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NEA And GLSEN Seek To Stifle Free Speech
Too good Reports ^ | February 13, 2002 | Rev. Louis P. Sheldon

Posted on 02/13/2002 6:41:01 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen

The National Education Association (NEA) and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) are teaming up this year to violate the free speech and religious freedom rights of millions of school children. They´re not honest enough to clearly state this as their goal, but it is their objective.

These two groups are engaged in a campaign to establish "anti-harassment" and "anti-discrimination" policies on school campuses that will prohibit students from engaging in honest discussions about the behavior of homosexuality.

Those students who wish to express medically-based or morally-based opposition to homosexuality as a lifestyle will be punished if they dare speak out. The NEA is encouraging pro-homosexual students and teachers to become the equivalent of Nazi Brown Shirts on campus. These Brown Shirts will report any student who dares to exercise his freedom of speech or religious beliefs guaranteed under our U.S. Constitution. One can assume that these students will be herded into "retraining" programs to force them to change their attitudes toward homosexual behavior.

Homosexuals and their NEA allies have created a new "hate crime" on campuses. It´s called the "hate-motivated incident." This may involve something as simple as a student expressing his disapproval of sodomy or verbalizing the truth that homosexual sex frequently leads to HIV infection and death.

GLSEN is sponsoring a "Day of Silence," on April 10 on campuses where it has established homosexual recruitment programs known as Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs. The "Day of Silence" is supposed to dramatize the fear and persecution that homosexual students allegedly experience at the hands of "heterosexism" and the mythical mental illness called "homophobia." (Homophobia is a term created by homosexual activists to stigmatize any person who opposes the normalization of sodomy in our culture.)

The primary goal of this "Day of Silence" is to force school officials to institute draconian anti-free speech policies that will prohibit any rational discussion of homosexuality as a self-destructive sexual behavior. The truth is that this behavior inevitably results in high rates of anal cancer, HIV infections, and devastating bowel diseases from anal intercourse. Yet GLSEN and the NEA would forbid students or teachers from discussing these serious health risks.

Before school officials rush headlong into supporting these anti-religion and anti-free speech policies, they would do well to consider a federal appeals court ruling on this issue in February, 2001. In "Saxe vs. State College Area School District," a panel of judges ruled that a local high school´s anti-harassment policy was unconstitutional.

The lawsuit was brought by Pennsylvania State University Professor David Warren Saxe on behalf of two Christian students. These students maintained that the school´s anti-free speech policy benefiting homosexuals was violating their right to freedom of religion and speech. They won. The court noted that the Constitution does not protect people from being offended by the opinions of others. That´s what freedom of speech is all about.

In January, 2002 a federal judge ruled in favor of a Minnesota high school student who wore a "Straight Pride" sweatshirt to school. He wore it to protest the school´s pro-homosexual policies. The student was told he couldn´t wear the shirt because it "offended" homosexuals on campus. He sued the school and won the case. The judge ruled that this student had the constitutional right to express his beliefs.

Unless schools officials are looking forward to facing costly lawsuits—which they will lose—they would be wise to ignore the anti-free speech rants of both the NEA and GLSEN.

In addition, school officials would be wise to learn why the Broward County School Board in Florida voted against a GLSEN partnership in October, 2001. School officials were angered when they discovered the contents of a GLSEN workbook designed to teach 11- to 13-year-old children a series of 16 filthy words dealing with homosexuality. The Broward School Board chairman was so offended by these words that he refused to allow them to be read at the meeting. Yet this is what GLSEN wants to teach our children.

It is ironic that GLSEN is willing to stifle the freedom of speech of those who oppose homosexuality, yet is eager to teach young teenagers words so obscene that a School Board member wouldn´t say them out loud. Something is very wrong with this picture.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aft; braad; brainwashing; children; education; educationnews; gay; glsen; homeschoollist; homosexual; homosexualagenda; indoctrination; lesbian; lgbt; nea; schools; silenceamerica; teacher; teens; tolerance; voucher
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To: EdReform
I wonder if we can sue the NEA for corrupting minors?

I don't know why they can't be charged criminally. If you or I showed other people's children the homosexual literature the NEA pushes on kids, I have no doubt the cops would be there in no time.
LarryLied

So where are these parents. Why have charges not been filed?

61 posted on 02/19/2002 11:23:05 AM PST by Khepera
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To: Khepera
Good questions!

Another question; they have explicit pornograpic documentation -- an audio tape of these filthy perverts instucting kids in the mechanics of homosexual sex (see reply #20 above) -- and two years later nobody has been charged criminally? In fact, one has been reinstated in her job:

Camenker Vindicated by Reinstatement of Fistgate Teacher

And the homosexual community is raising funds to help sue the two honorable men that exposed the pornographic queer agenda of GLSEN, et al. -- see The Lawsuit against the Parents!

