Don't Blame The Gay Lobby, Blame The American Family

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[george wythe]

Considering we have folks in the counterterrorism department of the FBI cheering about 9/11, and those folks have been promoted, I have to wonder how far the infiltration has occurred

When Christian leaders point out the Christian hypocricy, these leaders take a lot of flak from fellow Christians.

Barna Continues to Defend Survey Showing Divorce Rates Among Christians

The Barna Research Firm is defending a recent survey which found some disturbing statistics regarding born-again Christians and divorce.  The survey found that born-again Christians were just as likely as non-believers to divorce.  In fact,the survey found that the divorce rate is higher for Christians when compared with non-believers.

Dave Kinnamon, who is with the Barna organization, says when it comes to the attitudes of Christians and non-Christians regarding marriage, there is not much difference.

"Born-again Christians don't seem to be very different when it comes to their attitudes about marriage," Kinnamon says.  "If you look at their perspectives about what they hope to get in a marital relationship, about what level of sacrifice it takes...about whether divorce is an option they would realistically consider, their perspectives about marriage and about divorce are very similar to non-Christians."

Kinnamon believes part of the problem lies with churches and their reluctance to speak out against divorce.

"I think a lot of churches have failed to make a 'full court press' in defending marriages," he says.  "They've done everything they think they can, but I don't know that they've developed a holistic strategy about how to prepare people for marriage appropriately before they get married, how to support marriages when things are going good, and how to bolster marriages that are 'on the rocks.'"

Kinnamon says he was surprised at the harsh criticism of the survey from born-again believers.  Officials at Barna say they stand by the survey's results.

Jesus said that by our fruits we will be known.

The fruits of the American Church are not very Christian-like. Rampant use of controversial contraceptives, widespread premarital sex, high rates of divorce and even plenty of abortions.

How can we claim that Christ has had a positive influence on our lives as a group?

[philetus]

NEW YORK GAY RIGHTS BILL
TARGETS SCHOOLS
A recent press release from the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists addressed New York's pro-gay "Dignity for All Students Act," officially known as State Assembly Bill A1118. According to Council director David Eidensohn, the proposed bill would have far-reaching effects.

The bill, if enacted, would place into New York schools state issued teaching materials (including textbooks) that would present such things as homosexuality and cross-dressing as normal, acceptable behavior. It would also label those who disagree with this opinion as bigoted and intolerant.

And not only would pubic schools be affected; this material would also be required teaching in the state's religious schools, conflicting with the moral and theological doctrines taught in Jewish and Christian parochial schools.

"The Bill is called 'Dignity for All Students' but does not teach dignity for religious students," said Eidensohn, who is a rabbi. He maintained that the bill would "replace discrimination against gays with discrimination against biblical and traditional family people."

The bill itself is in five sections, the ones of interest to the Council being sections two and three. Section two, which adds text to a previously enacted gay rights bill, contains an exemption for religious schools, while section three does not.

The urgency, according to Rabbi Eidensohn, is due to the fact that section three includes the requirement for all schools in New York State to teach "civility" in terms of gay rights and respecting cross dressers. With religious schools not exempt from the requirement, any parochial institution that chose not to teach the pro-homosexual, pro-transvestite material, would be violating the law.

Furthermore, parents whose children attend a school deemed in violation of the law could be arrested for encouraging truancy. As even the bill's sponsors admit that the vaguely worded religious exemptions would not survive a court challenge and, so are essentially useless, the dilemma for schools and parents is obvious.

"The...traditional family community is hiding its head in [the] sand," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Surely, people think, this can't be for real. Nobody is going to demonize or criminalize [the] traditional family... but this is exactly what gay rights bills are doing. The gay lobby thrives," he continued "on the ignorance of the masses."

[grellis]

They're not demanding we accept them, they're not threatening us litigation for not obeying them, and they're not in schools teaching their lifestyles to the children.

You're joking, right? Do you live in a town with a population over 150?

[philetus]

The World According to PFLAG: Why PFLAG and Children Don't Mix
By Linda Harvey

(Reprinted by permission from "Choice 4 Truth," www.choice4truth.com)

An examination of the values of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), a national group promoting the acceptance of "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered" lifestyles for children and teens.

December, 2002 -- PFLAG is active on a local and national level attempting to infuse its radical ideas into schools, churches, youth organizations and into national and state public policy. There is growing support for the work of this organization, which is being received cordially by some schools and even corporations.

