Posted on 06/08/2007 3:41:11 PM PDT by Jose Pen
Join the Protest this Tuesday Before the Montgomery County, Maryland School Board Meeting!!
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND – The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education plans to vote on the new sex ed lessons at its next board meeting this Tuesday (June 12th) at 10:00 a.m. in Rockville, Maryland.
This surprising vote comes before the Maryland State Board of Education has had a chance to review the curriculum and render a legal ruling. Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) and Family Leader Network (FLN) appealed the curriculum to the State Board of Education in February and expect a decision in July.
In March, State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick issued an Order holding that “Appellants arguments are equally valid and deserving of a decision on the merits" and that the State Board of Education would issue a decision on the appeal of the curriculum in July. Is it too much to ask for MCPS school officials to respect the legal process?
MCPS’ haste in voting to adopt a final curriculum without waiting for the State Board’s decision as to the legality of that curriculum is premature, tramples on the rights of parents, usurps the authority of the State Board, and violates the Superintendent’s Order.
"We've already watched this school board ignore a petition from 270 local physicians, ignore parents who disagree with them and ignore scientific data that doesn't fit into their agenda. Now they are ignoring state school officials!,” said RoseMarie Briggs, Family Leader Network Executive Director.
"Parents are especially frustrated that MCPS will not allow students to simply opt out of the two 8th grade lessons or the three 10th grade lessons on sexual variations. It's an all or nothing policy." "If an 8th grader wants to opt out of the two lessons on sexual variations, he/she is relegated to the library for 12 DAYS and misses the entire family life unit. If a 10th grader wants to opt out of the two lessons on sexual variations and the condom demonstration video, he/she is relegated to the library for THREE WEEKS."
"The new lessons, called 'Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality,' are in dispute because the curriculum relies on non-medical, non-government advocacy information. Hence the lessons expose children as young as 12 to sexual variations in an unscientific and misleading way that puts children at greater risk for the following:
• Mislabeling One's Own Sexual Orientation by telling students that 'sexual orientation is innate:' Scientific research does not support this assertion. In addition, the curriculum writers adamantly refused to acknowledge the scientific evidence and personal testimonies of former homosexuals.
Dr. Francis S. Collins, Head Of The Human Genome Project in Rockville, Maryland is one of the world's leading scientists who works at the cutting edge of DNA research. Dr. Collins writes, 'sexual orientation is genetically influenced but NOT hardwired by DNA, and that whatever genes are involved represent predispositions, not predeterminations.' Reference: Collins, Francis S. (2006). The Language of God, A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief. New York: Free Press.
• Teen Suicide by normalizing sexual variations to students as young as 12: Clinical psychologist Dr. Dean A. Byrd of NARTH says 'Research is very conclusive in this area: the risk of suicide decreases by 20 percent for each year that a young person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling' (Remafidi et al, 1991).
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), states premature labeling of one’s sexual orientation increases the risk of attempted teen suicide by two to seven times.
• Contracting & Spreading Sexually Transmitted Diseases by equating homosexuality with heterosexuality:The 10th grade curriculum encourages condom use for vaginal, oral and anal sexual contact without disclosing the heightened risks for oral and anal sex.
The efficacy statistics for condoms has been done ONLY for vaginal sexual contact. Condom manufacturers clearly state on their products that condoms are intended for vaginal use only. The writers rejected a petition from 270 local physicians to include the alarming health risks of anal sex. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that 70 percent of American men who are HIV positive identify themselves as gay.
• Gender Confusion by telling students that 'gender identity' is simply 'your identification of yourself as a man or woman, based on the gender you feel to be inside:'The lessons exclude a biological or legal definition for gender. In one 10th grade lesson, a boy begins to wear dresses to school, calls himself 'Portia,' and wants to be known as a girl.
The lesson refers to 'Portia' as a 'she' when the law and biology classify 'her' as a 'he.' The principal gives this boy a key to a private restroom and a new student ID identifying him as a girl. The lesson implies that schools should create new unisex bathrooms for cross-dressing students instead of directing students to professional counselors for gender confusion. The American Psychiatric Association classifies transgender as a gender identity disorder."
Join the PROTEST!
Please JOIN OUR family friendly PROTEST on the morning of June 12th at 9:30 a.m.!
We will meet outside the Carver Educational Building on Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland
Contact PFOX FOR Directions
- If you have young children, put them in strollers and come hold a sign that says "Health Before Politics" or "No Unisex Bathrooms." The signs are already made. We want the media to have plenty of footage for the TV newscast and plenty of pictures for the newspaper!
Thank you!!
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays PFOX Box 561, Fort Belvoir VA 22060 703-360-2225 pfox@pfox.org www.pfox.org
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, F14 nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
We are destroying our own children. It’s tragic. I don’t know why there isn’t more outrage.
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They can but most don't. It is like any addiction. You become obsessed with it and it is all you focus on. Unfortunately, sexual behavior is reinforced by one of the most powerful positive reinforcement mechanism that humans have.
Actually, you can never become an ex-alcoholic, only a recovering alcoholic. Even if an alcoholic has been sober for years it will only take them a few months to become a full-blown alcoholic if they start to drink again.
I must have missed that one back in Catholic School. Care to cite that?
1 Corinthians 6
"Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
So in other words most gays and child molesters cannot be reformed but a few can be cured.
Again would you let someone who claimed to be an ex child molester baby sit your children?
And would you be happy if your daughter married someone who claimed to be ann ex gay?
If they had given it up and were now Christians and if God told me to, YES. God told me I was going to marry my husband one day in my office a short time after I had started seeing him. He’s perfectly capable of picking the right one for ya.
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It can but IMHO it can only be done through a relationship with God and deliverance from the spirit of homosexuality. Then it’s real. It’s one of the hardest sins to overcome however and it’s never easy for any of them to stop.
Wrong. God CAN and DOES deliver people from their sins, no matter what they are. Have faith. He can do it!
There are plenty of ex-alcoholics who prove this is wrong.
I would not trust an ex child molester or ex gay with my kids.
Would you?
I think child molesters have much deeper mental problems than gays and therefore are much harder to 'cure'.
Again would you let someone who claimed to be an ex child molester baby sit your children?
Never.
And would you be happy if your daughter married someone who claimed to be ann ex gay?
I would not like it, but it would not be a show stopper. STD's would be a major concern.
Thanks, good honest answer that validates my point.
My point being that being gay is hard wired and difficult to alter ver y much like the child molester. However, at least the gays for the most part do their gay things with consenting adults.
But I still have a hard time believing that Gays or Child Molesters can be fixed.
Exodus International at http://www.exodus-international.org/ is one organization concerned with ex-gays.
I did not validate that. It has little to do with genetics, although I would concede there probably is genetic influence in some cases. But to it is hard wired is not supported by any scientific evidence. Even the somewhat flawed twin studies suggest genetics only plays a partial role in influencing homosexual behavior, and they did not show that it is even close to being hard wired.
The gays need access to the schools because they don’t have children. Parents, get your kids out of there!!! The public schools are not accountable to the parents anymore. Do not trust them!!!
There should be a lot more outrage out there. Do the American people sleep???
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