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Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1)
11/21/03 | scripter

Posted on 11/21/2003 9:50:23 AM PST by scripter

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links

(Revision 1.1)

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Title

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Adoption
 
2002
Pediatrics Group Endorses Homosexual Adoption
    Trophy children
Yes

Bible
 
2003
What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality, Adultery...
    What does the Bible actually say about being gay?
Yes
    The Christian Confronted by Homosexuality
Yes
    Talmud on Homosexuality
    Is banning the Bible next?
    Christianity and Homosexuality
Yes
    A divisive debate over the Bible spotlighted Episcopalians' OK for gay bishop
 
2002
Responding to Pro-Gay Theology
 
1999
The Challenge of Maintaining a Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality
    Homosexuality: Balancing Truth and Mercy
 
1998
St. Paul's Argument From Nature Against Homosexuality
    Roman's 1 on Homosexuality
    Leviticus and Homosexuality

Child Abuse
 
2003
Men Charged with Sex Assault of Boy
Yes
    An Outrage, Pure and Simple!
Yes
    Former Boy Scout Leader Arrested - Homosexual Child Molestations Continue
Yes
    Child Molestation and Homosexuality
    Homosexual Rape and Murder of Children
Yes
 
2002
A REAL Child Abuse Scandal
    Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse
Yes
    Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement (PDF)
    Gay Foster Parents More Apt to Molest
 
2001
ACLU asks federal judge to dismiss case against man-boy sex group
Yes
 
1999
Homosexuality and child molestation: the link, the likelihood, the lasting effects

Church
 
2003
Gay Catholics Act Up
Yes
    The Liberal Takeover of American Protestanism
    New Book Says Homosexual Agenda Is to Silence the Church
    Legal warning to church on gay stance
Yes
    Kenyan Anglican Bishop Attacked for Opposing US Homosexual Appointment
    Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists
Yes
    'Gay?' Leave God out of it
Yes
    Gay Episcopal bishop begins his ministry
    Faithful Priest Accused of Hate Crime for Letter on Homosexuality
Yes
    Despite Attack, Pastor Will Keep Speaking Out Against Homosexuality
Yes
    Catholic Catechism on Homosexuality (see items 2357-2359)
    Bishop's anti-gay comments spark legal investigation
Yes
 
2002
Thoughts on the Ordination of Sexually Active Gay Men and Lesbians
    Sex, torture and erotic electrification in America's 'gay' churches
Yes
    Homosexual Priests: A Time for Truth
    Pastor, Elders Roll Out Red Carpet for Same-Sex Weddings
Yes
    Oxford.s New Pro-Homosexual Bible a Hit with .Gay. Activists
    Homosexual Priests: A Time for Truth
    Critics fear law for gays will muzzle preachers
    Blessing for gay wedding threatens Anglicans
Yes
 
2001
The Church and Homosexuality: Recent Developments
 
1999
Legends of the Fall: When Christians Struggle With Sexual Sin
    Christian & Homosexual?
 
1993
Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality

Comprehensive
 
2003
The Lords of Bakersfield
Yes
    Lesbian/Feminist quotes
 
2002
Why Narth? The American Psychiatric Association's Destructive and Blind Pursuit of Political Correctness
    Gay Orthodoxy and Academic Heresy
    Homosexuality: Truth Be Told
    A Captive Audience
    Special Class Protections for Self-Alleged Gays: A Question of "Orientation" and Consequences
    Selling Homosexuality to America
Yes
    The A.P.A. Normalization of Homosexuality, and the Research Study of Irving Bieber
 
2001
Informative Report:Issues on Homosexuality
Yes
 
2000
Homosexuality: Seeing Past the Propaganda
    Crafting "Gay" Children
    Loretta Haroian's Class Guide on Child Sexuality
 
1994
AFA: Exposing the Myths (PDF)
 
1985
Donald F. BAKER, Plaintiff v. Henry WADE, Defendant

Crime
 
2003
Bi-way robberies in Village
Yes
    Ex-judge surrenders on new porn charges: faces counts that include possessing child pornography
Yes
    Media and the Murder Case
Yes
    Janitor Beaten Outside Church
Yes
 
2002
Public sex acts a problem at state park
    Gay sex in park 'worse' despite arrests
 
2001
Not Fit To Print?
Yes
    Gay Domestic Violence Finally Measured
 
1999
Violence and Homosexuality
    Our Bias Is To Our Own Back Yard (Dirkhising Case)
    Queer Standards At The Post
 
1998
Sexual Abuse of Boys

Genetics
 
2003
Study Trumpeted by Health Writer as Evidence that Some Are "Born Gay"
Yes
    Of mice and gay men
Yes
    Newswriters Represent New Study As Proof Of Biological Basis Of Homosexuality
Yes
    Homosexuality and Genes: Déjà vu All Over Again?
Yes
    Can Homosexuals Change?
 
