NEA OKs Resolution to Protect Gays

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's largest teachers union will ask school districts to protect homosexual students and staff by adopting policies that punish harassment and discrimination.

Under a plan adopted Friday by the National Education Association's board of directors, schools also will be encouraged to develop factual materials for classroom discussions on homosexuality. All staff and students will be encouraged to speak up when they see or experience discrimination based on sexual orientation.

"I think it's a pretty clear signal that the organization recognizes there are some pretty serious needs for gay and lesbian children in school - and employees," said Penny Kotterman, president of the Arizona Education Association. She chairs the NEA's Task Force on Sexual Orientation, which was created last fall to develop the plan.

Kotterman, a middle school special education teacher in the Kyrene School District in suburban Phoenix, said the plan will help schools with difficult issues of student sexuality.

"Staff do need help," she said. "They need professional development, they need good, factual data that helps them deal with these issues."

The union said it could provide "accurate, objective and up-to-date information" on the needs and problems of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students and staff.

A statement by the NEA said the information schools provide should be age-appropriate, nonjudgmental and relevant to subject matter being studied.

Studies indicate that homosexual students have higher dropout and suicide rates and sometimes are treated with hostility by fellow students. NEA President Bob Chase has said gay and lesbian teachers in some states face losing their jobs because of their sexual orientation.

"It is clear that, in too many places, students and education employees who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered face a hostile environment," Chase said Friday in the statement.

A study last year by the University of North Carolina estimated that 5 percent to 6 percent of students 17 or younger, or more than 2 million students, are gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Secondly, trying to educate people to not hurt eachother is not "forcing" anything.

This isn't about "educat[ing] people to not hurt each other..." That could be done without additional nonsense that has more to do with the way homosexuals copulate than how we can live alongside them. No, this is about -- and I am using the exact title of a book by written by gay educrats -- Queering Elementary Education. The idea is to instill children with the notion that homosexuality is as normal as heterosexuality while sexuality is still mysterious to them -- well before they have seriously considered engaging in sex themselves.

Because you are only 21 according to your FR home page, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and presume that you haven't noticed the inroads that radical homosexual groups have made into school districts through teachers' organizations such as the NEA and the GLSEN.

You use the same argument liberals often use in regards to Christians, in that Christians "force" their religious beleifs onto others. No man can take away what you think or feel.

Bull-oney. Children are a captive audience in public school. They are asked to accept what teachers tell them about math, language, and history, and activist teachers -- some of whom are homosexuals, most of whom are leftists -- take advantage of their authority and the public's trust and advance their social agenda to students.

Do you think that should be the case? I say, if it cannot be demonstrated that curricula is based on provable fact, it has no place in public school.

EVERYONE has a right to be treated with dignity, and feel safe.

Who should define "dignity?" Who should define "safety?" According to the NEA and their ilk, the same types who speak of their agenda of progressively sexually explicit sex education behind innocuous phrases specifically designed to obscure the nature of the proposed material. Don't believe me about that? Click here. And for more required reading, read Phyllis Schlafly's analysis of the pro-gay resolutions proposed at the 2001 NEA convention that ultimately led up to yesterday's announcement.

You have GOT to stop letting them do your thinking for you.

Sex education DOES have a place in schools, as it is education information they will actually use, as opposed to say memorizing the periodic table, which is completely useless.

Ok, I'm gonna get reeaaallll personal here. I went to school when "sex ed" was just getting into full swing. They started teaching me aalllll about sex when I was 12. The first day they started "teaching" me about sex.....I went home that night and masturbated for the first time. When I was 15, I had my first child.

Against all odds, I managed to finish high school 2 weeks before my son was born. At 16, I was a clerk in the D.A.'s office. Yes, I made it work. Do I WISH I had waited and "done it right"? You bet your a$$ I do! Do I lay a lot of the blame on the school? Yes! I also blame myself, not trying to say that I was not wrong......but, had the school NOT put the idea of "sex is good" into my head at such an early age....MAYBE I would have waited.

