Posted on 02/09/2005 9:51:01 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
(Washington D.C.) — A Virginia based gay rights organization has called for the resignation of Fairfax County school board member Stephen Hunt after he sent a letter to school principals in the county touting “ex-gay” reparative therapy. Equality Fairfax, Equality Virginia is a consortium of the Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network, P-FLAG and the Human Rights Campaign.
"Hunt should not be permitted to spread this kind of harmful misinformation," Paula Prettyman, president of Equality Fairfax said in her statement to the school board. "Reparative therapy techniques, or 'ex-gay' therapies, have been denounced by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association."
The school board issued a public reprimand to Hunt, but the school board member has yet to publicly apologize for his open letter to school principals.
"Junk science has no place in our schools," said David M. Smith, the HRC's vice president for policy and strategy. "No school board member should ignore the scientific evidence that sexual orientation cannot be changed just to push a personal agenda."
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I don't see how you can live with yourself. That's child abuse.
Ummm...Ok....These people are really going about this "acceptance and tolerance" jazz in all the wrong ways.
Tomorrow's homeschool lesson for my children is "stay away from people who claim to be Gay"
They are not happy. What they really are is demented. I teach them that anyone who wants to take rights away from US citizens is a freak.
I was going to teach them that a small percentage of people are genetically driven to not reproduce and therefore are driven to avoid situations where they may reproduce. I could have told my children that even if we don't understand it all we should live and let live.
But this will way be so much more fun!
Now off to make my lesson plan.
good post scripter; thanks for the ping.
BTTT
Funny you should say this. Tonight at work I was reading the article by Socrades (?) about sexual politics, and I jotted down a question next to one of the paragraphs--- maybe y'all can answer it. The question is: Why do psychologists, psychiatrists, people in the media, politicians, etc. who have NO ulterior motives (say, because they and their families/friends are all straight) or bias FOR homosex take the position that homosexuality is NOT an aberrant condition? Is it because they really, really believe it's perfectly normal?
If they actually believe that it IS abnormal (even tho' they don't admit it), what do they have to gain by pretending that it's normal and OK?
I guess "free speech" is only for America hating jerks like Ward Churchill.
I am increasingly convinced that the anti-christ will be homosexual and that all this is part of the lead up to his acceptance.
So how come a teacher can then bring in his life partner and dog and discuss his lifestyle in a computer science class???
When our former president was found out for having sex with a mistress in the Oval Office, I was [naively] shocked that so many people saw nothing wrong with it and defended him. Probably the same rationale at work?
What does this say about me? I admit to having made big mistakes in my life; but when others screw up morally, I don't defend their behavior. Does that make me a hypocrite? OR judgmental?
... I guess it doesn't really matter much what people think of my unwillingness to condone immoral behavior. What matters is what I can do to help protect children from the lie that "Whatever feels good IS good," and homosexuality is "perfectly normal." Also, the more I read, the more I realize that children need more warning and protection from predators than I thought.... But I still come back to the question: What can I do? I barely make enough money to pay my bills, so huge contributions to CWA or someone are out of the question; I'm not in a position of being able to influence individual kids as I once was as a schoolteacher; so where does this leave me?
You know, the one project that really impressed me as having lots of exposure and potential influence was the billboard which called people's attention to the fact that there really are EX-gays. I thought that was great. Was that in Houston? Those should be all over the country!
How many family members, neighbors, friends, associates, colleagues, etc do you know who have children and have similar concerns? There are still many people who don't understand what's going on. Perhaps you could compile some documentation from Scripter's Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1) thread and print it out and distribute or email it to them.
Here's a link to some information that you could simply highlight, copy, paste then print out or email:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076476/posts?page=261#261.
Believe me....OUTSPOKEN TRUTHFUL WORDS does wonders....keep talking, and posting, and telling. Why do you think the Rats are now attacking FR more than ever? ever since Rathergate, they've upped the anty, so to speak. Look what happened to NCPAC...don't think your "just telling the truth" is not important. Those with money can do more; perhaps those with money only need to read what YOU said or what YOU posted to get them going!
And what are the odds that your interlocutor was or wasn't a straight woman?
The propaganda was certainly "straight" -- as in, uncut.
Thanks for these suggestions, EdReform!
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