62 posted on 02/19/2002 11:53:43 AM PST by EdReform
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To: EdReform
See now when I suggest that homosexuality is not right and these people belong in jail, they always accuse me of beating gays and all sorts of violent behaviors I have never entertained. When I suggest we put them in jail to protect society they counter with "But then they will be raped by Bubba. It would be a horrible fate!" (That one never made sense to me) Then they try to accuse me of the very behaviors that they themselves partake in.

Seems to me these folks are crazier than anybody I know. They have no real place in normal society and any mistreatment they experience is brought on by their own actions. They won't take any responsibility for their actions but expect for me too. It just floors me. If it was not for the reality of it, it would be very funny. We know enough to put shoplifters in jail but not these crazy perverts. Go figure.

63 posted on 02/19/2002 12:20:03 PM PST by Khepera
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To: Khepera
This is from 1994 in San Francisco, this article I believe is overall PRO HOMO!

http://google.com/search?q=cache:IY0TiCIx0wAC:www.aegis.com/news/sc/1994/SC941101.html+Bruce+budnick+&hl=en

Bruce Budnick of San Francisco will never forget what his daughter said she learned in her sixth-grade class one day. Two years later, it still makes him angry.

Two gay speakers, a man and a woman, spoke "pornographically" to the children, Budnick said, and told how they used dildos and performed oral and anal sex.

The talk was sponsored by a district-recommended program, Community United Against Violence, which often sends speakers to junior high and high schools to "demystify homosexuality" before AIDS lessons begin.

"If this had happened outside of the school, they would have been arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior," Budnick said.

Terry Person, program director of Community United Against Violence, said Budnick has blown everything out of proportion.

"I understand there was one isolated incident . . . an answer to a student who asked a very explicit question about dildos. It's been dogging us for years," she said.

Such questions would be answered in general terms, she said. On dildos: "That some people of either persuasion utilize sex toys. Period."

Others oppose AIDS programs because they fail to advocate straight, married monogamy.

In California's Del Norte County, a conservative group tried unsuccessfully to stop AIDS education in sixth, eighth and tenth grades, saying the message failed to stress the virtues of matrimony.

In Fremont, a group of parents has tried to get rid of a Kaiser Permanente Hospital-sponsored AIDS play for junior high and high school students. They said the play, called "Secrets," taught too much about sex and drugs.

It was "absolute censorship," argued "Secrets" director Scott Kessler.

Sex is a reality for teenagers, Kessler said at a school meeting. "We have a truly terrible crisis on our hands, and we are trying to save lives," he said.

The play has been approved for high schools in Fremont.

64 posted on 02/19/2002 1:13:57 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: Khepera;ALL
I wonder if we can sue the NEA for corrupting minors?

Where do I sign the paperwork to start this lawsuit?

65 posted on 02/20/2002 3:41:00 AM PST by wwjdn
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To: Khepera
Bump!!
66 posted on 02/20/2002 7:17:15 AM PST by EdReform
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To: EdReform
And the fornicators and adulterers are just as bad as the homosexuals and yet many in the church ignore them. I would say also that at least the fornicators and adulterers are not forcing us to condone/praise their behavior but we should cut them no more slack than the Sodomites.

Bears repeating.

67 posted on 02/20/2002 7:21:41 AM PST by Khepera
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To: Khepera
Bump again
68 posted on 02/21/2002 5:02:23 AM PST by EdReform
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To: Stand Watch Listen
The primary goal of this "Day of Silence" is to force school officials to institute draconian anti-free speech policies that will prohibit any rational discussion of homosexuality as a self-destructive sexual behavior. The truth is that this behavior inevitably results in high rates of anal cancer, HIV infections, and devastating bowel diseases from anal intercourse.

Not too mention that without homosexuals, the market for colostomy bags would collapse.

69 posted on 02/21/2002 5:06:29 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Stand Watch Listen
A search for "homosexuality" at the NEA's web site produced three pages of articles.

The results are listed here .

The extent to which the NEA is pushing the homosexual agenda is really disturbing.

70 posted on 02/21/2002 10:53:48 AM PST by Kryptonite
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To: backhoe;goodnesswins
Thanks!backhoe

goodnesswins see post #11

71 posted on 04/05/2002 6:32:16 AM PST by GrandMoM
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To: GrandMoM
BTTT
72 posted on 04/07/2002 9:34:56 AM PDT by EdReform
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To: Stand Watch Listen
BTTT! More people need to know about this.
73 posted on 05/27/2002 12:30:26 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Bumping and old thread for someone!
74 posted on 01/08/2004 11:16:34 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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