Yet behind its rhetoric of "rights" and "tolerance" is the sordid reality of what PFLAG actually supports. As their recommended literature reveals, the world according to PFLAG would encourage children to be self-indulgent and self-centered; to reject the wisdom of parents and other authorities if they wish, even at early ages; and to engage in just about any sexual behavior imaginable.

In this literature, there is even implied approval of sexual contact between adults with minors. It's a frequent, usually "positive" theme in many resources recommended by PFLAG. For a complete listing of these resources, consult the group's publications on its web site at www.pflag.org.

Warning: Graphic sexual content follows. The following are just a small sample of the situations, opinions and themes depicted in the PFLAG brochures and in books PFLAG recommends as "resources." The passages included here are mild compared to the obscene, self-destructive, abusive, and just plain weird material that predominates. The sheer volume is grounds, we believe, for preventing this group from having any contact with minor children; nor should its ideas be adopted by teachers, counselors and parents. There is a dire need to expose this organization's roots. Schools and organizations that utilize PFLAG materials, list its web site or other contact points as resources, or allow PFLAG representatives to speak to children or other groups may find themselves ultimately exposed to criminal liability.

1. PFLAG's recommended literature encourages in sexual license for people of all ages. For children, this means that virtually any sexual activity as well as exposure to graphic sexual images and material, is not just permissible, but good for children, as part of the process of discovering their sexuality.

"I've been doing drag for about ten years, on and off....my fantasies were all about whipping. I started reading up on S/M, and it was making me interested in sex for the first time...I realized that, for what I was doing, I could be getting good money." (Interview with Minal, a young man who is a cross-dresser and works as a prostitute specializing in sado-masochism, in Revolutionary Voices, Ed. Amy Sonnie, Alyson Books, 2000, pp.171-172. Book recommended for youth by PFLAG in its brochure, "Be Yourself").

"...From a convenience store in a town thirty miles away that sold liquor to underage customers as well as porn paperbacks, I acquired a copy of a novel called Pretty Boys Must Die. It satisfied my curiosity about what homosexuals did....I was excited out of my mind....I also knew that somewhere out there, beyond Amethyst, someone had to be doing something remotely like what leather hustler Riley Jacks did to naïve young David (the "Pretty Boy")....I was ready.....But I had to wait. ...I gorged on new porn when I could get it...I was content to read for hours, and masturbate for hours..." (A man reminiscing about his youth, from Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, ed. Bennett Singer, New Press, 1994, p.53. This book is part of recommended reading by PFLAG in its brochure for parents, "Our Daughters & Sons.")

"Except for her Adam's apple, it was hard to tell Christina was really a young male from the Philippines...My days were spent as a man and my nights as a woman...Christina introduced me to Breezy. She had started taking hormones when she was in her teens...During our physical lovemaking, Breezy was able to express her female and male energies at the same time...I was sad that our affair lasted only four days." (Memoir of transgendered youth Shu Wei Chen/ Andy, pp.179-180, in Bi Any Other Name, ed. Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu, Alyson Books, 1991. Recommended in the PFLAG Bisexuality Resource Packet and in the PFLAG brochure for parents.)

In the novel Rainbow Boys (Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster, 2001), three 17-year old boys explore their homosexual attractions. Frequent themes include obtaining pornographic magazines (p.51) and movies (p.88), as well as graphic descriptions of masturbation (pp.51-52, 70, 89). The book features several scenes of explicit heterosexual sex, and a scene where one of the teen boys has anal intercourse without a condom with a 29-year-old man he has just met via the Internet (p.148). This boy's mom is an officer of the local PFLAG chapter, and comes and goes to meetings throughout the book. Rainbow Boys is recommended by PFLAG in its brochure for youth, "Be Yourself."

"...I met this guy named Reggie, who was twenty-three. I met him hanging out in the subway station....He spent the night with me a few times..." (Memoir from 'D.B.', a 15 year-old runaway and school drop-out, in Two Teenagers in Twenty, Ed. Ann Heron, Alyson Books,1994, page 81. Book recommended by PFLAG in its brochure for youth.)

"By age twelve, I had become a porn aficionado, since the couple for whom I babysat and my older brother kept copies of the magazines around. I must say that I came in touch with my bisexuality, or my bisexual feelings, through men's pornography." (Lucy Friedland in Bi Any Other Name [cited above], p.292.)