2002
The Importance of Twin Studies
Yes
    The Gay Gene?
    The Fading "Gay Gene"
    The Biological Research on Homosexuality
    Is There a "Gay Gene"?
    Gay-To-Straight Research
    Is Sexual Orientation Fixed at Birth?
    Is Homosexuality Genetic?
    Homosexual Researchers Debunk 'Born Gay' Urban Legend
    Gender Identity Disorder
    Finding a Needle in the Ocean
    Facing The Truth About Homosexual Behavior
 
2001
The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science
    The Gay Gene: Going, Going...Gone
    A Change In Thinking
 
2000
What Is "A Homosexual"
    Lust, Violence & Genetics
 
1999
What Causes Homosexual Desire and Can It Be Changed?
    Born What Way?
 
1995
How Might Homosexuality Develop? Putting the Pieces Together

Health Hazards
 
2003
Syphilis increase sparks AIDS concerns
Yes
    World AIDS Day: Reflections on the Pandemic
Yes
    U.S. sees HIV cases rise among gay, bisexual men
Yes
    Unsafe healthcare "drives spread of African HIV"
    The American Journal of Public Health Highlights Risks of Homosexual Practices
Yes
    Syphilis Cases On The Rise In Bay Area
Yes
    Studies show gay men are more likely to take recreational drugs
Yes
    Sodomy: A Public Health Risk
Yes
    Rise of Internet Fuels Fears of AIDS Resurgence
    Researcher Warns of Homosexuals Seeking HIV Infection
Yes
    New Skin Infection Concerns Doctors, Activists
Yes
    Many HIV positive don't tell
    Kinsolving: "Will Bishop-elect Robinson and his male lover be tested for HIV-AIDS?"
Yes
    Homosexual AIDS Claims Cause Controversy
Yes
    Hazardous to Your Health - The Risks of Homosexuality
Yes
    Gay Men Meeting Online Contracting Syphilis Faster
    Cure for AIDS: Abstinence
Yes
    Acting Up
Yes
    Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+
Yes
    Anal Sex Largest Cause of HIV in Africa
Yes
    African Women and AIDS
    African sexual health programmes "misguided"
 
2002
Why Isn't Homosexuality Considered A Disorder On The Basis Of Its Medical Consequences?
    The Health Risks of Gay Sex
    Syphilis outbreak among L.A. gay men in 2002 leads to...
    Syphilis in gay men raises AIDS concern
    Just the Facts: AIDS & the Homosexual Lifestyle!
    Health and Homosexuality
Yes
    Desensitizing America, Part II: The AIDS Walk
    Desensitizing America, Part I: AIDS Sensitivity Training
    California to track HIV cases by code AIDS-delaying drugs mask disease's spread
 
2001
With Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message
    U.S. HIV and AIDS cases reported through December 2000
    The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality
    The Many Myths of AIDS
    SF doctors report "startling" increase of syphilis
    Is This Gay Behavior Sick?
    Gay health statistics
    Compassionate Society Should Discourage Deadly Homosexual Behavior
 
2000
Sharing Disease is Not a Civil Right
    Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention
    Homosexuals Demand Legalization of Sex With Strangers...
Yes
    Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS
    Anal Cancer and YOU
 
1998
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: A Nine-Year Retrospective of Fear and (Mostly) Loathing
Yes
 
1997
Modelling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men
    Anything But Gay: The Deadly and Dangerous Homosexual Lifestyle
Yes
 
1992
Sexual Politics And Scientific Logic: The Issue Of Homosexuality

Homosexual Help
 
Abiding Truth
    Christians No Longer Gay Living For God
    Choice 4 Truth
    Courage
    Eagles Wings Ministry
    Exodus
    Gay to Straight
    Help for Jewish Homosexuals That is Consistent with Torah Principles
    Hope for Homosexuals
    Love Won Out
    National Listing of Help
    Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality
    Portland Fellowship
    It's Not Gay
    JONAH
    Matthew Manning
    Narth
    One By One
    Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays
    Stephen Bennett Ministries
    Sy Rogers
    Transforming Congregations

Manipulation
 
2003
Youth Suicide Used as "Gay" Recruitment Strategy (PDF)
    Betsy Ross, Ben Franklin Part of 'Gay-Friendly' Tourism Campaign
Yes
    The Education Establishment And The Homosexual Agenda
Yes
    Red Roots Of Gay Movement
Yes
    Radical Homosexuals Publish Guide Encouraging Homosexuality in the Young
    'Gay' dolls outed
Yes
    'Gay' adoptions gaining favor?
Yes
    The 'Overgaying' of America
 
2002
What is GLSEN Hiding?
    "Gay Rights" Strategies Involve Conscious Deception And Wholesale Manipulation of Public Opinion
    Selling Homosexuality
    Bushwhacking Johnny
Yes
    Gay activism: the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality
Yes
    Bushwhacking Johnny
Yes
 
2001
What the Closet Isn't Telling You
    Targeting Children, Part 2: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change
    Targeting Children, Part 3: Activists encouraging experimentation
    Targeting Children, Part 4: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation
    "Queering" Moral Education
    The Homosexual Propaganda and Media Manipulation Game
    Author Admits Gay Propaganda in Kids' Book
Yes
    Invasion of the mind snatchers
    The Homosexual Fisting of America
    GLAAD's latest adventure in activism)
    GLAAD Strikes Again
 
2000
In Their Own Words: The Homosexual Agenda
Yes
    Homosexual Agenda Platform 2000
Yes
 
1999
Targeting Children, Part 1: How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation
    The Death of Jesse Dirkhising
    Federal Judge Orders Gay Books Into Children's Library
    So, Have You Been Delphi'd?
 
