-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! CHANGING OF THE GUARD Opposition to Cellucci over homosexual issue Bush pick for Canada ambassador in hot water over sex-class funding ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Julie Foster © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Opposition is mounting against the nomination of Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci as ambassador to Canada based on the governor's involvement in last year's youth sex conference at Tufts University in which state employees instructed children as young as 14 in explicit homosexual sex acts. As reported by WorldNetDaily, the Saturday conference nearly one year ago included a workshop titled "What they didn't tell you about queer sex and sexuality in health class: a workshop for youth only, ages 14-21." The session was run by three state employees from the Departments of Education and Public Health and was secretly audio taped by a parent who attended. Release of the tape and transcripts of the session to the state legislature and the media caused a firestorm in Massachusetts and across the country as Americans became aware of the explicit nature of the workshop. As a result, two of the three state employees that conducted the workshop were fired. One of them, HIV-AIDS program coordinator Margot Abels, claims her civil rights were violated by Scott Whiteman, the parent who made the recording. Also previously reported by WND, Abels is now suing both Whiteman and Education Commissioner David Driscoll, who fired her. Heavy criticism has been levied against Cellucci for allowing tax money to be spent in support of the conference. The Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth was continued by Cellucci when he took over as governor in 1997 after fellow Republican and commission founder William Weld resigned from the governorship to accept a Clinton nomination as ambassador to Mexico. Both governors supported the program, which uses part of its $1.5 million budget to finance the creation of on-campus student groups known as "Gay-Straight Alliances." The GSAs, as the they are called, are organized and maintained with the help of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network -- the homosexual activist group that sponsored the March 2000 sex conference. GLSEN and the pro-homosexual group Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays contract with the state to provide educational services to public school students. GLSEN is also suing Whiteman, charging him with illegally recording the conference. Whiteman is the former executive director of the Parents Rights Coalition in Massachusetts. After publicizing the recording of the workshop, PRC members attempted to secure a meeting with the governor to express their opposition to the use of public funds in any amount for such activities. The group also intended to encourage Cellucci's discontinuation of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, but the governor declined to meet with them. Cellucci also declined to meet with former United Nations ambassador and Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes in July, when Keyes personally requested an audience with the governor. After waiting in person at the governor's office for a response, Keyes -- who was in the presence of PRC president Brian Camenker, other activists and a professional camera crew -- was eventually told by an aide that Cellucci would not meet with him. Keyes immediately went to the Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives, where he received a standing ovation, said Camenker. Cellucci adviser Abner Mason told the Boston Globe last week that he "spoke with (Camenker) on a couple of occasions. He wanted to come in and try to convince the governor not to continue with the policy of making schools safe for all teens -- including gay and lesbian teens. The governor is very committed to this whole safe school initiative. I told (Camenker) I didn't think the governor was going to reverse himself." Mason is a former board member of the Log Cabin Republicans -- a pro-homosexual Republican group. Camenker, who is also a party in the Abels and GLSEN lawsuits, is dumbfounded by homosexual rights activists' reaction to the conference. "Every homosexual activist that we've been in touch with on this are not shocked in the least or moved in the least by what went on," Camenker told WorldNetDaily. "They don't see the problem. And in fact, at the conference itself, this stuff happened and nobody there seemed to think there was anything unusual going on. That is very, very frightening, because the average person hears this and some people get physically sick listening to the tape. "These homosexual activists who are prosecuting us, they are keeping this tape from getting into the public's hands," he continued. "Their official reason is that we are violating the privacy of the participants, but they said this before they listened to the tape. Their real motive is to keep this out of the hands of the public." This week on Fox News Channel's show "Hannity & Colmes," radio talk show host Ellen Ratner discussed the sex conference opposite traditional values activist Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth. "I'm not sure it did go overboard," Ratner said of the taped workshop. She claimed the conference is "a major scandal because you guys decided to make it a major scandal" and accused LaBarbera of using the issue to stimulate his fund-raising base. Media outlets continue to report that critics of Cellucci's nomination hold their position because of the governor's lack of action regarding the controversial sex conference. But Whiteman points to Cellucci's public approval of pro-homosexual programs in general as reason to oppose the governor's representation of the United States. For example, under Cellucci, the Governor's Commission annual budget was doubled from $750,000 to its current $1.5 million. In a letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, Whiteman asked the senator to oppose Cellucci's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Canada. "When the Parents' Rights Coalition sought an audience with him (Cellucci), we were informed that the governor had made up his mind to support the activities of people like David LaFontaine, a homosexual activist who pelted Cardinal Law and newly ordained priests and their family members with condoms at a Catholic ordination ceremony in Massachusetts, and groups like GLSEN," he wrote. LaFontaine, who was appointed chairman of the Governor's Commission by Weld, participated in a protest with other homosexual-rights activists on June 16, 1990. The protest took place outside Holy Cross Cathedral, where Cardinal Bernard Law presided over the ordination of 11 new priests. Among the protesters were members of ACT-UP, a homosexual-rights group that advocates and trains activists in civil disobedience. The Catholic League expressed its opposition to Weld's 1992 appointment of LaFontaine because of the appointee's participation in the Holy Cross protest, which included "lewd parodies of the Catholic liturgy," the league wrote to Weld. Demonstration participants shouted obscenities and hurled condoms at the newly ordained priests and their families as they left the cathedral. Helms reportedly opposed Weld's 1997 appointment as U.S. ambassador to Mexico, in part because of the former governor's appointment of LaFontaine. Weld was not confirmed and is now practicing law in New York. LaFontaine resigned from his position in January. Acting Commission Co-chair Lesa Lessard said he left to "work on personal projects." "I ask that you continue your principled opposition to anyone, including Republicans nominated by Republicans, who endorse such disturbing behavior as pelting priests with condoms and the funding groups which encourage the destruction of the family and teach children the most deviant forms of sexual activity," wrote Whiteman. As a general rule, Helms' office does not comment on nominations, the senator's aide said. Cellucci's critics also object to pro-homosexual administrative regulations that were supported by the Governor's Commission. According to the Access to Equal Educational Opportunity regulation, passed just one month after the sex conference, all teachers in Massachusetts public schools "shall review all instructional and educational materials for simplistic and demeaning generalizations, lacking intellectual merit, on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. Appropriate activities, discussions and/or supplementary materials shall be used to provide balance and context for any such stereotypes depicted in such materials." The regulations also place restrictions on outside organizations that make contributions to, provide scholarships through or sponsor activities in government schools. Any such outside organization, such as a college that sends a recruiter to public high school campuses, "shall be free from any restrictions based upon race, color, sex, religion, national origin or sexual orientation." Avoiding total exclusion of private, religious organizations that object to homosexuality, the regulation allows government schools to "post or print information regarding private restricted scholarships as long as no preferential treatment is given to any particular scholarship offered and as long as the school does not endorse or recommend any such scholarship nor advise or suggest to a particular student that he or she apply for such a scholarship." In nominating the 52-year-old Cellucci, President George W. Bush stated: "Governor Paul Cellucci is a friend and fellow governor. As a governor from the Northeast, he has worked closely with Canada over the years on issues of mutual concern like energy, trade and preserving the environment. His appointment signifies the importance I place on the close relationship between the United States and Canada." A hearing date for Cellucci's confirmation has not yet been set. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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