Teach homosexuality and risk
the "full extent of the law"
February 21, 2003
Parents, if we don't wake up, many of us will have to deal with the heartbreak when our child comes home and announces they are gay. They are not "coming out of the closet," they are LEARNING this behavior in public school.
WorldNetdaily reported a new survey shows parents don't want their children taught "it's O.K. to be 'gay'" at school. Seventy-one percent of parents responding to a poll conducted statewide said they opposed sex education programs that teach students that homosexual love relationships are comparable to heterosexual relationships. The poll of over 1,200 parents of K-12 students was conducted by Zogby International and released Feb. 13.
The American Family Association is not surprised by the findings.
"Parents nationally and in Michigan don't want their children indoctrinated or their health put at risk by 'politically correct' sex-ed or diversity programs which tell kids there's nothing wrong with homosexual sex," said AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn.
California lawmakers passed legislation revising state curriculum to require educators to "acknowledge lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender historical figures, events, concepts, and issues." This translates to million dollar figures promoting homosexuality, and if you click on the AFA link above, you will find "fistgate," the dialogue of a secretly taped instructional session in public school. I can't even read it, but this is the direction our local legislators are PAYING homosexual groups to teach our children.
BlessedCause contends that children should be taught tolerance of all individuality (including Christianity!) without peddling beliefs. What if we asked schools to promote Christianity because we feel persecuted as Christians? Think we're not? Read our children's textbooks!
There is evidence "diversity" programs that promote homosexuality are effective in promoting the homosexual agenda. A Hamilton College Gay Issues poll released in August finds two-thirds of high school graduates favor legal recognition of homosexual marriages, 71 percent believe sexual relations between same-sex adults should be legal, and 71 percent of graduates would allow homosexual men to serve as Scout leaders. These are the voters of the future.
The instruction materials and methods used in the promotion of homosexuality in California schools has drawn a lot of fire.
WorldNetDaily reported parents filed a lawsuit against the Novato Unified School District for authorizing pro-homosexual assemblies without any prior notice or parental consent. The presentations, entitled "Cootie Shots," exposed elementary school children as young as seven to skits containing gay and lesbian propaganda.
WorldNetdaily also reported California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy took issue last year with sexually explicit instructional materials approved by the Los Angeles Unified School District for use in "diversity" and "safety" programs which included instructions on homosexual sodomy and a glorified account of lesbian pedophilia.
"The material is being put forward under the guise of tolerance and diversity, but it's inappropriate. It's lewd and lascivious ... and is darn embarrassing. Here I sit in my office reading my porn. It made me turn red, and I don't easily turn red," said Mountjoy.
AFA is sending information on the Zogby poll and on the potential
legal liability to members of the state board of education and other
elected officials in Michigan.
"To avoid harmful consequences to children ... public school
officials should honor parents' strong opposition to 'normalizing'
homosexual behavior in the classroom," said Glenn.
The group stresses that public school officials who fail to heed the warning may face legal liability for negligence should physical, mental and emotional harm come to children who experiment with homosexual behavior after being told at school – by teachers or homosexual activists invited as guest speakers – that such behavior is normal.
Glenn said medical studies offer evidence that such physical, mental and emotional harm occurs.
He cites a Harvard Medical School study of 4,000 high school students which found that "gay-lesbian-bisexual youth report disproportionate risk for a variety of health risk and problem behaviors ... engaging in twice the mean number of risk behaviors as did the overall population."
The study, which was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, also found:
Gay-lesbian-bisexual orientation was associated with increased
use of cocaine (and other illegal) drugs'
Gay-lesbian-bisexual youth were more likely to report using
tobacco, marijuana and cocaine before 13 years of age;
Gay-lesbian-bisexual orientation is associated with sexual
intercourse before 13 years of age, sexual intercourse with four
or more partners and sexual contact against one's will.
"Individuals who choose to engage in homosexual behavior put themselves at dramatically higher risk of domestic violence, mental illness, life-threatening diseases such as AIDS, cancer and hepatitis, and premature death by up to 20 years," Glenn said.
"Any public school official who allows young people to be taught at school that such behavior is normal, positive or harmless is not only negligent but reckless and should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law," he added.
Again, Christians are commanded to love everyone, of course this includes homosexuals. Christ would welcome them and rejoice! God invites us to come as we are, and none of us were without sin. But we object to the MILITANT gay movement indoctrinating our children. Everyone knows anal intercourse is NOT healthy. BlessedCause encourages all parents to sue schools that insist on teaching such behavior to impressionable youth. May God lead us to protect our children and future grandchildren as much as we can. Pray for revival!