Posted on 02/09/2006 5:36:17 PM PST by Coleus
The Governor's School of North Carolina describes itself as "program for intellectually gifted high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the arts, and unique courses." But one North Carolina couple is suffering some after effects of their son's involvement in the program. Jim and Beverly Burrows say after their son attended a Governor's School seminar called "The New Gay Teenager," he began telling them he was unsure of his "sexual orientation."
The parents believe the seminar was intentionally scheduled as the last optional one before classes ended in order to leave a strong, lasting impression on the students and bypass any parental notification about the seminar.
Jim Burrows says he noticed a big difference in his otherwise normal son upon his return from the school.
"He [said he] was thinking now that he perhaps was gay -- and of course I was floored by this [pronouncement] and was, like, 'where did this come from?' This kind of came out of left field," the dad says. After questioning his son for an extended period, Burrows says he discovered the source. "I found out that this was as a result of this seminar."
According to Burrows, his son was instructed by two openly homosexual staff members of the Governor's School to question his sexuality as well as Bible passages that condemn homosexuality. And the students were also encouraged by instructors to start a Gay Straight Alliance club at their schools, he says.
The North Carolina dad explains that his son's subsequent struggle with homosexuality has turned his family upside down. "As far as our family is concerned, the damage has already been done," he laments. "There's no way that we can go back and undo what has been done."
Still, Mr. Burrows feels he needs to warn other parents of the homosexual indoctrination his son encountered at the Governor's School. "[I]f I can keep one other family from having to go through this, then all this trouble has been worthwhile," he says.
Why do you think it would work on others if not you?
Certainly, you can hit on them at a time when they are vulnerable, like right after they have been rejected or feel lonely. Since a lot of teenagers are in that state of mind, they are easy prey to predators. Sexuality is complex, and people often become turned on my inanimate objects. People have fetishes for leather, vinyl, diapers, and all sorts of strange stuff. This things turn them on as a result of learned behavior not genetics.
Labeling is a very powerful tool on young kids. Once you attach a label on a kid whether it be 'smart', 'cool', 'dumb', or 'gay', it radically effects how they view themselves. There is a reason gays want to be in school, this is when kids are developing their sexuality, they are confused and vulnerable, and their are easily influenced. It is much more difficult to label a young adult than an adolescent.
Not many people can fathom how people develop strange fetishes either, whether it be to objects or animals or S&M. People's sexuality develop over time and teenage years are critical. It is not so much peer-pressure, but about planting seeds into young developing minds and catching them at a vulnerable time. You would be surprised how people behave when they are lonely, depressed, confuses, and horny. There is no mystery why the teenage years are when most suicides occur. Kids are vulnerable.
Did anyone hear E D Hill this week on Fox & Friends?
She was irate...
..It seems there's a cuddly slate of programming for little kids that she lets her younsters watch without any qualms.
But the other day all 5 of her kids were parked in front of the TV watching this cuddly little innocent program on this channel....
...and one minute a teddybear was waving 'bye'...and the next, at 6:PM, the channel changed programs/formats and were advertising a program geared to young teens, called DiGrassi High and showing two young teen girls kissing and making out!
E D was absolutely furious that her children had been ambushed....
..and had to stop then and there and talk about why this isn't a good thing.
It's no holds barred on our kids!
"What is a "unic"?"
If I'm not mistaken, they were castrated boys used by Romans or Greeks to take care of their houses while they were away at war or work. (Safe around the wife). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
"If I'm not mistaken, they were castrated boys used by Romans or Greeks to take care of their houses while they were away at war or work. (Safe around the wife). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong."
Your definition is pretty much correct, but the spelling is wrong. It's eunuch.
Check out this old thread: Testimony of parent whose son committed suicide after attending the Ark. Gov.'s School
Testimony #3:Q: Did she call you while she was at the Governor's School. A: Yes. We talked while she was at the Governor's School. She would call. We were very close to her. We started working with Fran because of her suicidal tendencies when she was in the 10th or 11th grade. My wife first found out she had suicidal tendencies. She became very close to us. She talked to us off and on mostly as a result of our initiation of us contacting her during the AGS. It's been so long ago now that I forget a lot of it.There was a lot of existentialism offered to them. I remember one of the debates that really got her into an uproar was whether or not homosexuality was right. Things that are contrary to Judeo Christian morals & values. Basically being thrown up as an alternative lifestyle type of thing. And basically whether anyone could judge right or wrong. That's basically what I remember from our conversation.
After it was over, most of our conversation took place about what she was exposed to at Governor's School. Just trying to balance she had been exposed to at the Governor's School.
Q: How much difference did you see in her?
A: The big difference that I saw was that she questioned her faith a awful lot after Governor's School. It was almost as if the experience of the Governor's School destroyed her faith.
It took her several years after that to work through and I'm not sure she ever got back to the point to where she was before Governor's School.
There's a difference between "pretty much" (i.e., some pre-disposition) and declaring oneself 'gay'. This seminar was intended to help push that declaration, and that's wrong.
The Governor's School, if it's like the one in Virginia, is a summer program (live-in, away from home and alone for probably the first time) for selected gifted students who have met a rigorous competitive criteria. The kids are young and vulnerable.
This IS a disgrace.
Yes -but it appears you made and do make an argument implying that 'education' garbage like that which the article details is not a danger or threat to children. Your argument premised upon your general and flawed assertion that people can not be made homosexual. Some people, especially young children, can be coerced and or indoctrinated into many behaviors, homosexual activity being one of them.
So what makes you think all parents realize what is going on and have the power (money and brains) to get their kids into an alternative school situation? What are you doing to stop the public school officials from using our tax dollars and children as their personal sex pistols? This trite conservative response, "If you don't like it take your kids out" is useless in the scheme of life and only serves to shift blame and responsibility away from yourself. Why do you have schools bothering children with sodomy? Why don't you pull the perverts out of school so kids are safe there? For the same reason many parents can't pull their kids out of public schools - power and money.
Junior high school is when I began my own counter sex ed program with my kids. It was not all at one time; I just introduced them to articles over time and in response to their questions. The first lesson for kids is that homosexuality means something: it is sexual behavior engaged by people called homosexuals. What is that sexual/social behavior? What are the medical and social consequences of that behavior? Why do people do that to their bodies? Why would homosexual adults be interested in recruiting children as sex partners and interested parties? How should they react to it all in protection of themselves - their spirits, bodies and minds?
In elementary school I spoke with them about protecting themselves from sexual abuse and the central tool used by molestors - secrecy born of manipulation in fear, shame and guilt. The first lesson in this came naturally when my eldest son was three and his sixteen year old babysitter tried to make out with him. He did not like it and spit on her to make her stop. Then he was afraid he was in trouble for spitting on the babysitter but finally told me what was wrong...what happened. And I told him, he was brilliant to spit on her given that he was not strong enough to kick her ass! (It turned out the babysitter was molested at age four by her uncle. She probably grew up to be a public school teacher.: )
In any population there are people on the edge who, under the right conditions, may just be confused enough to try it, just like the folks that cults recruit. Most people won't join cults and will recognize them for what they are - but the folks who are most vulnerable will not and can therefore be preyed upon by the unscrupulous.
Irene married Stephen Bennett of Straight Talk Radio.
A list of ex-gay testimonials here: http:/ /www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388051/posts?page=24#24
Also, the I Do Exist video is excellent and should be seen by all.
Yeah, that is what we are both saying I think.
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