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Queers Infest Our Schools.
Queers group making additional progress in our schools. The following is
quoted from The Washington Times, By Jennifer Kabbany, Dec 4-10, 2000,
Issue. Pls visit:
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Quote: Homosexual-rights group makes inroads in schools.
Hovering in the shadows of the homosexual-rights movement is a little-known
organization that has concentrated on public schools. The Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Education Network (GLSEN) does not appear on many parents' radar,
but those who know about GLSEN say the group has been successful.
"The only people who know about GLSEN are the ones fighting in hand-to-hand
combat with them, or the 20 to 25 percent of Christians who receive mail
from groups like Focus on the Family," said Lon Mabon, president of the
Oregon Citizens Alliance.
Mr Mabon's group sponsored Oregon's Measure 9, which aimed to prevent
educators from encouraging, promoting or sanctioning homosexual behavior in
class. During the election season, GLSEN activists pushed to defeat the
mesure.
GLSEN, which boasts 85 chapters in 35 states, aims to "end the cycle of
bigotry in K-12 schools," according to its Web site. Its communications
director, Jim Anderson, did not respond to numerous requests for an
interview.
Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN, defined the group's agenda during an
interview with CNN. "What GLSEN does is teach young children they should not
call each other names; that they should not beat each other up," he said.
"Being gay [queer] doesn't kill people, but homophobia does kill people."
GLSEN (pronounced 'glisten') showed its muscle at its annual conference
Oct. 6-8 in Chicago, with some 800 students and educators in attendance. One
workshop, titled "Make It Real: Student Activism in Schools," encouraged
students to foster homosexual-straight alliances in schools because they
have a better record of being accepted than homosexual-only groups.
The 800 participants were instructed to use words such as "identity" and
"orientation" instead of "behavior" and "lifestyle," the latter being words
that suggest homosexuality is a choice.
GLSEN advocate Barbara Miner warned attendees that the voucher and
private-school movement jeopardizes the gains pro-homosexual groups have
made in public schools. The reason: Students who attend private religious
schools may not be exposed to homosexual-tolerance materials.
In another workshop, GLSEN representatives claimed the "religious right"
was gaining sympathy from centrists by avoiding harsh anti-homosexual
statements, according to one attendee who asked to remain anonymous.
"They accused the 'right' of turning the homosexual rhetoric of being
harassed around," she said. "Now it's the 'right' who are the victims, who
are being harassed for their beliefs."
The 10-year-old organization's biggest coup to date was getting Robert
Chase, president of the National Education Association, [this is a union
(NEA) to which most teachers and educators belong as members], to address
the Chicago meeting. In his speech, Mr Chase quoted letters he had received
chastising his attendance, and cited the authors' "attitudes, fears and
misconceptions" as reasons that he came.
"It is our job to educate all children to live harmoniously in a diverse
society," Mr Chase said. That can be accomplished through "anti-gay
harassment" training programs for teachers and mandating "inclusive
language," he said.
Not everyone agreed with the convention's objectives. Peter LaBarbera, the
director of Americans for Truth, who led about 20 protesters outside the
conference, said GLESN's welcome literature illustrated its real agenda.
The handout, which was given to high school students, advertised "two
sadistig-oriented gay bars and a sex club called Man's Country...private
adult lockers and rooms...fantasy suites...nude stage shows." he said.
GLSEN supports teaching in the classroom about homosexuality but does not
produce educational materials. Its Web site (www.glsen.org)
recommends
school books with titles such as "One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, Blue Dads"
and "The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans," about a nasty character who opposes
diversity.
It includes many different ways to respond to young students who may ask
about homosexuality. One suggested phrase: "It's important not to judge
people without knowing them."
GLSEN's work is not an attempt to indoctrinate, say some educators, but
about helping students learn to accept each other.
Chris Elder, director of the private New Roads Middle School in Los
Angeles, had a GLSEN representative speak at her school as one part of a
larger workshop designed to educate students about groups that face
discrimination.
"We wanted to help students develop empathy and acceptance, to break down
the fears that have been created through sterotypes, to understand that
human beings are sometimes more than what has been taught by the media,
churches and textbooks," Ms Elder says.
These are human beings with dignity, jobs, goals, who just have a sexual
difference. You don't have to be afraid of them or run away, and you don't
have to choose their lifestyle, either.
The influence of groups like GLSEN on public schools can be seen in the San
Francisco Unified School District which is considering several lesson plans
in which homosexuality and tolerance are the subjects.
One lesson plan, titled "Jesse's Dream Skirt," is designed for grade school
students and centers on a "boy who likes to do things differently than most
boys." Questions following the story include: "What do you think about Jesse
wanting to wear a skirt even though his mother warns him that the other kids
might not like the dream skirt as much as Jesse?" and "Do you think Jesse
wants to be a girl?"
This lesson plan "does not belong at school," says Karen Holgate of the
California-based conservative watchdog group Capitol Research Institute.
Mrs Holgate says these lesson plans teach children that if their parents
disagree with homosexuality, they're "homophobes." "This curriculum makes
parents look they're the bad guys," she says.
But Simon LeVay, a neuroscientist in Los Angeles who has published many
articles on homosexuality and the brain, say groups like GLSEN help
homosexual students deal with the name-calling and physical assaults that
are rampant in schools. "High school kids feel free to be nasty about
homosexuality," say Dr LeVay, "and many times homosexual students have no
support from teachers or peers."
GLSEN met with heated debate in March, when it hosted a conference attended
by Massachusetts Department of Education officials as well as students.
