Posted on 01/23/2002 8:43:27 AM PST by tdadams
(CNSNews.com) - Need money for college tuition? A group of employees from telecommunications giant AT&T will help pay the bills of students who identify themselves as homosexuals.
Grades and extra-curricular activities don't count as much as sexual orientation for this type of financial help.
The scholarship comes from the AT&T Foundation's LEAGUE, which is an acronym for Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay & Transgendered United Employees.
LEAGUE is one of seven "Business Resource Groups" at AT&T, serving as a homosexual advocacy resource for the telecommunications giant, its customers, shareholders, colleagues, families and the global community.
For the past six years, LEAGUE at AT&T Foundation has awarded a handful of $1,500 academic scholarships to self-identified homosexual youth. LEAGUE Foundation spokesperson Charles Eader noted that applications have doubled every year since the fund was launched.
And for those homosexual students who have demonstrated leadership in promoting diversity and understanding in the community, the LEAGUE Foundation offers a $2,500 scholarship dedicated to the memory of Matthew Sheppard, whom it considers a model of courage.
Sheppard, who was homosexual, was tortured and beaten to death by two men on Dec. 28, 1998 in Wyoming. He was 21 at the time.
LEAGUE Foundation said it hopes Shepherd's memory will inspire lesbian, bisexual, gay & transgendered applicants and recipients of scholarships to persevere against anti-homosexual intimidation both in and out of the classroom.
According to Eader, applicants must be high school graduates; identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; have achieved a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; be actively and substantially involved in community service; live in the United States; and have been accepted to attend an accredited college or university in the United States.
But conservatives are outraged by the notion that homosexuality is being rewarded by corporations such as AT&T.
"It's sad that teenagers are being deceived about sexuality and recruited into a lifestyle that is unhealthy and immoral," said the Family Research Council's Kristin Hansen. "It's definitely evidence that homosexual activists are organized at many facets of society -- in the corporate world, in schools and in the media."
Eader noted that LEAGUE Foundation is funded wholly by donations and does not receive any financial support from the AT&T corporation. AT&T allows LEAGUE Foundation to conduct its communication and planning activities -- including phone calls, faxes, and emails -- on corporate premises. However, Eader noted that LEAGUE and LEAGUE at AT&T Foundation "are 2 different and distinct, even though related, organizations."
Membership in the AT&T Business Resource Group LEAGUE is reserved solely for AT&T employees. According to Eader, any homosexual advocacy group or its members may become part of the 501(c)3 LEAGUE at AT&T Foundation charity . This charity also "welcomes financial support from the larger LGBT community and its allies," according to the group's Web site, which is hosted by AT&T.
"The level of organization is not a surprise," Hansen said of LEAGUE's wide-open membership requirements and financial practices.
Eader said homosexual scholarship recipients who have been outspoken in their communities are encouraged to continue such activism when they get to college, but he said they have no obligation to do so. Eader added that the names of scholarship recipients remain anonymous, no matter what path they choose to follow.
But scholarship recipients are not discouraged from performing acts of "community service." In fact, Eader said LEAGUE and its supporters would benefit from having a fresh voice on campus promoting the homosexual issues and diversity.
Hansen said LEAGUE's scholarship offering is just another example of incentives encouraging behavior. "And if there's money available," she added, "it legitimizes a behavior."
Simple answer, Yes! But only if they shouted it from the roof tops and demanded it be considered normal, thereby corrupting our children. Homosexuals have the right to do what they want to do, but it shoudln't be legal and they shouldn't get special rights for it.
Oh if it were so simple. You can't tolerate a lifestyle by law and then refuse treatment for their legal behavior. On the other hand, illegal behaviour can have treatment refused.
We need to love the sinner and hate the sin, thus make the act illegal but the person needs help. The issue here is descrimintaion to help a perverted lifestyle at the expense of normal and moral children! Taht is dead wrong no matter how you slice and pervert it.
How so in America is morals sick and perverted? Or is this just "your America"?
There is more than one way to molest children. Convincing them that a very small majority of perverts are correct in their perversions and that morals are bad is molestation!!! Therefore, they should go to prison (your words).
Molestation is something very specific. Advocating an unpopular idea is not the same as molestation. People like you will send this country to hell and laugh while the First Amendment is being sh!t on.
I hear conservatives all the time talking about how leftists are using the word hate to bring about the era of thought police. You're doing the same and it's every bit as contemptible! It's people like you that gives conservatives such a bad name.
I would seriously love to hear how you reconcile this inherently conflicted statement!
Maybe not in your pious society, but there are many people who would prefer not to live under the rules you dictate. In a country that respects the rights of individuals, I don't think you have the authority to prescribe how someone else should live.
But for starters, I find it ironic that so many conservatives howl about how promiscuous and transient homosexuals are, but then deny them the same vehicle for monogamous, stable, and committed relationships that they, themselves, enjoy.
Funny how you changed it from what you said, "I say jail all openly homosexuals if they refuse to go back to normal moral lifestyle." into morals being sick and perverted.
You seem to have a little trouble with telling the truth. Anyone who says that people should be jailed because of their appearance or sexual preference is the sick and perverted one.
Some even try to represent their sick ideas as those of Christ. You wouldn't do something like that would you?
Really??? So if you agree that person A can kill person B for sport (two consenting adults) and it's okay, person A is not doing an illegal act? Buzzzzzzz Wrong answer bud, you get life in prison or at least 5 years!!! Two consenting adults are free to do what they like, provided they face the punishment that is defined for the crime. If HOMSEXUALITY is illegal, as it should be and used to be, then you'd be free to practice and go to jail for braging about your illegal behavior. Then if you don't brag you don't get caught, and you don't demand more rights for your perversion.
Your opinion and you're welcome to it, but don't tell me I'm not entitled to mine. You condemn me and then spout this crap?
I can commit murder and pay the price for the crime. Same with Homosexuals, if it was in privacy, who cares, they don't want privacy, they want supremecy!
What is wrong for striving to be the best we can be? My dictate? I've never once said I was going to "make" you stop anything. I'm simply pointing out the truth about homosexal behavior. I've never claimed to have any authority, I simply live by moral concrete truths. I reject relativism.
But for starters, I find it ironic that so many conservatives howl about how promiscuous and transient homosexuals are, but then deny them the same vehicle for monogamous, stable, and committed relationships that they, themselves, enjoy.
It isn't a behavior that should be encouraged. It doesn't have the dignity of a monogamous heterosexual marriage. It is base, and it degrades the human being. This is a moral concrete truth. I am waiting for you to give me an example of how normalizing sodomy would benefit the society we have to pass on to our children?
Or are you afraid to answer?
We have let the perversion of a very small minority corrupt our morals, we need to stand up and "bear the cross" to get morality back before the minorities turn America into Hitlerville (a flaming Homosexual who killed Christians).
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