Posted on 05/19/2005 7:53:32 PM PDT by xzins
Homosexual Group Admits Obscene Material Was Handed Out at Conference
'Outed,' GLSEN Boston Confesses Sexually Explicit Literature Was Made Available to Kids at Its Event
Caution: This story contains terms that some may find offensive.
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker May 19, 2005
(AgapePress) - A Boston health clinic has admitted to distributing pornographic books to middle school students and others at a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conference hosted by a Massachusetts high school. Initially GLSEN Boston categorically denied its recent 15th Annual Conference event at Brookline High School featured sexually explicit materials.
However, the Fenway Community Center health clinic has admitted to passing out copies of "The Little Black Book -- Queer in the 21st century," a graphic how-to manual on homosexual sex. The superintendent of Brookline Schools has also acknowledged that the sexually explicit materials were made available at the conference when they should not have been, and he has apologized for that fact.
Prior to the health clinic and the school system confirming the truth, GLSEN Boston's office had maintained that the allegations of pornographic books at its conference were "categorically untrue," and were nothing more than lies "from the far right." As late as yesterday, the chapter's website had a notice posted on its "news & announcements" page, stating that the group "wants to assure everyone that there were no sexually explicit materials at the conference."
According to the web notice, the pro-homosexual organization prohibits "sexually explicit materials of any kind" at its conferences, and to permit them at one of its events "would be in violation of clearly stated policy." GLSEN Boston executive director Sean Haley was even quoted on the website as saying that the group assigns monitors to every workshop and event to assure that all policies are strictly enforced.
"No such materials, from AAC or anyone else, were ever present at the GLSEN conference in Brookline," Haley claimed, adding, "These allegations are simply lies." Wednesday night (May 18), however, GLSEN admitted to American Family Radio News that the inappropriate materials were indeed present at the April 30 event -- but would never be made available at one of its conferences again.
See earlier story: 'Family Advocates Outraged by Pornographic Handouts at GLSEN Event'
An Ex-Homosexual Viewpoint: The Impact of Indoctrinating Kids
Stephen Bennett is a former homosexual who now heads a Christian ministry that reaches out to individuals and families affected by homosexuality, offering hope, help and healing through Christ. As a national spokesman for this kind of outreach and as an evangelist to the homosexual community, he has been investigating the GLSEN Boston controversy.
In light of the latest developments, the founder of Stephen Bennett Ministries says he is "very thankful to Christ, because the truth has come out. The Bible does say whatever is done in the darkness is going to be made manifest in the light. I just thank God that this organization has had the guts to come forward and publicly admit that they made a very grave error."
The ex-homosexual spokesman says his whole purpose in getting involved in these events was not to demean anyone or anything, but to focus on the welfare of young people. "My whole drive on this was that this was affecting children. This pornographic, extremely graphic material was given to young children, which is completely unacceptable," he says.
Although Bennett was, along with other pro-family advocates, outraged over what happened at Brookline High School, he feels it is important to move forward. "I think that we need now to extend forgiveness on this issue," he says, "but I think we also need to reexamine the social impact of what happens when homosexuality is taught to children as normal and natural."
A Medical Opinion: The Risks of Homosexual Sex
Bennett is by no means singular in his contention that the material distributed at the GLSEN Boston conference is harmful to youth. Dr. John R. Diggs, MD, a Massachusetts physician and expert on sexually transmitted disease, issued a statement May 15 regarding the recent distribution of "The Little Black Book" at Brookline High School, contending that much of the so-called health information offered in the sexually graphic brochure "is patently wrong."
For instance, Diggs points out that the pro-homosexual booklet suggests that condoms have been shown to stop HIV when, at best, there is only an 85 percent reduction in transmission among stable couples engaged in intercourse. Meanwhile, he notes, most data on condom use and STD prevention is based on heterosexual intercourse, not sodomy, which is clearly riskier. The medical expert says the rates of anal cancer caused by HPV infection are very high and can be fatal, and condoms have not been shown to significantly reduce this risk.
But besides encouraging homosexual activity and promoting the condom-based "safe sex" myth, the Massachusetts doctor says "The Little Black Book" addresses abstaining from risky activity in a tongue-in-cheek manner, implicitly promoting "fun" over safety. "It is alarming, disheartening, and medically unethical," he asserts, "that this information be distributed to anyone."