"Well, I'm politically radical...And I'm also sexually radical. I support all people's rights, all lifestyles that are consensual and not coercive. I have many friends in the S & M community and in the transsexual and transvestite communities...I'm a prostitute's rights advocate..." (Marcy Sheiner, Bi Any Other Name [cited above], p.206.)

"I am a triracial, First Nation, Two-Spirit Fairy Trans Faggot activist...I am committed to unleashing Out/rage/us Acts of Delightful Revolution." (Qwo-Li Driskill, age 22, in Revolutionary Voices [cited above], p.198.)

"'My first experience was with a much older man, a friend of Derek's [his dad]...When I was fifteen, he must have been twenty-nine, thirty...I seduced him...It was a wild night. We did everything.'" (Young man, Eliot, telling about earlier experiences in a story excerpted in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian [cited above], p.111.)


2. "Coming out" (calling oneself homosexual or cross-dressing) at a very young age, and even beginning early homosexual sex practices, is a desirable goal in the world according to PFLAG.

"I first began to come out when I was 11. In terms of my family, I was fortunate because my parents have always been accepting of my sexual identity....So at the age of 12 I came out to my entire elementary school, which included grades K-8." (Fifteen-year-old girl writing in Revolutionary Voices, ed. By Amy Sonnie, Alyson Books, 2000, pp.43-44. Recommended for youth in PFLAG's brochure, "Be Yourself.")

"My name is Nicole, and I'm a lesbian. I'm twelve years old." (From Two Teenagers in Twenty, [cited above], p.167.)

"Young people are just as capable of exploring or asserting their sexual identity as adults." (Author Mary L Gray, in In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth, Harrington Park Press,1999, p.23. Book recommended by PFLAG in both its youth and parent brochures.)

"Last summer, I finally came to grips with the fact that I was gay. I had been having sex with a man since I was fourteen, but I thought it was just a phase..." (Mike Friedman, age 17, in Two Teenagers in Twenty [cited above], p.134.)

PFLAG strongly supports "transgendered" behaviors (being a transvestite or having a sex change through hormones or surgery). This includes supporting young children in their rights to dress, and to believe they are, the opposite sex. See the PFLAG brochure, "Our Trans Children," available for order on the PFLAG web site, www.pflag.org.

" I identify as bisexual, and have since I was about six or seven...I sort of experimented when I was young." (Eriq Chang, writing in In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth [as cited above], p.32.)

"I used to go down in the cellar with other boys...I have a twin brother, Chad, who is also gay...When I was seventeen, I came out to my brother and his lover...They were in bed, and I just came in and blurted it all out...I'd been very sexually active since I was twelve." (Kyle Dale Bynion, age 18, writing in Two Teenagers in Twenty, pp.16-17 [cited above]).


3. Bisexuality, fluid sexuality and sexual experimentation is encouraged by PFLAG. The group believes it's important for all students to learn about these options.

"At some point, almost everybody gets a 'crush' on someone of the same sex...One or two sexual experiences with someone of the same sex may not mean you're gay, either--just as one or two sexual experiences with someone of the opposite sex may not mean you're straight...many straight people have same-sex sexual experiences.....Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the world's best-known sex researcher, concluded from his research that almost nobody is purely straight or gay..." (From PFLAG brochure for youth, "Be Yourself", p.5).

"Although it's common to feel more strongly attracted to one sex or the other, many people feel at least some amount of attraction for both sexes. Alfred Kinsey, the famous researcher of sexual behavior, found that our attractions and our sexual behaviors are seldom absolute..." (Passage continues to describe the Kinsey Scale, a 0 through 6 continuum from heterosexual to homosexual, that discredited researcher Kinsey used to describe "fluid" sexuality. In Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies, Ellen Bass & Kate Kaufman, HarperPerennial, 1996, pp.6-7. Recommended by PFLAG in both its youth and parent brochures.)

"My sexuality is as fluid, infinite, undefinable, and ever-changing as the north-flowing river...Sexuality is not black or white...it is gray...I know that defining myself is not so simple..." (T. Rowan, 16, in Revolutionary Voices [cited above], p.167.)

"'...You never wanted to, like, do it with a girl?' 'No, I guess I'm a Kinsey six.'" (Two boys discuss the Kinsey scale in the novel Rainbow Boys [cited above], p.95.)

