Posted on 02/22/2003 6:47:36 AM PST by JohnHuang2
A new survey shows parents don't want their children taught "it's O.K. to be 'gay'" at school.
Seventy-one percent of parents responding to a poll conducted nationally said they opposed sex education programs that teach students that homosexual love relationships are comparable to heterosexual relationships.
The poll of over 1,200 parents of K-12 students was conducted by Zogby International and released Feb. 13.
The American Family Association of Michigan is not surprised by the findings.
"Parents nationally and in Michigan don't want their children indoctrinated or their health put at risk by 'politically correct' sex ed or diversity programs which tell kids there's nothing wrong with homosexual sex," said AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn.
The promotion of homosexuality has become increasingly common in public schools across the country as some educators view the issue as a second civil-rights movement.
California lawmakers even passed legislation revising state curriculum to require educators to "acknowledge lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender historical figures, events, concepts, and issues."
Studies indicating homosexual and bisexual youth to be at greater risk for being victimized and more likely to experience anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, to abuse substances and contemplate or attempt suicide prompted the legislation.
According to the California Alliance for Pride and Equality, "Students who describe themselves as lesbian or gay are five times more likely to miss school because of felling [sic] unsafe. Twenty-eight percent are forced to drop-out."
The 2000 statutes required California schools to prevent any "hate-motivated incident," which is defined as "an act or attempted act which constitutes an expression of hostility against a person or property or institution because of the victim's real or perceived race, religion, disability, gender, nationality or sexual orientation."
In addition to being bound by state statutes to promote homosexuality in their "diversity" and "safety" programs, schools face the threat of lawsuits by advocacy groups such as the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network if they fail to address "student-on-student abuse based on sexual orientation." On its website, GLSEN applauds a "landmark settlement" received by a Pennsylvania "gay" teen.
Said Executive Director Kevin Jennings, "The court's decision to award 19-year-old Timothy Dahle with a settlement of $312,000 to compensate for the pervasive anti-gay abuse he faced in the Titusville Area School District is breathtaking." Jennings further concludes, "There are clear lessons to be learned by school administrators and staff ... that teachers and staff take a risk – a risk that can have dire fiscal implications on their districts – when this kind of maltreatment goes unchecked."
There is evidence "diversity" programs that promote homosexuality are effective. A Hamilton College Gay Issues poll released in August finds two-thirds of high school graduates favor legal recognition of homosexual marriages, 71 percent believe sexual relations between same-sex adults should be legal, and 71 percent of graduates would allow homsexual men to serve as Scout leaders.
But the instruction materials and methods used in the promotion of homosexuality in California schools has drawn a lot of fire.
WorldNetDaily reported parents filed a lawsuit against the Novato Unified School District in Novato, Calif., for authorizing pro-homosexual assemblies without any prior notice or parental consent. The presentations, entitled "Cootie Shots," exposed elementary school children as young as seven to skits containing gay and lesbian overtures by theatrical members of the community.
WorldNetdaily also reported California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy, R-Monrovia, took issue last year with sexually explicit instructional materials approved by the Los Angeles Unified School District for use in "diversity" and "safety" programs presented to elementary through high school students, which included instructions on homosexual sodomy and a glorified account of lesbian pedophilia.
Mountjoy sponsored a bill aimed at prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality in public education. The measure was summarily defeated without discussion.
"The material is being put forward under the guise of tolerance and diversity, but it's inappropriate. It's lewd and lascivious ... and is darn embarrassing. Here I sit in my office reading my porn. It made me turn red, and I don't easily turn red," Mountjoy told WorldNetDaily. Mountjoy concludes the committee's vote against his bill sanctions continued use of the material in public schools.
AFA is sending information on the Zogby poll and on the potential legal liability to members of the state board of education and other elected officials in Michigan.
"To avoid harmful consequences to children ... public school officials should honor parents' strong opposition to 'normalizing' homosexual behavior in the classroom," said Glenn.
The group stresses that public school officials who fail to heed the warning may face legal liability for negligence should physical, mental and emotional harm come to children who experiment with homosexual behavior after being told at school – by teachers or homosexual activists invited as guest speakers – that such behavior is normal.