Furthermore, Diggs states, the fact that the AIDS Action Committee's Little Black Book is "distributed at taxpayer expense to vulnerable and confused youth should awaken every citizen and legislator to immediately defund this organization, and the attorney general to pursue prosecution for endangering minors on a grand scale." He feels the pro-homosexual material in the booklet, which appears to have the endorsement of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is unfit for consumption by anyone -- least of all children.
'MEDS' not 'HIV' - The real killer
Don't believe what the drugs companies tell you.
WITHOUT HAART 'MEDS"
These long-term nonprogressors [Hiv+ people who remained healthy] are a heterogeneous group with respect to viral load and HIV-1 responses
none had been treated with antiretroviral agents.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12: 585 (1996)
Harrer, Thomas, et al, Aids Researchers
NOT ONE USED HAART
Subjects: homosexual men in Amsterdam. None of the LTAs [long-term asymptomaticspeople who remained healthy]
received any antiviral drugs during the study [7 years].
Ten HIV+ people; 11-15 years infected; non-progressors [i.e., healthy]; maintained stable T-cell counts above 500. These long-term nonprogressors
all showed the same risk factor (sexual exposure), and all had...virus...and none had been treated with antiretroviral agents.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12: 585 (1996)
Harrer, Thomas, et al, Aids Researchers
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 171:811 (1995)
Hogervorst E, et al, Aids Researchers
_________
__________
WITH HAART
Choosing between many of these [HAART] combinations is, therefore, increasingly dependent upon knowledge of antiretroviral toxicities...[which include] myopathy [gross muscle atrophy] (zidovudine [AZT]), neuropathy (stavudine, didanosine, zalcitabine; hepatic steatosis and lactic acidaemia (didanosine, stavudine, zidovudine); and possible also peripheral lipoatrophy and pancreatitis (didanosine)...drug hypersensitivity... lipodystrophy...[including] peripheral fat loss (Presumed lipoatrophy in the face, limbs and buttocks) and central fat accumulation (within the abdomen, breasts and over the dorsocervical spine [so-called buffalo hump]...[and prevalent in] about 50% [of patients] after 12-18 months of therapy...Metabolic features significantly associated with lipodystrophy and protease-inhibitor therapy include hypertriglyceridaemia, hypercholesterolaemia, insulin resistance...and type 2 ...diabetes mellitus. Dyslipidaemia at concentrations associated with increased cardiovascular disease occurs in about 70% of patients. These metabolic abnormalities are more profound in those receiving protease inhibitors...Most cases of diabetes have been identified in recipients of protease inhibitors...Anemia and granulocytopenia affect about 5-10% of patients who receive zidovudine...Virtually all antiretroviral medications can cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhoea early in therapy...Diarrhea is probably most common with protease inhibitors...Most antiretroviral agents have been associated with hepatic [liver] toxicity...Most protease inhibitors seem to result in increased rates of spontaneous bleeding (bruising, haemarthrosis, and rarely intracranial haemorrhage) in haemophiliacs... 25-35% of patients cannot tolerate [AZT monotherapy] or triple combination therapy for 4 weeks...
Lancet. 2000 Oct 21;356:1423-0.
Carr A, Cooper DA, Aids Researchers
BLINDNESS
This study was conducted to determine the likelihood of the development of [immune recovery vitritis, IRV], which causes vision loss in AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, who respond to HAART. We followed 30 HAART-responders
Symptomatic IRV developed in 19 (63%) of 30 patients.
J Infect Dis. 1999 Mar;179(3):697-700
CASTLEMAN'S DISEASE
Recently, we observed an unusual cluster of cases of rapidly progressing multicentric Castlemans disease. Fever, weakness, generalized enlargement of lymph nodes, and marked polyclonal gammopathy developed in three patients with AIDS...Two of these patients died within one week after the diagnosis, with generalized involvement of the lymphatic system, liver, and bone marrow at autopsy. A fourth patient with AIDS who died equally rapidly after the diagnosis of multicentric Castlemans disease had been seen in our hospital 14 months earlier... symptoms
started after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy in these three patients.
N Engl J Med. 1999 Jun 17;340(24):1923-4
Zietz C, et al, Aids Researchers
Karavellas MP, et al, Aids Researchers
DEATH
Of the 70 patients studied, 84% were still alive after the 3-month study period...17 surviving patients (24%) had HAART regimens discontinued due to drug intolerance and 11 (16%) expired [died] during the study period...
