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School Board Member Asked to Resign After 'Ex-Gay' Reference
ProudParenting.com ^
| Wednesday, February 09, 2005
| ProudParenting.com
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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: apa; education; exgays; fairfaxcounty; freespeech; gaystapo; glsen; homosexualagenda; hrc; lavendermafia; pflag; pspl; publicschools; schools; stephenhunt
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To: Clint N. Suhks; scripter; longtermmemmory; lentulusgracchus; ArGee; SweetCaroline; nicmarlo
61
posted on
02/09/2005 1:42:59 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform
Did you email them the URL to this thread?No, I found it after I had already sent them an email .
To: longtermmemmory
Notice how the headline reads like OFFICIALS demanded his resignation. That web site is a pro homosexual parenting lobby. Notice the the homo rhetoric "Pride"Parenting.
To: EdReform
The mental health professions should stop moving in the direction of banning such therapy. Many patients, informed of the possibility that they may be disappointed if the therapy does not succeed, can make a rational choice to work toward developing their heterosexual potential and minimizing their unwanted homosexual attractions. In fact, such a choice should be considered fundamental to client autonomy and self-determination." (Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, "Psychiatry and Homosexuality," The Wall Street Journal, 05/23/2001)..." This is the one quote I did email them. Wish I had the Massachusetts News quote too. Thats a killer.
To: Clint N. Suhks
65
posted on
02/09/2005 2:25:05 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: Clint N. Suhks
66
posted on
02/09/2005 2:32:57 PM PST
by
Ed_in_NJ
(Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
To: EdReform
I don't want to do that. I don't want to connect FR or NARTH...David Smith would be all over that. Although I do want to send him Former President of the American Psychological Association Robert Perloff's comments to NARTH. If you've not sent the Gay Orthodoxy article from Regent I may forward that one and the Mass News link.
To: Clint N. Suhks; scripter; little jeremiah; Mockingbird For Short; nicmarlo; SweetCaroline; All
Follow up your reading of
Gay Orthodoxy and Academic Heresy with the excerpts posted in replies
46,
121,
213,
239,
240,
241,
329,
331, and
336 in Scripter's
Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1) thread and
reply 44 in this thread.
Dots connected, picture complete. Yes Virginia, there is a homosexual agenda.
68
posted on
02/09/2005 2:36:56 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Let David Smith pound sand. We've got enough documentation to bury HRC.
69
posted on
02/09/2005 2:44:38 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform
Kids as young as kindergarten age are now being indoctrinated with "homosexuality is normal" propaganda. Ain't it just "wonderful"?
70
posted on
02/09/2005 3:02:46 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: Clint N. Suhks
Although I do want to send him Former President of the American Psychological Association Robert Perloff's comments to NARTH.
Excellent idea. Check out the links to the APA Monitor on Psychology posted here. Straight from the horse's mouth and backs up the documentation posted on NARTH's website and in the Gay Orthodoxy and Academic Heresy article.
If you've not sent the Gay Orthodoxy article from Regent I may forward that one and the Mass News link.
I haven't sent them the link, so please do!
71
posted on
02/09/2005 3:03:59 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform; Clint N. Suhks
We've got enough documentation to bury HRC. and
I don't want to connect FR or NARTH...David Smith would be all over that. Although I do want to send him Former President of the American Psychological Association Robert Perloff's comments to NARTH.
What're you guys up to? and
Are you doing whatever it is soon?
72
posted on
02/09/2005 3:05:27 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: nicmarlo
An increasing number of queer folk thinks so.
73
posted on
02/09/2005 3:06:14 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform
Yes, I know; and lots of "straight" folks don't seem to mind, either.
74
posted on
02/09/2005 3:06:57 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: EdReform
I haven't sent them the link, so please do!Thanks for the help. I'm trying to do some research on Regent.edu the the gay orthodoxy paper came from, is that college or what?
To: nicmarlo
76
posted on
02/09/2005 3:08:02 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: Clint N. Suhks
"Junk science has no place in our schools," said David M. Smith, the HRC's vice president for policy and strategy. Ya, sure. How much you want to bet thay are pushing Global Warming Junk Science from K-12?
77
posted on
02/09/2005 3:09:51 PM PST
by
Ditto
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To: EdReform
I just downloaded the 'Gay Orthodoxy' and read the first page...looks "interesting," so far.
78
posted on
02/09/2005 3:10:54 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: nicmarlo
Once you've read it, do the reading exercise in reply 68 above.
79
posted on
02/09/2005 3:15:04 PM PST
by
EdReform
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To: EdReform
80
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02/09/2005 3:18:26 PM PST
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nicmarlo
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