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Teaching Kindergarten Kids About 'Human Differences' and Homosexuality Isn't 'Easy' in Newton
Massachusetts News ^ | April 17, 2003 | MassNews Staff

Posted on 04/17/2003 10:32:53 AM PDT by Remedy

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To: madg; Antoninus; scripter; Bryan
"First, you are taking the exception and are trying to make it the norm."


You, GLSEN, and every other pro-homosexual supporter have tried to desperately to convince everyone that the "queer sex" workshop was an anomaly. Yet, as I pointed out here and here, we clearly hear on the Fistgate tape, a representative from homosexual organization that makes hundreds of presentations every year ( documented here ) saying that he, as a "guest speaker," discusses sexually explicit topics such as those covered in the Fistgate workshop in public middle schools.

As much as you'd like us to believe that this is "the exception," the Fistgate tape confirms that these discussions with minor children occur in public schools. The evidence presented leads us to believe that this occurs much more often than the homosexual community will admit.

104 posted on 04/17/2003 9:14:21 PM PDT by EdReform
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To: madg
First, you are taking the exception and are trying to make it the norm.

No, it's my opinion. I think it is the norm.

Also, you are trying to claim knowledge that you do not actually possess... specifically what may "concern" me.

I do possess the knowledge. Your own words betray you. You consistently try to downplay this scandal, distort, disemble and make the individual who exposed it the real evil-doer. That tells me you have little to no concern that this filth may be reaching school-kids.

Additionally, in the context of the private workshop...

The mere fact that this question could come up in the context of a workshop designed for teachers demostrates quite clearly what's going on here. I'm sorry that you're so deeply sunk into self-delusion that the very idea of "fisting" seems like a normal topic of discussion for educators.

Ignorance is no excuse.

Here we agree. Everyone should know what a pernicious, dastardly influence homo-promo groups like GLSEN and P-FLAG are. They should be allowed nowhere near school-children.

It wasn't behind anyone's back.

Pardon me, but that's a lie. See the following quote from a MassNews article:

Fistgate Teachers Knew They Were Violating Trust

The teachers at Fistgate knew that the public would not approve what they were teaching to the children about graphic homosexual sex, one of the teachers revealed last week.

“[W]e flew sort of below the radar screen for a long time,” Margot Abels told Boston’s homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows....

“We always knew that we were working in an area that in certain places was considered really controversial and we also knew that we were doing cutting edge work and that there are plenty of people that don't support doing work with gay kids. But I think that we flew sort of below the radar screen for a long time and were able to, and had the complete support of our agency. Maybe David Driscoll [Commissioner of Education] didn't always know everything that we did, but certainly our supervisors did," said Abels.

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And don't give me any more of that "consider the source" nonsense. Talk about intellectual bankruptcy. The source that MassNews is quoting is Bay Windows.

The Age of Consent (AOC) should be whatever y'all can agree upon... so long as it is EQUAL for all. The consensus seems to be 16yo... although I would personally be more comfortable with 18yo.

If that's the case, are you be in favor of laws criminalizing the corrupting of minors under the age of 18 used on, say, teachers that endorse acts like "fisting" to their students?
105 posted on 04/17/2003 9:16:34 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Remedy
Teaching Kindergarten Kids About 'Human Differences' and Homosexuality Isn't 'Easy' in Newton

Well, it shouldn't be easy. First you have to explain to the youngsters exactly why men screwing other men up the a$$, which is the primary transmission of AIDS, is OK, much less be tolerated, while cigarette smoking should be punished by death.

106 posted on 04/17/2003 9:41:43 PM PDT by Dec31,1999 (You show me a country that doesn't have clear title to property, and I'll show you a poor country!)
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To: Lancey Howard
I was thinking more like grad school.
107 posted on 04/17/2003 9:45:56 PM PDT by ffusco ("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
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To: Antoninus
"If that's the case, are you be in favor of laws criminalizing the corrupting of minors under the age of 18..."