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2001 Jan;21(1):41-51
NERVE DAMAGE
The antiretroviral drugs currently licensed in the United Kingdom [June 1996] are zidovudine (azidothymidine [AZT]), zalcitabine (ddC) and didanosine (ddI). All three are nucleoside analogues...All are very toxic. Suppression of bone marrow elements can occur with any of the three, as can peripheral neuropathy [nerve damage].
Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin. 1996 Jun;178:675-8.
Ellis C.J., Leung D., Aids researchers
A decrease in mtDNA [DNA of the mitochondria; the energy regulating entities within every cell] content was found in HAART-treated HIV-infected patients with peripheral fat wasting in comparison with subjects in the control cohorts...Lipodystrophy with peripheral fat wasting following treatment with NRTI [Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor]-containing HAART is associated with a decrease in subcutaneous adipose [under the skin fat] tissue.
AIDS. 2001;15:1801-9
Shikuma CM, Hu N, Milne C, et al, Aids Researchers
These drugs are as dangerous as chemotherapy,
7 HIV patients presenting LD [Lipodystrophy, all taking antiretroviral therapy] and 5 HIV non-LD controls participated in the study
Structural muscle abnormalities, mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction or mtDNA deletions were detected in all HIV lipodystrophic patients. The mitochondrial abnormalities found suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction could play a role in the development of antiretroviral therapy-related lipodystrophy.
AIDS. 2001 Sep 7;15(13):1643-51
Zaera MG, et al, Aids Researchers
Combination drug therapy, or the triple-drug cocktail
often provokes severe side effects
These drugs are as dangerous as chemotherapy, warned Dr. James Kahn, UCSF associate professor of medicine
Science Daily, Sep 4, 2001
SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES - Body distortions
[Chapters in this guide to HIV drugs are entitled Introduction, Appetite loss, Body distortions (lipodystrophy), Bone death and destruction, Cardiac concerns, Diarrhea, Fatigue, Gas and bloating, Hair loss, Headaches, Insulin resistance and diabetes, Kidney stones, Liver toxicity, Muscle aches and pains, Nausea and vomiting, Nightmares, daymares and sleeping difficulties, Pancreatitis, Peripheral neuropathy, Skin problems, Sexual difficulties, The end]
A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects, CATIE, 2002
HEART ATTACKS
Use of protease inhibitors was strongly associated with the likelihood of having a myocardial infarction [heart attack] and correlated with diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia.
Lancet. 2002 Nov 30;360(9347)
Holmberg SD, et al, Aids Researchers
Sounds like it.
And the judges will force it; and the Kennedy/Kerry power base; and the liberal educational establishment.
In short, if you don't live in Mass., don't move there.
Good advice.
make the Kerrys and Kennedys live there. that would be fitting, and punishment enough for legions of sinners.
No, you've got it wrong -- it is evil Christians who want to indoctrinate and shouldn't be allowed to. Liberals and gay activists can use the government and schools all they want to indoctrinate...
Yes, the Bay State is becoming the Gay State. My Puritan ancestors are turning over in their graves!
Yes, just damn, indeed.
Sorry article lost formatting.
Read it at: -
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/pharmgen.html
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Everyone should read this. Even if you don't read much, please read this. Everyone needs to know what the "gay" rights pushers are doing.
Anyone believe this was an "accident"?
I don't either.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
I grew up in Newton Massachusetts. The day after I graduated from Boston College, I was on the red eye special to L.A. Course, L A was conservative back in 1976........now it is Boxer- Feinstein- Mexico.....
.....................ROTFLMAO
Thanks for posting all that info.
I too have been suspicious of the "AIDS epidemic".
My pleasure. Something really stinks about the whole rotten thing.
Warmest regards,
David
But today, instead of lurking around public toilets, they work in the public schools to seduce their young prey into their death-style.
Please do not post any more extremely long pieces in total here. Just provide a link. What you did was basically hijack the thread, causing folks with dial-up to go elsewhere.
"so when is the DA going to slap the handcuffs on this guy"
About the same time the MSM makes a fuss about it. This was apparently "an understandable mistake". Can you imagine what would happen if some group associated with the Right did something like this, or even 1/10 as bad?
From the responses it seems that most reader were grateful for the information I provided.
I am sorry you found them distracting but I hardly would call them hijacking the tread as they were completely 'on topic'.
Best wishes,
David
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