Gay-books sale hits opposition

Washington Times ^ | 7/22/02 | Arlo Wagner

[kattracks]

A battle is shaping up between homosexual activists who want to collect and donate gay-themed books to Fairfax County high schools and family groups that say there are already too many of those kinds of books in the school libraries.

[goodieD]

When our local library system started accepting book donations from gay groups, I burned mine and my children's library cards. If there are books I want my children to read, I'll buy them myself.

[Recovering_Democrat]

This is all well and good, but God's sake, don't put a
BIBLE
in that library!

[Travis McGee]

"There are hundreds of [such] books already in the school," Mr. LaBarbera said, including "Rainbow Boys," which is about a 29-year-old man cheating on his female lover to have anal intercourse with a young boy.

Just what we need our kids to be reading at the library. Yikes!

[thedilg]

God bless you,

You show great wisdom. If only more parents were as attentive to the needs of their children.

I did much the same thing with television when my three boys were youngsters. I trashed our set. Would not let a new one in the house for 12 years.

Of course TV does damage even when the shows are innocuos. It puts the mind in a comotose state-inhibits other good activities like reading or social intercourse. And, by the way, My wife and I also profited. There were times when we felt otherwise but with hindsight we know otherwise.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[ccmay]

TV... inhibits other good activities like reading or social intercourse.

yes, and other kinds of intercourse as well.

-ccm

[h8drivenjustice]

My opinion on the topic is that children these days need time to develop their mind set properly before it is poluted with media "what you should be doing" garbage because they dont know what to think and therefore make uninformed descisions. The ratio of homo : heteral is increasing in the aspect of homo and the reason is definatly pointed at the people who are telling children its "okay to be gay" or "homo's are evil" they run these thoughts over and over in their mind and develop wrong turning them gay. ie. the gay and lesbian community and the church.

[EdReform]

"She emphasized that the books PFLAG expects to collect will help students adjust and adapt to their orientation. "We're certainly not going to put sexually explicit books in the schools," she said."

That's a lie. Both PFLAG and GLSEN recommend sexually explicit books for teens. Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy (CA) has reviewed many of these recommended books and has stated:

"Believe me when I tell you that this material is grossly inappropriate to be used in our schools under the guise of "safety" or "diversity" training or anything else. In my view, the material is pornographic and obscene."

See the documentation posted in the thread:

Assemblyman MOUNTJOY opposes promotion of homosexuality in public schools

"Recommended Reading for Teenagers? A Closer Look at P-FLAG"

"The well-known and respected national organization "Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays" (P-FLAG) serves as a support group for parents seeking guidance for their homosexual children. P-FLAG is recommended as a resource group by the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice in its upcoming manual, "Preventing Youth Hate Crime." Many schools, community agencies, and even nationally syndicated newspaper columnists refer families to it. P-FLAG has affiliates in all 50 states, with about 70,000 families among its membership.

A look at some of P-FLAG's literature and recommended books, however, reveals an approach to child guidance which is consistently both sexually and socially radical. First-person stories aimed at teens tell in pornographic detail of the delight of a young girl's sexual seduction by her lesbian teacher; of gay relationships between teenage boys and much older men; and of the precise how-to's of masturbation. Teenagers are specifically encouraged to use only their feelings as a guide to sexual behavior; to be their own judge of what is right and wrong; and to "have fun" experimenting. If a sexual behavior feels good, the logic says, it will tell them "who they are." Teenagers are encouraged to see religious traditionalists as mean-spirited and hypocritical, while at the same time, to see gay consciousness as "sacred." Were similar books recommended by parenting groups for "straight" teenagers, they would be considered violations of community standards of decency..."

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

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

"...If this presents a realistic look into the life of a child struggling with same sex desires then these children are seduced/molested at an alarmingly high rate and engage in dangerous/abusive sexual activity at a very young age. What's worse is that the adults who purport to care most about them (the editor of this book for example) present this sexual abuse as if they were tender "coming of age" stories. As if the children struggling with same sex desires are showing how healthy they are by engaging in sex with adults and by having sexual encounters regularly beginning at a very young age.

And, the message is clear, if "straight" kids don't want to be closed-minded, if they want to be "open" and "free" they'll mimic the homosexual sexual behavior and promiscuity related in these books.

In several stories intense sexual activity as a child is presented as normal and healthy, even child/adult sex is presented without question. Five and six year old's who regularly engaged in sex are described as children "who were willing" to explore their sexuality "to it's fullest extent." Many stories fondly recount a youthful sexual encounter with a much older man or woman. Sexual promiscuity and engaging in sex as a child/teenager is presented as "sexual freedom".

Heterosexual or "questioning" youth are encouraged to try same sex intercourse because, the Kinseyin theory is repeated over and over, "Everyone's really gay or bisexual." and "You won't know if you like it until you try it."...

These books are in middle and high schools around the nation. Adults, real adults, have a responsibility to inform themselves about whats going on in public schools we fund. It is criminal to allow these people to educate our children on matters of sexuality!The children are depending on us to protect them. Please pass this information on to parents and other concerned adults..."