The laws are already on the books, specifically Chapter 272 of the General Laws of Massachusetts. The workshop presenters were in violation of those laws as documented here, here and here.

108 posted on 04/17/2003 9:46:11 PM PDT by EdReform
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To: scripter
True
109 posted on 04/17/2003 9:55:26 PM PDT by EdReform
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To: Remedy
Fabulous post. You went to alot of trouble to pull this all together. Thanks. I'll bookmark this thread for future reading and reference.
110 posted on 04/17/2003 10:02:31 PM PDT by nmh
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To: madg; Admin Moderator; jimrob
But in this specific case, I haven't said that they made it up.

Neither did I. I said you strongly implied it. And I stand by that, based on the very post I am responding to.

Like anyone else with Internet access, my lexiconic resources are more than adequate.

If you know what it means, then you know how it applies to you. That shoe fits like a glove, does it not?

***cough, cough***

I see the strawman I blew away is now caught in your throat. Get a glass of water.

Can I quote you on that? (Please carefully consider your response.)

Absolutely! And I am sure any mod you forward it to (including JimRob) will have a real good laugh when you tell them I was threatening you, which I know is what you will use it for.

I prefer to think that I actually have something of value to add to bona fide discussions by thinking persons.

Then you must be a bona fide masochist.

Everyone knows that I have never defended the tenets of NAMBLA.

And yet you have tried to downplay the existence of the organization to the point of claiming they no longer exist (without offering any proof whatsoever). And how come I have never seen you attack NAMBLA, hmm?

111 posted on 04/17/2003 10:07:38 PM PDT by Houmatt (Where is Scott Speicher?)
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To: madg; Noumenon
1. Do you approve of 'normalizing' homosexual behavior to grade-schoolers? If so, why?

"Normal" is relative. You are asking me to accept your own definition of "is." The following statement is true: "Homosexuality (and bisexuality) is a scientifically recognized 'normal" varient of human sexuality."

The following clinical statement is NOT true: "Homosexuality (and bisexuality) is (statisically) 'normal.'"

The following statement is true: "Homosexuality is 'normal' for me."

So the answer to your question after cutting through madg's farting around, Noumenon, is YES.

2. Do you, as was recorded in one of the conferences (I've got a copy of the tape, BTW) think that either gradeschoolers or high school students need to be taught the mechanincs of fisting? If so, why?

I think that adolescents deserve forthright answers to forthright questions. You got a problem with that? Is ignorance preferable?

And so the answer, again, is yes.

112 posted on 04/17/2003 10:15:12 PM PDT by Houmatt (Where is Scott Speicher?)
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To: madg; Antoninus; EdReform; scripter; Remedy; Adder; Noumenon
Finally, I am MOST CERTAINLY opposed to such illegal activity (IE: secret recording), ESPECIALLY when it occurs in my home state and so blatantly violates one's own reasonable expectation of privacy. Do YOU want to live under the secret eye of Big Brother?!!! Do YOU want a secret "eye in the sky" when you exercise your constitutionally protected Freedom of Association?!!!

Doesn't the public have a RIGHT to know the real agenda of these groups?

No.

Q: So, Madg, does this mean you support having homosexual activist groups having secret meetings regarding the education of children in public schools, and the public not knowing about it?

A: Yes.

You know, I cannot make a better case for homeschooling, can you?

113 posted on 04/17/2003 10:28:37 PM PDT by Houmatt (Where is Scott Speicher?)
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To: madg
That was evident in the very title of the workshop.

What's evident from the workshop is that the gays were more than willing to talk about their deviant sexual practices and could have very well written the question themselves. Or perhaps they mentioned fisting to a child and a child wrote the question. Your personal belief that it was Scott Whiteman and you're unwillingness to say it could have been a speaker or a child is very telling.

114 posted on 04/17/2003 10:31:06 PM PDT by scripter
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To: Houmatt
You know, I cannot make a better case for homeschooling, can you?

madg's arguments do make excellent reasons to homeschool, which we do. We took two boys out of the foster care system and made them our own. Two boys that were living lives ripe for the chickenhawks. That's two less boys for their picking. Now we're hoping to rescue a girl from a similar life.

