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Massachusetts High School to Celebrate ‘Transgender, Gay Day’
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Posted on 12/15/2004 7:50:22 AM PST by Ellesu

Topics include ‘queer families’ ‘gays’ in sports and ‘heterosexism.’

Students in Newton, Massachusetts, will be treated to an entire day of pro-homosexual propaganda on December 15.

“To BGLAD Day” features workshops and speakers who will make students feel good about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism.

“This is so incredibly objectionable,” Brian Camenker, who heads the Article 8 Alliance and the Parents Rights Coalition, said of To BGLAD Day. “The parents are so outraged that this is being pushed on their kids that they don’t know what to do. To use children’s minds this way without even letting the parents know is horrible.”

A spokeswoman at Newton North told Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute that a notice was not sent home with students, but that the event had been posted on the school’s Web site and listed in event calendars at the beginning of the year, and that some e-mails had been sent out.

When asked if the events were mandatory, she said, “Classes are scheduled to attend various workshops, but if students are uncomfortable or their parents are uncomfortable, the students can instead go to the library.”

Camenker, whose son attends Newton North High, said he has sent a copy of the “gay day” schedule to the school superintendent and all eight school board members. He said parents will be at the school monitoring the events, and that he is working on a plan to bring in former homosexual Stephen Bennett, who has a ministry in Connecticut, to speak to students about overcoming homosexuality and countering the pro-“gay” slant.

At a previous “gay day” two years ago, a 20-year-old male wearing a dress addressed students and told them he was taking female hormones but hadn’t yet had his penis cut off, Camenker said. Last year, a boy was suspended for making fun of another boy who had come to school in makeup and a dress.

“They brought in this stuff through ‘safe schools,’ but ‘safe schools’ really means making the schools safe for kids to act out as homosexuals,” Camenker said.

Article 8 Alliance is a pro-family Massachusetts group dedicated to stopping “gay marriage,” unseating the four Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justices for their November 18, 2003, decision legalizing same-sex “marriage,” and freeing the schools from homosexual influence.

Newton is, among other things, the hometown of openly homosexual U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D). On October 9, 2001, the city’s schools adopted a “Respect for Human Differences Mission Statement, which in part says: “The Newton Public Schools will provide a climate that actively promotes social justice where children perform at the highest levels.” The long list of “human differences” includes “sexual orientation.”

The Newton schools also pride themselves on being up to date on the latest multiculturalism fads. Here is their statement on multicultural education under “core values.”

Effective multicultural education suggests a re-examination of the history, social constructs and dynamics related to race, class, gender, ethnicity, economics, and culture that impact curriculum and instruction. Multicultural education includes rigorous curriculum and inclusive teaching that challenges all students and staff. We are committed to developing a philosophy of multicultural education that can be infused across transformed curricula.

The day after “gay” day, the school is staging One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which the school Web site notes “explores the definition of sanity.”

And, although the school district’s calendar notes that September 16 is Rosh Hashanah, the period between December 24 and January 2 is listed only as “December recess.” The calendar does list March 25 as Good Friday, but ignores Easter.

Article 8 Alliance is supporting a Parents Rights Bill in the new Massachusetts Legislature. The bill would change attendance rules to make sex-related programs and courses “opt-in” instead of “opt-out” and would include all school programs and activities.

Since the administration of Republican Gov. William Weld (1991-1997), Massachusetts taxpayers have been dunned about $1.5 million annually for a Gay and Lesbian Youth Commission, which aggressively promotes homosexuality in public schools and helps schools create “Gay/Straight Alliances,” which are student clubs that advocate the acceptance of homosexuality.

The commission is continuing its work under Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who has made no objections to the commission’s work and funding.

Here is the official “gay day” notice from the school’s Web site, complete with the long-discredited “fact” that one in 10 students is homosexual:

To BGLAD Day - (All day event)

Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004

ToBGLAD: TRANSGENDER, BISEXUAL, GAY AND LESBIAN AWARENESS DAY

_________________________________

B Block (7:50-8:45 am) – Little Theatre:

A Day in the Life: Statistically one in ten students at this school are (sic) not straight. Teenage life is complicated enough, but how does it differ for Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual/ Transgender (GLBT) teens? Come to this panel and find out.

C Block (9:05-10:20 am) – Little Theatre: Student Speakout: Newton North students read original pieces about GLBT issues. Session 1: 9:05 – 9:35 Session 2: 9:45 – 10:20

D Block (10:25-11:20 am) – Little Theatre: Life Outside the Gender Norm: What happens when ones (sic) gender identity does not match their sex? In this session, speakers will talk about their experiences with gender identity and expression.