Glenn said medical studies offer evidence that such physical, mental and emotional harm occurs.
He cites a Harvard Medical School study of 4,000 high school students which found that "gay-lesbian-bisexual [GLB] youth report disproportionate risk for a variety of health risk and problem behaviors ... engag(ing) in twice the mean number of risk behaviors as did the overall population."
The study, which was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, also found:
"Individuals who choose to engage in homosexual behavior put themselves at dramatically higher risk of domestic violence, mental illness, life-threatening diseases such as AIDS, cancer and hepatitis, and premature death by up to 20 years," Glenn said.
"Any public school official who allows young people to be taught at school that such behavior is normal, positive or harmless is not only negligent but reckless and should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law," he added.
This revealing statement makes it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the goal of the sodimites is cultural and political domination. They do not want to be tolerate, they don't tolerate us. The don't want acceptance, they don't accept normalcy. They don't want equality, they want to persecute and dominate the rest of society. Their goals are evil incarnate. I don't hate individual homosexuals, I am sorry for them. But I'll be dam*ed if I will tolerate their destructive agenda from progressing with whatever little power is given to me in this life.
I'll start writing letters to the editor again (no paper has EVER printed a letter from me, I gave up a few years ago, but I've moved and I'll try again).
The above statement also makes it crystal clear that they KNOW they are recruiting and seducing. They know it. Every word and statement issuing from the homo-nazis reveals the truth, they recruit, they are not born, and they want to crush us.
And as many of us as possible - who see the truth of this agenda - speak up, early, often and loudly - this has to help. The more the homo-nazis take their masks of "nicey-nice" off the better. Uncut footage of "Gay Pride Parades" being widely distributed should help too.
I wonder what promnpts the anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, substance abuse, and suicides?
Could it be that somewhere in the back of their heads they know that this is not right?
I thought publik skool was hate motivated.
Additional documentation:
I have seen the recruiting process to my neighbors daughter, with my own eyes. Woo'ed by her community college basketball coach her first semester, as her mother and I watched helplessly. No advice or discouragement from us was wanted or heeded, she soon learned the word homophobic and used it often at us. At the age of eighteen she "loved this woman" even without a chance at a hetrosexual relationship!
Of course, when the woman dumped her for a new up and coming star on the court, she was devastated, but, we were sure the damage done. She applied to a college in Kansas, her parents moved away, and the last time I saw her, she and another girl were walking hand in hand in Kmart!!!!!!!
....sad, but true
Of course he has learned, I'm going to do my own thing no matter what he says, so, he just kind of shakes his head while while mumbling "You came into this world with your own mind, and I'm sure you'll leave it the same way!!!
Exposure to homosexuality is an assault on a child's soul
Violence against the soul: Alan Keyes shows homosexuals assaulting kids' moral consciences
Sickeningly, this is where we run into the second problem: Reality? Most parents don't care enough to fight. I well remember ten years or twelve years ago when the liberals around here were just starting to try to worm an outcome-based education curriculum into place. We, along with some other concerned parents, tried to organize and fight it. Ran ads in the papers about meetings, etc. Twenty or thirty people showed up at the first meeting. After that, five or six. Very few people care enough to fight anymore. Everyone is so wrapped up in their comfortable little cocoons and they don't want to be disturbed.
Before long, we had schools that didn't check spelling. Didn't assign grades. Forbade the use of red marks on students' papers because that had a negative connotation. The final straw came when my daughter, in the third grade at the time, asked if she could have permission to lie to her teacher. We were naturally surprised by such an unusual question and asked what she was talking about. She said the teacher went around the class each morning asking the kids what they'd had for breakfast. When my daughter answered, it was usually bacon, eggs, toast, things like that. For which she would be told by the teacher how horrible it was to eat things like that, how she needed to start refusing to eat such breakfasts and instead demand fruit and such from her parents. We pulled her out of that school the next day and put her in another one that hadn't yet gone that far, but it was still one liberal idea to battle after another for the next nine years.
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