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Deerfield High School: Required Class for Freshmen Advocates Liberal and Pro-Gay Propaganda
As Culture Campaign reported last week, a letter to the editor in the Thursday, Feb. 15 issue of Deerfield Review has prompted some scrutiny of the curriculum being used in a freshman class called Freshman Advisory in District 113 (Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools).
According to Lora Sue Hauser, School Issues Advisor from Illinois Family Institute and parent in the Deerfield High School District, Freshman Advisory is a required class for freshmen in which a vast amount of time is devoted to exposing students to pro-homosexual propaganda:
“This is a whole class designed for the gay agenda during the second semester as well as other liberal causes. In addition to the gay panel, last year’s curricula included movies, (Common Threads, Bloodlines, Philadelphia), displaying the AIDS quilt, promoting Day of Silence, etc.
And even worse, this year parents cannot get even this much information. We have no idea what is actually being taught about sexual orientation. The teachers are not required to give full disclosure as to the content in their lesson plans.
How does this happen? It’s a simple formula; gay activist teachers = liberal curricula. In Deerfield, and other schools around the country, gay activists are in a position to choose curricula and they have no intention of staying neutral on these highly debated topics. They do not present alternative viewpoints even though they claim to welcome diverse views. We have repeatedly asked for a panel to speak on the subject of homosexuality from a moral and medical view but have been denied.
We are trying to get a copy of the 2007 Freshman Advisory Diversity curriculum, with specifics as to what is being taught but we're hitting a brick wall. Last year, there was a whole Diversity Packet including a Heterosexism Unit that was ghastly. It included playing a card game with all the sexually deviant terms (Genderqueer, Intersexual, MSM, Transgender, Transsexual, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Transphobia, Down-Low, Cross Dressers, etc.) and students had to match the definitions.
It was followed by discussions asking such questions as "What questions or confusion do you have around language describing lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people?" or "In your experience, has LGBT terminology been understood and used properly at Deerfield High School." Of course, all this material comes from GLSEN.”
The curriculum also included a Social Justice Education Unit teaching “Power Over & Power Under ” ideologies with Whites, Males, Heterosexuals, Christians/Gentiles, and the Rich being those with “Power Over.” During the lesson plan, they change the wording to be “Non-target” and “Target” stating that the “Power Over” group target people for mistreatment. This kind of teaching sets the ideological stage for anyone who tries to question the curriculum. We are the ones who “Target.” This is nothing short of propaganda to the youngest students in a high school."
According to the North Shore Student Advocacy Group (NSSA):
1. District 113 Superintendent, George Fornero, and school board members have been unwilling to meet with parents and concerned taxpayers. Dr. Fornero, new to District 113, was acting superintendent in Ann Arbor, MI where his school district, Ann Arbor Public Schools, was sued for not allowing a student to present an alternate viewpoint on a panel of those supporting homosexual behavior. The district lost the suit.
2. Last year, adult gay author Alex Sanchez was brought in by the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) to speak to students after school. He promoted his sexually graphic books and website, (which links to forty-five gay bars, fetish groups and even a ‘leather’ group (sado-masochism).
It is a violation of state law and school policy for teachers to promote sexual behavior. It is also a violation of the Equal Access Act for SAGA advisors to be in anything other than a custodial role for non-curriculum extracurricular groups.
Deerfield High School has some explaining to do…
If you would like to get more information on the effort to protect kids in District 113 (Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools), please send us an email at feedback@culturecampaign.com.
http://americansfortruth.com/issues/youth-and-schools/diversity-tolerance-propaganda/
Excerpted from School Tells Kids to Hide Pro-”Gay” Propaganda from Parents, published Mar 13, 2007, by Concerned Women for America:
In a shocking and brazen act of governmental abuse of parental rights, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois, has required fourteen-year-old freshmen to attend a “Straight Gay Alliance Network” (GSA) panel discussion led by “gay” and “lesbian” upperclassmen during a “freshman advisory” class which secretively featured inappropriate discussions of a sexual nature in promotion of high-risk homosexual behaviors.