"Last night, I told my friend Leslie that I am gay--after I had sex with her...." (From a homosexual man's diary of his youth, in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, [cited above], pp.80-81.)

"For gay liberation to have any value for youth, people must be reminded, preferably in fifth- or sixth-grade sex education classes, that gay is not only good, but probably a part of most sexual make-ups." (Bill Andriette, age 16, in Two Teenagers in Twenty, [cited above], p.171.)

"Humans are diverse, and individual sexual feelings and behavior change over time....Bisexuality threatens the accepted way of looking at the world by calling into question the validity of rigid sexual categories, and encourages acknowledgement of the existence of a diverse range of sexuality... It is important to have the freedom to choose the type of sexual and affectional relationships that are right for the people involved, whatever their sexual orientation." (PFLAG Bisexuality Resource Packet, pages 4-5.)

"I think the first time I thought about being bi or questioned my sexuality was when, under the influence, I kissed a girl. I would have been thirteen...I was really heavily into drugs and stuff like that..." (Paige, age 18, in In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth [cited above], p.42.)

"No one knows exactly how human sexual orientation--gay or straight--is determined." (From PFLAG youth brochure, "Be Yourself")


4. Meeting with other "gay" and "questioning" youth, usually without parental knowledge, is a frequent theme in PFLAG materials. At these community meetings, thirteen-year-olds will come into contact with college-age youth and adults practicing homosexuality.

"The night I got back from my first support group meeting, I lied to my mother about where I'd been. And I was horrible at lying because I had a good relationship with my mother..." (Dawn, age 17, in In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth, [cited above], p.50.)

"...I finally got up the courage to attend a meeting of PRYSM. PRYSM is a sort of support group for lesbians and gays aged twenty-two and under....That meeting was the catalyst for my new life as a lesbian...My mother is the last person I would tell...." (Robin, age 16, in Two Teenagers in Twenty [cited above], pp.131-132.)

"Jason Carillo walked around the block a third time, working up his courage to go into the brownstone....He'd read about the group for teens in his school newspaper...." (Opening scene of novel Rainbow Boys, which is about three boys who meet at a "gay" youth meeting. Cited above, p.1)

"I came out when I was fifteen. I started going to a gay youth group at the MCC church. I found an incredible amount of support there..." (Aimee Anderson, 17, in Two Teenagers in Twenty [cited above], p.50.)

"I was in sixth grade and attending a Catholic school in San Francisco when I came out to a small group of people...During this time I started attending LYRIC, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, a wonderful program and hang-out space for LGBT youth in San Francisco....The next year I was in seventh grade..." (Gina De Vries, age 15, in Revolutionary Voices [cited above], p.43)

"...I joined this youth group called Positive Images; it's the Sonoma County gay/lesbian/bisexual youth group. I got a boyfriend instantly; he picked me up right away, right when I joined the group. He was older; he was twenty-five, I was sixteen...." (Todd Fay-Long, age 17, from In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth [cited above], p.58.)

"Slowly but surely, I came out to my priest. I was in shock when he said, 'That's fine...' He was the most supportive person I've ever met....My priest told me about this support group in Boston where there are a lot of kids like me...I'll never forget that first day at the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY)..." (Troix Reginald Bettencourt, age 18, Lowell, Massachusetts, looking back on his high school days, in Two Teenagers in Twenty [cited above], pp.158-159.)


5. PFLAG spreads false information about the Bible, religious faith, and restoration of heterosexuality through faith. This misinformation closes the door of change for many young people, and stirs up anti-Christian and anti-Jewish bias and hostility.

"In fact, the Bible says very little about homosexuality. Amidst the hundreds of thousands of other teachings, responsibilities, laws and prohibitions, there are only a handful of statements that might possibly apply to sex between men--and none that address lesbian sexuality." (Erroneous claim that ignores Romans 1:26 and many clear passages prohibiting homosexuality, from Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth--and Their Allies [cited above], p.279.)

"We were observant Jews--conservative...We were aware that ...the Old Testament prohibited ..gay relationships...However, we didn't have a problem reconciling these views because our kids always come first." (From PFLAG brochure, Faith in Our Families, p.2).