1995
Thought Reform And The Psychology of Homosexual Advocacy
 
1993
Homosexual Agenda Platform 1993
Yes
 
1987
Homosexual Agenda Platform 1987
Yes
 
1972
Homosexual Agenda Platform 1972
Yes

Marriage
 
2003
"The Knot That Can't Be Tied"
Yes
    Gay' marriage ruling's consequences 'dire'
Yes
    Russian chapel razed after gay 'marriage'
Yes
    Mass. Supreme Court Rules - Gay Couples have the Right to Marry
    The rainbow menace
Yes
    Kids in same sex marriages need help
Yes
    The Radical Case for Gay Marriage
Yes
    The Divorce Thing
Yes
    The Deceit of Gay Marriage
    Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not Adultery
Yes
    Study finds gay unions brief
    Should gays have the right to marry?
Yes
    Same-sex unions in "Bride" magazine
Yes
    Same-Sex Marriage: What's 'Wrong' With It?
    Same-sex 'marriage' issue percolates in 4 state courts, 1 federal court
Yes
    Poll: More Oppose Gay Marriage
Yes
    Other things about marriage
    Now Free to Marry, Canada's Gays Say, 'Do I?'
Yes
    Mass. reps. oppose gay marriage ban
Yes
    Key same-sex 'marriage' case dismissed
Yes
    Funny Things: Polling Data and Same-Sex 'Marriages'
    From East to Left Coast, God's Definition of Marriage Under Siege
Yes
    Connecticut rejects Gay Marriage
Yes
    Catholic Church Vows to Bar Same-Sex Marriage
Yes
    Canadians Against Same-Sex Marriage
Yes
    Canada's Homosexual Marriage Bill Imperiled by Liberal Defections
Yes
    California Senate OKs 'virtual gay marriage'
Yes
    Beyond Gay Marriage
Yes
    B.C. court OK's gay marriage - first gay couple legally married in British Columbia
    Baptist Leader Perceives 'Rolling Crescendo' in Support of Traditional Marriage
    As gays advance, America squirms
Yes
 
2002
The Coming Battle
Yes
    Same-Sex "Marriage": Should America Allow "Gay Rights" Activists to Cross The Last Cultural Frontier?
 
2001
Major World Religions on the Question of Marriage
    Defense of Marriage Action Page
 
2000
Focus on the Family Position Statement on Same-Sex "Marriage" and Civil Unions
 
1999
The Reisman & Johnson Report
Yes
    Same Sex Marriage: Til Death Do Us Part?
    Frequently Asked Questions about Same-Sex "Marriage"

Mental Health
 
2002
Important gay-to-straight research published in APA Journal
Yes
    APA Research is Increasingly Radical, Anti-Family
    New Study Confirms Homosexuality Can Be Overcome
    Recent Studies on Homosexuality and Mental Health
    The Three Myths About Homosexuality
 
1999
The Psychology of Homosexuality
 
1997
Psychology's sexual dis-orientation

Miscellaneous
 
2003
The New Face Of Gay Power
Yes
    The Lure of Lesbianism
Yes
    The Google "Gag" Order
Yes
    The Gay Tail Wages the American Dog?
    L.A. to subsidize 'gay' retirement home
Yes
    Tearing Our Nation's Fabric
    "Sexually Inclusive Christians" Celebrate Victories, Push for More
Yes
    Older women urged to become lesbians
    New book on parenting engenders anger in gays
Yes
    Missing the Point on Gays
Yes
    'Male lesbians' barred from Lesfest event
    Internet gay cannibalism net widens
    How to Reignite the Culture Wars
    Homosexual Advocacy Groups Admit 10% Fallacy
    "Homophobia" Is A Lie!
Yes
    Group Helps Muslim Gays
    GOP lawmaker balks at Kinsey sex study funding
Yes
    God strikes 'gay' radio station with lightning?
Yes
    Get Back! The Gathering Storm Over Gay Rights
Yes
    Gay dads want their son to grow up straight
Yes
    Gay celebration stirs controversy- Promoters warn against public sex
Yes
    Gay Activists Defend Anti-gya Supreme Case & The Joys of Being Private: Ex-Gays Keep Out
    Fox News threatens to sue ex-'gay' minister
Yes
    Former Homosexual Says 'No one is born gay'
    Financially Ailing Airline Blasted for Link to Bisexuality Event
Yes
    Farewell Gayborhood!
Yes
    Culture of Vice
Yes
    Corporations Boast of Promoting Homosexuality
    Christian Group Blasts 'Orgy of Depravity' at Disney's Gay Days
 
2002
Was Hitler's Homosexuality Nazism's Best-Kept Secret?
    Unmentionable Vice Goes Mainstream
    Understanding How We Think about Homosexuality
    The Politicizing of Research and Feelings
    The cure for homosexuality
Yes
    Steering children back to straight
    Seven Steps to Recruit-proof Your Child
    SASU Talking Points
    New Book Guides Journalists in Reporting of Homosexual Issues
Yes
    Look It Up! 254 Boy Words
    Kodak Employee Fired For Calling "Coming Out Day" "Offensive and Disgusting"
    Homosexuals in the Military
    Homosexuality: Truth Be Told
    Homosexuality and the Nazi Party
    Gay-To-Straight Research
    Crafting Bi/Homosexual Youth (PDF)
    Children Of Homosexual Parents Report Childhood Difficulties
    Big brothers, big sisters, big trouble
    APA Study Says: "Who Needs Dad?"
    Alan Keyes Targeted by GLAAD
 
2001
The Top Five Myths About Ex-Gay Ministry
    The Great "Gay" Racket
    PC crowd denounces new gay-straight study
Yes
    Nothing 'gay' about bigotry
Yes
    GLSEN Encourages Teens In Anal SEX
 
2000
Homosexual zealotry
Yes
    Homosexual minority dominates mainstream America
    Defending Dr. Laura and America
 
1999
Outrage over study forces retreat on research
    Outrage over study forces retreat on research
 
1997
Ellen Degeneres Comes Out
 
1996
What a Gay Activist Says about Religious Traditionalists
    The Journal of Human Sexuality
    Homosexuals: Holocast Victims?
 
