The closest you will find to an "objective source" are the people who oppose them -- and I know that sounds like an absurd statement, but you have to understand: the people who are on the gay radicals' side don't believe in fairness.
Your knee-jerk response that these are "lies and half-truths put out there to get simple-minded folk all in a hissy-fit" is a good indicator of how effective the Gay-stapo's propaganda is. You would believe that inaccurate information was "put out there" for someone's twisted amusement rather than believe that there are homosexuals that -- apparently unlike the ones that you are friends with -- have the intent to subversively promote their social agenda through the schools behind parents' backs.
If all they're teaching is tolerance, then I'm all for it.
Well, then you're against it.
Here is the defintion of "tolerance" from Merriam-Webster online:
Main Entry: tol·er·ance
Pronunciation: 'tä-l&-r&n(t)s, 'täl-r&n(t)s
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
...2 a : sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own b : the act of allowing something : TOLERATION
Let's see if the GLSEN practices the "tolerance" it claims to teach. From a Cybercast News Service report about a GLSEN-sponsored conference in 1999:
Cathy Renna, director of community relations of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), told attendees at a symposia on "Responding to the Religious Right" how to approach journalists writing stories on gay issues."One of the most important things you can do is have those tough conversations with journalists about when it is completely inappropriate to run to some radical group like the Family Research Council because of misguided notions of 'balance,'" said Renna.
Above all, presenters and attendees discussed strategies to portray religious voters as extremist and homosexual activists as mainstream.
"We are now in the position of being able to say, we have the high ground, we have the facts, and we don't have to go one-on-one with these people," said Renna. "We've come such a long way - we're the mainstream now."
More here: Gay-stapo's Campaign Against Balanced Reporting Goose Steps On
This is the attitude that the GLSEN, other education groups, and their supporters in the media bring to public school classrooms. They have "the facts," and they will teach your children that they are right and their parents -- if they disagree -- are wrong.
No one is going to "convert" your children into homos. Your children know already if they like boys or girls.
And where did you get that? Even the experts the homoactivists site don't state that as fact, and the anecdotes of your homosexual friends do not represent everyone's experience. For a high-profile example, take Rosie O'Donnell, who claims she didn't realize she was a lesbian until her young adulthood, when one day she was in a car checking a woman out and saying, "I think I'm totally gay!"
If one day, little Johnny comes home and tells you he's got a new boyfriend, will you be prepared, or will you banish him from the house forever? I can guarantee that it will happen to someone reading this,
No you can't.
and there's not a d*mned thing you can do to stop it.
It's real easy to condemn a stranger to Hell for being a sexual "deviant", but quite another when it's your own child. Kinda shakes your belief system.
I am interested in YOUR belief system -- that is, your belief that GLSEN, GLAAD, and other radical gay groups couldn't be as subversive toward children as we say they are. Based on mine and EdReform's voluminous replies to you, are you convinced yet? And if you are not, what do you need to see/hear/read that will do the trick? I am sure that whatever the threshold, there is something that they have done/said/written that will meet it and exceed it.