Posted on 12/16/2004 10:05:07 AM PST by presidio9
Two parents, shocked at frank talk during a gay and lesbian awareness day at Newton North High, were forced off the property after one parent whipped out a video camera and started taping.
``This does not belong in curriculum,'' said Kim Cariani, who said four police officers and the principal told them they would be charged with trespassing if they did not leave.
``It's against my religion. It's morally wrong and forced in a child's face.''
Each year, some students at Newton North forgo classes during To BGLAD: Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day with assembly-like sessions including ``Out at the Old Ballgame'' and ``Color Me Queer.'' Students are not required to attend.
Cariani kept her two kids home during the day, but she was curious.
Cariani and another parent, Brian Camenker, were in the audience when adults in a panel discussion talked about being gay. When one man told the students he was attracted to his sister's husband, Cariani said she started to record the ``propaganda, false information and lies.''
The principal demanded Cariani turn over the videotape or leave, Camenker said.
``They took the two of us and pulled us out and gave us one minute to leave and if we came back on the property we would be arrested for trespassing,'' he said.
Tom Mountain, a columnist for the Newton Tab, was also barred from the assembly ``for the safety and security of the children,'' he said he was told.
Newton schools Superintendent Jeff Young said it is a violation of school policy to tape or photograph students without parental permission. Cariani refused to give up the tape, so they were asked to decamp, he said.
The awareness day, held for the past 10 years, is one of several ways the schools highlight diversity, Young said. Students who don't want to go can go to the library or computer lab.
"There is nothing that should not be allowed to be taped in a public school."
Well, I think the locker rooms ought to be off-limits. However, you make a point. Perhaps everything that happens at public schools should be videotaped. Classrooms, hallways, offices. Of course, I don't know who'd watch the tapes. Sounds pretty boring to me.
OTOH, maybe they could broadcast them on one of the public access channels, 24/7. That would be interesting.
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Gay Awareness Day? Sheesh.
If I were going to set up multiple accounts, I wouldn't use similar screennames.
<<"There is nothing that should not be allowed to be taped in a public school."
Well, I think the locker rooms ought to be off-limits. However, you make a point. Perhaps everything that happens at public schools should be videotaped. Classrooms, hallways, offices. Of course, I don't know who'd watch the tapes. Sounds pretty boring to me.
OTOH, maybe they could broadcast them on one of the public access channels, 24/7. That would be interesting.>>
This wouldnt be objectionable, so long as it went through the deomocratic process. The school board voting, for the people, that the consent is no longer needed and everything should be taped would certainly solve this whole issue.
Don't know if I'd give it to Bill. He'd probably break out a "chulupa" or "falafel" and get get himself all worked up and call his producer.
The Homosexual Propaganda and Media Manipulation Game...
Although homosexual propaganda has been around for 50 years, the current campaign started in 1989 with a very popular book within the homosexual community called: “After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990s” by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen.***
This very popular book within the homosexual community makes a passionate argument that homosexual activists should implement an organized propaganda campaign to change public opinion to gain public acceptance to their behavior and obtain special rights, benefits, and privileges.
Their rationalization for launching such a campaign is that people who do not agree with them are “bigots, haters, or ignorants”, and therefore activists can and should justifiably employ any tactic possible, including mass deceit, lying, slander, maliciousness, intimidation, violence, etc. Although many activists initially condemned this approach at first in public, remaining hold outs have jumped on board after benefitting from the success of the propaganda campaign. The following are exerpts taken from “After The Ball.”
These strategies, tactics, and techniques have been and are currently employed by most homosexual activist groups, as verified by their well documented trail.