1993
What Percentage of the Population is Gay?

Parades
 
2003
A Matter of Common Sense - Gay Pride Parade Features Catholic Parish/Priest
Yes
    Religious groups demand an end to New Orleans' Southern Decadence Festival
Yes

Parenting
 
2003
Mother appeals ruling on gays
Yes
    Gay With Children
Yes
    Seeing the Slip
    Heather Has 3 Parents
    Judge to Christian mom: No 'homophobic' teaching
Yes
 
2002
Studies of Homosexual Parenting: A Critical Review
    Gay Parenting Does Affect Children Differently, Study Finds -- Authors Believe Gay Parents Have "Some Advantages"
 
2001
Homosexual Parenting Studies Are Flawed, Report Says
Yes
    Homosexual Parents: 'Hidden Study' Uncovered!!

Pedophilia
 
2003
The Crime of Father McBride
Yes
    Pedophiles Seek Online Support, Societal Acceptance
Yes
    Homosexuals and the Pedophile Connection
    Hollywood mag spikes 'pedophile warning'
Yes
    Castro man arrested in sex sting
Yes
    Amazon sells 'deadly' pedophile magazine
 
2002
The Homosexual Link To Pedophilia
Yes
    The Difference Between "Sick" and "Evil"
Yes
    Sex before 8 - or it's too late!
    Scholar's Pedophilia Essay Stirs Outrage and Revenge
    Report: Pedophilia more common among 'gays'
    Pedophilia lobby lobs a grenade
    Pedophiles Argue Their Case in the Journal of Homosexuality
    Pedophile advocate featured at university
    On the Pedophilia Issue: What the APA Should Have Known
    On Positive Reports of Adult-Child Relationships: Taking a Closer Look
    'Nothing new' in book condoning child sex
    Normalization of Pedophilia Growing, Experts Say
Yes
    More on the Pedophilia Question
    Molesters Inc.
    Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'
Yes
    Doctors Call For Pedophilia Research
    Children: The Next Sexual Sacrifice
    Amazon defends sale of pedophile book
Yes
    Amazon.com accused of aiding molesters
 
2001
The Problem with Equivalence: "Pedophilia Chic" defended
    Pedophilia and Hypocrisy
 
2000
The Normalization of Pedophilia and How the Church Should Respond
    "Pedophilia Chic" Reconsidered
    Coming Out of Pedophilia: Jeff's Story
 
1999
Is Pedophilia Really Being Normalized?
    Cal State's Pedophile Confab
 
1998
The Problem of Pedophilia
    Pedophilia and Sex Education
 
1996
Pedophilia a growing problem throughout Europe

Politics
 
2003
(WND)Log Cabin leader tied to radical 'queers'
    The 'gay' truth
Yes
    Republicans to force issue of gay 'marriage'
Yes
    Rainbow warriors
    Homosexual Allies Resubmit Special Rights Bills
    High court to give 'gays' their own 'Roe'?
Yes
    Gays and the GOP
    (CWA)'Gay' Log Cabin Minnesota Leader Linked to Violence-Prone 'UsQueers' Web Activists
    1 vote short, opponents nevertheless encouraged after first Nashville vote
Yes
 
2002
Police Chaplain's Stand on Homosexuality Jeopardizes His Job
Yes
    Murder, Martyrdom, and MTV: Why special rights are especially wrong
    Bush's gay nominees draw little opposition S.F. appointee sails through
Yes
 
2001
Petitions Against Gay Rights Seized
    How Hate-Crime Laws Harm Religious Freedom and Lead to Same-Sex "Marriage"
 
2000
SF Pro-Gore Rally Organizer: Polygamous Bisexual Sado-Masochist Pagan Activist

Polls
 
2003
Texans react to gay issues
Yes
    Polls show 2 Americas in Gay Rights
    Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 voters favor amendment banning same-sex 'marriage'
Yes
    Poll Finds Majority Favors Law Against Gay Marriage; Opposition to Civil Unions Increases
    New poll shows Americans oppose gay civil unions 58%-37%

Schools
 
2003
Workshop offered for gay, lesbian parents
Yes
    Woman Coach Jailed For Sex With Fla. Students Ordered Freed
Yes
    When Sex Ed Becomes Porn 101
Yes
    When Education Becomes Indoctrination
Yes
    What "gay" Student Clubs Will Bring to your School
Yes
    The Education Establishment And The Homosexual Agenda
Yes
    The Deception and Desensitization of America's Youth
Yes
    Teaching Kindergarten Kids About 'Human Differences' and Homosexuality
Yes
    Tammy Bruce: Protect New York's Children from the Gay Elite
Yes
    Taking on the lefties in Berkeley
Yes
    Support no certainty for gay teachers
Yes
    Study Reveals AIDS Virus Ravaging NC College Campuses
Yes
    Students seek sex in campus bathrooms
Yes
    Students' kiss not just a kiss
Yes
    Students get sex-ed without parents OK
Yes
    Students explore lesbian, gay issues
    Schools/Parents Warned About Homosexual Mentors for Kids: Schools Open to Legal Liability
Yes
    SCHOOL'S 'OUT'
    Queering the Schools
Yes
    Public Schools Face Growing Demands From Gay Activists
    Pedophiles in prep schools
    Parents say no to 'gay' agenda in schools
Yes
    Parents say no to 'gay' agenda in schools
Yes
    Parent Alleges Harassment for Exposing 'Fistgate'
Yes
    No Sympathy for the Devil
Yes
    No. Carolina Pastor Goes to Battle Against GLSEN
Yes
    New York sued over 'gay' high school
Yes
    NEA 'Gay Axis' Becomes Evident
Yes
    MTV show to feature Dallas gay school
    Lesbian couple protests school's decision
Yes
    Kids Get Graphic Instruction In Homosexual Sex
    How to Keep GSA's Out of your Child's School
    How to be gay 101
    'Heterosexism' Under Attack in Canada
Yes
    GLSEN and Its Influence on Children
    Gay Teens' Rich Milk Shakedown
Yes
    Gay Crime Syndicate?
Yes
    Gay couple protests after Catholic school denies daughter's entry
Yes
    Focus Changed at Fistgate This Year; Less Raw Sex
    Fistgate to be Held Again on March 15 [2003]
Yes
    Family Group Cautions Schools on Homosexual Mentoring
Yes
    Court upholds firing of teacher who was NAMBLA member
Yes
    Conservatives Warn Parents about Homosexual 'Day of Silence'
Yes
    Children at Risk: GLSEN, Corruption and Crime
 
