Congress Needs to Hear From Public re:Marriage Amendment

Newsmax ^ | May 27, 2004 | Paul Weyrich

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Right-thinking, God-fearing Americans should be outraged…enough to call their U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators. The word on Capitol Hill is that not enough calls have been coming into congressional offices urging Congress to vote to send the Federal Marriage Amendment to the states for ratification. If Congress says it can't hear us, Congress won't feel pressured to act. The word has to start coming from the grassroots with an intensity that will make it an unmistakable message: "We demand action to defend the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. We are watching this issue closely. What you do on this issue will be remembered in November!"

Plenty of Christians outside the Beltway know they do not want homosexual marriage to become legal. The problem is that they must let Congress know. Our complacency, our silence - if we do not become more vocal on this issue - runs the danger of becoming the homosexual rights lobby's victory. This is an issue that Christians in the states should be speaking out on in an unmistakable roar loud enough to be heard by Congress.

Nor is it the only issue. Committed Christians need to exercise vigilance over the curriculum and textbooks used in the public schools. The homosexual rights lobby is using the schools to condition children to accept the Gay Way as a lifestyle - rather than God's Way. So many wrongs are becoming right due to the influence of this lobby that soon there will be no real moral wrongs left in the mind of too many young Americans.

Christians everywhere throughout our country need to get outraged, stand up, and speak out to demand this wrong be stopped!

A little-known but increasingly powerful group called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is exercising influence over the curriculum and literature used in public schools. This organization has developed strong alliances with educators, particularly the National Education Association. What kind of literature will your child be reading if GLSEN and its ally, the NEA, have their way?

GLSEN believes that it is beneficial to have children exposed to sexualization at an early age as they learn to accept homosexual relationships as normal. A conservative organization, Mission America, has collected quotations from GLSEN-recommended literature advocating this goal and much more.

One book aimed at influencing educators is called Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling, edited by William J. Letts, IV and James T. Sears. Kevin Jennings, the founder and president of GLSEN, wrote the forward to the book, complimenting the editors for leading the pro-homosexual lifestyle movement toward "a brighter tomorrow."

Former SDS leader and Weathermen member turned education professor William Ayers wrote an endorsement. [It was Ayers, ironically enough, who was quoted in an article that appeared in the September 11, 2001 edition of The New York Times: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough" during the Vietnam War era. Now, Ayers and allies in groups such as GLSEN have found a new stealth weapon to destroy our nation's institutions and the character of the American people.]

In one chapter, a woman describes how she and her male lover have raised their daughter "queerly" by taking her to "gay pride" parades and teaching her the intricacies of masturbation while she is still a young child. Not surprisingly, the book's publisher describes "queering education" as an educational philosophy that "happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out."

Then, there is the film, intended for adults, called It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School, that is described in a paper by the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg. This film shows a so-called "Gay Pride Assembly" being held in school in which a homosexual activist-teacher discusses his sexual predilections, manipulating the sympathies of the children.

True-believing Christians do not sanction provocative violence against homosexuals or anyone else and they make sure their children understand that too. But the GLSEN agenda to promote safe schools for children who have been led to believe that they are homosexual has aims that extend well beyond its supposedly pacific packaging. For as FRC's Sprigg notes, GLSEN's own October 1, 2000 article on "Beyond the Safety Zone" stated, "The pursuit of safety and affirmation are one and the same goal…"

Indeed, GLSEN's own profile on its web page makes clear that one of its strategic objectives is to enlist teachers and school administrators as "partners" of the pro-homosexual lifestyle lobby. Furthermore, GLSEN wants to "[e]nsure that the national agenda to create effective schools includes LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues."

What can we expect?

CNSNews.com's Robert Bluey has reported GLSEN's curriculum on same-sex marriage suggests teachers should "help students to move past preoccupations with the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of same-sex coupling or homosexuality in general." Instead, the debate over marriage needs to be addressed "within the context of human rights, thereby expanding the dialogue beyond the realm of morality."

The NEA is not the only national organization that sanctions the homosexual lifestyle. Either officially or by their actions the American Federation of Teachers, the American School Health Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, the American Association of School Administrators, and the National School Board Association have been helping to steamroller acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.

Christians have to make clear to our local school boards and state legislators and to Congress that we will not permit our children to fall for the kid-glove cloaked, iron-fisted bullying tactics of GLSEN and its accomplices within the educational establishment.

Linda Harvey, President of Mission America, stated earlier this year in a CNS News.com commentary that the efforts of this pro-homosexual tolerance campaign that is aimed at young Americans has not enjoyed widespread success…yet. But she agrees with other conservative and Christian leaders such as the Religious Freedom Coalition's Bill Murray that with legalization of homosexual marriage, the curriculum and literature used by public schools, including the elementary level, will indeed be subject to widespread changes along the lines advocated by GLSEN-recommended literature.

The sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman serves as the cement for the wall that ensures our nation's traditional Judeo-Christian values remain intact. If we lose those standards, we will have lost our ability to remain a strong and free nation.

Break down that wall and American children will be subjected to an educational juggernaut powered by GLSEN that promotes widespread acceptance of homosexuality in American society, starting with impressionable young children in elementary schools. Lose the battle to have Congress refer the Federal Marriage Amendment to the states and our nation's moral foundation will come tumbling down.

If that's not enough to make you want to pick up the phone to make a few calls to Capitol Hill, then I'd like to know, just what will it take?

Paul M. Weyrich is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation

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Smithee - your comments are SPOT ON THE BULLSEYE! Masterfully said. No one could even try to defend their lies against your expression of truth.

And if they do try, they're just giving you another target to hit.

[little jeremiah]

I'm baaaack...! Off to a slow start here, but I will do my best. Let me know if anyone signed on or off the pinglist, and I'll amend mine.

Glad we went, we're exhausted. The other half of lj is still sleeping and won't get up so I can freep to my heart's content!

Thanks for taking over, hope you had a great weekend.