Posted on 06/08/2007 3:41:11 PM PDT by Jose Pen
Join the Protest this Tuesday Before the Montgomery County, Maryland School Board Meeting!!
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND – The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education plans to vote on the new sex ed lessons at its next board meeting this Tuesday (June 12th) at 10:00 a.m. in Rockville, Maryland.
This surprising vote comes before the Maryland State Board of Education has had a chance to review the curriculum and render a legal ruling. Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) and Family Leader Network (FLN) appealed the curriculum to the State Board of Education in February and expect a decision in July.
In March, State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick issued an Order holding that “Appellants arguments are equally valid and deserving of a decision on the merits" and that the State Board of Education would issue a decision on the appeal of the curriculum in July. Is it too much to ask for MCPS school officials to respect the legal process?
MCPS’ haste in voting to adopt a final curriculum without waiting for the State Board’s decision as to the legality of that curriculum is premature, tramples on the rights of parents, usurps the authority of the State Board, and violates the Superintendent’s Order.
"We've already watched this school board ignore a petition from 270 local physicians, ignore parents who disagree with them and ignore scientific data that doesn't fit into their agenda. Now they are ignoring state school officials!,” said RoseMarie Briggs, Family Leader Network Executive Director.
"Parents are especially frustrated that MCPS will not allow students to simply opt out of the two 8th grade lessons or the three 10th grade lessons on sexual variations. It's an all or nothing policy." "If an 8th grader wants to opt out of the two lessons on sexual variations, he/she is relegated to the library for 12 DAYS and misses the entire family life unit. If a 10th grader wants to opt out of the two lessons on sexual variations and the condom demonstration video, he/she is relegated to the library for THREE WEEKS."
"The new lessons, called 'Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality,' are in dispute because the curriculum relies on non-medical, non-government advocacy information. Hence the lessons expose children as young as 12 to sexual variations in an unscientific and misleading way that puts children at greater risk for the following:
• Mislabeling One's Own Sexual Orientation by telling students that 'sexual orientation is innate:' Scientific research does not support this assertion. In addition, the curriculum writers adamantly refused to acknowledge the scientific evidence and personal testimonies of former homosexuals.
Dr. Francis S. Collins, Head Of The Human Genome Project in Rockville, Maryland is one of the world's leading scientists who works at the cutting edge of DNA research. Dr. Collins writes, 'sexual orientation is genetically influenced but NOT hardwired by DNA, and that whatever genes are involved represent predispositions, not predeterminations.' Reference: Collins, Francis S. (2006). The Language of God, A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief. New York: Free Press.
• Teen Suicide by normalizing sexual variations to students as young as 12: Clinical psychologist Dr. Dean A. Byrd of NARTH says 'Research is very conclusive in this area: the risk of suicide decreases by 20 percent for each year that a young person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling' (Remafidi et al, 1991).
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), states premature labeling of one’s sexual orientation increases the risk of attempted teen suicide by two to seven times.
• Contracting & Spreading Sexually Transmitted Diseases by equating homosexuality with heterosexuality:The 10th grade curriculum encourages condom use for vaginal, oral and anal sexual contact without disclosing the heightened risks for oral and anal sex.
The efficacy statistics for condoms has been done ONLY for vaginal sexual contact. Condom manufacturers clearly state on their products that condoms are intended for vaginal use only. The writers rejected a petition from 270 local physicians to include the alarming health risks of anal sex. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that 70 percent of American men who are HIV positive identify themselves as gay.
• Gender Confusion by telling students that 'gender identity' is simply 'your identification of yourself as a man or woman, based on the gender you feel to be inside:'The lessons exclude a biological or legal definition for gender. In one 10th grade lesson, a boy begins to wear dresses to school, calls himself 'Portia,' and wants to be known as a girl.
The lesson refers to 'Portia' as a 'she' when the law and biology classify 'her' as a 'he.' The principal gives this boy a key to a private restroom and a new student ID identifying him as a girl. The lesson implies that schools should create new unisex bathrooms for cross-dressing students instead of directing students to professional counselors for gender confusion. The American Psychiatric Association classifies transgender as a gender identity disorder."
Join the PROTEST!
Please JOIN OUR family friendly PROTEST on the morning of June 12th at 9:30 a.m.!
We will meet outside the Carver Educational Building on Rockville Pike in Rockville, Maryland
Contact PFOX FOR Directions
- If you have young children, put them in strollers and come hold a sign that says "Health Before Politics" or "No Unisex Bathrooms." The signs are already made. We want the media to have plenty of footage for the TV newscast and plenty of pictures for the newspaper!
Thank you!!
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays PFOX Box 561, Fort Belvoir VA 22060 703-360-2225 pfox@pfox.org www.pfox.org
What is an Ex-Gay?
>>What is an Ex-Gay?
A large and growing group of people who used to identify themselves as homosexual, who finally realized that they were just being stupid. They are hated by the fag community for what they represent.
A person who has given up homosexuality.
(no longer gay) There is a Christian organization called Exodus for ex-gays.
A person who is a former homosexual!
Quite telling. And every public school in the country is in danger of becoming this very thing. Blue states, are already in danger. Note too the two statements about “increased risk of suicide” for teens being given a new gender identity. Safe schools? I don’t think so.
I look for the first case, and then the flood that follows, of children who were damaged by this agenda being forced on them in public schools.
Would you marry an ex-gay/lesbian?
Good luck, Sisyphus; you’ve got your work cut out for you.
There is no such thing as a ex gay but simply those who now adopt an acceptable lifestyle and become closet queers.
A woman would be a fool to marry a man who claimed to be an Ex Gay.
Gays and lesbos cannot tolerate "transgender", because it asserts that males and females have unique qualities that ultimately draw them together.
Those nuts just wish they were born the opposite sex -- they don't share the gay agenda of destroying the different roles of men and women. Quite the opposite (though by definition they are willing to twist and corrupt themselves in pursuit of their own sexual ideals).
The gaystapo despises the ex-gays because their mere existence refutes the majority of the homosexual agenda.
Wrong.
All it takes is a little morality.
Someone who has chosen they will no longer live in the unhealthy and immoral lifestyle.
All behavior can be learned.
This is false. According to God and the Bible a person can absolutely become an ex-homosexual just as they can become an ex-theif, ex-prostitute, ex-lair etc etc.
Gays and lesbos hate bi's even worse, because bi-sexuality suggest it is a choice.
I must have missed that one back in Catholic School. Care to cite that?
A person can become an ex-smoker, an-ex-alcoholic, an ex-liberal but a person cannot become an ex-child molester or ex-gay.
If so, would you let an ex-child molester babysit your children?
Would you be happy if your daughter married someone who claimed to be an ex-gay?
Homosexual orientation is a label that means the unchangeable state of being homosexual.
It denies both God's created order -- "God made them male and female." (Genesis 1:26) It denies that heterosexuality is implicit in the make-up of being male and female and capable of complementing each other.
And it denies the act of redemption -- and the transforming power of Christ in the life of the believer.
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