School Board Member Asked to Resign After 'Ex-Gay' Reference

ProudParenting.com ^ | Wednesday, February 09, 2005 | ProudParenting.com

[Clint N. Suhks]

I feel sorry for you that your child has succumb to paraphilic disorder, but you should be ashamed that you've instead of trying help him/her through their pathology...have acquiesced to their perversion.

I don't see how you can live with yourself. That's child abuse.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

The fags and lesbians want someone to resign for writing a letter?

Ummm...Ok....These people are really going about this "acceptance and tolerance" jazz in all the wrong ways.

Tomorrow's homeschool lesson for my children is "stay away from people who claim to be Gay"

They are not happy. What they really are is demented. I teach them that anyone who wants to take rights away from US citizens is a freak.

I was going to teach them that a small percentage of people are genetically driven to not reproduce and therefore are driven to avoid situations where they may reproduce. I could have told my children that even if we don't understand it all we should live and let live.

But this will way be so much more fun!

Now off to make my lesson plan.

[nicmarlo]

good post scripter; thanks for the ping.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Mockingbird For Short]

I used to work on a journal called Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity and there was a certain subset of people in the psychiatric world who wanted nothing to do with such a journal, believing for purely political/cultural reasons that addiction to sex is impossible or not worth discussing. Such people were working to push an agenda and had no interest in helping people who desperately need it.

Funny you should say this. Tonight at work I was reading the article by Socrades (?) about sexual politics, and I jotted down a question next to one of the paragraphs--- maybe y'all can answer it. The question is: Why do psychologists, psychiatrists, people in the media, politicians, etc. who have NO ulterior motives (say, because they and their families/friends are all straight) or bias FOR homosex take the position that homosexuality is NOT an aberrant condition? Is it because they really, really believe it's perfectly normal?

If they actually believe that it IS abnormal (even tho' they don't admit it), what do they have to gain by pretending that it's normal and OK?

[Fledermaus]

I guess "free speech" is only for America hating jerks like Ward Churchill.

[Nice50BMG]

I am increasingly convinced that the anti-christ will be homosexual and that all this is part of the lead up to his acceptance.

[Antoninus]

If they actually believe that it IS abnormal (even tho' they don't admit it), what do they have to gain by pretending that it's normal and OK?

Many of them suffer from deviancies of their own, whether sexual or otherwise. They like the idea that someone else out there behaves more pathologically than they do. They figure if the more pathological person can be "accepted" then they are shoe-ins. Thus, this "acceptance" is more about selfish motives than about any actual care for the afflictions of the individual with same-sex attraction.

This thought process is one of the reasons, in my opinion, many homosexual types are so willing to accept pedophiles and incestuous relationships. It allows them to say, "see, we're not so bad. If society accepts incest and pedophilia, they've got to accept us too."

[television is just wrong]

So how come a teacher can then bring in his life partner and dog and discuss his lifestyle in a computer science class???

[Mockingbird For Short]

When our former president was found out for having sex with a mistress in the Oval Office, I was [naively] shocked that so many people saw nothing wrong with it and defended him. Probably the same rationale at work?

What does this say about me? I admit to having made big mistakes in my life; but when others screw up morally, I don't defend their behavior. Does that make me a hypocrite? OR judgmental?

... I guess it doesn't really matter much what people think of my unwillingness to condone immoral behavior. What matters is what I can do to help protect children from the lie that "Whatever feels good IS good," and homosexuality is "perfectly normal." Also, the more I read, the more I realize that children need more warning and protection from predators than I thought.... But I still come back to the question: What can I do? I barely make enough money to pay my bills, so huge contributions to CWA or someone are out of the question; I'm not in a position of being able to influence individual kids as I once was as a schoolteacher; so where does this leave me?

You know, the one project that really impressed me as having lots of exposure and potential influence was the billboard which called people's attention to the fact that there really are EX-gays. I thought that was great. Was that in Houston? Those should be all over the country!

[Antoninus]

When our former president was found out for having sex with a mistress in the Oval Office, I was [naively] shocked that so many people saw nothing wrong with it and defended him. Probably the same rationale at work?

Exactly. I thought of that while posting earlier, actually, but didn't want to drag him into the subject.

What does this say about me? I admit to having made big mistakes in my life; but when others screw up morally, I don't defend their behavior. Does that make me a hypocrite? OR judgmental?

It makes you neither. It makes you wise to have learned from your mistakes and discerning in that you now recognize the harm these mistakes have done both to yourself and to others. It is the epitome of false piety and compassion to pretend that bad behavior by other people is just peachy simply because you have acted badly in the past. There are no people out there who have never behaved inappropriately. I have and I admit it. (That's what confession is for, if you're a Catholic, btw).

If you don't learn from your mistakes and pass this wisdom on, you do future generations a grave disservice.

[EdReform]

How many family members, neighbors, friends, associates, colleagues, etc do you know who have children and have similar concerns? There are still many people who don't understand what's going on. Perhaps you could compile some documentation from Scripter's Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Revision 1.1) thread and print it out and distribute or email it to them.

Here's a link to some information that you could simply highlight, copy, paste then print out or email:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076476/posts?page=261#261.

[nicmarlo]

What can I do? I barely make enough money to pay my bills, so huge contributions to CWA or someone are out of the question; I'm not in a position of being able to influence individual kids as I once was as a schoolteacher; so where does this leave me?

Believe me....OUTSPOKEN TRUTHFUL WORDS does wonders....keep talking, and posting, and telling. Why do you think the Rats are now attacking FR more than ever? ever since Rathergate, they've upped the anty, so to speak. Look what happened to NCPAC...don't think your "just telling the truth" is not important. Those with money can do more; perhaps those with money only need to read what YOU said or what YOU posted to get them going!

[lentulusgracchus]

Good reply, thanks for the post.

And what are the odds that your interlocutor was or wasn't a straight woman?

The propaganda was certainly "straight" -- as in, uncut.

[Mockingbird For Short]

Thanks for these suggestions, EdReform!