"My parents found out I was a lesbian and sent me to a psychologist to be 'cured.' I am presently being cured, not of my sexual orientation, but of the way I accepted my parents' every word as gospel." (Joanne, age 18, in Two Teenagers in Twenty, [cited above], p.42)

"Later that week, Kyle arrived home from school to find his mom standing in the center of his bedroom...She barraged him with questions like, Should she have done something different bringing him up? or, What about the ex-gay groups that claimed homosexuals could change? 'Mom,' he said, frustrated. 'You didn't do anything wrong and I can't change. Those groups are full of fakes...'" (From novel Rainbow Boys, [cited above] p.103.)

[Jagdgewehr]

Maybe we can save the institution of marriage by allowing polygamy and concubinisim?

Nah...Can’t afford it. Not a bad idea, though. I guess I'll just go fishing instead.

[grellis]

Oh, oops...sorry! I tought you were referring to homosexuals and their lobby as honorable. Sheesh me!

[concerned about politics]

Barna Continues to Defend Survey Showing Divorce Rates Among Christians

Many claim to be Christians ,yet support earth worship, infant sacrifice, and abominations.
There's an apostate church in the world today. The variable is whether the poll was done on apostates, or real Christians.
Even the homosexual pedophile priest claimed to be Christians, so what's that tell you?

[philetus]

GLSEN and Its Influence on Children
Reprinted by permission of Mission America.
Adapted from the original article
at www.missionamerica.com/agenda26.html.

By Linda Harvey

Author Linda Harvey described the ongoing work of P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) in another article, "The World According to PFLAG," posted on the NARTH web site in the "Parenting and Family Issues" section. In that earlier article, Ms. Harvey detailed P-FLAG's recommendation of books to teenagers that promote obscenity and underage sexual activity. Here, Ms. Harvey takes a look at another gay organization: GLSEN.


The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network--known as GLSEN--is a rapidly growing and well-funded pro-homosexual organization. Using the schools as its primary platform, GLSEN conveys its message of cultural change through a web site, books and curricular material, teacher-training workshops, and in after-school homosexual clubs for students.

There is growing support for this organization's cause, as demonstrated by its newly publicized ties with many educators on the local level, and some very powerful national allies including the National Education Association.

Behind its promotion of "tolerance" and "safety," however, are the sordid realities of what GLSEN actually supports. Just about every type of sexual practice imaginable is "celebrated" and even graphically described in first-person stories by students in GLSEN's recommended literature. GLSEN also supports gender distortion through cross-dressing, even in books recommended for elementary school children.

Criminal, underage sexual contact between adults and minors is a frequent, casual theme in these materials. For listings of these resources, consult the group's web site at www.glsen.org .

Warning: Graphic sexual content follows. The following are just a small sample of the situations, opinions and themes depicted in the books GLSEN recommends as "resources" in its materials and on its web site. However, these selected examples are representative of the whole.

1. GLSEN's recommended literature implies the early sexualization of children can be beneficial. This means that virtually any consensual sexual activity, as well as exposure to graphic sexual images and material, is permissible as part of the process of discovering one's sexuality. Example:

"I released his arms. They glided around my neck, pulling my head down to his. I stretched full length on top of him, our heads touching. Our heavy breathing from the struggle gradually subsided. I felt --"

...and then follows a graphic description (unprintable here) of a homosexual encounter between two ten-year-old boys who are playmates, in a childhood recollection by Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest, in Growing Up Gay/ Growing Up Lesbian, ed. Bennett Singer, New Press, 1994, p.100. This book is recommended by GLSEN for 7-12th grade students.

The president and founder of GLSEN, Kevin Jennings, wrote the foreword for a book for educators called Queering Elementary Education (William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, eds., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.) One chapter is written by a woman who says she and her male partner have raised their daughter "queerly." She then goes on to describe Stephanie's attendance at several "gay" pride parades by the time she is eight.

Stephanie already has a detailed familiarity with her own female genitalia "because it gives her pleasure when she masturbates." And the mother describes one incident where she and her daughter, while observing a group of twelve- year-olds, decide they are both attracted to the same girl. (pp. 71-81)

From another book, in a story describing a boyhood sexual encounter:

"One day, on the bus to shop class, this ugly f--k of a man sat behind me....he managed to get me to follow him to a nearby restroom... [a graphic description of homosexual sex follows]... I spent a good deal of time locked in the stall, trying to clean up.... This incident should have soured me on men, but it only made me more confused and needful... The whole world of restroom sex had opened itself up to me..."

(From Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, Clifford Chase, ed., Rob Weisbach Books,1998, pp.43-44. Book recommended by GLSEN for adults, presumably including teachers.)