The world can always use more adoptive straight parents. It's pretty sad that you have to qualify a statement like that.

115 posted on 04/17/2003 11:10:33 PM PDT by scripter
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To: JoshGray
The same can be said of the "pro" homosexual sources...and has been. I agree that a sample of 100 is hardly exhaustive but neither is a sample of a few hundred as was the case in the study highly touted and rushed forth as "conclusive evidence" that children are not harmed by mo parents. Heck, the only reason we are having this discussion is because of poor science in the first place. The science that led to the "delisting" of mo-ism as a mental disorder based on the EL WRONGO "theory" that it is genetic and therefore "untreatable" and therefore "normal". That is simply bogus on its face. People born with a congenital defect are not "normal" and we do not "pretend" that they are. It is also pretty obvious that mo's do not relate to the world "normally" esp. vis a vis children.

I do not know what a "homophobe" is since the basic construct of the word is a lie in itself. We all know that "phobia" means "fear" in this case of 'mo's. And I assure you, I do not fear them. That is complete garbage and is DELIBERATELY meant to be an epithet and to dismiss any discussion scientific or civil. Anyone who disagrees with the concept of mo-ism as normal is "homophobic"? Thats as perverted as their precept of normality.

You have read, I assume, the article that headed this thread, concerning the indoctrination of kids and the attacks on parents who disagree. Do you think that if mo-ism were such a provable "scientific" fact, you would need to do that? Do you have to "indoctrinate" people to believe that the world is round or that one and one is two? I think not.

I do not send a child to school to be "indoctrinated" in the newest social fad. you can see for yourself the "agenda" of the jerks at GLSEN. They are just sweet innocents valiantly waging the struggle? They are nothing more than isidious perverts. But, according to you, to object, is to be homophobic.

AIDS has not declined. We have cleaned up the blood supply at great cost due to the stupid acts of those people. They are costing us billions for "research" and some even actively seek the disease out. This is something we should just "accept" and support? That is bs of the highest order. Tell you what, subsitute "heroin use" for 'mo-ism and see how silly that sounds.

I could go on and on about this also. But if you're a convert, I am probably wasting my time also.

116 posted on 04/18/2003 3:17:57 AM PDT by Adder
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To: Adder
AIDS has not declined. We have cleaned up the blood supply at great cost due to the stupid acts of those people. They are costing us billions for "research" and some even actively seek the disease out

The Bug-Chasers

Men who want Aids
Matthew Laza talks to the young homosexuals trying to find lovers who will infect them with HIV

The posting on the Internet message board is headlined, ‘I want lots of Christmas Gifts: Leeds UK’. The message wasn’t left by a child who had been anxious to maximise his return from Father Christmas. It had been posted by Jon, a gay librarian from Leeds. The ‘gifts’ this 28- year-old is after don’t come wrapped in shiny paper, and, unlike the average Christmas present, they will last way beyond Boxing Day. The gift that Jon wants is HIV.


I came across Jon and other ‘bug-chasers’ while working on a television documentary about the search for extreme pleasure in a risk-averse world. Last week Rolling Stone magazine claimed that 25 per cent of all new HIV infections in the United States come from ‘bug-chasers’. In the past few days controversy has raged in America — the Christian Right taking delight at this confirmation of all its beliefs about the sinfulness of promiscuous homosexuality, and liberals getting angry at the exposure of a practice that even the most open-minded find at best distasteful, at worst criminally selfish.

Whatever the true percentage of new infections caused by bug-chasing, there can be no doubt that the phenomenon is real. There are bug-chasers throughout Britain. Alongside Jon the librarian are Ewan the corporate lawyer and Simon the nurse — to mention only those whom I got to know best. These otherwise ordinary citizens believe that their desire for disease is rational; it is their way of achieving the ultimate intimacy that guides all human relationships. For them getting ‘pozzed-up’ — acquiring HIV — is the greatest gift that they could possibly get, a spiritual experience.

