome, “Heather Has Two Mommies,” which discusses artificial insemination, and “Daddy’s Roommate,” which included an illustration of two men in bed together.
he WAFF Web site ran a list of “allies” that virtually ran the gamut of homosexual advocacy groups: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network; Human Rights Campaign; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; and Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians & Gays.
Following publication of the AFA article, the controversial materials on the WAFF Web site were immediately removed from public access. The only exception was the tolerance pledge, which was altered from its original format. Evidently WAFF did not want parents to know what was on their site and in the teacher’s guide.
A good school system will always work with parents, not against them. We encourage parents to find out what, if anything, will be going on in their schools in connection with the ‘We Are Family’ video.
AFA is recommending that parents take the following simple steps – always ensuring that communications with school officials be conducted in a polite and civilized manner:
If you are concerned, here are things to do:
1. Ask another parent or a small number of parents to join you. Contact your school’s principal. Ask him or her if they plan to show the ‘We Are Family’ DVD at school.
2. Ask if the teacher’s guide will be used in facilitating any discussion, and ask for the opportunity to review the teacher’s guide.
3. Ask very specifically if the subject of homosexuality will be brought up by teachers or discussed if brought up by a student.
4. If the school assures you that homosexuality will not be discussed, thank them politely. If you are informed that homosexuality will or may be discussed, ask for permission to sit in on the discussion. Invite other parents to attend with you. A good school will welcome involvement of parents.
Should you have problems with your school, or if you would simply like to tell us about your experience in dealing with this issue, e-mail us at contact@afa.net.
One of their supporters:
http://www.wcities.com/en/record/,321198/639/record.html
Their Web site:
http://www.waf.org/
Why is it alright to teach pro homosexual values to school children, but not to teach I don't know...our traditional values?
maybe they will have a skit on FISTING!
I don't think we're in Pittsburgh anymore.
This is why my children never have, and never will, attend public school.
Probably. Rumor is that the NYTimes ordered its Judge-property Margaret Marshall (Ms. Anthony Lewis)
in Massachusetts to Order Fisting lessons for all children.
I have a strong feeling that they will be "feeling ill" that morning - or afternoon.
What crap!
LVM
Don't trust their answer. They'll show it and never tell you....or tell you after the fact.
Every one is so fearful of being labelled intolerant or worse. The fact of the matter is there are many in America who don't think the Gay lifestyle is moral and definitely don't want to see it promoted in our PUBLIC Schools. Does that make me intolerant? Answer - If you think so it's OK with me but it won't change my mind one bit - And I am not afraid.
Tammy Bruce's book The Death of Right and Wrong is a must read for parents and grandparents with children in public school.
Tammy is a lesbian and former president of the Los Angeles Chapter of NOW. She has worked with members of Congress to stop the gay agenda being promoted in schools around the nation.
She details specific schools and specific agendas and has backed up her research with documentation.
For instance, some schools practice Gay Day. Kids are encouraged to act gay and experiment for the day with their gender identity.
Girls are given bananas and taught how to perform oral sex.
Children are taught how to apply a condom.
This is only the beginning of what's in the book. The rest of it isn't appropriate for this forum.
I need never, EVER hear that song again.
I don't have any elementary-aged kids, but I fear what kind of things the WAF has up their sleeve for my children's children. I imagine the gerbil population will have been long wiped out by then.
If parents find out this film is being shown in their schools, can the parents say they don't want their kids to see it?
Do any of you have a link to a document I saw a few months back that a parent of a California grade school student could sign and present to the school which forced the school to get written permission from the parent any time there was to be discussion of sexuality?
Fisting ?
The article implies the removced material is no longer available. Is this the same material a FReeper reconstructed a few weeks ago via www.waybackmachine.com and other archive sites? If so, is the AFA aware of this reconstruction? Wonder if they can legally publish the removed material? Sure hope so.
Fighting?
Spongebob's going to shag Phillip. :^)
"This is why my children never have, and never will, attend public school."
Same here!
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