Not only has DHS required that its young and impressionable freshmen be exposed to radical homosexual propaganda, the school has further required that students sign a “confidentiality agreement” promising not to tell anyone — including their own parents — about the discussion.
Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA), said of the scandal:
“This is unbelievable. It’s not enough that students at Deerfield High are being exposed to improper and offensive material relative to unhealthy and high-risk homosexual behaviors, but they’ve essentially been told by teachers to lie to their parents about it.
“This goes to the heart of the homosexual agenda. The professional propagandists in the ‘gay-rights’ lobby know the method all too well. If you can maintain control of undeveloped and impressionable youth and spoon-feed them misinformation, lies and half-truths about dangerous, disordered and extremely risky behaviors, then you can control the future and ensure that those behaviors are not only fully accepted, but celebrated. That’s what homosexual activists from GSA are attempting to do, and that’s what DHS is clearly up to as well.”
Dr. George Fornero, superintendent of DHS’ Dist. 113, told CWA that the district “made a mistake” by requiring children to sign the confidentiality agreement and that it would be entirely aboveboard and honest with parents in the future. However, as Barber noted, the damage has already been done: “Until DHS and other government schools across the country are made to stop promoting the homosexual agenda, kids will continue to be exposed to — and encouraged to participate in — a lifestyle that places them at high risk for life-threatening disease, depression and spiritual despair,” said Barber.
Remarkably, even after the school district’s surreptitious actions were exposed, parents were nonetheless told that they were not welcome to sit in on the “freshman advisory” and were not permitted to have access to materials used in compiling its activist curriculum.
http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=32829
Homosexual School Promotions Threaten Students' Health
4/20/2006 8:33:00 AM
By Peter LaBarbera, Illinois Family Institute
Dr. John Diggs, author of "The "Health Risks of Gay Sex," says homosexual sodomy is so dangerous that it's almost as if it was created to spread disease. So why are liberal teachers promoting "gay" identities to students?
A Note from the Executive Director:
[WARNING: UNCOMFORTABLE REALITIES OF 'GAY' BEHAVIOR PRESENTED BELOW]
This is a big week in Illinois for those promoting homosexuality to young people: yesterday, many Illinois students were engaged in a pro-"gay" propaganda exercise called the "Day of Silence," in which students (and some teachers!) go silent all day in school in solidarity with suffering homosexuals the world over.
And beginning today, students at Wheaton College will be engaged in "dialogue" with traveling activists from a radical homosexual group called Soulforce--a conversation forced by Soulforce's nationwide protest against Christian Colleges that "discriminate" against "gays and lesbians" (read: they believe the Bible that same-sex sexual behavior is sinful; more on Soulforce tomorrow).
Even though homosexuality is just one of several sexual sins, it now gets special attention and is even celebrated by many liberals. Sadly, America is now reaping the whirlwind of decades of homosexual activism, which has converted a taboo and highly destructive behavior into a minority group demanding "rights."
One of the reasons that Illinois Family Institute so strongly opposes the new pro-homosexual "sexual orientation" state law and legal "gay marriage" is that both will make it easier to promote homosexual behavior as normal and acceptable to children--especially in our schools. (This is already happening in Massachusetts.) We issue the warnings, and people are shocked, but the reality is that today's youth are already awash in pro-homosexual propaganda--producing a generation that is the most homosexual-friendly ever.
I have always marvelled at the chutzpah of well-funded homosexual groups like PFLAG (Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays) and GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) that market their radical "gay youth" agenda in the name of "safety" for kids. Exploiting the occasional and tragic mistreatment of schoolchildren who identify as "gay," they espouse pro-"gay" programs and policies that put many more children at risk by making it easier for young people to embrace homosexuality as an identity and lifestyle.
