Parents say no to 'gay' agenda in schools - Poll: 71% oppose 'normalizing' 'gay' relationships

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, February 22, 2003

[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:

• GLB orientation was associated with increased use of cocaine (and other illegal) drugs'

• GLB youth were more likely to report using tobacco, marijuana and cocaine before 13 years of age;

• GLB orientation is associated with sexual intercourse before 13 years of age, sexual intercourse with four or more partners and sexual contact against one's will.

"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.

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[Marysecretary]

Well, at least I can safely rant on FR, which, of course, is preaching to the choir! Men ARE from Mars and Women ARE from Venus in sooo many important ways. But, they still love us!

[EdReform]

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[John O]

Exposure to homosexuality is an assault on a child's soul

Hence the third law of homosexuality:

Any exposure of children to homosexual behavior is child abuse

[John O]

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.

* GLB orientation is associated with sexual intercourse before 13 years of age, sexual intercourse with four or more partners and sexual contact against one's will.

Just noticed this. The question is, are they at greater risk of victimization because they are GLB or are they GLB because they've been victimized?

The first law of homosexuality:

'Homosexuals' don't reproduce, they recruit

I think that answers my question

[First Amendment]

They are interested in adolescents because they want to recruit, and because homosexual bhehavior has always been associated with pederasty; seeing adolescents as sex objects. Homosexuals themselves, in their writings and publications, admit it. They just try to present a different picture to the straight world, to continue with the fiction that they are a legitimate "minority" that needs government protection and recognition.

They destroy countless lives by their "outreach" to young people.

[myrabach]

I can understand not wanting kids to go to government schools, however that solution is just not practical for everyone.

What needs to be done is get the government out of the schools. Not an easy task, but necessary if there is to be any future for the next generations.

[EdReform]

Bumping 105

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