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.
I can't imagine being so obsessed by homosexuals as to spend "years" compiling links and "educating" oneself.
Gay bogeymen don't haunt my dreams or my nightmares.
And yet you discuss the subject on this thread. I guess tens of thousands of homosexuals dying of AIDS mean nothing to you.
You can either remain ignorant of the gay agenda, if you really are that ignorant. Or, what is more likely, you can feign ignorance in order to promote the normalization of homosexuality. Or rather, its dominance.
Since you decline to click the links (how about the link in comment #258?) and read, you're likely in camp number two.
Clicked the link and read it. Every parent who has electricity, a phone line and a computer in the house, or knows anyone who does, should read that article.
Do you think using misrepresentation gives your point more credibility, or is that the only way you know to express yourself?
I think what we're seeing is that compassion is something many people don't have or understand.
I don't assume that all parents realize that their kids are been prosetylized into the cult of homosexuality. That is why it is time for those who do realize it to start asking pointed questions such as, "Why are you sending your kids to these perverted government schools? Why would you do this to your precious children? Explain this to us?"
What are you doing to stop the public school officials from using our tax dollars and children as their personal sex pistols?
Government schools need two things: Students and money.
It is time to rob them of both. It is time to start making parents feel guilty for sending their kids to these pits of ignorance and moral decay.
Personally, I homeschooled. My kids are now successful adults. That is doing something about it.
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.
What blame do I have for the decision of other parents to send their children to educationally and morally abusive government schools?
Why do you have schools bothering children with sodomy? Why don't you pull the perverts out of school so kids are safe there?
The only solution is to put individual parents, teachers, and principals back in charge. This can only happen in a private setting. As long as there are government schools, the government school will be held hostage to the agenda of the biggest political bully. The biggest political bully at the moment is the gay lobby.
For the same reason many parents can't pull their kids out of public schools - power and money.
The only legitimate reason for having children in government schools is that a parent is too poor or too dysfunctional to provide anything else, and that if they didn't send their child to school, armed police would soon be a the door. This is the only valid excuse.
All the other parents are hurting their children unnecessarily.
Gay bogeymen don't haunt my dreams either.
I was raised a Catholic, have a cousin who is gay and I love her dearly. Several friends at my Catholic college realized that they were gay after years of deluding themselves in heterosexual relationships, engagement and marriage. I don't care what the science says, it was NOT a choice for any of the numerous gay people that I know, many of whom are devoted sole caretakers for aging parents and friends whose "heterosexual" families are too busy for them.
I also believe that our President has stated publicly that he believes that homosexuality is not a choice, based on the compassionate comments that he made during the twisted media flap over Dick Cheney's daughter.
Are Camille Paglia, Andrew Sullivan and the Log Cabin Republicans all part of the "Gay Agenda"?
Do heterosexuals not engage in sodomy, pedophilia and sexual acts that are considered sinful?
Zot me all you want, I don't give a rat's !#$%.
People are gay- it's a fact of life and has always been.
Oh, another homosexual agenda cheerleader. How cute.
She never addressed two of my questions - what does she think of GSA clubs in schools, and what about the tens of thousands of homosexuals dying of AIDS?
Nononono. No way that homos will be happy with people who have one foot in both worlds. It's gay once, gay forever for them.
Hey Pat, Vade, do your stuff, defend science
Here are some links from the CDC:
Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2004
Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2003
Don't you know that we all live on the brink of turning queer? All it would take for me would be Johnnie Mathis to walk into a room and look at me. Who could resist?
With this "New Gay Teenager", it would appear they are trying to blur the lines and still keep their gay identity, as you said.
Your experience with & beliefs about gay people agree with mine, it seems.
And so far as religion goes, sometimes I think that some people seem to have taken the Pharisees, rather than Jesus, as their role models.
The subject of the thread also includes teenagers and education, two subjects I know an awful lot about.
I'm going to stop posting to y'all now. If various homosexuals had repeatedly tried to molest me when I was a teenager, I would probably still be upset too. I hope that one day you find relief from your demons.
You'll notice that this boy was not in school.
He was in a voluntary summer honors program that his parents obviously gave him permission to attend. The curriculum for the program is posted on the internet, and one would guess that the parents got a copy.
The seminar in question was one of a number of optional seminars the students could choose to attend, but weren't required to participate in.
I still don't understand why a student who wasn't already questioning his sexuality would choose to attend such a seminar.
Actually the President said he doesn't know.
SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, let's get back to economic issues. But let's shift to some other questions here.
Both of you are opposed to gay marriage. But to understand how you have come to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?
BUSH: You know, Bob, I don't know. I just don't know. I do know that we have a choice to make in America and that is to treat people with tolerance and respect and dignity. It's important that we do that.
And I also know in a free society people, consenting adults can live the way they want to live.
And that's to be honored.
But as we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change -- or have to change -- our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.
JMO, the Prresident isn't kowtowing to the, IMO, stormtrooper mentality within the liberal psychological community and wants other voices in the scientific community to be heard, but who are shut out by liberals and their lackeys in the MSM.
One group that doesn't get any recognition by the modern day liberal stormtroopers and is constantly berated and never intellectually engaged is NARTH.
So before you and Amelia go into your almost liberal fascist tirades towards those who disagree with you, maybe you shouldn't take in the liberal establishment, media, hollywood, propaganda kool-aid that the homosexual "lifestyle"(deathstyle) is normal.
BTW, can you show me a civilization where homosexuality is given equal status to heterosexuality has survived and thrived, you can't, and you know it.
I Do Exist
People Can Change
Research Shows Change is Real
A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
How Might Homosexuality Develop? Putting the Pieces Together
Homosexual Agenda Keyword Search
Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links
'fathers warn your children
not to do as i have done'
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