Some rather unorthodox advice is also given in the book Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth ( Robert E. Owens, Jr., Ph.D., Harrington Park Press, 1998). These tips are for the "special" needs of homosexual youth who are runaways or have been kicked out of their homes, and therefore live in group homes. Teen sexual behavior is implied to be fine in these group homes, as long as it is consensual:

"Agency policies must recognize the sexual behavior of adolescents... Residential facilities should distinguish clearly between normal, healthy; and harmful, exploitative, sexual behavior regardless of the gender or orientation of the youths involved.... Within Child Protective Services Guidelines, youths should be allowed privacy and dignity regarding sexuality." (pp.157-158)

The above book is recommended for adults on the GLSEN web site.

2. "Coming out" (calling oneself homosexual) and beginning homosexual sex practices at a young age, is a normal and positive experience for youth which should be encouraged by teachers and parents, according to GLSEN:

"Despite my best efforts, someday the artifice of 'normality' had to fall away. It did, early one Sunday afternoon when I was twelve. My cousin was sixteen." The author then recounts his homosexual activities with his cousin. In Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade [cited above], pp.86-87.

"I am a fifteen year-old dyke artist and activist. I've got flaming pink hair and a passion for gender-f--ing in both directions." (Young girl writing in Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, p.28).

Then Kevin Jennings, a former teacher and the current president of GLSEN, describes his interaction with a male student, in One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories (Kevin Jennings, ed., Alyson Publications, 1994, p.25):

"Toward the end of my first year, during the spring of 1988, Brewster appeared in my office...'Brewster has something he needs to talk with you about,' [a student accompanying the boy] intoned ominously....On a hunch, I suddenly asked, 'What's his name?' Brewster's eyes widened briefly, and then out spilled a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston. I listened, sympathized, offered advice. He left my office with a smile on his face...."

3. Bisexuality, "fluid" sexuality and sexual experimentation is encouraged by GLSEN as a right for all students:

"Curtis flops over the side of his bed and looks underneath....he browses his modest library of soft to medium-core pornography....Image upon image, man upon woman...Upon woman...Upon man...Curtis swims in a sea of bodies..."

There follows a very graphic story of masturbation, fantasy and actual sex in this tale about a teen boy who, after viewing homosexual porn, has homosexual fantasies and believes he's gay. His girlfriend, with whom he has been having sex, convinces him otherwise after he visits her in her bedroom. She confesses that she likes lesbian pornography, and his arousal results in their sexual encounter.

("The Cure for Curtis" in Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth [cited above], pp.109-126. Book recommended by GLSEN for students in grades 7-12.

Another book describes a group-sex encounter between a girl and two homosexual men (p.37) which occurs in the novel Weetzie Bat, part of a collection of several books, Dangerous Angels, by Francesca Block (Harper Collins Publishers, 1998). The heroine, Weetzie Bat, is trying to get pregnant, and turns to her two gay housemates when her live-in boyfriend doesn't want a child. A child is conceived by this teen girl and one of the three men. Dangerous Angels is recommended by GLSEN for students in grades 7-12:

"Weetzie changed into her lace negligee from Trashy Lingerie and went into Dirk and Duck's room and climbed into bed between Dirk and Duck....And that was how Weetzie and Dirk and Duck made the baby--well, at least that was how it began, and no one could be sure if that was really the night...."

In a lesson plan for students in middle school and up ("Bisexual Basics," manual published by GLSEN for educators entitled, "Tackling Gay Issues in School: A Resource Module" by Leif Mitchell. Co-sponsored by GLSEN, 1999, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut and Leif Mitchell, p.78), we read:

"Each of us should have the freedom to explore our sexual orientation and find our own unique expression of lesbian, bisexual, gay, straight, or any combination of these."

4. Meeting other "gay" and "questioning" youth, sometimes without parental knowledge, is a frequent theme in GLSEN materials. At these meetings, minors will come into contact with college-age people and adults practicing homosexuality.

5. In GLSEN material, the "cool" adults--parents, teachers and counselors--are those who encourage students to embrace homosexuality and cross-dressing. These "cool" adults also permit adult-level freedoms and let children associate with questionable teens or adults. For example:

'The first time I said anything, I was fourteen. I told this social worker. I told him I had feelings for women....He was really cool. He ran around giving me all this information and he gave me the number for the gay and lesbian center. He helped me a lot. He opened the door.'"