E Block (11:25 am -12:20 pm) – Little Theater: Out at the Old Ballgame: Athletes and coaches discuss what it’s like to be GLBT in the gym, on the field, and on the road.

F Block (1:00-1:55 pm) – Little Theater: Family Matters: What does it mean to be a family? What discriminations and legal obstacles do queer families face? Children and parents discuss living with queer family members.

F Block (1:00-1:55 pm) – Film Lecture Hall: GBLT What's in a Name: What is homophobia? heterosexism? Why is there a ToBGLADay? In this interactive presentation, we will use activities to provide the groundwork for talking about GBLT issues.

G Block (2:00-2:55 pm) – Little Theater: Color Me Queer: A panel discussion of race, culture, and sexual identity.

Newton North High School 360 Lowell Avenue Newtonville, MA 02460 (617) 559-6200


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; chickenhawk; definingdeviancydown; deviancy; deviates; fasttrack; homosexualagenda; indecency; indoctrination; lavendermafia; liberalcant; monstrosity; outrage; pederasty; perversion; propaganda; prosecularism; publiceducation; publicschools; queer; queering; recruiting; secularists; socialdecay; teens
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To: massgopguy
He periodically calls into WRKO. He is still looking over his shoulder. He wounded them with his tape and they, GLSEN are more dangerous when wounded.

I guess there is something more dangerous than a woman scorned -a homosexual wounded.

61 posted on 12/15/2004 11:23:49 AM PST by DBeers
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To: mlbford2

Massachusetts would be wise to heed a warning………..

Jude 1: (7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (8) Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. (10) But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Matthew 10: (14) … whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. (15) Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.


62 posted on 12/15/2004 12:10:47 PM PST by OB1kNOb (When (not if) Christianity is outlawed, will they have enough evidence to convict you?)
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To: 26lemoncharlie
Yes,there is something that they hold "near and dear". Liberalism!

Have you ever tried to reason with a Massachusetts "progressive"?

63 posted on 12/15/2004 12:12:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: racnpartsales4u

read later


64 posted on 12/15/2004 12:16:52 PM PST by dnmore
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To: Gay State Conservative

Too much of anything is not any good, maybe an Overload of LIBERALISM is the answer ! Think about that, an overdose of liberalism, I am trying to think what that could be!?


66 posted on 12/15/2004 12:25:25 PM PST by 26lemoncharlie (Defending America)
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I am still so amazed that anyone's sexual orientation is a topic at school- we had sports but mostly learning and never classes on queers.


67 posted on 12/15/2004 4:42:05 PM PST by Ellesu
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To: racnpartsales4u

What other behavior must we applaud? Diving head first into raw sewage? Heavy drinking?
Cocaine/Heroin abuse?
I suppose the 'enlightened'among us are determined to encourage tolerance for every bizzare activity imaginable.
Areal coup will be achieved when the age of consent is set at ten years of age.

Bill K


68 posted on 12/15/2004 6:00:36 PM PST by traitorsclaw
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To: Ellesu
So this is what liberalism and "social progress" have come down to: allowing homosexual adults to conduct recruiting seminars for queerness in public schools.

Either God or history is going to get us for this.

69 posted on 12/16/2004 5:31:22 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: NYer
Wouldn't a more accurate title of the article be "Massachusetts High School to Celebrate Perversion and Sodomy"?
70 posted on 12/16/2004 5:35:19 AM PST by murphE ("I ain't no physicist, but I know what matters." - Popeye)
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To: Ellesu

This is frikin sick.


71 posted on 12/16/2004 5:38:16 AM PST by The Mayor (We are saved not by what we do but by trusting what Christ has done.)
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To: Cowboy Bob; All

Sometimes when I read stories like this I can't help but think of the story where the poor old lady was "forced" to watch an X-rated movie on cable television for 3 hours and 41 minutes


72 posted on 12/16/2004 5:45:28 AM PST by expatguy (Fallujah Delenda Est!!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
All this for 1% of the population...why?

Because the goal is 10% on the population, and events like this are one of their recruiting tools.

73 posted on 12/18/2004 8:05:32 AM PST by TaxRelief (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Ellesu

We have been discussing inexpensive ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84

The thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined.


74 posted on 01/09/2005 11:17:42 PM PST by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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