1) The homosexual agenda can succeed by conversion of the average Americans emotions, mind, and will, through, a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda to the nation via media (page 153);
2) “Propaganda relies more upon emotional manipulation that upon logic, since its goal is to bring about public change” (page 162);
3) Propaganda can be unabashedly subjective and one-sided, there is nothing wrong with this (page 163);
4) Homosexual agenda can succeed by “desensitization” achieved by lowering the intensity of antigay emotional reactions to a level of sheer indifference (page 153);
5) Homosexual agenda can succeed by “jamming” and “confusing” adversaries, so as to block or counteract the “rewarding of prejudice” (page 153);
6) “Heterosexuals dislike homosexuals on fundamentally emotional, not intellectual grounds” (page 166) 7) “Desensitizing” is “our recipe” for converting “ambivalent skeptics”;
8) Make victimizers look bad by linking to Nazi horror while helping straights to see gays as victims and feel protective towards them (page 221);
9) The Nazi story of “pink triangle as a symbol of victimization” should be a sufficient opening wedge into the vilification of our enemies (page 190);
10) Show grisly victimization of gays and demand that readers identify themselves with either social tolerance or gruesome cruelty;
11) Discourage anti-gay harassment by linking and calling all those that have opposing opinions to latent homosexuality (i.e., call people homophobic) (page 227)
12) Jam people by pointing out that it’s inconsistent with the reader’s belief in the value of love between individuals (page 233);
13) AIDS epidemic should be exploited “to increase attention and sympathy” as “victimized minority.”(page xxv) 14) “We argue that for all practical purposes, gays should be considered to have been born gay, even though sexual orientation, for most humans, seems to be the product of a complex interaction between innate predispositions and environmental factors during childhood and early adolescence” (page 184);
15) “Muddy the moral waters”, that is, to undercut the rationalization that justify religious opposition… this entails publicizing support by moderate churches and raising serious theological objections” (page 179);
16) Portray opposing churches “as antiquated backwaters”, badly out of step with the time and with the latest findings of psychology (page 179);
17) Jam the self-righteous pride by linking to a disreputable hate group (page 235);
18) The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly tiresome (page 178);
19) All opposing disagreements to homosexual behavior is rooted in “Homophobia, Homohatred, and Prejudice” (page 112)
20) It is acceptible to call people “Homophobic” or “Homohaters” if they do not agree 100% with homosexual views, opinions, or behavior. (page xxiii)
21) A media campaign should portray only the most favorable side of gays (page 170);
22) Show others accepting gays and homosexuals (page 241); 23) Heterosexuals are like Aryans and people who are against homosexual behavior are “Nazis” and “Clansman”.
24) Homosexual persecution is identical to Jewish persecution (page 57, 62, );
25) Homosexual persecution is identical racial prejudice to Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics (inferring inborn) (page 62, 73);
26) All scientific/medical arguments to prevent 1973 APA/AMA removal from disorder list were rooted in cultural prejudice, medieval knowledge of science/medicine, and misinformation.
27) “Two-thirds of all boys” have rudimentary homosexual experiences (inferring most teenagers want to have homosexual sex) (page 44)
28) “Vast majority” of homosexuals do not engage in compulsive high-risk sex (page 49)
29) American opposition is based solely on prejudiced, outdated, and hypocritical Victorian morals (page 51)
30) All homosexually suicides are based entirely on societal rejection (page xv)
31) All sexual morality should be abolished (pages 64 to 67);
32) Homosexual civil rights are “explicitly set forth in the Bill of Rights”;
33) Health concerns for AIDS prevention are unwarranted (page 91)
34) Opposition to homosexual marriages is based on “family nostalgia” and “sexual guilt” based on religious/Victorian values (page 92)
35) Adoption agencies have been “placing kids with gay people for a long time,” as long as “you do not bring up” the fact that your gay;
36) “Kids in gay households ultimately receive better-than-average parenting” (page 97)
37) All speech that is opposing homosexual behavior should be banned under “clear and present danger to public order” (page 101)
38) All and any news or media coverage that is presents homosexual in negative form is prejudiced and invalid (page 54);
39) Everyone comes out must be prepped by a media campaign carefully crafted, repeatedly displayed mass-media images of gays (page 169);
40) “Gay activists have tried to manipulate the American judicial system.” Sometimes the tactic works: many executive orders (which side step the democratic process) and ordinances passed by city councils now protect certain rights (page 171);
41) “Employ images that desensitize, jam, and/or convert on an emotional level” (page 173);
42) “Gain access to the kinds of public media that would automatically confer legitimacy upon these messages and sponsors” (page 173);
43) “Ambivalent skeptics” are our most promising targets (page 176)…
44) Associate gay cause with “talk about racism, sexism, militarism, poverty, and all the conditions that oppress the unempowered.” (page 181)45) Project gays as victims of circumstance and oppression, not as aggressive challengers (page 183);
46) “Mustachioed leather men, drag queens, and bull dykes” should not appear in gay commercials and other public presentations (until later after wide acceptance) (page 183);
