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G'Morning...
2 posted on 09/25/2002 4:44:43 AM PDT by TxBec
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To: TxBec
Found this on the web today. It's about "Governor's schools," 6-week summer programs designed by the educational elites for gifted students in government schools. If you want to know what kind of "academic program" the educational establishment would really like to shove down our throats, look no further than the Governor's schools. Some selections from texts used:

A blatant anti-Christian diatribe from a radical feminist "witch," who likens Jesus Christ's death on the cross to necrophilia and sado-machochism.

A lecture from the attorney who defended "Jane Roe" in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case (with no balancing speaker from the pro-life side).

A reading praising pacifism lavishly praised a Mennonite who refused to register for the draft because he didn' t want to send a "hostile signal" to the Soviet Union.

Other readings condemned capital punishment; depict euthanasia as a human response to suffering; promote radical environmentalism, and satirize marriage as hopelessly unfair to women.

Pro-homosexual readings, films and discussions were presented. An essay in the "Tree Book" argues philosophically for "The Morality of Homosexuality." Author Michael Ruse writes:

There are, then, four independent rejoinders to the "unnatural argument" that has dominated both classical and modem discussions of homosexuality: it is false that animals are not homosexual; it is false that homosexuality must be an-tireproductive and nonbiological; it is false that homosexuality is to be judged without taking note of the cultural nature of humans; and it is false that what is unnatural is necessarily immoral.4

The "Tree Book" had an article by the 19th Century philosopher Ludwig Fuerbach. Karl Marx based his atheistic materialism on Fuerbach. Fuerbach's essay showed:

His chief aim in life was to change the "friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, worshipers into workers, candidates for the other world into students of this world" and to assail the "supranaturalistic egoism of Christianity."

A former student had this to say:

They're taking the cream of the crop...the leaders of the next generation and pushing them into values that Governor Clinton has-that the leftist media has-the values that go totally against what this nation was founded on. This is what I was exposed to. There wasn't any warning, there wasn't anyone that said, "Okay, now you are going to have to take all the values you grew up with and put them on a shelf and be exposed to this." If my parents had known what was going on there, they wouldn't have let me go.

We watched movies like Harvey Milk (the homosexual San Francisco supervisor who was murdered by a city councilman in the 1970s). We learned about gay life style-those things your parents say, "This is wrong... You shouldn't see this type of thing because, hey, that's just not right."

They're bringing a political agenda in the guise of academic excellence....It was something that was well-orchestrated, well-organized, it was mind-bending and manipulative. And the faculty knew what was going on.


3 posted on 09/25/2002 5:17:00 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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Have any of you, or anyone you know, ever used the "Switched on School" CDs?

It sounds great, but is it as good as old-fashioned text books and work books?

Thank you for any input,

MTM
15 posted on 09/25/2002 5:28:16 PM PDT by multitaskmom
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