By GLSEN/Boston who receives some funding from the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth and the Massachusetts Department of Education through the Safe Schools Program.
How were the presenters introduced?
Margot E. Ables, Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Department of Education
Julie Netherland, Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Department of Education
Michael Gaucher, Consultant, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Teachers who attended the conference received state development credits for their participation.
"They claim that we are somehow violating their privacy, and they are using very sleazy, lying tactics," says Camenker. He says this included the recruitment of a 17-year-old girl to their cause. "When we deposed her, we asked what had been said that was so personal. She hadn't even heard the tape. It's impossible to tell one kid's voice from another on the tape, and she didn't even know if she was on it."
So if the event was open to the PUBLIC and the accommodation was paid by a publicly funded “organization” and staffed by DoE teachers receiving state development credits and the witnesses can’t be identified on the tape it would seem the holes in this case are big enough to drive a truck through. This is a SLAP suit plain and simple, it’s part of the sleazy tactics used by the pro-sodomy agenda. We have all the usual suspects, a liberal Judge in the pocket of the perversionists, reminiscent of Spitzer and the APA non-science vote. The mantra of everyone, everything and every objectively negative light shed on the homosexual agenda is wrong, discredited, inaccurate…100% of the time; No Exceptions.
And here’s FR’s liberal mad-“gay” defending the indefensible [indoctrination of minors to practice perversion] with his usual sleazy reasoning and justifying. You’re sick madg, you need help and I’ll pray for you. Anyone defending this depravity has MORE than a homosexual pathology; obvious to everyone is your link to pedophilia.
It's part of a well planned and well funded strategy that has been used by the homosexual community for years. Homosexual authors Marshall K. Kirk & Erastes Pill wrote in The Overhauling of Straight America:
"The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights. To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion...
The way to benumb raw sensitivities about homosexuality is to have a lot of people talk a great deal about the subject in a neutral or supportive way. Open and frank talk makes the subject seem less furtive, alien, and sinful, more above-board. Constant talk builds the impression that the public opinion is at least divided on the subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practices homosexuality. Even rancorous debates between opponents and defenders serve the purpose of desensitization so long as “respectable” gays are front and center to make their own pitch...
And when we say talk about homosexuality, we mean just that. In the early stages of any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent -- and only later his unsightly derriere! ...
(5) Make the victimizers look bad. At a later stage of the media campaign for gay rights -- long after other gay ads have become commonplace -- it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be blunt, they must be vilified. (This will be all the more necessary because, by that time, the entrenched enemy will have quadrupled its output of vitriol and disinformation.) ..."
Governor’s Commission Lies Continually About ‘Safety’ and ‘Suicide’
( Homosexuals Recruit Public School Children )
"Safety
A speech by a homosexual activist in 1995 revealed that he had used "safety" to delude Gov. Weld and the state legislature into adopting the homosexual agenda for the schools of Massachusetts. The speech was titled Winning the Culture War and was given by Kevin Jennings, Executive Director of the "Gay and Lesbian and Straight Teachers’ Network," at the "Human Rights Campaign Fund Leadership Conference" on March 5, 1995."If the Radical Right can succeed in portraying us as preying on children, we will lose. Their language ‘promoting homosexuality’ is one example is laced with subtle and not-so-subtle innuendo that we are ‘after their kids.’ We must learn from the abortion struggle, where the clever claiming of the term ‘pro-life’ allowed those who opposed abortion on demand to frame the issue to their advantage, to make sure that we do not allow ourselves to be painted into a corner before the debate even begins.
In Massachusetts the effective reframing of this issue was the key to the success of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. We immediately seized upon the opponent’s calling card safety and explained how homophobia represents a threat to students’ safety by creating a climate where violence, name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common. Titling our report "Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth," we automatically threw our opponents onto the defensive and stole their best line of attack. This framing short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedaling from day one.
Finding the effective frame for your community is the key to victory. It must be linked to universal values that everyone in the community has in common.
In Massachusetts, no one could speak up against our frame and say, ‘Why, yes, I do think students should kill themselves’: this allowed us to set the terms for the debate.
In Massachusetts, we made creating an environment where youth could speak out our number one priority. We know that, confronted with real-live stories of youth who had suffered from homophobia, our opponents would have to attack people who had been victimized once, which put them in a bully position from which it would be hard to emerge looking good. More importantly, we made sure these youth met with elected officials so that, the next time these officials had to vote on something, there would be a specific face and story attached to the issue. We wanted them to have an actual kid in mind when they had to cast their votes. We won the vote in the Senate 33-7 as a result..."
Brian Camenker Discusses Confession of Margot Abels, Fistgate Teacher
Some do try:
"You ask whether you may participate in various activities of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD). GLAD is a non-profit corporation whose mission "is to vindicate and expand all areas of gay and lesbian civil rights and the rights of persons affected by HIV through litigation, education, and advocacy..."