PARENT'S RIGHTS ERODED, TRIVIALIZED BY GAY ADVOCATES (Continued)

Kimberly Bianco, KPRZ radio producer and mother of a 5-year-old boy is terrified at the prospect of her son entering kindergarten in a public school.  Kimberly was shocked after reading John Haskin's disturbing article in the Jan. 7, 2002 Insight Magazine at

 http://www.insightmag.com/news/2002/01/07/FairComment/CA683E5C-0FB5-4AAF-B8DC-274892A51BDD.shtml

titled, "It's 1984 in Massachusetts - And Big Brother is Gay."  The article identifies Newton North High School's  required reading program that includes a controversial book, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," that promotes homosexual behavior for children.

Haskins wrote, "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."  The mind-control techniques are straight from Soviet schools.  Officials often confront parents who express anger, telling each parent, "You're the only one who complained."  The implied message:  "It would be unconstitutional to teach Judeo-Christian morality.  So we're obliged to teach its polar opposite."

A teacher at Newton also taught such things as sex between a boy and a dog, man-boy sex, and anal sex between boys.  When furious parents objected; their complaints went nowhere.  The educators (?) removed it from the class discussion but refused to remove it from the reading list.

Parent's rights are being eroded, trivialized and targeted for destruction by aggressive homosexual activists.  Back when children belonged to their parents, the right of parents to guide the moral training of their children was guaranteed.  Today, anyone with differing viewpoints (even ex-gays) who publicly express disagreement with gay activists because of health risk issues or religious/moral beliefs get spewed with hate, ridicule and even death threats.  Where's the tolerance in that?  Gay extremists believe that they have the exclusive right and duty to provide other people's children with obscene material and so-called "guidance" of troubled youth towards homosexual behavior.  Steering kids away from homosexual practice and disease that could kill them is compassionate; promoting it under the guise of "safe schools" and "fighting hate" is tragic and cruel.

Brian Camenker of the Parent's Rights Coalition www.parentsrightscoalition.org has been battling a group called GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network).  Explicit audiotapes and news articles http://www.parentsrightscoalition.org/SubTopics/Cellucci/KidsGetGraphic.htm expose gay pornographic materials provided by GLSEN and given to young teens at Tufts University's "Teach Out 2000."  Indoctrination, not tolerance, is their goal.

What can parents do?  Pastor Gary Cass and Priscilla Schreiber, trustees of the Grossmont Union School District, suggest establishing an "Opt-In form" policy that requires parental notification prior to signing a child into any class, club or event covering controversial issues.

Karen Holgate of Capitol Resource Institute suggests that parent get copies of the entire curricula being taught to their children in public schools.  An SOS (Save Our Schools) kit is available at www.capitolresource.org.

NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) offers a new pamphlet at www.narth.com called, "Homosexual Advocacy Groups and Your School."  Every school principal needs to read this brochure.  It reveals the distortion of scientific data; the anti-traditional values worldview slant being taught to students; and the fact that gay activist groups nearly always adamantly fight against the right of other homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition to change their orientation through psychotherapy by secular counseling groups and/or religious affiliated counseling programs such as Exodus, Desert Stream, and JONAH.  In 1997, NARTH surveyed 882 individuals who had experienced sexual-orientation change.  One respondent commented, " I wasted 14 years in therapy with therapists who had a 'you're gay, get used to it' mentality - which I find incredibly unethical."  Homosexual advocacy programs do not offer a "neutral" response that meets the needs of our ideologically diverse society.

When schools label some teenagers gay, there is a serious risk of mislabeling a portion of sexually confused students.  A 1992 study of 34,707 Minnesota teenagers published in Pediatrics reported that 25.9% of 12-17 year olds are uncertain if they are heterosexual or homosexual.  (In contrast, only about 2-3% of adults will self-identify as homosexual.)  This means that almost 24% of these "sexually questioning" teens could erroneously be identified as homosexual if a school counselor or on-campus gay club steers them in that direction.

Another study showed that early self-labeling as homosexual or bisexual is one of the top three risk factors for homosexual teen suicide attempts.  The risk of suicide decreases by 80% for each year that a young person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling.

"Bullying" and "hate" are words used as a front to promote homosexuality through GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) clubs.  How about students who are bullied for race, religion, being overweight or skinny, having red hair and freckles?  Perhaps the two-year program at El Camino High School called "Names Can Really Hurt Us" could be the model for other schools to establish programs that truly focus in a preventing bullying and providing safe schools.

Disapproval and avoidance of unhealthy behavior is not the same as being "bigoted," or "hateful" towards people.  Civility towards all and teaching respect for individuals (including sexually questioning teens) is appropriate, but demanding affirmation of homosexual practice and teaching it to children goes far beyond the ethic of tolerance, and in fact violates the value systems of many families.

Christine J. Watson

The Daily Tribune

"Lifestyle Should Not Be Encouraged"

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