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.
Pedophiles, ephebophiles, and pederasts do have an idea. They've been practicing it for 2600 years, since the days when Athenian fathers had to provide their sons a pedagogue when they went to gymnasium. Pederasts were always hanging around the ball court, trying to initiate conversations with the boys.
Getting boys to "come across" is an ancient, ancient art with pederasts. That you should express skepticism in the face of such a lengthy accumulation of human experience with deviancy is frankly surprising.
Of course, I have no idea why some women allow their husbands to molest their daughters either.
"Allow" assumes the mothers know what's going on. Usually, they don't.
Gays brag on gay-themed discussion threads on e.g. Salon's "TableTalk" and other venues, about how breaking a boy in means they've got him for life. Getting to him first counts the most -- and you're right, that is exactly what these school programs are about.
Troll.
Then you ought to know that other people who are not born gay can be "skinned" like the proverbial "chickens"... and I think you do.
Troll again.
Moderator, get the hook.
Good for you! Although I think from personal recollection that fourth or fifth grade would be more seasonable -- especially considering that gays are trying to get to kids to shape their values and make them receptive to homosexuality in elementary schools, as witness the appearance of Heather Has Two Mommies, etc.
Here is a paragraph from the website's curriculum page:
GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL CURRICULAR EMPHASIS: CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
The Governor's School curricular emphasis on contemporary thought in each discipline has proved successful for over 40 years. This central aspect of the program is continually praised by educators, students, and alumni, and achieves the school's goal of "opening windows onto the future." Students encounter theories and concepts not typical of a high school curriculum and, in fact, often not encountered until graduate school.
"I have developed a more accepting attitude towards controversial material and opposing beliefs. I understand many more perspectives that others have, and this array of viewpoints has helped me to better establish and support my opinions."
– Student, 2003
Here are some of the benefits that have been found from the focus on contemporary theories at Governor's School:
In a world of rapid change, the study of recent theories creates an increased open-mindedness to that which is new, engendering an acceptance of the process of change itself. In this context, new and developing paradigms are seen as adventures for exploration rather than the force of change against which all must retrench.
The study of vanguard ideas has the effect of raising questions about basic assumptions of each discipline – exactly the kind of questioning which promotes creative solutions to long-standing problems. For students and teachers, it has a mind-expanding effect that far surpasses the enjoyment of simply learning facts.
The curricular focus on current thought in each discipline draws faculty, staff, and students into a common circle of learners, as teachers become explorers of uncharted territory along with students. In Area II classes especially, the search for connections between disciplines engages the faculty and students in dialogue over non-technical explanations of newest theories and common themes among them.
Or was it another student?
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I can't imagine the difficulty and challenge of being in a situation where I was forced to put my children in a public school. You are quite right. Not everyone is able to either homeschool or send their children to private school.
Irving Bieber, before the gay cabal rolled the APA, was interested in just such questions, in pursuit of answers to which he ran a "longitudinal" study in the 1950's and early 1960's in which he examined numbers of homosexual men and tried to determine whether they could become heteronormal through therapy, as it was practiced back then. His bottom line, after years of work, was that there was a split in the population he studied, with about 30% of his subjects being hard-core gay, what you might call essentially or biologically gay, and the rest showed varying degrees of susceptibility to reparative therapy.
Nowadays "reparative therapy" is a swear word at all three APA's, which are politically dominated by homosexuals and take inflexibly pro-homosexual, essentialist positions on all questions of homosexuality and sexual norms. Bieber was abused for a number of years, usually ridiculed as "old medicine" or "old psychiatry", an old fuddy-duddy who wasn't with the program like all us modern gay-friendly mental-health caregivers. That, of course, was politically-driven buncombe.
Now the issue has been reopened by no less than Robert Spitzer, who was one of the movers and shakers of the gay coup, along with Judson Marmor and a few others (Marmor became president of the American Psychological Association in 1973, shortly after the coup). Spitzer has done new work and stated publicly that his working conclusions don't support the essentialist position, that there is as yet no discoverable "gay gene" or histological evidence for essential homosexuality.
Essentialism versus fluidity has been the big cognitive dissonance in the gay movement over the last 20 years. The scientists and lawyers insist on essentialism, because they're pushing a strategy that will try to use the U.S. Supreme Court to promote a series of court edicts announcing the moral equality of sexual deviance with sexual normality, using as their model the civil rights movement. They are trying to equate homosexuality with African heredity as an irreducible attribute.
The literary, cultural, and "social studies" gays, on the other hand, have articulated a position that sexual identity is fluid, changeable, and in the end irrelevant, and have tried to minimize differences by emphasizing ambiguity, thus directly contradicting the essentialists.
I think it's telling, that these guys want the Supreme Court to hand them a total victory over the other 97% of society, even though they aren't on the same page with one another.
What's your opinion about Gay Straight Alliance clubs? Do you think they should be allowed in public schools?
I don't remember. You'll have to go back to the original thread and follow the links.
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