"Presumably, the kids who were there had their parents' permission to attend,"
Well, I'd assume so, but that information is not in the article, nor is any count of how many students actually did attend. I'm sure that the woman in question kept her children from attending, though.
So let me understand your position. It sounds to me like because this was voluntary there is no victim here....
Okay what if the schools held siminars on Russian roulet? Voluntary of course. You see Homosexual behavior is one of the most dangerous acts one can participate in. Now is not this school liable for promoting a behavior that can been seen as dangerous? ( Hiv/ AIDs)?
According to Mrs. Cariani on WRKO this morning the wrong date was on the flyer sent home.
How Elites Impose Gay Marriage from the Top Down
by Nicholas Stix
“Homosexual activist groups have been among the most influential players in the same-sex marriage campaign. Working behind the scenes with political leaders, news editors, public and private managers and educators, these groups have for the past thirty years wielded increasing power over what Americans may see and hear and say and do. Often at taxpayer expense, they have imposed a situation in which gays and their agenda must always be depicted in a positive manner, and their critics demonized. Some activist groups have increasingly hijacked public institutions, which they use for gay political organizing, same-sex marriage politicking, and most importantly, sexual recruitment.
“One such powerful activist group, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, pronounced ‘glisten’) has developed a curriculum promoting same-sex marriage to schoolchildren. One of the lesson plans instructs educators, ‘Elicit laws or customs that students feel are reflective of current marriage practice and … the underlying attitudes/beliefs. These practices reflect the ideas that marriage requires compatibility, economic interdependence, and that marriage is first and foremost about love – not procreation.
But promoting same-sex marriage is just the tip of the iceberg for GLSEN, which functions in the schools through homosexual teacher-activists. The group, which was founded in 1990 by Kevin Jennings, was originally named GLISTN, as in the ‘Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network.
“GLSEN Los Angeles sells a homosexualist curriculum that starts in kindergarten, ‘cootie shots’ (which as a traveling ‘play’ has also reached tens of thousands of young school children), whereby it seeks to impose homosexuality on all subjects.
“In ‘Play Wedding,’ designed for K-2, ‘Two little girls play dolls and talk about a wedding between two men one of them attended.’ In ‘La Peluca de Su Mama,’ which is also promoted for K-2 pupils, ‘A Latino boy is mocked and teased by his classmates for trying on his mother’s wig.’ In ‘Billy Tipton,’ for grades 3-6, ‘Billy, a jazz musician and heartthrob, who lived her/his entire life as a man, shares his/her story.’ In three other lessons, little boys are encouraged variously to wear dresses, don their mother’s high heels, and paint their fingernails bright orange.
“GLSEN activist and ‘Cootie Shots’ co-editor and theater director Norma Bowles claims, ‘We started hearing from parents and teachers that something like this was needed for elementary schools. As young as first and second grade, kids are calling each other names like sissy and queerboy. Long before kids even know what it means, the put down of the day is “That’s so gay.”
“First and second graders speaking that way? Parents calling for a pro-gay curriculum? I don’t think so. In fact, in 2002 parents in Novato, CA sued to protect their children from being exposed to ‘Cootie Shots.’
“According to World Net Daily reporter Diana Lynne, Fringe Benefits Theatre’s Web site has said that it is ‘dedicated to building bridges between gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youth and their straight peers, teachers and parents.’ However, in news reports, the group sells its productions as simply ‘promoting diversity.’ And the group has since made it impossible to reach it directly. Now, although Fringe Benefits is supported by taxpayer dollars, one must use intermediaries such as the radical leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site to reach the group.
“GLSEN activists have preyed on sexually confused (which many adolescents are) children as young as 12, and have told 14-year-olds that the latter are ‘transgenders,’ an incoherent notion that claims that one can have a sexual identity that contradicts one’s body. The ‘therapy’ for such confused souls involves chopping off a child’s sexual organs, constructing useless facsimiles of the sex organs of the opposite sex, and counseling the mutilated child that he (it?) is what he is not.
“GLSEN’s most powerful organizing tool has been ‘Gay-Straight Alliances’ that homosexual activist-teachers organize and manipulate at their schools. GSAs operate under the ruse that children as young as 12 have not only full-blown sexual identities, but a political consciousness of conflicts involving sex and sexual orientation.
“Homosexual activist groups have parlayed their power into the creation of a fifth group, which I call the homosexual ‘shadow government.’ Thus do some states and municipalities have homosexual activist advocacy institutionalized as part of government – ‘Commissions for Gay and Lesbian Youth,’ ‘Commissions on Sexual Minorities,’ etc.
“In Massachusetts, in what has become known as ‘fistgate,’ thanks to the dissident Web site MassNews, state education officials have joined with activists to push homosexual practices on school children. Two parents, Brian Camenker and Scott Whiteman, publicized a March 25, 2000 talk by state education and health officials, at a GLSEN-sponsored conference, who graphically described and praised any number of homosexual sex acts, most notoriously ‘fisting’ (forcing one’s fist and in some cases, forearm into another person’s rectum or vagina), and who downplayed the need for safe sex (forget about chastity), before an audience of children and educators. The officials had indoctrinated children as young as 12 to talk about homosexual acts. A 12-year-old girl said of homosexuality, ‘Don’t knock it, til you’ve tried it,’ ‘How do you know you don’t like it?,’ and that it ‘has a glorious history.’
“One homosexual teacher-presenter had her seventh-grade students prepare a film to convince administrators that homosexuality was normal, and ‘not about sex.’
“When Camenker and Whiteman played their tape on a local radio show, the education officials, Julie Netherland and Margot E. Abels, were fired. Netherland sued Camenker and Whiteman, arguing that they had violated her ‘privacy.’ Note that while the taxpayer-sponsored talk took place at Tufts University, the officials said that its content was identical to what they typically taught in the public schools.
As the Seattle-based group, Parents and Teachers for Responsible Schools (PTRS) reports, “The City of Seattle and the Seattle School District have created departments, paid for with public money and staffed by public employees, to advocate for homosexual civil rights, which include the right to marry, adopt, conceive children through artificial insemination, and to receive legal status equivalent to that afforded race under law. These departments, the Seattle Commission on Sexual Minorities (‘SCSM’), and the District's Sexual Minority Advocacy Council (‘SMAC’) are part of their respective Office of Civil Rights.
“PTRS reports that homosexual activists first used ‘AIDS education’ as their Trojan horse, to get a foothold in the public schools. Since then, GLSEN has fabricated problems, including abuse and discrimination, encountered by allegedly homosexual children, as a pretext to spread its publicly-funded ‘safe schools’ program across the nation. ‘Safe schools’ is a second Trojan horse, which GLSEN uses to push homosexuality and same-sex marriage on school children at ever younger ages….”