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.
What are the odds that the nerdly types are already being ridiculed and shunned by their peers? And that the people who are suggesting an 'alternative lifestyle' appear to offer friendship and acceptance the nerds aren't finding anywhere else?
How hard is it to believe that someone might be swayed by that? Seems downright probable to me.
I can imagine the right sort of planted 'peer pressure' could do it. Friendly-seeming person finds out target's interest, and then suggests that a couple of his friends are interested in the same thing and offers to introduce them at the seminar, which he promises won't have any unwanted pressure, etc.
Interesting. I attended a similar boarding school for gifted and talented students in high school. Three of the residence counselors (maybe four) were gay, and a lot of the students were pretty messed up sexually after that experience.
I doubt it was more than one seminar. We were inundated with such garbage.
"The idiots are feeling especially useful today."
ROTFLOL!
Thanks for one of the best laughs I've had in a long time. Still chortling.
Busy little fellows sometimes, aren't they?
The poor lad didn't go seeking the homosexual lifestyle, he just got sucked into it.
Sounds as if you've put a lot of research & study into it.
However, it does surprise me that something that has no evolutionary basis, has been proscribed by most if not all religions & cultures, and frankly seems as if it would be more uncomfortable than pleasurable has survived for this long, and has people who "choose" to practice it.
Why would anyone "choose" that?
I think high school counselors, on the whole, have better things to do.
Where have you heard of this happening, or has it? If it has occured, was it a district policy, or one disturbed counselor?
Some people prefer MD 20/20, and perhaps that's a developed taste too, but it's not generally lauded by polite society.
The Governor's School of North Carolina was not represented to the boy, or his parents, as a symposium on the homosexual lifestyle.
And on the whole, it was not. This boy CHOSE to attend one OPTIONAL seminar on "The New Gay Teenager", although he didn't have to and could have been doing other things at the time.
Why do you suppose a heterosexual teenaged boy would choose to do that? My experience with heterosexual teenaged boys is that they enjoy things like sports, video games, and girls....and they tend to stay away from any suggestion of "gay". YMMV.
Not me, I was already a practicing heterosexual at 13. It wasn't for another few years before I had someone to practice with ;-)
I would, sure.
Would you want one of your children to marry an ex-gay?
My kids will be just as informed as I am, if not more. So it's up to them. I would support any decision they make.
Once you understand the issues it's a lot easier to make certain decisions.
That would depend upon the extent to which I judged that she had moved beyond her past.
Were you ever a teenaged boy? Would that have worked on you?
The heterosexual boys I know would avoid "gay" like the plague. For one thing, there wouldn't be any girls who'd be interested in them in a seminar like that, and if the girls they were interested in SAW them in there, they might lose interest, and if their buddies found out they'd gone in there, they'd never hear the end of it.
ROFL!!
You would really benefit from viewing the I Do Exist video or a similar video. Perhaps the Bob Blackford story will help you realize what the word choice means in this regard.
That's certainly when they tried.
There was Bill Colvin who would always purchase gas at the station I worked, and he would offer me drugs, money, gifts, anything I wanted. I just had to show it to him, to start with.
Then there was Tony Alvarez who wouldn't stop asking me what stereo system I wanted. Both of us were into stereo systems and Tony would buy me whatever I wanted, if I only spent the night with him.
Marvin Martins had a lot of money, beautiful house and offered drugs, money, whatever. Just let him do whatever he wanted.
That's how they worked the kids 30 years ago. And to the kid who doesn't get along with his father or may be homeless, those offers can be tempting, even more so today with people pushing trash similar to The New Gay Teenager.
I can see that you are very mature and articulate. Thank you for casting dispersions on my non-existant children. I called you an idiot because I thought you were acting like one or are in fact one. You called someone an idiot in your post, I believe I am afforded that same right. Youre going to have to present some sort of legitimate argument if you want me to continue this rebuttal...
This smells like propaganda.
Could it be this poor kid is being used?
I swear, you people keep acting as if this notion that goofy awkward boys cant be led into this sort of thing. You scream like it is not plausible in the least. Get an Effin clue!
I don't understand why more parents aren't getting "lawyered up" and going after school systems that push all kind of sex - hetero- or homo-.
I betcha that if an adult started talking about sex to a teenager (or younger) at a theater, park, or on the bus the police would be called and the deviant would be arrested. Why is it different when an "educator" does it?
The same goes for schools demanding that kids take mind-altering drugs. Why isn't that practicing medicine without a license?
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