2002
Unsafe at Any Grade
    The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools
    Schools Could Be Sued For Teaching About Homosexuality, Report Claims
    Schoolkids told to consider oral sex
    Research Group Warns Schools of Homosexual Propaganda
Yes
    Queer Radicals group to initiate change in campus climate, University policies
Yes
    Parental Notification Laws regarding Gay and Lesbian Programs for Youths?
    NJ High School Library Creates Homosexual Section
    NEA And GLSEN Seek To Stifle Free Speech
    "Making Schools Safe" Means "Refashioning Values"
    Institutionalized Heterosexism in Our Schools
    'Gay' orthodoxy prevails in academia?
Yes
    Gay Activists Training Teachers in Special Curriculum
    From Tolerance to Affirmation: One School's Experience with a Gay-Affirmative Program
    Challenging the Homosexual Fury In Our Government Schools
Yes
    Canada OKs pro-'gay' books for kids
Yes
    Assemblyman MOUNTJOY opposes promotion of homosexuality in public schools
 
2001
Students learn sex toy safety
Yes
    (Gay) School Days
 
2000
Vermont parents protest harassment of students by homosexual teachers
    Homosexual rights group makes inroads in U.S. schools; Parents unaware of GLSEN's work
    Gay School Teacher Initially Booked with Almost 400 Counts of Molestation
    Fistgate
    California schools' new curriculum
Yes
 
1999
Homosexuality Propaganda: Coming To a School Near You
    Homosexual Activism Reaches into Schools
    Hate Laws Fuel Homosexual School Agenda

Scouting
 
2003
United Way Capital Area to stop funding Boy Scouts
Yes
    Student wants Scouts off campus
Yes
    Boy Scout council 'devastated' by United Way cuts -program for inner-city children lost
Yes
    Judge says use violates separation of church and state
Yes
 
2002
Beyond Crafts and Cookies, Girl Scouts Are Prospering
Yes
    Boy Scouts v. Dale Amicus Brief (PDF)

Sports
 
2003
Phillies' 'gay' day protested
Yes
    Researcher Blasts Pro Baseball Team for Hosting Homosexual Event

Television
 
2003
Group Blasts NBC for Advancing 'Homosexual Activist Agenda'
Yes
    New Gay Dating TV Show on in Canada
Yes
    The 'Overgaying' of America
Yes
    You've Got Male! (Queer Eye is an assault on hetero males)
    CBS television thrusting 'married gays' on public
    PBS films looks at gay kids and families

Transsexuals
 
2003
Winds of change: Olympics open to transsexuals
Yes
    For Transgenders, Meaner Streets
Yes
    Transgender Case Focuses on How Sex Is Determined
Yes
    Vatican denounces transsexuals
Yes

Websites
 
Amber Alert, State by State
    Avert
    Defend the Family
    For The Children
    Homosexual Urban Legends
    International Organization of Heterosexual Rights
    Leave the Kids Alone
    Mission America
    NewsLibrary
    Pedowatch



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A city's gays defy conservatives
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New York Suburb Has First Case of Rare STD (Severe form of "The Jack")

"A Nassau County man has been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease, the first case in the county and one of seven around the country.

The Nassau County Department of Health has confirmed that the man has Lymphogranuloma Venereum, a form of chlamydia. The disease's symptoms can be serious — rectal pain and bleeding, and sores. The disease can also increase the risk of HIV (news - web sites) transmission.

Two men in New York City were diagnosed in early February with the disease, which can be treated with antibiotics if caught early. All three men are HIV positive, and had multiple partners among other men. Three cases have been identified in San Francisco, and one in Atlanta. Unprotected anal intercourse is the key risk factor for the spread of LGV, which is difficult to diagnose.

In the past two decades LGV has been uncommon in industrialized nations and primarily has been found in the tropics.

But in November, the National Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands said 92 cases of LGV among gay and bisexual men had been reported there over the preceding year, compared to the usual two or three cases a year. Officials said cases also have been found in the United Kingdom.

The LGV cases come at the same time that another New York City man was diagnosed with a case of highly drug-resistant HIV..."


522 posted on 02/26/2005 10:19:50 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Primates Statement - Anglican Essentials Response

Church remains at risk of schism on homosexuality, warns Williams

North American Anglicans Defend Gay Policies

Move to Halt Delegations Is Challenging Episcopalians

Anglicans Give Ultimatum To Pro-Gay Liberals

523 posted on 02/26/2005 10:45:24 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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An excerpt from "The Homosexual Fifth Column"

"The homosexual rights movement is not a cause based on science, social justice, or fairness toward a “persecuted minority.” Rather, it is the work of a devious and clandestine fifth column that seeks to undermine the moral values in place in America since the founding of the Republic. Its beginnings can be traced to the infamous 1973 decision made by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to strike homosexuality from the officially approved list of psychiatric illnesses.

