The term "workshop" implies more "hands on" involvement than mere Q & A, and it WAS a school sponsored event. I had some teaching on sex and sexuality in high school too. It had to do with how pregnancy occurred and various methods of birth control that could be used and how they worked. Of course, this information was geared towards preparing young people for marriage and was not done in mixed clesses. Big difference. I didn't actually know what "fisting" was until today. I'm just not sure how I survived this long without that vital information. Actually, I think I could have gotten along quite nicely without EVER knowing.
No, this isn't about about educating kids about sex because they have a need to know. It is about educating and recruiting them in perversion and it is an outrage and crime.
You're right, sweetliberty. This was child abuse of the most horrific sort.
When the highest ranking education official in the second-most pro-homosexual state in the U.S. says that the GLSEN workshops "were of prurient nature, and not educational," you know the problem is serious.
When one of the presenters tells you during this GLSEN workshop that a homosexual speaker she had brought in to a public middle school was too graphic about explicit homosexual sex, you know there is a very serious problem. Only she didn't notice that the same speaker she had invited to speak in the middle school was also in attendance in her workshop:
From time index 5:39 to 7:41 on audio clip 8. Scott Whiteman: As With Vegetables, Children Shouldn't Knock Homosexuality Until They Have Tried It (Length 8:02), you can hear a representative from a homosexual organization known as "SpeakOut" state: "I'm that speaker who was at the middle school." He then goes on to explain that with "SpeakOut," "students can ask us anything and we will answer." He also states that he doesn't know what school policy is about sex education and "how much you tell the kids, but our policy is we don't lie, we don't hide things." He also claims that students can't talk to their parents or churches and then states "so who do the talk to?" "they talk to SpeakOut."
From SpeakOut Programs and Services:
"SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Every year, our volunteers conduct informal, interactive speaking engagements in hundreds of settings, including high schools, colleges, businesses, government agencies, churches, synagogues, youth groups, and community service organizations of all kinds.
We generally speak in pairs (one woman and one man) but also offer panel presentations. We begin by talking for a few minutes about our own lives – our experiences of prejudice, as well as how we’ve grown to understand, accept, and take pride in our sexual or gender identities. We talk about how we’ve "come out" to our families, friends, and coworkers; how we’ve faced discrimination; how we’ve fallen in love and raised families; how we’ve worked and lived our lives.
In keeping with our motto of "Ask Us Anything," we encourage audience questions. Our speakers are trained to solicit questions and respond to comments. We listen for underlying myths and help audiences feel at ease raising difficult issues. Sometimes we will offer simple workshop exercises to increase understanding.
Obviously, there is a link between what was being taught at GLSEN conferences and what's being taught in schools.