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

Free smut for children

NJ High School Library Creates Homosexual Section

[Travis McGee]

BTTT!

[EdReform]

"My opinion on the topic is that children these days need time to develop their mind set properly before it is poluted with media "what you should be doing" garbage because they dont know what to think and therefore make uninformed descisions..."

Groups like GLSEN and PLFAG are well aware of this and that is precisely why they are so desperate to get their agendas into the elementary schools. They know that by getting to kids in their early formative years, they have a better chance of disrupting the moral training of the children. GLSEN will be more than happy to help your children "know what to think."

It's 1984 in Massachusetts – And Big Brother Is Gay

"...When Clossey enrolled her son in Newton North High School's reading program little did she know that the teacher had bragged in the Boston Globe (July 8, 2001) of quietly introducing homosexual and transsexual subjects into his classes. The teacher, Michael Kozuch, handed out The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky with instructions to write an essay on it. What literary "treats" did Kozuch consider mandatory for other people's children? Sex between a boy and a dog, man-boy sex, anal sex between boys, male masturbation and female masturbation with a hot dog. By chance Clossey opened the book her son brought home. But what came after that shock was worse: She encountered public officials who saw protective parents as obstacles...

...Is Newton a rogue town? In nearby Brookline a transsexual told first-graders how his penis was cut off and he became a woman. With no sense of irony, the Globe called it "sex-change counseling." Parents, never notified, had to comfort their terrified children.

Ashland children were instructed to play homosexuals in a skit. As reported in the Middlesex News on April 1, 1994, one boy's line was: "It's natural to be attracted to the same sex." Girls were told to hold hands and pretend they were lesbians....

A prominent psychiatrist says the sex-ed curricula at these schools can lower children "to the level of animals" and inflict lasting harm. "Massachusetts schools' systematic promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity fosters sexual confusion and experimentation," says Nathaniel S. Lehrman, former clinical director of the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in New York. "They dilute and trivialize [the capacity for] faithful sexual passion which should [later] be the cement of these children's marriages. Unstable youngsters may become particularly vulnerable to homosexuals who actively recruit them."

There are teachers all over North America quietly mainstreaming homosexual behavior to children as young as 5 years old. As widely reported, on "Gay Days" classes are cancelled and students led to compulsory activities where homosexuals explain their "lifestyles." ..."

This is what the homosexual agenda is all about.

[EdReform]

Ping

[Salvation]

"We are obviously opposed to homosexual books in our schools," said Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst for the Culture and Family Institute.

BTTT!

[Salvation]

When our local library system started accepting book donations from gay groups, I burned mine and my children's library cards.

Good idea! I have not checked a book out of the public library for nearly 7 years.

[Salvation]

This is all well and good, but God's sake, don't put a
BIBLE
in that library!

I have seen a KJV of the Bible in several public schools in the reference section -- 000-100s, I think.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[goodieD]

Talk about wisdom! You have done something really great for you and your kids! Getting rid of the TV takes strength, that thing IS like a narcotic. We have one, but we constantly monitor what we and the kids watch. Our viewing is limited to cooking shows, accurate historical stuff, and only kids shows that don't have a liberal agenda and are not on a liberal network..(it's tough but they are out there on some Christian stations).
God bless you all.

[yendu bwam]

Teenagers are specifically encouraged to use only their feelings as a guide to sexual behavior; to be their own judge of what is right and wrong; and to "have fun" experimenting. If a sexual behavior feels good, the logic says, it will tell them "who they are." Teenagers are encouraged to see religious traditionalists as mean-spirited and hypocritical, while at the same time, to see gay consciousness as "sacred." Were similar books recommended by parenting groups for "straight" teenagers, they would be considered violations of community standards of decency..."

Our kids are under moral, physical and spiritual attack by aggressive homosexuals in our schools, our churches (witness the homosexual priest/teenage boy rape scandal), and the Boy Scouts. It's time to fight back.

[EdReform]

"It's time to fight back."

Agreed. Both GLSEN and the National Education Association need to be booted out the public schools.

[EdReform]

out the public schools = out of the public schools

[JediGirl]

Sanchez's debut novel chronicles the senior year of three gay teens struggling with issues ranging from coming out to first love to an HIV scare. The story lines communicate a hint of an educational agenda (Sanchez sprinkles in the names of support groups like Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays into the novel, and lists contact information for organizations at the end), but the characters' complicated feelings are well drawn, and readers will find themselves interested in each of the protagonists' lives. Sanchez creates modern situations that speak to contemporary teens: Nelson and Kyle stand up to their principal for the right to form a gay-straight alliance at their school, and Nelson has unprotected sex with a stranger he meets online. The relationship between Kyle and closeted jock Jason also develops realistically, and the awkward triangle among the three males builds subtly and convincingly. Readers will learn and understand both boys' perspectives, from Jason's fear that he will be found out to Kyle's growing agitation at his mixed messages. Some of the writing is stilted ("You would've thought the prodigal son had come home," Sanchez writes when Kyle finally connects with his father), and some of the language and sexual situations may be too mature for some readers, but overall there's enough conflict, humor and tenderness to make this story believable--and touching. Ages 12-up. (Oct).