Posted on 03/02/2002 12:10:55 PM PST by GrandMoM
Marin County, just north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge, is one of the most affluent counties in the nation, with a median home price of $529,000. Home to U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, it's also one of the most liberal. When Californians voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 22, placing the state on record against same-sex "marriages," Marin was one of only four counties to buck the tide.
Even so, Marin has its relatively conservative enclaves. Drive to the northernmost city of Novato (population 47,000), with its lower home prices and family-friendly atmosphere, and you'd think you were in a typical modest-sized American town. So when Greg and Lisa sat down to dinner one evening in late February and asked their fourth-grade son, Kenny, to tell them about his school day, they weren't ready for what they heard.
"We had an assembly today," Kenny said. "We learned that there are all kinds of families," including "two mommies" and "two daddies." He also shared some of the words he'd learned for the first time that day:homosexual, lesbian, faggot.
Kenny wasn't the only child to bring home such a report. All the second- through fifth-graders at Pleasant Valley School had been called to an assembly, where they learned slogans like "I'm gay and it's OK," reinforced by various skits-like one in which Rapunzel cut her hair and ran away with her girlfriend. The show made an impact.
"Daddy, am I a lesbian?" one third-grade girl asked. "I like girls better than boys."
The group behind the assembly bore an innocent-sounding name, Cootie Shots. But it turned out to be an offshoot of Fringe Benefits, a theater group that gets public funds for "tolerance of diversity" performances in high schools and middle schools throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Now the group is targeting much younger kids, because-in the words of a longtime Fringe Benefits booster, Steven Hicks of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) of Los Angeles-"It is imperative to begin addressing these issues in the elementary schools as early as possible."
Lots of parents were upset at the show and at the fact that they hadn't been given any warning. Lots of them complained to the principal and the superintendent, though so far to little effect. But few of them, including Greg and Lisa, would let their real names be used for this story. In Marin County, as one resident said,
"Traditional-minded folk stay in the closet if they don't want to be known as hatemongers. People who don't live here just don't know what it's like."
Marin County isn't unusual, however. The Golden State is being swept by a lavender wave, as gay activists overrun classrooms statewide.
And if parents and churches don't mobilize fast, that wave just might sweep the country.
"While regularly ridiculed by most gay activists, the view that young people can be "recruited" into homosexuality is accepted even by some homosexuals themselves.
Activist Darrell Yates Rist, a co-founder of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and a prominent homosexual author, said he believes it is certainly possible for children to be "lured by queer ideas" into the homosexual lifestyle.
Rist said this truth is understood intuitively by parents and worries them, because "they too understand that sexually free ideas are infectious and that, once introduced to the suggestion of same-sex love, their kids might just try it and like it."
Meanwhile, Johnston said that homosexual groups are reaching down to children as young as kindergarten age, "indoctrinating them to the idea that homosexuality is an intrinsic part of one's identity; one to be explored and embraced. If that's not recruiting, I don't know what is."
What do you mean IF?
HELLO???!!! We are talking about California here!
These bills will mandate that California schools teach the appreciation of homosexuality, bi-sexuality, and even transgender, cross dressing, etc. This will go in California Textbooks and classroom curriculum.
......DUMP DAVIS NOW!!!
Psychiatrist "Reassures" Parents About Lesbian Experimentation
"...The article describes a parent-faculty meeting at The Spence School, a private enclave overlooking Central Park, where several eighth-grade girls had declared themselves "bisexual." The school called in a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Richardson--himself a gay man--to reassure the parents that lesbian experimentation is common, and that it was too soon to know if they would be lesbians or heterosexuals.
At the all-girl Brearly School two weeks earlier, Dr. Richardson told a parent group to advise their daughters as young as nine years old that they, too, may have sex with other girls in the future. "It is a good idea," he said, "to mention that people have sex with members of the same sex sometimes, and that when they grow up they may have friends that do that--and that it may be something that they themselves do."
"A small but growing number of students," the Times article reported, "have come out at these schools, or at least say that bisexuality is stylish." Parents are concerned, and Dr. Richardson--"pedigreed, carefully-spoken, determinedly nonthreatening--has become the schools' gay issues consultant of choice" because he is "sane and clear," according to the Spence headmaster..."
More information in GrandMoM's thread:
Assemblyman MOUNTJOY opposes promotion of homosexuality in public schools
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