Did you know that GLSEN promotes "Gay-Straight Alliance" clubs (pro-homosexual clubs) in middle schools across the USA? This is a highly dangerous development for youth who may be confused about their gender or sexuality.
No responsible group can promote homosexuality in the name of health or safety. The fact is, homosexuality is an extremely high-risk lifestyle, especially for males, because it is unnatural. We would expect immoral behavior to be unhealthy, and it is. Human physiology simply is not made for homosexual sex.
My friend Dr. John Diggs of Massachusetts puts it this way: it's almost as if male-on-male sodomy was created to spread disease. In his excellent paper, "The "Health Risks of Gay Sex," Dr. Diggs writes, "The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming:
Anal Cancer
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Gonorrhea
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Syphilis
Dr. Diggs writes that "Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown. Others, while found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners, are clearly predominated by those involved in homosexual activity. Syphilis, for example is found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners. But in 1999, King County, Washington (Seattle), reported that 85 percent of syphilis cases were among self-identified homosexual practitioners. And as noted above, syphilis among homosexual men is now at epidemic levels in San Francisco."
Homosexuals' own words show dangers
Consider these questions, asked by homosexual men, that appeared on a popular "gay health" website (fully accessible to children on the Web) founded by a homosexual doctor [WARNING: OFFENSIVE MATERIAL--NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN]:
ANAL BLEEDING, AND MY DOC IS NO HELP!
WHAT CAN I DO FOR ANAL WARTS?
DO I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANAL CANCER?
LUMPS, SWELLING AND PAINFUL BOWELS
PAIN AFTER ANAL SEX
IS A FISSURE CAUSING MY PAIN DURING ANAL SEX?
WHAT IS THE HORRIBLE PAIN IN MY RECTUM?
DID ANAL SEX CAUSE ULCERATIVE PROCTITIS?
You get the idea.... Remember, these headlines were not concocted by Peter LaBarbera or Dr. James Dobson or Family Research Council but are reproduced verbatim from a very pro-homosexual website. They reflect the pain and health concerns of practicing "gay" men.
Do you think that young teenage boys--and even pre-teens!--who are being persuaded by do-gooder (and perhaps well-intentioned) school counselors and pro-homosexual teachers that they might be "gay" are being told how dangerous this lifestyle is? Not a chance.
In fact, most teachers and adult school administrators are ignorant of these risks because it is oh-so politically incorrect to discuss the tremendous downsides of homosexuality.
ADF's "Day of Truth"
The good news is that there is now a serious national counter-project to the pro-homosexual "Day of Silence." It is called, appropriately, the "Day of Truth," and it is sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, which defends Christians' freedoms across America.
Over 1,700 students across the nation, including in Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois, are participating in ADF's "Day of Truth." Deerfield HS and some other Illinois schools are doing it today, but most participating schools nationwide are doing it on Thursday, April 27th, the day after the national GLSEN "Day of Silence."
Because IFI has been concentrating mostly on the Protect Marriage Referendum, we have not devoted the attention we would have liked to "Day of Truth" and the ongoing "gay school" agenda. (See my article last year on the Chicago "Night of Noise" that followed the "Day of Silence.") But the "Day of Truth website" is loaded with useful information, including a (PDF) paper, "The Ten Big Myths of Homosexual Behavior," authored by my friend, Linda Harvey of Mission America (she's a pro-family hero, by the way; I urge you to sign up for her excellent e-mails).
Congratulations to Alan Sears and the terrific people at ADF and "Day of Truth" for providing students with a way to respond to the insidious pro-homosexual propaganda at their school.
Sincerely,
Peter LaBarbera
Illinois Family Institute
(630)790-8370
info@illinoisfamily.org
P.S. We've been having computer problems, so some of you may have missed our story about the leftist group Gay Liberation Network's premature (and bigoted) celebration of PMI's demise. Click HERE for the story.
And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!--Jesus Christ (Matthew 18:5-7; NIV)