During a "youth-only, ages 14-21," workshop titled "What They Didn't Tell
You About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class," students were taught
sexually explicit techniques.
After two members of the Massachusetts Parents Rights Coalition secretly
taped the session, GLSEN filed a lawsuit to keep the tapes from being
distributed. It lost after months of legal wrangling.
"Children are being victimized by these groups, and their parents don't
even know it," say Parents Rights Coalition leader Brian Camenker. End of
Quote.
NEA Engages in Gay Activism
Excerpt: "To make school a safe place, activists believe that there can be
no oppositional voice," Carpenter said. "Kids cannot hear that there is
another way you don't have to be gay. Kids cannot hear that 'You know what,
I was a homosexual, but I'm not gay anymore.' "
Carpenter added: "Any type of speech to that effect would be considered
harassment."
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0014717.html
NEA Engages in Gay Activism With 'Bias and Hate' Video By Stuart Shepard,
correspondent
What poses the greatest danger to your children at school - violence?
Drugs? According to some it's conservative values.
The National Education Association (NEA) is working diligently to bring gay
activism to schools. The teachers union is using an appeal to "safety for
kids" as the vehicle.
The recent satellite broadcast of a gay-advocacy video to thousands of
schools across the country contained comments on homosexuality such as this
one, from a United Church of Christ pastor: "School is not a safe place for
any kid who happens to be the least bit different."
A teen-age member of an Illinois "gay-straight alliance" club contended
that it is conservative values that made his school unsafe: "This is a very
conservative town and a lot of people have issues with gays. And there's a
lot of homophobic feelings around."
The program suggested that every school should consider forming a
homosexual club and add sexual orientation to harassment policies.
Focus on the Family Education Analyst Dick Carpenter is not surprised at
the position touted by the NEA, but he does oppose the logic behind it.
"To make school a safe place, activists believe that there can be no
oppositional voice," Carpenter said. "Kids cannot hear that there is another
way you don't have to be gay. Kids cannot hear that 'You know what, I was a
homosexual, but I'm not gay anymore.' "
Carpenter added: "Any type of speech to that effect would be considered
harassment."
The NEA's activism is all the more reason for Christians to be more
vigilant, said Peter LaBarbera, with Americans for Truth.
"It's a very clever tactic to use safety as a tool to push homosexuality in
the schools, because they know that most people obviously don't want to
speak against protecting kids," LaBarbera said."Teachers - as well as
parents - need to speak up now to say, 'No, we do not want this teachers
union being used to normalize homosexual behavior' "
LaBarbera says teens should know the real dangers of homosexual activity,
and he is astonished that schools will oppose smoking while endorsing
homosexual behavior.
"... our efforts as educators must not be directed to restoring the past
order of morality but to participating in creating a new one... when it is
shed there will be a new moral order to take it's place... a counterculture
that will burst through the surface." (Roberta T. Ash; "Durkheim's Moral
Education Reconsidered: Toward the Creation of a Counterculture".
In SCHOOL REVIEW, November, 1971, p. 112). 31 March 2001 Update.
Subject: NEA to Consider Pro-Gay Resolution March 27, 2001.
NEA to Consider Pro-Gay Resolution By Stuart Shepard, correspondent.
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/A0015395.html The president of the
National Education Association has made good on a promise to advance the
interests of homosexuals through the nation's largest teacher's union. When
the National Education Association (NEA) meets in its annual convention this
summer, the group will consider a resolution that would enthusiastically
promote homosexuality in classrooms across America. The proposed resolution
sounds like something that would be published by a gay advocacy group. It
suggests bringing gay themes into classroom materials, setting up gay
employees as role models for the students, even bringing representatives of
gay organizations into the schools. "What we're talking about is including
homosexuality in reading classes and history classes and those types of
things," said Dr. Dick Carpenter, education analyst at Focus on the Family.
"The effect would be pretty significant in schools."
Carpenter said if pro-family teachers don't speak up to their schools
and the union, he fears the resolution will pass. "There seems to be so much
momentum," Carpenter said. "Not only are NEA leaders talking about it, but
you're looking at legislators who are also promoting it in California and in
other states." Karen Holgate, with California's Capitol Resource Institute,
said laws being passed there under the guise of "hate crimes" are already
impacting families.
"Their parents have been ridiculed in the classroom," Holgate said.
"(They have been) made fun of, if they try to teach their children the
Biblical
perspective on homosexuality." She said the NEA resolution would effectively
cut parents out of the loop. "That only needs to happen one time in a
classroom, and it clearly sends the message to other children, 'Don't go
home and tell your parents, because we'll ridicule you.' "
Holgate is also concerned about programs aimed at students "questioning"
their sexual orientation. She worries about the damage that will be done
when young boys and girls are told it is OK to experiment with
homosexuality.
The NEA convention will be held in Los Angeles in July. TAKE ACTION:
Because the NEA is a teachers union, they will likely only respond to
pressure from members. If you are a member of the NEA, please consider
becoming a delegate to the July convention in Los Angeles in order to oppose
the proposed resolution, titled "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Education." Please also contact the NEA and express your opposition to the
measure. For more information about the resolution, see an article by
CNSNews.com. For more information about the NEA and its political agenda,
see the Focus on the Family report, "Grading the NEA."
"... our efforts as educators must not be directed to restoring the past
order of morality but to participating in creating a new one... when it is
shed there will be a new moral order to take it's place... a counterculture
that will burst through the surface." (Roberta T. Ash; "Durkheim's Moral
Education Reconsidered: Toward the Creation of a Counterculture". In SCHOOL
REVIEW, November, 1971, p. 112)
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