From Illness to Interest Group

Prior to the APA decision, homosexual persons were considered to be emotionally disturbed and lacking in capacity to develop normal heterosexual relations. In his book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover discusses how this change came about:

How did this occur? Normally a scientific consensus is reached over the course of many years, resulting from the accumulated weight of many properly designed studies. But in the case of homosexuality, scientific research has only now just begun (c.1996), years after the question was decided…The APA vote to normalize homosexuality was driven by politics, not science. Even sympathizers acknowledged this…the leadership of a homosexual faction within the APA planned [in 1970] a “systematic effort to disrupt the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association”.

The APA decision, therefore, was not based on rigorous scientific discovery, but on hardball backroom politics engineered by a cabal of homosexual activists who pushed their agenda through intimidation and deception. Other medical professional organizations meekly fell in line and sodomy suddenly became an officially acknowledged alternative lifestyle whose practitioners were considered to be born with unalterable homosexual attractions. Thus, any therapy employed by a psychiatrist or psychologist intended to change a person’s sexual orientation was declared to be unethical.

Armed with this newly gained acceptability, homosexual activists were able to infiltrate the media, academia, industry, government, and even the church with a message geared toward “tolerance.” They framed the debate over this issue in the context of a scientifically identified, oppressed minority, victimized by the prejudice of a society dominated by irrational religious values.

This strategy has proved so successful that homosexuality—i.e. sodomy and all its variations—must not only be tolerated, but accepted; not only accepted, but affirmed; not only affirmed, but promoted; and finally, not only promoted, but codified into law with appropriate penalties for exhibiting “intolerance” or “hate” toward the practice or its practitioners.

The astonishing success of the homosexual rights movement has, in large part, come about because the debate has been controlled by well-placed homosexual activists whose shameless work of propaganda has flown under the radar of the typical American citizen..."


524 posted on 02/27/2005 12:01:21 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Supporting documentation for replies 125, 167, 168, 173, 256, 408, and 419 in this thread:


An excerpt from The Homosexual Fifth Column - Ideology, Not Science

"The Public Schools

Ex-gay messages have no place in our nation’s public schools. A line has been drawn. There is no “other side” when you’re talking about lesbian, gay and bisexual students. ~ Kevin Jennings, Executive Director of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Mr. Jennings made the above statement upon the release of a 1999 GLSEN publication, Just the Facts About Sexual Orientation and Youth, which was mailed to almost 15,000 school district superintendents across the country. GLSEN said the publication was “prompted by concerns that school personnel were receiving inaccurate information on the issue of sexual orientation and how to address it best with students.” The statement strongly urges educators and school administrators to reject efforts to bring ex-gay messages into the nation’s schools.

GLSEN is certainly aware that homosexual attraction is neither innate nor immutable; the fact that homosexuality can be overcome is well documented by the personal experiences of thousands of individuals who have successfully left the lifestyle. Nevertheless, it is GLSEN’s intended purpose to show children from K-12 that same sex attraction is normal. Any suggestion that one can change his/her sexual orientation, GLSEN claims, is fruitless and unethical and has no place in the public schools.

Mr. Jennings efforts were recently rewarded by the National Education Association—the powerhouse 2.7 million-member union that represents most U.S. teachers—when the organization presented him with the 2004 Virginia Uribe Award for Creative Leadership in Human Rights.

Critics of his selection pointed out that Mr. Jennings was the keynote speaker at a GLSEN conference in 2000 at Tufts University where Massachusetts Department of Education HIV/AIDS coordinators discussed with teenage students ways to perform various homosexual acts. This event became known as the notorious “fistgate scandal,” and the controversy it raised over the exposure to children of vulgar and disturbingly graphic descriptions of homosexual acts is still reverberating in Massachusetts.

The National Education Association has been promoting gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender affirmation in the public schools for many years, through such initiatives as recognizing sexual orientation as a protected “civil right” for both students and staff; developing sex education classes to include information on the “diversity of sexual orientations,” and teaming with homosexual rights groups to promote gay-oriented “Back to School” programs.

With the help of the NEA, the 1999 gay-friendly video, It’s Elementary, was shown in classrooms throughout the nation. In discussing the video, then president of the NEA, Bob Chase, said

Schools cannot be neutral when we’re dealing with issues of human dignity and human rights. I’m not talking about tolerance. I’m talking about acceptance. It’s Elementary is a great resource for parents, teachers, and community leaders working to teach respect and responsibility to America’s children.

Regrettably, while parents continue to entrust the education and social development of their children to the public school system, the educators are surreptitiously encouraging the children to explore a lifestyle that most parents find repulsive and unnatural, a lifestyle whose promotion is totally inappropriate in primary and secondary schools. At the same time, messages about persons who have overcome the homosexual lifestyle are not tolerated in NEA-dominated public schools..."


525 posted on 02/27/2005 12:25:30 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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An excerpt from "HIV/AIDS: How to Roll Back the Rising Tide"

"My friend Cal Thomas, the syndicated columnist, recently recalled the slights hurled by the homosexual lobby against those who have talked about the need for self-control as a key weapon in the fight against AIDS.

For more than two decades those who preached to people engaging in risky homosexual sex that "they should stop doing what they are doing because it harms them and others got them labeled 'homophobic.' Not many were able to stand up to such condemnations and so they mostly remained silent.

