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This is the repellent reality behind the Lavender Lobby’s rhetoric of "tolerance" and "inclusion." From "academic" settings such as the "Exposed!" conference radiate initiatives and measures which use the classroom as a recruiting ground. Teaching Tools In 1996, the National Education Association (NEA) — which was arguably the most powerful element of the Clinton coalition — adopted as part of its bylaws Resolution B-7, which deals with "Racism, Sexism, and Sexual Orientation Discrimination." The measure called for the elimination of "discrimination" against homosexuality, the imposition of policies to "increase acceptance" of "gays and lesbians," the integration of an "accurate portrayal" of homosexuals "throughout history and across the curriculum," the eradication of "subtle practices that favor the education of one student over another on the basis of … sexual orientation," and the development and implementation of "training programs on these matters." One of the tools available to achieve the goals outlined by the NEA is a video entitled It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, which has been screened in classrooms across the country. Set in six elementary and middle schools, the agitprop video depicts supposedly candid discussions between "enlightened" teachers and schoolchildren. The discussions follow a predictable script: Homosexuals are treated as oppressed victims; objection to the practice is scorned as bigotry; and Christianity is singled out for individualized condemnation. "Some Christians believe if you’re gay, you’ll go to hell, so they want to torture them and stuff like that," insists a fifth grader with the enthusiastic certainty typical of misled innocence. An eighth grader recites one of the sodomite lobby’s preferred sophistries: "If kids are too young to be taught about homosexuality, then they are too young to be taught about heterosexuality." A first-grade teacher from Wisconsin insists that parents should be compelled to enroll their children in sodomite mind-laundry classes: "If parents are allowed to have their children opt out of gay and lesbian units [classes], what will happen when we teach about Dutch culture or African-American history? It scares me." "It’s Elementary is the latest tool in a fast-growing campaign," reports Robert H. Knight of the Family Research Council. "A homosexual teachers group, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN), has produced its own video, Teaching Respect for All, as part of its second annual ‘back to school’ campaign. The 50-minute video is based on the staff training program created by GLSTN for the Massachusetts Department of Education under Republican Governor William Weld." It was under Weld that the Bay State became the trendsetter in officially sanctioned pro-homosexuality classroom indoctrination. Peter LaBarbera, publisher of the Lambda Report, observes that under Weld’s leadership, "Massachusetts became ground zero in the movement to promote homosexual-affirming education policies, and the state’s ‘educrats’ are now working with gay groups to export them to other school districts nationwide. In 1994, after Weld created his precedent-setting ‘Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth,’ Massachusetts became the first state to enact a ‘gay rights’ law for schools." Among the innovations mandated by the Governor’s Commission, in a February 1993 report entitled Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth: Breaking the Silence in Schools and Families, was the requirement that "all certified teachers and educators will receive training in issues relevant to the needs and problems faced by gay and lesbian youth. Such training should be a requirement for teacher certification and school accreditation." Significantly, no exception was recommended for accredited religious and private schools. The Commission also decreed that pro-homosexual messages be "integrated into all subject areas" and the removal of "biases in existing curriculum, such as the exclusive use of opposite-sex couples in math or foreign language exercises." Not content with compelled indoctrination of both teachers and students and the censorship of "homophobic" classroom material, the Commission dictated a set of "Anti-Harassment Policies and Guidelines." "Schools should adopt and publicize policies which prohibit anti-gay language and harassment on the part of faculty and students" and propound "clear guidelines … for dealing with anti-gay epithets and speech," decreed the Commission. The body further directed teachers and staff to take all necessary measures to eliminate "discriminatory attitudes directed against gay and lesbian people in general." The Commission also called for the creation of "Gay/Straight Student Alliances" in "every high school in the Commonwealth"; these "alliances" are essentially liaison offices with the Lavender Lobby. Causing Them to Stumble Newsweek for November 8, 1993 reported that in Massachusetts, "National Coming Out Day" is "an autumnal rite every bit as gala as graduation day...." In the state that contributed homosexual Congressman Barney Frank to the House of Representatives, noted Newsweek, "multiculturalism has come to embrace multisexualism." Thus "more students seem to be coming out, and they’re coming out younger. A climate of greater tolerance is making it possible for teens to explore more openly what they’ve historically sampled in secret." One of those responsible for the expanding epidemic among Massachusetts teenagers is Karen Harbeck of the Massachusetts Governor’s Advisory Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. Speaking in June 1997 at the Second Congress on Family Law and the Rights of Children in San Francisco, Harbeck proudly outlined the gains made by the sodomite revolution: "Ten years ago, the average age of ‘coming out of the closet’ for gay men was 26; the average age for lesbians was 28. On the average, young people today are coming out of the closet at age 15.... And if you come out of the closet at age 14, 15, or 16, you’ve probably been gay or lesbian for the previous six years and had no one to talk to." While most people would be startled by the idea of a "closeted" eight-year-old, Harbeck insists that public schools have to "liberate" such children — now designated as "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-sexual, or Questioning" (GLBTQ) youth — at the earliest possible age. "By seventh grade it’s too late," Harbeck insisted. "People say this is an issue mainly for high school sex education class. They’re wrong; it belongs in pre-school." One result of the "gay youth" revolution in Massachusetts, observes LaBarbera, "has been a proliferation of horror stories, as parents get wind of one-sided, pro-homosexual ‘lessons’ or even ‘gay pride’ rallies at their child’s school, often after the fact." Typical of this trend is the case of Mike Chiusano of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in 1994 was denounced as a "homophobe" at the dinner table by his then-14-year-old daughter after she had attended four days of mandatory assemblies entitled "Homophobia Week." "When Mr. Chiusano protested to the Beverly High administrators, his family became the victim of a harassment campaign, including a phone call to his wife from one zealot who threatened, ‘We know where your daughter lives,’" recalls LaBarbera. In March 1997, Douglas Matthews, the faculty adviser to the "gay-straight alliance" at Algonquin Regional High School, distributed a "Questionnaire about Heterosexuality" to students in a freshman history class. The questionnaire was designed to expose and rebuke "homophobic" attitudes among students. Among the questions contained in the handout was the following: "If you’ve never slept with a person of the same sex and enjoyed it, is it possible that all you need is a good gay lover?" A similar document was distributed to students at Cupertino High School in California. Entitled "Heterosexuality: Can It be Cured?" the leaflet, distributed by the American Public Health Association Caucus of Gay and Public Health Workers, declared: "Heterosexuality is a condition characterized by a sexual attraction to members of the opposite gender. Many persons, in all cultures, at all times, have been heterosexual.... Whatever the cause of this phenomenon, we can state without doubt that there are many problems associated with heterosexuality, both for the individual and society at large." Among the "problems" listed were pregnancy and "a state of homophobia." Suggested "cures" for heterosexuality included psychotherapy and widespread sterilization of the heterosexual population. The time is not far distant when it may be a federal offense for anyone in either the public or the private sectors to present smoking in a positive — or even neutral — context. If present trends in the classroom are any guide, the same federal government will eventually criminalize opposition of any kind to homosexuality — and American schoolchildren are being prepared for that dreadful day. . *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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