Posted on 08/13/2002 4:29:55 AM PDT by kattracks
CNSNews.com) - A pro-family group is calling on Congress to require that public schools that sponsor Big Brother, Big Sister programs notify parents if a proposed mentor is homosexual.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, the Big Brother, Big Sister program recently implemented a policy that bans discrimination against open homosexuals who want to serve as volunteers and mentors to children at 500 affiliates nationwide.
In his letter to Congress, Eugene Delgaudio, executive director of Public Advocate of the U.S., warned that under the new policy, parents "will not be told of the adult's sexual preference," a policy he says "puts children at risk."
"Action must be taken to protect these Little Brothers and Little Sisters," Delgaudio wrote.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) instituted the policy change July 1, to forbid the exclusion of any mentor on the basis of "race, age, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability."
"What it says is that you cannot be excluded for consideration as an employee or a volunteer or a mentor if you belong to a certain number of groups ... because of religion, race, any number of categories," Noreen Shanfelter, spokeswoman for BBBSA, told CNSNews.com.
However, because the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program serves "essentially as an agent" to the nation's public schools, according to Delgaudio, the BBBSA should adhere to a different hiring policy.
"No agency of a government-sponsored public school should knowingly hand over minor children under eighteen to adult homosexuals as a matter of policy," Delgaudio wrote.
"It is a tragedy that a group that has provided worthy programs for children is recklessly abandoning the well being of children to satisfy the radical homosexual lobby," he added.
"As Americans, we condemn NAMBLA (The North American Man Boy Love Association) and those that have invaded the Catholic Church for their own sexual agenda, because they victimize innocent children. It is time that we protect the rights of Little Brothers and Little Sisters like we have protected the rights of Boy Scouts," Delgaudio concluded.
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We need to condemn NAMBLA with extreme prejudice
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Not strong enough.
Exposing children to homosexual behavior should be a death penalty crime.
To think otherwise as a parent is to live in complete denial and delusion...
The shame of the recently opened can-o-worms of rampant homosexual pedophilia is the fact that not only have these dastardly deviants chosen to cloak themselves within the clergy, Big Brother, the Scouts and any organization that mentors children -- thus besmirching these organizations -- but they have irrepairably damaged forever the reputations of ALL genuine and righteous care-givers and counselours.
More proof that from within the Republic shall crumble -- especially from attacking our most trusted institutions by...
And add another twist of irony -- be careful about criticizing these monsters -- ya know anything said that's uncomplimentary about these people is liable to be construed as "hate speech" by the NAMBLA-friendly ACLU or the courts in San Francisco...
2 Chron 7:14
GSA(P)
Well, that is cute. But I don't like being cute with the Almighty. God has nothing to apologize for. It is we who have much to answer for.
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