People who refused to change their risky behavior blamed the Reagan Administration for 'not doing enough' to fight AIDS." An often fatal disease once concentrated in the homosexual community now has spread to heterosexuals, too.

The results of forty years of sexual 'freedom' are in and it is time we start asserting that what we really need to stem the rise of HIV infections is not more research dollars but exactly what Milloy prescribed - abstinence. Until our society comes to grip with the fact that promiscuous sex outside marriage puts people at severe risk of contracting HIV infections we will be a nation blind to reality.

Milloy's prescription of abstinence is one for the entire country. Abstinence - the most effective way to prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- may be rooted in morality but there certainly is a very practical benefit given that no promiscuous sex equals no illegitimate pregnancy, no unwanted child, no STD..."


526 posted on 03/01/2005 10:43:09 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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An excerpt from A Captive Audience

"Curriculum

While literature and videos see frequent use in classrooms, systematic curricula specifically addressing homosexuality is a fast growing phenomenon, particularly after a spate of new pro-gay bills signed into law in California (Capitol Resource Institute, 2001). Some curricula are nothing but suggestions for classroom discussion, such as Addressing the Matthew Shepard Tragedy in the Classroom, Is Everyone Protected by the Bill of Rights?, or Why We Need A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month. Others are classroom readers, such as Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School & College Students (GLSEN, 2001a).

Some creative curricula take advantage of seasons or holidays, such as For Valentine's Day: Talking About Love and Marriage and LGBT History Month Resources Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective. Others build on current events, such as A Lesson Exploring Gays in the Military. Curricula written for various disciplines include McCarthyism and the Witch-Hunt Mentality, What Can Biology Teachers Do To Help?, and a Language Arts/Health Education Unit entitled The Same Sex Marriage Debate. While many curricula are written for middle or high school, one curriculum is billed as "Age appropriate responses for Kindergarten and Elementary School: Advice to Teachers: Tinky Winky in the Classroom" (GLSEN, 2001a).

Historically, such curricula have met with opposition from parents and conservative groups. For example, when Santa Fe, New Mexico public schools implemented an "anti-homophobia" curriculum in which homosexuality, transexuality, and transgenderism are normalized, parents and local religious leaders strongly criticized the district (Heil, 2001). Likewise, conservative groups in California vociferously denounced the curriculum, Healthy Relationships: A Violence-Prevention Curriculum (Anonymous, 1994), because of erroneous or vague information contained therein, such as "a significant percentage of the population is gay..." or "One out of four families have a lesbian or gay in their immediate family" (p. 94)..."


Additional documnetation of GLSEN curricular materials posted here and here.

527 posted on 03/04/2005 11:23:32 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: scripter; little jeremiah; SweetCaroline; Lindykim
Additional documentation for replies 283 and 284 in this thread:


Growing Up with a Lesbian Mom Pt.1

"The American Academy of Pediatrics says that children of homosexual partners fare no worse than children of heterosexual married couples. And although talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell says she's a good parent, she herself has said that her adopted children would be better off with a mom and a dad. On top of that, the Family Research Institute of Colorado Springs reports that a third of the 57 children of homosexual parents they surveyed, had engaged in homosexuality. Regardless, no statistic can tell the real story like somone who has actually lived through the expericne of having grown up with a lesbian mother. Our guest today is one of those people, listen in as she tells her story."


Growing Up With a Lesbian Mother Pt.2

"Did you hear this? 95% of all problems children of homosexual parents face are attributed to the homosexual parents. That's according to a new study conducted by the Family Research Institute. Yet, the American Academy of Pediatrics and gay adoption advocates like Rosie O'Donnel, continue to try to convince the rest of us that kids fare just as well growing up in a home of a gay couple than they would in a traditional mother / father home. We talk to someone who knows first-hand, listen in!"


528 posted on 03/04/2005 12:45:30 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Child of a Lesbian

"At 11, his parents were divorced. Soon after, his mother sought the friendship and counsel of a nun, who seduced her into the homosexual lifestyle. Some call it "gay", but ask the average child of a homosexual parent and they'll call it anything but "gay". Don't believe in the power of God to change lives? You will after hearing this story. Listen in!"


529 posted on 03/04/2005 12:48:38 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Camp Intern Fired After Discussing Lesbianism With Students

"A 22-year-old camp intern was fired after it was discovered she discussed her lesbian experiences with about 60 sixth-grade girls, San Diego television station KGTV reported.

While some parents say that's enough, others are thinking twice about sending their kids to camp.

Alpine Unified School District administrators confirmed that at a sixth-grade camp last month, some of the students were using the word lesbian in a derogatory way. Officials said the camp intern who talked to them about it went too far.

The intern discussed her lesbian experiences with about 60 sixth-grade girls.

Katy Woodward, the principal at Joan MacQueen Middle School, immediately sent home a letter that told the parents of those girls that a camp intern had "an inappropriate conversation with your child." She said the topic of the conversation was "lesbianism" and "we encourage you to talk to your child."

The County Board of Education is reviewing training procedures, the station reported.

San Diego County Board of Education spokesman Jim Esterbrooks said, "They go through more than 80 hours of training and are instructed explicitly that they are talking to students and should imagine that those students' parents are sitting along side the youngsters."

Parent Penni Cody said, "I'm sure the administration of the school had nothing to do with it and they seem to take care of issues that come up that are important to the parents."

Many of the parents the station spoke with had not heard about the incident because it did not involve their child. Others said they will think twice about school camps.

Parent Traci Roberts said, "There's just too many things out in the world now that I don't choose to have my child exposed to, and this is one of them."


