Posted on 01/14/2005 7:31:37 AM PST by EdReform
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No Name Calling Week? 1/12/2005 Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it.
“There is a special place in hell for people like you!”
These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall. This teacher disagreed with my views of sexual orientation and made sure I knew it.
I thought of this encounter as I perused the list of organizations that have teamed up to bring us “No Name Calling Week” (NNCW) during the week of January 24-28, 2005. Based on a fiction book called The Misfits by James Howe, the purported purpose of NNCW is to raise awareness among school children of how destructive name calling can be. I noted that the NEA was one of the co-sponsors of the week. I had to chuckle as I wondered if this event would be observed at this delegate’s school. While the NEA delegate did not technically call me a naughty name, I don’t think he meant his prediction of a special place as a random act of kindness.
Another sponsoring group is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN). In fact, the president of this group, Kevin Jennings, is also a national spokesperson for the NNCW. Curiously, I have read that Mr. Jennings knows how to call a name or two. In fact, several years ago, he used language in a speech to supporters that might have gotten him expelled from many schools. In the speech, Mr. Jennings was audiotaped discussing his feelings about those he labeled, “the religious right.” Concerning those who disagreed with him, Mr. Jennings told the audience:
"We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit -- ... I'm trying to find a way to say this. I'm trying not to say, '[F---] 'me! which is what I want to say, because I don't care what they think! Drop dead!" (Speech at Marble Collegiate Church, New York City, March 20, 2000).
Mr. Jennings and GLSEN have been called upon by numerous school districts to provide in-service training concerning sexual orientation. Perhaps the NEA delegate who talked about my “special place in hell” attended one of those training meetings.
GLSEN’s news releases are filled with words like “bigot” and “hateful” and “homophobic” describing people who disagree with them. Hence I am surprised at the choice of Mr. Jennings as a national spokesperson for the NNCW.
Mr. Jennings and GLSEN tirelessly inform us that many students are bullied and verbally attacked at school based on perceived homosexuality. Of course, all such name calling is wrong and schools should insist on a safe environment for all students. However, it does not seem an improvement when the response to name calling is more name calling.
The irony of all of this is that the main purpose of NNCW does not seem to be ending name calling. It is about telling the story of Joe, the “gay character” in The Misfits, the book from which NNCW is derived. According to author James Howe, who is gay, he wanted The Misfits to put a more positive slant on being gay in middle school.
Thus, ideology is the real issue here and not name calling.
In an interview with author Howe, published on childrenslit.com, he says concerning Joe: “I wanted him to be a kid who sees himself as cool, who sees nothing wrong with being attracted to the boy who sits next to him in art class as opposed to the girl on the other side of him. He understands, as do the other ‘misfits’ in this story, that the problem isn't with himself, it's with the attitudes and ignorance of others.”
Mr. Howe’s representation of Joe is not simply an incidental device to encourage civility to those who seem different in some way. Rather, it is a clear bid to change beliefs. Mr. Howe wants kids everywhere to come away from this book seeing “nothing wrong” with homosexuality. In actuality, Joe is not a misfit, he is a teacher, making sure those who disapprove of him get the message that they are plagued with incorrect “attitudes and ignorance.”
Now I know why GLSEN is involved with this event.
It appears that NNCW may be another effort on the part of GLSEN and other event organizers to tell those who object to homosexuality on religious or philosophical grounds to “drop dead.”
Adults: want to end bullying and harassment in the schools? Don’t call names, don’t pit groups against each other, enact anti-harassment policies covering all students and then enforce them. Oh, and do this year round, not just during NNCW.
Dr. Warren Throckmorton is associate professor of psychology and director of the college counseling service at Grove City College (Pennsylvania). His columns have been published by over 60 newspapers and his scholarly work published in journals of the American Psychological Association. He is the producer of the documentary I Do Exist, which is about sexual orientation. He can be reached at ewthrockmorton@gcc.edu.
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Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Read this one; there are many, many excellent and informative links and excerpts posting. Every parent, granparent, aunt, uncle, and concerned citizen should read this thread. To remain ignorant of what the homosexual pushers have planned for the children of America is to become their assistant.
(Sorry I didn't ping it out earlier, but this is extremely important and relates to other threads.)
Let me and DirtyHarryY2K know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
This related thread has a lot of info as well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1326755/posts?page=1
Despite Gripes About Gay Themes, 'No Name-Calling' Initiative Spreads in Middle Schools
Thanks for the ping. Whatever happened to teaching your kids "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" or something like that? I teach my children to respect others, but I also scold them when they tell on their siblings for something "she said", "he said I was"etc.
These kids at these schools will not make it in the real world/college, jobs, etc. if they cannot tolerate name calling. $hi* happens, get over it, ignore it and get back to the 3 R's. What will this generation of school-children be like in 20 years?
Spot on. The libs are world class name callers.
