Posted on 05/18/2005 11:09:47 AM PDT by scripter
Some experts are saying there is a trend in public education toward pro-homosexual programs and curricula that may pose a serious danger to children.
"Radical gender and homosexual advocacy groups influence teacher-training programs dealing with 'sexual orientation' and 'diversity,' creating school environments that are heavily biased against Christian moral teachings," stated Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth and executive director of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI).
According to Agape Press (AP), LaBarbera has monitored the homosexual movement for 15 years, with special focus on its “campaign to penetrate schools."
He said groups like GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) and PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) work with pro-homosexual student groups to promote the notion of “inherent homosexual, bisexual, or transgender identity” that may confuse students with sexuality and causing younger and younger students to "come out.”
He added that even grade-school students are being approached with programs and lesson plans about bullying and homosexual parenting.
Christian families are often completely unaware of what is already happening in their community's schools, according to the IFI spokesman. "Most parents, especially those living near big cities, simply have no clue as to the many ways that the 'sexual orientation' agenda works its way into their children's education," he said.
Psychology professor Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who specializes in sexual orientation, noted that most parents are clueless on this is matter and or that “public school officials collaborate with political activists to attempt to alter the beliefs of school children."
Voddie Baucham, a Christian evangelist from Texas, has recently submitted a new resolution on homosexuality in public schools to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) that calls the Southern Baptists to examine whether there is such pro-homosexual agenda in their local school districts.
He hopes the resolution, co-submitted by author Bruce Shortt, will help to raise awareness among Christian parents and others about what he considers “a crisis in public education.” The proposal encourages every SBC church to investigate whether the local school distric has either a homosexual club or pro-homosexual program and if it does, it further urges the church to inform parents and remove their children immediately.
The Baucham-Shortt resolution, however, does not discourage adult Christians from serving in public schools, but actually commends it, stated AP. However, it urges them to make a greater effort to provide and support Christian educational alternatives to government schools, especially for low-income and single-parent families.
"One of the complaints that is sort of levied against us because of this resolution is that we are somehow insensitive to poor families who cannot afford to send their children to private schools," Baucham said. “One of the things we call for in the resolution is for our churches to provide affordable alternatives to government education. It is not hard to do."
I am sick and tired of hearing about how gays are infiltrating their agenda into schools. Kids will learn all about this stuff when they get older or from the street. I have gay friends and co-workers and most of them are not of the activist mind set.....they're just doing their thing...privately. There should be a list of the leaders of these agenda pushing organizations so they can be watched and fought against. Or do they operating under the auspices of a sympathetic school board or the ACLU?
Unfortunately, organizations like GLSEN are welcome at many public schools.
What do you call something that's beyond insanity?
Exactly, but this school was in the SF Bay area and kids were given extra credit for campaigning for Kerry. Our son currently is at Auburn AL now in his third year. My wife and I hope he does not return to CA after graduation, there is so much more of this country. (PS, Cheney is speaking at Auburn at this Friday's graduation event. War Eagle)
The new letter to be added to LGBT is Q for Questioning. You are right. They want everyone who has glanced at someone of the same sex to consider himself a homosexual. Those disgusted by homosexuality - they are definitely homosexual. Those who write against homosexuality - they are obviously homosexuals too (that one I heard from a married minister with children and his own homosexual daliances).
The AIDS crisis actually made homosexuals more strident.
Again, I don't know where you're writing from, or what age your kids are, but I've had kids in liberal Baltimore County public schools every year since 1988 (23, 19 and 13 year old kids), and I can tell you this, pushing the gay agenda hasn't even gotten into the top 10 things they are pushing.
I obviously know nothing about you, but I've had freepmail conversations with folks espousing the same side of the issue as you who have never had kids in public school. That points to a bit of a credibility issue.
I'd say there are quite a few folks with agendas on both sides of this coin.
thanks. They don't always (smile). Ooh, those flames.
Or home schooling.
If experts are weary of queers pushing their agenda of recruiting our kids, what do they think the general public is? But the future of our children are at stake so the fight must continue.
Really, if you don't think the gay activists are trying to push its way into the classroom, you obviously aren't paying attention. Certainly they may not yet have been successful at most local levels, but that is not for a lack of effort. The NEA has been in bed with gay groups for years, and it is a very high priority to push for the NEA to push the gay agenda in our schools in the name of diversity. And that comes right out of the lips of the president of the NEA.
Whether that statement is true or not, it doesn't matter. Pushing the homosexual agenda is something that shouldn't exist in the public schools, period. Whether it's agenda number 1 or agenda number 1000, it has no place in public schools.
I've had freepmail conversations with folks espousing the same side of the issue as you who have never had kids in public school. That points to a bit of a credibility issue.
Whether that's true or not it's not a credibility issue. Somebody doesn't have to have children in school to see the obvious, and it doesn't have to be happening in every school for folks to be alarmed.
I'd say there are quite a few folks with agendas on both sides of this coin.
I would agree, but we probably won't agree why:
Indeed. I think this article is very revealing: Changing Minds
“Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy.”
Since Communism is dead, just replace with the goals of the radical left.
The gay agenda and schools? Here’s something to think about:
Homosexual Manifesto AN ESSAY ON THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTION * Authored by Michael Swift Presented for info by the PhilFam Committee 10 June 1998
"We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of you shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us>….”
one more: homeschool
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1026551/posts?page=408#408
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1026551/posts?page=525#525
See also:
Gay-Affirmative Public School Teachers/Curricula May Influence Brain Maturation In Teens
Ed, what's this about bullying? Are they trying to pass over this agenda in bullying workshops?
The whole darn public school system is not about learning anymore. It is about feel-good, diversity, moral relativism,
indoctrination of Liberal principles, and "America is just another country "propaganda.
And why shouldn't it be? Most teachers are former Liberal Arts and Humanities Degree holders of the 60's and 70's,
who despised everything we stood for then, and still feel the same way.
The only way it will change is if parents of these students get sick and tired of it and take things into their own hands, either thru home-schooling or mass pressure on elected office holders.
Read through the following threads:
'No Name Calling Week' Cited As Misguided Gay Activism (GLSEN at it again?)
No Name Calling Week to be March 1-5th; Thousands of Schools to Participate
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