47) Groups on the farthest margins of acceptability, such as NAMBLA, must play no part at all in the medioa campaign (page 184);
48) Gays should be portrayed as victims of prejudice…graphic pictures of brutalized gays, dramatizations of job and housing insecurity, loss of child custody, public humiliation… (page 185);
49) In time we see no reason why more and more diversity should not be introduced into the projected image (i.e., drag queens, pedophiles, etc.) (page 186);
50) Infer and speculate that famous historical figures were gay for two reasons: first, they are dead as a door nail, hence in no position to deny the truth and sue for libel; (page 188) 51) In TV and print, images of victimizers can be combined with those of their gay victims by a method propagandists call the “bracket technique” (page 190);
51) The media campaign will reach straights on an emotional level, casting gays as society’s victims and inviting straights to be their protectors (page 187);
52) We like television because it’s the most graphic and intrusive medium for our message (page 201)
53) Over the long-term, “television and magazines” are probably the media of choice (page 204);
54) Ads must manage to get the word gay into the headline or tagline (page 207);
55) Each message should tap public sentiment, patriotic, or otherwise, and drill an unimpeachable agreeable proposition into the mainstreams head (page 208);
56) Several years down the road, our tactics will have carved out, slice by slice, a large portion of access to mainstream media (page 213);
57) Associate and link gays to good causes and non-controversial activities (page 219);
58) The more people who appear to practice homosexuality, and the more innate it appears to be, the less abnormal and objectionable, and the more legitimate it will seem (which is why it is important to maintain claims to 10% of the population)(page 217)
59) Stage candid interviews with gays who appear as solid citizens. Subjects in commercials should be interviewed alone, not with their lovers (for now) (page 247);
60) Most people derive their impressions of the world through the national media (page 250);
61) It will be a sheer delight to besmirch our tormentors, we cannot waste our resources on revenge alone (page 189); 62) “Too many Americans share this mistrust of gay citizens” (page 55)
***Since I did not write this book, it was written by two homosexuals, how is the "gay" agenda merely a figment of my imagination?
She is PAYING for these "classes" and has every right to know what the government is doing with her tax dollars as long as it doesn't jeopardize national security or put someone's life in danger. Why would that be a problem? Other than things that may jeopardize national security or a person's life, what government programs/classes should be secret and/or the general public not allowed to see?
I am not infallible.
;-)
Two guys writing a book equals the existence of some widespread gay agenda?
Oh, BTW, you sent this to Mineralman.
The "opt out BS" is just that...BS! Peer pressure, ridicule and status makes that not an "option". If "opting out" were a legitimate alternative then why can't we have prayer in school again and let the atheists "opt out" of that?
No, there's no agenda at all, is there? Why, there have been GLBT assemblies in schools going back at least what, the 1930's? (sarc)
"I don't know. I wasn't in attendance, so I have no idea of the exact nature of the program. There's certainly not enough information in the article for me to make a judgment"
Way to straddle that fence gaucho
I have heard of the book, but have not read it. It's out of print, I believe.
I have no doubt that there is some sort of gay agenda. Just about every group has an agenda of some sort. I don't read about homosexuality, since it doesn't interest me, personally.
The book is out of print. I've never seen a copy of it anywhere. There are lots of books.
Your names and POV are so similar I get you mixed up.
Hmm - a book written by two homosexual activists (self identified) in 1989. Lists all the points to indoctrinate soicety, as noted. Hmmm, many of them already accomplished. Book very popular with "gay" community.
Nope, nothing to see. It all exists only in my imagination.
Why would anyone presume that?
Here is what the article says:
"Students are not required to attend.....The awareness day, held for the past 10 years, is one of several ways the schools highlight diversity, Young said. Students who don't want to go can go to the library or computer lab"
I wonder how you might feel if the school administration were suddenly to decide to "highlight diversity' by having a "pro-life day", which included graphic presentations on things like partial-birth abortion.
No students would be required to go (those that didn't could go to the library or to the computer lab), but no parental permission would be required for those that would want to see presentations on the horror os abortion.
And, more importantly, any efforts by parents and the press to actually see what material was being presented to the children would be viewed as a "threat" to the children themsevles.
"Way to straddle that fence gaucho
"
Hmm...how is waiting for additional information straddling the fence? I generally try not to form firm opinions until I have enough information to do so. That seems prudent to me.
" For me, the most important fact in the article is that students were not required to attend"
For me the most important part is that it is a gay recruiting rally on a high school campus at tax payer expense
How many parents on this thread have videotaped their child's performance at school during a recital, concert, play or other activity? Did you get the other students' parents to sign a release?
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