Posted on 03/16/2015 7:00:07 AM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, March 13, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A homosexual activist has candidly admitted that gay-themed materials and policies pushed in grade schools across North America are for the sake of “indoctrinating” children into an unquestioning acceptance of homosexuality.
“I am here to tell you: All that time I said I wasn't indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people? That was a lie,” writes long-time Canadian gay activist S. Bear Bergman in a piece appearing on Huffington Post a week ago tellingly titled ‘I Have Come to Indoctrinate Your Children Into My LGBTQ Agenda (And I'm Not a Bit Sorry).’
Bergman, who runs a Toronto-based publishing company making books for children that positively portrays “LGBTQ” people, is the transgender partner of J. Wallace, a gender equity adviser at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
Bergman writes that as a young activist, he often entertained a “delicious fantasy” of wishing that as a child he had been given the pro-LGBTQ mentors, workshops, and resources that kids today are freely given in schools.
“In [my fantasy], I was ushered into the world of queerness with care and tenderness by experienced homos and trans people (in my imagination they were like very fabulous versions of my favorite camp counselors from childhood). I would be issued my leather jacket and my protest pins, my safer sex supplies and a hotline of some kind I could call if I needed it.”
Bergman recounts that as a young gay activist he was taught how to refute accusations that the movement was engaging in “indoctrination and recruiting.” He was to tell concerned parents that he was “just providing an alternate viewpoint.” He was to use “soft” language when speaking about homosexuality.
But Bergman writes that he is tired of the “lie.”
“All 25 years of my career as an LGBTQ activist, since the very first time as a 16-year-old I went and stood shaking and breathless in front of eleven people to talk about My Story, I have been on a consistent campaign of trying to change people's minds about us. I want to make them like us. That is absolutely my goal … even if that goes against the way you have interpreted the teachings of your religion.”
“I want to be present in their emotional landscapes as a perfectly nice dad and writer who is married to another guy. Who used to be a girl (kind of). Who is friendly and cheerful and not scary at all, no matter what anyone says.”
“That is our job: to encourage people, especially children, to think differently about a subject than they do now,” he continues. “To dispel the dim and dismal miasma of myths and stereotypes, and instead allow the light of truth and fairness to shine in. That's the deal, my friends. And if we have done it -- if we have come to a place where a kid has been struggling in the muck of ignorance and hatred, and helped them up and cleaned them off and sent them to play in a meadow of love or at least kindness -- then baby, we have done the thing well.”
While Bergman paints a “friendly and cheerful” picture of the gay lifestyle, he fails to mention the serious health risks tied to homosexual behaviors. These include increased rates of sexually transmitted diseases, bacterial and viral infections, depression, and even cancer.
Research done in 2002 by Dr. John R. Diggs found that same-sex sexual behaviors expose gays, lesbians and bisexuals to “extreme risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), physical injuries, mental disorders and even a shortened life span.” Common sexual practices among gay men were found to lead to “numerous STDs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population.” Gay and bisexual men were found to “lose up to 20 years of life expectancy.”
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have warned on numerous occasions that HIV rates, already at epidemic proportions, are continuing to climb steadily among men who have ‘sex’ with men. The CDC has stated that gay and bisexual men continue to remain at the epicenter of what they call a “HIV/AIDS epidemic.”
Bergman also fails to point out the spiritual damage that religions across the world say is caused by homosexual activity. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism categorically reject homosexual practices in the strongest language as a direct rejection of God and his plan for human sexuality.
Christianity — “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error” (Letter to Romans 1:26).
Islam — “…For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)” (The Qur'an 7:80-84).
Judaism — “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
The Catholic Church calls homosexual acts “intrinsically disordered” since they “close the sexual act to the gift of life.”
Despite accusations of ‘homophobia,’ the Catholic Church actually teaches that people struggling with same-sex attraction “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sing of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.”
Bergman is not the first homosexual activist to admit the movement aims to “indoctrinate” children into their worldview.
In 2011 U.S. gay activist Daniel Villarreal penned a column for Queerty.com stating that the time had come for the homosexual lobby to admit to “indoctrinating” schoolchildren to accept homosexuality.
“Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?”
“We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it. Recruiting children? You bet we are,” he added.
“I for one,” continued Villarreal, “certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak. And I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and start f**ing men.”
In September 2014, Bergman’s publishing company offered a free “trans-positive kids (JK-2) book” to Toronto District School Board libraries. He said he was combating “fear-mongering” from school trustee Sam Sotiropoulos who had taken a stand against homosexual activism in the school board.
Bergman and Wallace’s book list for kids to “break gender stereotypes” has 54 titles, including:
Bergman concludes his Huffington Post by declaring he would be “delighted” if he could convince children to disagree with their parents on homosexuality.
“I want kids to know [we're perfectly fine and often really excellent] even if their parents' or community's interpretation of their religious tenets is that we're awful. I would be happy -- delighted, overjoyed I tell you -- to cause those children to disagree with their families on the subject of LGBTQ people.”
“If that makes me an indoctrinator, I accept it. Let me be honest -- I am not even a little bit sorry.”
Godless is as Godless does.
It is technically possible to either take an artificial insemination like lesbians or to pay a woman to be pregnant and give birth to a child and surrender her parental rights to you entirely, or just adopt. However, the disease and drug abuse problems are pretty rampant amongst homosexual men. And when it comes to substance abuse, lesbians seem to also have a problem with substance abuse as well.
Dude, I would not want to have certain parts of my body blistered and bleeding from intimate activites, if that happens there is a serious problem going on.
The one thing the homo activists will never be able to remove is the “yuck” factor that heterosexuals feel when watching homo activities.
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Yep, NAMBLA has simply been replaced by the alphabet lunatics.
Doesn’t matter if liberal-tarians and liberals hear this a thousand times a day because they have their heads so far up where the sun does not shine that they will never see or understand what the homostapo are doing. They think the world evolves around them for their drugs, sex, and anarchy.
There’s been a lot of that going around.
Thanks for the ping.
Society is allowing mentally ill people to declare that they are not mentally ill, that we need to approve the behaviors associated with their illness and that they should be allowed to push their illness on children.
The inmates really are running the asylum.
The homoNazi’s will continue to deny this truth, though.
Now that parents know that homosexuals are actively recruiting their children, do the homosexuals actually believe that parents will send their children to schools that permit it?
Many parents with children in the government school system don’t seem bothered enough by this stuff for it to outweigh the bigger house, extra car and vacations they might not otherwise afford if their children were instead in private Christian schools or in a homeschool environment.
Materialism trumps family in our modern post-Christian era.
Other than Judge Roy Moore, is there a single high profile executive, legislative or judicial figure who is refusing to make excuses for giving in to the sodomites?
Where is the widespread Christian boycott of large corporations who have pledged support for sodomite anti-marriage? It is possible to live without their products.
I am of the mind that it should the answer to the following question should be a litmus test for a Christian supporting ANY political candidate anywhere: what have you done/what are you doing/what will you do to *meaningfully* support/defend Judge Roy Moore (and others like him) and meaningfully reject anti-Christian judicial activism?
We already know where this is leading. At some point they will try forcing this stuff into private Christian schools (some of the public ones are already capitulating), into our homes etc. It won’t just be the Christian-owned bakeries and flower shops, as bad as that is.
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