(From Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth--and Their Allies, p. 35).

"I first met Danny in my seventh year of teaching....I said I was planning to go to Santa Monica Boulevard to watch the [gay] ' parade'...Suddenly Danny said, 'Take me along!'...We made plans and waited for the day....I took Danny to dinner at a nice, gay café. We made quite an entrance with Danny looking all of fifteen and I looking all of thirty-one...."

(Gay, HIV-positive teacher Gary Dowd writing about his mentoring relationship with one of his "sexually questioning" students in One Teacher In Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories, pp. 65-67.)

6. GLSEN resources contain many hostile, one-sided, anti-Christian vignettes and opinions, as well as misleading information about Christianity and the biblical position on homosexuality:

"In fact, the Bible says very little about homosexuality. Amidst the hundreds of thousands of other teachings, responsibilities, laws and prohibitions, there are only a handful of statements that might possibly apply to sex between men--and none that address lesbian sexuality."

(--From Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth-and Their Allies, p. 279.)

"'God will punish you!' was my mother's favorite saying to me.... I remember going to Sunday school at a very early age--it was a 'must.' Sunday school can be heavy for a child....If you do anything that isn't right, you are terrified you'll be struck by lightning or go to hell...."

(From the recollections of a girl named 'Whitey,' who ran away from home at age thirteen to Greenwich Village, in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, pp.44-45)

7. The spirituality that is presented positively in GLSEN resources is not traditional religion, but witchcraft, goddess worship, and the occult:

"The creature came into the light. It had thin, pale, slightly bluish skin....'Who are you?' La felt a slice of fear, remembering her mother's tub of blood. Had her mother seen this creature? Had this been the demon who told her mother to cut herself?"

(--From the story "Blue" in Girl Goddess #9, Francesca Block, Harper Trophy, 1996, p.17. Recommended by GLSEN for students in grades 7-12)

"...What I really noticed was his aura....'One day you can be like me,' he whispered...'You saw how that girl looked at me? I'm going to have her tonight. I can get any woman I like--or any man, if I was that way inclined.....You know why? Because I was born with The Power. Power over things seen and unseen, power over folk and field, power over wind and water....You've got to keep it charged up. You've got to use it, boy! You have to feed The Power!'"

(--Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth, p.46,48. Recommended by GLSEN for students in grades 7-12)

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[philetus]

I'de much rather blame the gay lobby.

[independentmind]

The Bible Belt has a huge divorce rate, almost as bad as everywhere else.

Ahem. I think it's actually higher in the Bible Belt than in a lot of other places, particularly those with large Catholic populations.

[george wythe]

The variable is whether the poll was done on apostates, or real Christians.

The answer is in the article... born-again Christians.

[Taliesan]

She left the home because it was more important to be happy than to keep her promises to her children.

[Taliesan]

Born-again Christians don't seem to be very different when it comes to their attitudes about marriage," Kinnamon says. "If you look at their perspectives about what they hope to get in a marital relationship, about what level of sacrifice it takes...about whether divorce is an option they would realistically consider, their perspectives about marriage and about divorce are very similar to non-Christians

As an evengelical Christian, this does not surprise me. It is impossible now to expect people to endure hardship to fulfill vows.

[NC28203]

An example:
In "pro-family" Texas, the divorce rate is 4.1 per thousand people; and the percent of people unmarried is 32.4 percent. In "anti-family" Massachusetts, the divorce rate is 2.4 per thousand and the percent unmarried is 26.8 percent.

[KantianBurke]

Culture War indeed Mr. Buchanan.

[concerned about politics]

You're joking, right? Do you live in a town with a population over 150?M

Where do you live? Babylon California?
Where are the polygamist teaching polygamy in our nations public schools? Where are they teaching them it's a right and here's how it's done? There's no mass indoctrination going on. They can have their own children, They don't need to corrupt everyone else's children to increase their numbers.

[concerned about politics]

Nah...Can’t afford it. Not a bad idea, though. I guess I'll just go fishing instead.

Why do men die before their wives? They want to.
Who needs 10 of them?

[concerned about politics]

They said all they wanted was tolerance. We gave it to them. They lied.

[grellis]

See post# 26...again, with my apologies.

[Jagdgewehr]

Who needs 10 of them?

You raise an excellent point. So, I’m definitely going to go fishing. Maybe I can even get my (one) wife to pack my lunch.