I first met Jon on his recently deleted website, where he went under the name of ‘Pookie’. His homepage was as twee as his nickname. Amid the garish graphics there were pictures of him enjoying Christmas lunch with his mum and gran. Then, almost casually, Pookie invites you to participate in a little questionnaire. Echoing the cheesy Spice Girls hit, he asks, ‘So you want to be my lover?’ Multiple-choice questions follow: ‘I love bareback [anal sex without a condom]?’; ‘I am HIV Poz?’; ‘Pookie is neg. I will still fuck him bare?’ Answer yes to each of these, and the screen flashes, ‘OK, so Pookie thinks you are the hottest thing since sliced bread and wants you to plow his arse Now!’ His email address is offered to allow speedy contact.

Pookie — Jon — told me that he had thought about ‘chasing’ (seeking HIV infection) since he first realised that he was gay as a teenager. To begin with, he used condoms ‘because that was the thing to do’. But he always had a ‘nagging feeling’ that he didn’t want to use them: ‘The only way I can explain it is that there is a whole mixture of feelings and emotions rolled into one. It’s love of bareback; it’s excitement; it’s fear; it’s control; it’s individuality; and a whole host of other emotions as well. A lot of guys have said to me, “Why not just keep barebacking and it will happen sooner or later.” Yes, that would probably be true, but I want to know exactly when it happens, and I want to know who it is that helps me out; a kind of history if you like. I wouldn’t get that from some anonymous fuck.’

Jon is not alone. Other men I talked to also want to be aware of the moment of infection. As far as the ‘bug-chasers’ are concerned, the man who gives them ‘the gift’ is a hero, brave enough to ignore convention. One man told me that he had taped his ‘conversion’; it had pride of place in his VHS collection — just as videos of the birth of a child do in millions of suburban front-rooms.

These men know that what they want is overwhelmingly likely to hasten their death. ‘The excitement, I guess, comes from the risk aspect; as does the fear, I guess,’ says Jon. ‘I don’t want to reach 70 or above! The control aspect is that with something as final as HIV I have to take focus of what is left of the time I have.’ The language that he uses is macabre, very like that of the patient told he has unwittingly caught a terminal disease. ‘Yes, it could only be a matter of a couple of years, or it could be 15 or 20; however long, it will make me put some focus to my life.’

The bug-chasers want to belong to the most exclusive club of all, one that will make them feel special permanently, and from which they can never be ejected. Ewan, the corporate lawyer who ‘chased’ and then ‘converted’, said to me, ‘I got to the point where I want to live my life, not worry about what other people think. I want to be who I am, out of the rat race. I am fed up with my life being about work. I want to be a real man.’

Real men such as the bug-chasers are not frightened of unpalatable truths. Jon told me, ‘As for the repercussions when I do “convert” [become HIV positive] — yes, it will be painful both for me when I get ill, and for my family and friends. I know I will die from this disease — assuming no major jumps in medical science in the near future. I know it will be extremely hard on those around me.... I know it will be very painful.... But I still want to do this.’ It may seem bizarre but the ‘chasers’ see themselves as responsible in that they are planning and thinking about their conversion. They draw a distinction between their behaviour and that of those who ‘bareback’ casually, knowing the likely consequences but desperate to pretend that it won’t happen to them.

Getting ‘pozzed’ is not as easy as one might think. HIV is difficult to catch. In an age when so many positive people are being successfully treated with combination therapy, unprotected sex with a positive man is in no way an automatic ticket to infection. Post after post on the Net speaks of the desperate search for the elusive ‘high viral load’ needed to improve the chances of infection: ‘London. Irish lad here wants to be converted by a hung pozy top. Make me positive now so I can collect as many strains as possible. Want gentle top, want nice easy conversion.’ One chaser even describes how before his conversion his poz impregnator had abandoned medication for a fortnight to increase the potency of his seed.