Off the top of my head, I can think of over 20 girls I went to school with that had babies by the time they were 15. One had one at 12, the same year we "learned" all about sex.

If homosexuality is allowed to be taught to our kids, don't you think it stands to reason that they will do the same as me and all the kids I went to school with? Do you suppose that we'll have more and more kids CHOOSING the homosexual lifestyle? After all, if the SCHOOL teaches it to you, it must be "good" and "right".

** "No, this is about -- and I am using the exact title of a book by written by gay educrats -- Queering Elementary Education. The idea is to instill children with the notion that homosexuality is as normal as heterosexuality while sexuality is still mysterious to them -- well before they have seriously considered engaging in sex themselves." **

Queering Elementary Education

See The Massachusetts News Fistgate Archive article:

'Parents' No Longer Recognized By Schools - Daycare Centers Are Closely Monitored:

"The strategy, according to GLSEN members who taught at Fistgate, is to promote homosexuality in schools through casual conversations between students and their gay teachers. There were two workshops at Fistgate that focused on very young children...
Although these workshops were offered as a vehicle to promote "safe" schools for gay children, the real agenda was revealed early in the presentation, according to the teacher who was in attendance.
One presenter told the group that she was a lesbian and had adopted two children. She said that the early education workshop was put together "so that these young children will already be exposed to the gay lifestyle by the time they reach middle school and high school." She said she works with parents at daycare facilities across the Commonwealth and that teaching homosexuality and acceptance of homosexuality must begin at the earliest ages by promoting language in school systems that respects gay and lesbian lifestyles...
This is so outrageous," said the teacher who attended the Fistgate conference."The strategy is to teach homosexuality under the cover of 'safe schools' and 'respecting diversity.' If children can't understand the maturity of the situation, why would anyone want to subvert the education system by teaching them something that they are clearly not ready for. If the children have to wait to be adults because it is adult love, as Gaita says, why is this being discussed with a first grade class in the first place? In fact this sort of sexual training only makes kids more confused. I have been teaching for many years and I see these children getting more and more confused by this sort of thing..."
"What I want to know from David Driscoll and Governor Cellucci is what any of this has to do with safe schools?" asked the teacher who attended. "They talked about how to teach sexuality in general and particularly homosexuality to children who are three years old and up. They talked about infiltrating churches and supporting political organizations like the NAACP and MCAD, but these topics have absolutely nothing at all to do with stopping a child from being discriminated against or getting beaten up in school for being gay..."
The anonymous teacher who attended said, "This is more than just a group of individuals who are looking for friends to support them in their daily struggles with their lifestyle. This is a political agenda. This is how people with an agenda sneak their way into the schools and influence the minds of our children whether we like that or not. And parents have little or no say. What is really baffling to me is that the parents are not more informed about their children being exposed to this stuff on a regular basis. Part of the problem is that the media doesn't pay any attention to what is going on..." >>

From Chapter 1 of the book Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child:

“At this point, getting the majority to say ‘gay is good’ at 9 or 10 years old is going to be difficult, but just because it is difficult doesn’t mean its not the right thing.”

- Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington sociologist, speaking to a conference of educators and youth service providers, Beaverton, Oregon, April 23, 1992.

** "...According to the NEA and their ilk, the same types who speak of their agenda of progressively sexually explicit sex education behind innocuous phrases specifically designed to obscure the nature of the proposed material. Don't believe me about that? ..." **

M.T. Cicero, after you've read the information in the links posted by Mr. Smithee's , consider the following:

From For The Children, Inc:

Listen to Mass. Depts of Education and Health instruct children on the mechanics of homosexuality.

