Posted on 05/30/2002 8:53:57 PM PDT by gohabsgo
Concentric is the state of having a common center. The U.S is no longer a concentric nation. It is being grotesquely divided, little by little, bit by bit. Free speech bordering on harassment and intimidation has replaced civility and open dialogue. A nation conceived in liberty now resembles a kid so confused about what liberty and identity is, and what unifying values are, that he has little in common with the family that instilled him with ethics and principles in the first place. How have we become "educated" to think like this?
Public education now includes laws requiring that teachers "come out," expressing their homosexuality in front of children as young as six years old. This is without parental notification or consent. Teachers compelled to triumph their sexual identity, subordinating the purpose of schools, are the most self-centered, conceited individuals on the planet. Conceit is excessive pride in one's own worth or value.
According to the Frequently Asked Questions fact sheet provided by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), California's specious safe schools law is designed to accomplish the following:
"Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) students are subject to a climate of fear resulting in increased absenteeism, decreased academic performance and increased risk of suicide. The National School Climate Survey (whatever that is) also found that 30% of LGBT students had missed at least one entire day of school in the past month because they felt unsafe."
Let's see, a "climate of fear" results in cutting classes, not doing homework and preparing for tests, and killing oneself. A suspect survey discloses dramatic evidence that subject students missed ONE entire day, not a half day, not first hour, one entire day, because they felt unsafe? Not that any of the other 3,000 students face any challenges. Are the "rights" of LGBT students more equal than other students? And just how many LGBT students are there?
The same groups who advance this agenda, so furiously focused on forcing themselves upon a seemingly powerless public, routinely condemn and attack any expressions of G-d, church, family values, or other positive influences. You have to give the Devil his due. He sure knows how to operate through the left. No venomous (and falsely applied) epithets equivalent to homophobe, bigot, and gay basher are even considered, let alone employed by shell-shocked parents. The left plays on the self-imposed conservative tendency of avoiding confrontation, and exploits it like a giant hole in a fence.
The program is: Bludgeon the public to the point of confusion, moral ambiguity, and denial of faith. Wear it down, knowing most people won't defend their value system, even though they fully believe what the left is doing is wrong. "They'll grow tired, and will concede," lawyers from gay activist groups and the ACLU are convinced.
Confiscation is to seize by, or as if by, authority. This is the issue. Is the common sense public willing to reclaim a moral right that has been stolen? They have the defensible moral right to decide for themselves what, and from where, information about sexual orientation and identity will originate: from parents, or from arrogant and disdainful public school social engineers intent on pushing homosexual equivalency.
Homosexual rights activists employ their special vocabulary like an occupying army, an idiom where identity is fixed. The persistence and formula are textbook. Anyone who opposes this agenda is not just an enemy, but an intruder.
Most words move fluidly along a continuum, expressing degrees of strength and emphasis. Language is historically developed as a form of sophisticated negotiation. I'll concede this if you give me that. But when wielded in an intimidating manner, most capable adversaries drop like flies. That's part of the plan: divide and conquer.
Let's test the belief continuum just to prove the point. A homosexual rights activist is aggressive and rabid. Pushing for equivalency via gradualism, merging with another meretriciously used term: "progressive." A rabid advocate goes to extreme lengths in expressing or pursuing a feeling, interest, or opinion.
Obsessed and largely angry, victimhood becomes the signature. Making schools "safe" provides cover. Schools won't be any safer with pro-homosexual laws, but will instead become an ever-enlarging battlefield in the culture war. Meanwhile, real education takes a back seat.
On the opposite end, the conservative parent isn't rabid and aggressive, thinking he can reason with an unreasonable adversary. Sporadically challenging out-of-control school districts using opt-out forms to prevent homosexual programming of their children, common sense parents are losing the battle.
California's AB537, the little reported and deceptively titled "Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000," permits Hayward school district homosexual teachers to "come out" in classrooms, in front of impressionable little kids. How would you like to have your child come home and talk to you about homosexuality? What an absolute outrage!
You the parent, and you the public have much more power to effectuate change and stop these outrageous policies than you know. But you have to get off your behinds and get involved. Start with calling your newspaper and demand an explanation as to why these issues garner no coverage. Cancel the paper if they, predictably, fail to address your questions. Contact local, state and federal officials in numbers. Call and write the governor and the education superintendent.
Go to Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family, as well as The Family Research Council. And in all fairness, take a look at GLSEN's site. Most homosexual activists hate the Judeo-Christian system of values, and recognize that if they can gain control of children, they can change the entire culture in one generation. The easiest thing to do would be to quit, especially when this is what the homosexual activists are counting on.
It is obnoxious to be called the "religious right," the "far right" and "religious extremists." None of us likes that. But being ridiculed and marginalized is the price we must pay to defend what we believe. Now go to work! You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish with a little initiative.
Thanks again!
I disagree. I'm religious and I'm right
Any exposure of children to homosexual activity is child abuse
God Save America (Please)
Oh, yes, the good old days. They asked for tolerance and we gave it to them, and now they want acceptance. This article is so on target. We really do need to act.
Why not do both?
BTW, here's an excellent post by Buffalo Bob you might be interested in reading.
Hey, thanks for that link. Buffalo Bob RULES!!
well, not really rules, but he makes a great point, actually, several great points.
And as a Christian, am called to be let Light shine, and not hide it under a bushel basket.
The Dark hates the Light, and cringes from it, and, ultimately, will be defeated by it.
(Actually, it has already been defeated by it - we just need to "play out the string").
Right! I am a conservative, rabid and aggressive parent and I don't care who has a problem with it.
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