Posted on 05/16/2005 10:18:25 PM PDT by scripter
A Massachusetts activist organization today will mark the one-year anniversary of same-sex marriage in the state by discussing the "dark underbelly" of the institution in front of Boston's City Hall.
The Article 8 Alliance" claims the state's schools have become more active in pushing homosexuality with students, pointing to an April 30 event at Brookline High School.
Sponsored by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, the event, said the Article 8 Alliance, featured a "hard-core pornographic homosexual 'how-to' booklet given to hundreds of kids."
"The book was prominently distributed at the first table, right after registration, where everyone would be sure to go," the group states on its website.
The booklet, entitled "The Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century," contains what the activist group calls "deadly misinformation on health."
Included in the booklet are graphic descriptions of homosexual conduct, including "fisting," along with a photo-spread discussion of condoms and instructions on how to put them on.
Also included is a list of homosexual bars and clubs in the Boston area "for the discerning queerboy." The Article 8 Alliance points out the students attending the event were of middle-school and high-school age.
The booklet mentions abstaining from risky activity, and then states, "But how much fun is that?"
Brian Camenker, director of Article 8 Alliance slammed the pro-homosexual agenda in Massachusetts.
"Contrary to the rosy picture painted in the mainstream media, we've seen an intensification of undemocratic, anti-free-speech activities throughout our state – in the schools, in government and in the media," he said in a statement. "Alternative points of view are routinely drowned out by ignoring the message, intimidation, name-calling or lack of proper notification. Even pro-family churches now hesitate to speak out on this moral issue, since it has been politicized by the radical homosexuals and their allies."
Continued Camenker: "Meanwhile, our Legislature and governor continue to support gay clubs in our public schools, which draw our young people into this dangerous and destructive lifestyle," saying he had never seen anything as "bad" as the "Little Black Book."
The associate director of the group, John Haskins, also took aim at Gov. Mitt Romney.
"The one person who could easily have prevented this situation simply by defending the state constitution – our Republican governor – is getting a pass, even from pro-family conservative media, and has set his sights on the White House," Haskins said. "If he is not exposed as a very, very, very nice man with neither courage nor convictions, he will indeed be a Republican Manchurian Candidate in 2008."
As WorldNetDaily reported, a Massachusetts father who recently protested a pro-homosexual book his 6-year-old son had been given in school spent a night in jail after being arrested by police – an incident the activist group mentions as further evidence of a pro-"gay" attitude by officials.
Fortunately, it appears to be easily reversible.
Is that the tabernacle at the rear center? And do they use it? Their website is almost entirely mum about their beautiful building, they just name the two architects and give the date, and that's about it.
Of course. How else will children learn how to "consumate" their homosexual "marriages"? Their ignorant religious parents certainly won't teach them.
Well, yes. That was really the point of my post. Is it possible?
"Sadly, some Catholic schools don't seem to be much better these days, but at least as institutions they're not founded on a raft of errors."
In the UK the Catholic schools are actually worse than the state schools when it comes to dealing with these issues. Many Catholic teachers refuse to teach in the Catholic sector because it is too liberal.
The laws on child abuse should be extended to subjecting children to this kind of pornography. If there is no link between homosexuality and paedophilia, why are the queers intent on getting this material into the hands of children?
In other words, and perhaps more simple words, this is exactly what we proclaimed at Easter. Because of God’s raising of Jesus, the whole world is now divinized. All creation is redeemed. You and I and all creation are now in God. That is an astounding theological emphasis. But it is not the only emphasis the church has entertained over the centuries. Maybe that’s why I almost missed it. It is not what I was taught as a kid.
In the alternative version, the “world” is inherently corrupt, evil, and the enemy. In this interpretation, the church is the only bright spot on the horizon of an otherwise bleak and antagonistic universe. We are in mortal danger and must stand over against “them” and “it”–it meaning that worldly, wildly passionate, wickedly disordered world “out there” beyond the church. “Bad” out there; “good” only in here. It’s “we” against “them.”
And this interpretation is still with us, alive and well, in today’s church. It is still preached a lot. And it was very much in evidence just two weeks ago when the then Cardinal Ratzinger preached to his brother Cardinals in the moments before the recent conclave. He spoke of the church as a “little boat of Christian thought” tossed around on waves of “extreme” modern tendencies. And he spoke of the world as a “dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain....” It was all reminiscent for me of another time and place, when one of his illustrious predecessors, the more-than-somewhat reactionary Pius IX actually condemned all modern progress in the Syllabus of Errors published in the late 19th century. This even included the church’s condemnation of electricity as evil! No, I am not kidding! The world cannot be trusted.
If this is true, this has got to be a completely isolated incident. It's very simple, folks, if these books are available in public school libraries, then it's the responsibility of the parents to prevent their kids from reading this garbage. If teachers assign this reading to students, again, it's up to the parents to intervene and to overrule the teachers. I would have no problem doing it...what are they going to do about it?
For that to happen, pornography would have to be considered as something intrinsically evil. It no longer is, as far as I can tell. So there exists no logical basis for criminalizing its distribution to children.
Moreover, homosexual "marriage" is now recognized in law. So there's certainly no legal basis for criminalizing the teaching of homosexual "marriage" "consummation."
A father in Lexington agrees with you but unfortunately he spent a night in jail for it.
Any Governor who would or even could allow this filth to be foisted on kids in public schools, does not desrve to run for, nevermind be, President.
I saw the book at the Article 8 press conference at noon today. Truly disgusting. Next time someone tells me to be tolerant, I will punch their lights out.
I feel sick. "Marketed" to kids no less. Totally disgusting.
Luke 17:28 "It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
Luke 17:29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 "It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
However...God will not be mocked.
Of course it is possible. Probable, now that's a different question!
Yeah, but what I was really getting at is that right now, I think most public schools in most areas don't have such blatantly pro-gay propoganda because they know it wouldn't be tolerated by the community they serve (at least I hope this is the case).
But if the semantically-less threatening 'civil unions' is imposed instead of gay marriage -- as perhaps a way of the Courts to give the Left a substantive victory by giving away the institution of marriage, while avoiding inflaming the public by not using the word 'marriage' -- then there will be an officially, legally, state sponsored and recognized endorsement of homosexual relationships. Then it will be much easier to get these types of offensive materials into the classroom regardless of what the community feels, because afterall, they'd just be reflecting the law.
How could we say, for example, not to place homosexual civil unions right along side traditional marriage in the social studies textbooks if the law does just that? If a community did insist that such things not be taught in the classroom, then some judge would probably issue an order compelling them to anyway.
It just makes no sense to me to support oppose gay marriage, but support civil unions.
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