"On March 25, 2000 the Massachusetts Departments of Education and Health teamed up with the national gay and lesbian group GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) and conducted a conference for school children and educators. The conference was held under the guise of tolerance and safe schools. However, as the Parent's Rights Coalition discovered, this conference was about teaching children the unsafe mechanics of homosexuality. Following the conference, organizers denied claims of misconduct made by the Parent's Rights Coalition. Organizers were forced to concede the truth after the Parent's Rights Coalition made public an audio recording from the conference, which substantiated their claims..."

GLSEN Encourages Teens In Anal SEX "Don't give up."

(You'll find the book mentioned on GLSEN's recommended reading list - Young, Gay and Proud! - here and other GLSEN recommended reading lists here).

(PFLAG's recommended reading list can be found here).

Activism in the Schools

First AIDS Education, Then "Safe Schools," Then Gay Advocacy

Interview with a Parents' Rights Activist: Brian Camenker of the Parents' Rights Coalition

The Truth About Homosexuality

Defending Dr. Laura and America

HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT

"A Change In Thinking"

"THE GAY GENE: GOING, GOING … GONE"

The Overhauling of Straight America

After being indoctrinated in the public schools, kids are then directed to queer "advice" web sites where they can have all of their questions answered by an adult "expert." Here's some of the free "advice" being offered to a confused teen:

A Link to Oasis Magazine from Youth.org:

I don't want to be lesbian or bisexual. Why should I go through this?

Hi Chris,
How can one decide whether or not they are bi or straight. It's not something I asked for. Where does the line between natural adolescent curiosity and, and bisexuality begin. It's not like anything I've ever had to figure out before. But, if I'm just bi, can't I just push it away, like any other emotional baggage. Why should I put myself through the hell of hurting my parents and getting disowned my half my family. Can't I just push it away like any other problem. A lot of people just push parts of themselves away, so is this any different?
Debra

Hi Debra,

You have quite a road in front of you, Debra, and it's better to get started on it sooner, rather than later. The fact is, you don't get to decide whether you're gay, lesbian or bisexual. That was decided by the time you were born, and is an innate part of you, and here to stay. So, you can either fight it, and live an unhappy life where you are afraid all the time that people are going to find out about your "secret," where you deny yourself the happiness that comes from expressing your true self and finding someone as a friend or partner who is like you. Or you can find a path to accept, and then celebrate, this gift that you have been given, and live life openly.
If you are bisexual, the thing is it is not emotional baggage (and I hope you realize that it's not a good idea to just push away emotional baggage, either -- it's something that is usually best dealt with, confronted, and resolved). It is, rather, a biological and genetic part of your very being, of who you are. And just like being born with a particular skin color, that might make it harder to get by in some areas, or finding out that you're left handed and living in a right-handed world, you will do best to just get over it, and deal with it.
Why do you assume that you will be putting your parents through Hell? Why do you think they will disown you? It may be that they will have a hard time with it, some parents (but not most), do. But if they love you, they will find a way, they will work to get the education they need about what it means to be queer, and how to help you live a happy life. Because, for most parents, that's what they want most for their kids.
I recommend starting with the book "Free Your Mind" by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufmann. Then "Outing Yourself" by Michelangelo Signorile. Those are both great "primers" on being gay, and Signorile's book takes an excellent, step-by-step approach to coming to terms with yourself -- which is the essential first step -- and then leads you to the point, which could take many months, where you can finally look in a mirror, say "I'm happy that I'm gay" and then take the next step out the door to tell your family and friends.
When you're ready for the next steps, you may want to find a gay youth group in your area, or go to your school GSA. Talking with other guys and girls like you, who have confronted similar issues, can often help you get through this more easily.
Take care,
Chris

Did you notice how the girl's question about "the line between natural adolescent curiosity" was avoided?

An excerpt from: In Their Own Words: The Homosexual Agenda:

"Homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, who writes periodically for The New York Times, summarizes the agenda in OUT magazine:

...to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes, but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution... The most subversive action lesbian and gay men can undertake --and one that would perhaps benefit all of society--is to transform the notion of family entirely." "Its the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statues, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into the public schools and in short to usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."

Seven Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child

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