530 posted on 03/04/2005 1:29:55 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Follow up to replies 396 and 397 in this thread:

We Are Family Video To Be Delivered To 61,000 Elementary Schools March 11

"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.

The 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..."


531 posted on 03/04/2005 1:54:59 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Study Finds Disproportionate Percentage of Illinois Foster Child Abuse is Same Sex

Study finds disproportionate abuse by 'gays'

532 posted on 03/04/2005 2:09:22 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Q & A Concerning the March 2005 Human Genetics study concerning sexual orientation in men.
533 posted on 03/04/2005 2:16:20 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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bump


534 posted on 03/04/2005 3:12:03 PM PST by Lindykim
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To: scripter; little jeremiah; DirtyHarryY2K; Lindykim; longtermmemmory; Mockingbird For Short; ...
Supporting documentation for reply 514 in this thread:


Why NARTH? The American Psychiatric Association's Destructive and Blind Pursuit of Political Correctness

535 posted on 03/09/2005 11:00:26 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Supporting documentation for reply 336 in this thread:


When Propaganda Is Disguised As Research: The Case of Charlotte J. Patterson

536 posted on 03/09/2005 7:51:53 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Homosexual Acts Defy Design of the Body, Immunological Journal Finds By Frank York

June 9, 2004 -- Susan Brinkmann, an investigative journalist, is currently writing a six-part series on homosexuality called "Homosexuality: The Untold Story - A Dangerous New Diversity," for the Catholic Standard & Times, the Archdiocese newspaper of Philadelphia.

In Part 3 of her series on the health consequences of homosexual behavior, Brinkmann writes: "The American public has been left largely in the dark about the extent of the medical problems associated with homosexual activity because of the influence of pro-homosexual political agendas. Some even believe they are being 'compassionate' by not disclosing vital health information for fear of offending homosexuals."

The facts, however, tell a disturbing story about the dangers of homosexual behavior. Brinkmann points out the following:

Brinkmann also notes that a high number of homosexuals appear to have been molested as children compared to the general population. In one study, the American Journal of Public Health found that 39% of males who have same-sex attraction had been abused by homosexual men.

The author notes that from "an immunological point of view, the body itself considers homosexual acts to be disordered. For instance, there are substances in seminal fluid called 'immuno-regulatory macromolecule' that send out 'signals' that are only understood by the female body, which will then permit the 'two in one flesh' intimacy required for human reproduction. When deposited elsewhere, these signals are not only misunderstood, but cause sperm to fuse with whatever somatic body cell they encounter. This fusing is what often results in the development of cancerous malignancies. (See "Sexual Behavior and Increased Anal Cancer," Immunology and Cell Biology 75 (1977); 181-183.)

Part 1: The Phantom Gene
Part 2: Known causes of same-sex attraction
Part 3: Health risks of the homosexual lifestyle


537 posted on 03/09/2005 8:05:44 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Another example of propaganda from homosexual medical 'professionals':

Gay Physicians Offer Sexuality Advice to Parents

538 posted on 03/09/2005 8:20:07 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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Bump.


539 posted on 03/09/2005 11:06:02 PM PST by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it)
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Here's an older article that does an excellent job of documenting how GLSEN, the NEA, and the major homosexual activist organizations work together at the national level to promote their agenda.

Supporting documentation for reply 408 in this thread:

An excerpt from "Gay advocates in education ponder a George Bush future" by By Peter Cassels, Bay Windows staff, Thursday, December 14, 2000

"... Cullen, 32, joined GLSEN eight months ago and just recently moved into its newly opened Office of Public Policy in the nation’s capital. Headquartered in New York City, the advocacy organization believed it needed a Washington presence to more effectively achieve its goals of eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation in the nation’s 16,000 local school districts. Cullen and her office will identify federal, state and local public policy strategies and expand GLSEN’s work with Congress, the U.S. Department of Education and mainstream lobbying organizations, such as the National Education Association (NEA) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA). The move also places GLSEN in close proximity to prominent gay advocacy organizations it works with: the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Log Cabin Republicans and the National Stonewall Democratic Federation...

In 1965, Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which today provides seven to eight percent of local school funding. The Department of Education develops policy and administers those programs. “That’s where the impact can be dramatic,” Cullen notes. The department produces a raft of resources, such as printed materials and teacher and staff training programs and seminars on a variety of subjects affecting education, from improving the quality of schools to implementing federal anti-discrimination policies for students.

According to GLSEN spokesperson Jim Anderson, “any time the federal government can include sexual orientation in resource materials is extremely helpful to us when we go into local communities to make our case for expanding policies to include it.” Even though federal statutes do not currently protect sexual orientation, the department does sometimes include reference to it in materials and trainings. “Its Office of Civil Rights has comprehensive inclusive policies,” Cullen notes. “It did some work around hate crimes in the past few years and its language did include sexual orientation...”

She emphasizes that GLSEN doesn’t plan on developing and implementing its national strategies alone. “There’s a wealth of like-minded organizations that have offices here,” she points out. “The HRC has the lobbying force and a reputation on Capitol Hill. There’s the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, which represents community-based organizations working with GLBT youth. The American Psychological Association works with school counselors and psychologists.”

Then there’s the NEA, a powerful lobbying force: “Bob Chase, its president, spoke at our national conference in Chicago this year. He took a lot of heat, including hate mail from NEA members, for doing so. And, we’ll work with local school boards to promote our goals. From what I can tell, the NSBA has good folks and forward-thinking proposals.” The 2001 conference will be held in D.C., enhancing GLSEN’s visibility..."


540 posted on 03/11/2005 10:01:07 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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