The desire to have unprotected sex free from fear is undoubtedly part of the attraction for the bug-chasers. The pro-barebackers believe that gay sex has been sanitised and medicalised by the practice of safe sex, and are desperate to reclaim it. They even have a logo, a play on no-smoking signs, that shows a condom-covered penis with a big red line through it.

But for the bug-chasers I spoke to the search for HIV was about a good deal more than the enhanced pleasure of raw intercourse. They wanted HIV to change their lives. Principally they wanted to emphasise the otherness of ‘queer identity’. Not for them the gay image of the soap-opera hero, ‘out’ entrepreneur or reality-TV winner: ‘I don’t want to be a straight gay, with a his-and-his Ikea chargecard and a standing order to Stonewall,’ one told me.

It is this rejection of acceptance, this two fingers to tolerance, that frightens the mainstream gay lobby. The bug-chasers are not afraid of desire, and they are not afraid to pay the price for expressing themselves so totally. I reaffirmed this with Jon via Instant Messenger: ‘Matthew: u r prepared to die? Jon: yes. Matthew: crumbs — how come? Jon: well if i wasn’t then I wouldn’t be chasing — i don’t think you can be a serious chaser without accepting all the eventualities of your actions — sickness and death are two of the major ones.’

Bug-chasing is out there. No amount of outrage can stop it. For Jon and those like him, ‘the gift’ is the ultimate high. These are determined men. As Jon says, ‘Each time I arrange to meet a poz guy and he doesn’t show up, it’s like a huge kick in the stomach, and I start all over again.’

Matthew Laza works on BBC 1’s Politics Show. The names of the ‘chasers’ in this article have been changed to protect their identity.

117 posted on 04/18/2003 4:44:36 AM PDT by Feldkurat_Katz
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To: Adder
The same can be said of the "pro" homosexual sources...and has been.

And for some of them, should be. If a study doesn't pass scientific muster, it should be questioned and even discredited if appropriate. More often than not, the study itself isn't bad -- it just doesn't support whichever idea it's being touted for.

People born with a congenital defect are not "normal" and we do not "pretend" that they are. It is also pretty obvious that mo's do not relate to the world "normally" esp. vis a vis children.

We treat those with a congenital defect as "normal" as possible; we do, or should, teach our children not to pick on them, harrass them, or beat them up. We shoud treat them with respect, despite the differences.

That is complete garbage and is DELIBERATELY meant to be an epithet and to dismiss any discussion scientific or civil. Anyone who disagrees with the concept of mo-ism as normal is "homophobic"?

It is an overused word and frequently dismissive.

You have read, I assume, the article that headed this thread, concerning the indoctrination of kids and the attacks on parents who disagree. Do you think that if mo-ism were such a provable "scientific" fact, you would need to do that? Do you have to "indoctrinate" people to believe that the world is round or that one and one is two?

The world is round, one and one is two, homosexuals exist, are human, and deserve respect. What science is needed?

But, according to you, to object, is to be homophobic.

You're reaching. I used "homophobe" strictly in reference to the junk-science touted by Remedy.

AIDS has not declined. We have cleaned up the blood supply at great cost due to the stupid acts of those people. They are costing us billions for "research" and some even actively seek the disease out. This is something we should just "accept" and support?

No. But. Guns kill how many people a year? Liberals seem to think it's acceptable to attack all gun-owners over the acts of a stupid few, it's for the children you know.

118 posted on 04/18/2003 6:16:43 AM PDT by JoshGray
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To: madg
Once again brashly defending the indefensible, madg you are the Baghdad Bob of the gay rights movement.
119 posted on 04/18/2003 6:21:11 AM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Remedy
Aside from the indoctrination and everything else, you are training these children from the earliest stage that they can not trust adults to tell them the truth. By attempting to teach them that something is normal when it, in fact, is patently abnormal, these children are being done a grave disservice.
120 posted on 04/18/2003 6:57:06 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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