Posted on 05/18/2005 10:32:46 PM PDT by scripter
The National Parent-Teacher Association has refused an ex-homosexual group’s request to exhibit at its annual convention while welcoming a pro-homosexual activist organization – even inviting it to present a workshop.
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays had its application to exhibit rejected because it supports former homosexuals. The National PTA, however, sought the attendance of Parents, Families and Friends of Gays, a pro-homosexual advocacy group that promotes in same-sex marriage.
With 6 million members, the National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. One of its purposes is "to be inclusive in its efforts to represent and assist all who nurture and educate children."
"As we indicated on the application, our purpose at the National PTA exhibit is to distribute educational publications promoting inclusive school environments for ex-gay students and educators," said Regina Griggs, PFOX’s executive director. "We fit right in because one of the themes of this year’s National PTA convention is diversity. Ex gays are people, too. And it’s about time the National PTA recognized that fact of life."
According to the National PTA, PFLAG will present a workshop that "raises awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, their families, and the issues pertaining to them in the school environment. Participants will receive a ‘how-to’ guide for improving the school environment for LGBT students."
"We submitted exhibit materials for the National PTA’s review that included a booklet for students and teachers on how to address homophobia in the public schools from an ex-gay perspective," said Griggs. "We also included an information sheet from the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus outlining the goals sought by ex-gay teachers for diversity, tolerance and inclusion for all, including both ex-gays and gays. Who could be opposed to that?"
The National PTA has also allowed "It’s Elementary," the gay affirming video for schoolchildren, to exhibit at its conference for the last three years.
Earlier this month, PFOX won a decision against the Montgomery County School Board in Maryland, halting the implementation of a sex ed curriculum that would have promoted gay religious organizations over ex-gay ministries and traditional religions. The judge, in writing his decision, criticized the curriculum “viewpoint discrimination” by excluding ex-gay material. The school board had also approved materials published by gay advocacy groups that positively portray homosexuality while making negative references to ex-gays.
"The National PTA is discriminating against a class of students and that is just wrong," Griggs said.
A 1997 International Journal of Epidemiology study of gay men in Vancouver, British Columbia found the average lifespan for gay men to be between 40 and 50 years old.
Is it any wonder why they recruit our young so actively. Amen.
Conversely, they will not become a burden for Social Security. Amen.
ex-homosexual?
Most of the guys I've ever spoken to say that once a fag, just once, and you are a fag period.
That's part of their propaganda. They preach to teenagers that if they have the slightest same-sex feelings, or if they've engaged in even one homosexual act, then they are full-blown (pun not intended), fixed homosexuals and must live out their lives accordingly. It's a vicious and nefarious recruitment technique.
Stop the Pedophile Agenda!
Support school vouchers and...GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM !!!
Bump
"The National Parent-Teacher Association"
With the rise of teachers molesting students perhaps a new name is in order... National Pedophile Teacher Association.
That's the kind of bump I was looking for. It demonstrates the hypocrisy of the PTA - welcoming somebody because he's a homosexual, but once he leaves the lifestyle, forget it. He only changed his sexual behavior...
Homosexuality is a life style; it's a choice just like everything else in life.
You can choose to not do it and choose to have real heterosexual sex ~ it's the natural thing to do.
I just think that once you've had a homosexual encounter freely of your onw choice. You are homo. And yes, you chose to do that.
Having a couple of drinks of alcohol doesn't make you an alcoholic.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Where's the chorus of "My kid's school is great - we don't have any of this stuff there!". The PTA - run by homo-agenda pushers.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
Will they be kicked out the the schools like the Boy Scouts have been? </sarcasm off
Large moral difference there pal.
Oh yeah, morals, something many deviants try to deminish.
That may be a socialogical truth about labeling, but it's not a manifest destiny of habit. There are people who have tried it out of a misguided idea that it is something cool, and find themselves underwhelmed by the experience. Even someone who thinks he likes it, if he manages by any means to refrain from indulging until he is well up into his 20's, will find the desire largely gone -- habit DOES count for something.
National: info@pta.org
Virginia: info@vapta.org
I just emailed the national and my state office, telling them I will never again be a member
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