Opps! Almost forgot.......
The lefts answer to verything........
Main Entry: freak
Pronunciation: 'frEk
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
1 a : a sudden and odd or seemingly pointless idea or turn of the mind b : a seemingly capricious action or event
2 archaic : a whimsical quality or disposition.
3 : one that is markedly unusual or abnormal: as a : a person or animal with a physical oddity who appears in a circus sideshow b slang (1) : a sexual deviate
Or Queer??
Main Entry: 1queer
Pronunciation: 'kwir
Function: adjective
Etymology: origin unknown
1 a : WORTHLESS, COUNTERFEIT <queer money> b : QUESTIONABLE, SUSPICIOUS
2 a : differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal b (1) : ECCENTRIC, UNCONVENTIONAL (2) : mildly insane : TOUCHED c : absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree : OBSESSED d (1) often disparaging : HOMOSEXUAL (2) sometimes offensive : GAY 4b
3 : not quite well
Or even, pervert??
Main Entry: 1per·vert
Pronunciation: p&r-'v&rt
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French pervertir, from Latin pervertere to overturn, corrupt, pervert, from per- thoroughly + vertere to turn -- more at PER-, WORTH
1 a : to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : CORRUPT b : to cause to turn aside or away from what is generally done or accepted : MISDIRECT
2 a : to divert to a wrong end or purpose : MISUSE
An excerpt from "The Danger of 'Safe Schools'"
"'Safe Schools' is the brainchild of Kevin Jennings, a "gay" political strategist who formed the Gay Lesbian Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN) in Massachusetts in the mid-1990s as a Trojan horse to get homosexual activism into the public schools. The name was afterwards changed to Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a strategic correction designed to soften its image and obscure what it had at first advertised: that it is a group of activist homsexual teachers.
Jennings bragged in a 1995 speech to the Human Rights Campaign Fund Leadership Conference that "[T]he effective reframing of this issue was the key to...success. We immediately seized upon the opponent's calling card -- safety -- and explained how homophobia represents a threat to students' safety by creating a climate where violence, name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common. Titling our report ‘Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth,' we automatically threw our opponents onto the defensive and stole their best line of attack. This framing short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedaling from day one."
GLSEN's deception has been enormously successful..."
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They disgust me.
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"... Opposition to the message of the Ex-Gay Educators Caucus is led by Kevin Jennings, a former private school teacher in Massachusetts and founder of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network. Mr. Jennings is a partner with the NEA in promoting acceptance of homosexuality through curriculum materials in the nation's schools as early as kindergarten and elementary grades. He was given the NEA's human rights "creative leadership" award at this year's convention.
"Ex-gay messages have no place in our nation's public schools," Mr. Jennings said in a publication of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network. "A line has been drawn. There is no 'other side' when you're talking about lesbian, gay and bisexual students."
Now consider this excerpt from "CFI Panel Exposes GLSEN’s Cross-Dressing Agenda - Medical Doctor Says Young Male AIDS Cases Linked to Abuse
"... FROM ABUSE VICTIM TO ‘GAY’ STUDENT
LaBarbera also relayed an account by GLSEN Executive Director Kevin Jennings in which he counseled one of his former students, a sophomore boy named Brewster who had been victimized by a homosexual pedophile. According to his account in his book One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories, Jennings, then an openly homosexual teacher at the private Concord Academy in Massachusetts, met with the troubled Brewster, who nervously revealed “a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston.” Jennings wrote that after the talk, Brewster “left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on campus.”
Jennings said proudly that he had helped the boy realize “that it’s OK to be gay.” Several years later, he saw Brewster at a homosexual restaurant in Boston. “He was now twenty-two, taking time off from college, and living with his boyfriend,” Jennings wrote.
LaBarbera said the story illustrates the problem of open homosexual activists working in schools and using their authority and trust as role models to promote false, unhealthy sexual identities to impressionable students. He said that in reality, young Brewster was not “gay,” as Jennings had claimed, but the confused victim of a homosexual predator..."
Ping
That keyword list is growing larger in honor of "no name calling week."
LOL! Yeah, that happens sometimes!
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Matthew 5:22 (King James Version)
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
So calling someone a "Raca" or a "fool" is a bad thing.
But what's this word "Raca" mean? According to the following article, it may be equivalent to calling someone an effeminate man.
http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/varnell/varnell102a.html
I see you are new to FReeRepublic larbob.
Welcome.
I'm not sure why you are addressing your
post to me.
As you know, if you've read any of my posts
over the years; I don't debate The Bible. The
Bible is The Bible. If there is anything you like
or don't like in the Bible; please take it up with
God during your prayer time.
Since you are interested in the Bible; I'll post
a passage for you that you might also find
of interest.
May God bless you as you delve deeply and
prayerfully into God's Word.
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From THE BIBLE: Romans 1:16-32
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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