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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Half Truths, Homosexuality, and the National Education Association by Dick M. Carpenter II, Ph.D. This opinion editorial first appeared in newspapers in July, 2001. "Mom, I'm a lesbian." Over the past decade, increasing numbers of children have dropped this bombshell on devastated parents. However, when one daughter recently said this after returning from a Massachusetts school, the mother was more perplexed than devastated-her daughter was only 9 years old. "Well, honey, what makes you think you're a lesbian?" asked the mother. "Today we had some people come in our class, and they told us what it means to be gay. That's when you love someone that's like you, and you don't like the boys. Because I love my friend, Sara, we know that we're going to get married when we grow older. That means we're gay." If the National Education Association (NEA) has its way, this conversation will be replayed in millions of homes across the country. At its annual convention during the first week of July, the world's largest teachers union will consider a resolution promoting programs and curricula designed to normalize homosexuality. According to the resolution, the NEA seeks to indoctrinate PreK-12 students with pro-gay messages by "disseminati[ng]…programs and information that include the contributions, heritage, culture and history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people." To create these programs, the NEA calls for the "involvement of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender educators in developing educational material used in classroom instructions." The resolutions also support using "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender education employees as role models" and call for "coordination with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organizations" in inundating schools with gay-friendly curricula and programs. Apparently, the NEA has abandoned teachers and students in favor of the latest in-vogue cause and in so doing show its true colors-an ultra-liberal organization far out of the mainstream and dedicated to half-truths dangerous to children. To begin, while the NEA believes schools are the proper avenue for advancing homosexual causes, the mainstream public clearly disagrees. A Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup poll indicates that 63 percent of Americans oppose "teaching about the gay and lesbian lifestyle as a part of the curriculum in public schools," and only 9 percent believe it should be presented as "an acceptable alternative lifestyle." Worse yet, through its membership of 2.3 million public school teachers, the NEA wields enormous clout in school districts and implements its agenda on a captive audience of tens of millions of children. With a population of 2.6 million teachers in U.S. public schools and more than 2 million of those NEA members, you do the math. One only need look at recent instances in schools to see how the NEA's resolutions would play out in classrooms. In Marin County, Calif., all second- through fifth-graders at Pleasant Valley School were called to an assembly put on by a local theater group. The group taught the children slogans such as, "I'm gay and it's OK." The skits included one in which Rapunzel cut her hair and ran away with her girlfriend. Montpelier, Vt., high school students were taken to an unannounced assembly. Once there, they were presented with a panel entirely made up of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals who talked about how happy, healthy and productive they are. Hayward, Calif., elementary school students were forced to hear about their teacher 's homosexual lifestyle after the teacher's homosexual partner sent flowers to him in the class. Finally, missing from the NEA's plans is "the rest of the story." If the NEA wants to tell kids about this contentious issue, at least give them the real truth. They ought to talk about the dangerous health risks accompanying homosexuality, including syphilis, damage to the intestinal tract and the mother of all STDs, AIDS. In that discussion, kids should be given the latest CDC statistics, which indicate a substantial increase of new AIDS infections in gay adolescents and those in their early 20s. In 75 percent of those, the disease was sexually transmitted. The NEA should inform students how many gays feel alienated from family, separated from God and emotionally devastated due to promiscuity. And they should tell kids they have another option to being gay, as demonstrated by the thousands of ex-gay men and women who left homosexuality and now lead straight lives, many married with children. Obviously the NEA will no more support telling students these things than they will endorse government money for private schools. Make no mistake, the NEA is not about protecting kids or making schools safe. It is about scattering seeds of pro-gay ideology through the minds and hearts of America's children. Dr. Dick Carpenter is an Education Policy Analyst in the Department of Legislative and Cultural Affairs at Focus on the Family *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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