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Pro-Homosexual Booklet to Be Distributed to All 16,000 US School Districts
LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/21/08 | Hillary White

Posted on 02/21/2008 4:32:13 PM PST by wagglebee

US, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At the same time that news has come out that the Toronto Catholic School board has refused to participate in pro-homosexual activities, homosexual activists are making significant inroads in US schools, as a booklet titled, "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth," is set to be distributed to all 16,000 school districts in the country.

The 24-page booklet by the National Education Association and American Psychological Association, tells students that homosexuality is a "normal expression of human sexuality".

"What's so scary and dogmatic about this report is that it communicates that religious-based viewpoints are harmful, and even dangerous," said Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action.

The booklet particularly targets the idea that homosexuality is a condition that can be changed. It instructs educators, "Schools should be careful to avoid discussions of transformational ministry in their curriculum."

Brian Raum, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said that the talk of "inclusivity" in schools by homosexual groups is a veiled threat.

"What they're trying to do is create a fear factor here," he said. "There's nothing in the Constitution that would prohibit a teacher from presenting to a student all of the programs that are available, without endorsing or promoting any particular one."

The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, (NARTH) says that although "the aim of gay-affirmative counselling programs is humanitarian", the problem is that they do "much more" than discouraging scapegoating.

"In reality, they promote a particular worldview," present students with a set of "truth-claims that students are expected to adopt," and insist on conformity to these.

"These programs promote the value systems of a particular social group and denigrate the views of another, while at the same time, distorting science."


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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Where does it say that this will be given to the children?


41 posted on 02/22/2008 2:04:22 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: SUSSA

People using socialized schooling and complain, are like people in government housing complaining about the location or the color of the paint. They can both always get out and stop taking the government hand out.
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None of us get to opt out of the taxation used to propagandize these government school children. Also, “they” may also not be able to afford a private school. There is homeschooling, but that can be tough as well, especially fot the working parent. I don’t understand your lack of understanding of why this is an issue.


42 posted on 02/22/2008 4:04:00 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: SoftballMominVA; All
I can't imagine this will fly very well in the conservative areas and find it quite hard to believe that the Gay and Lesbian Group has the ability to put this in the hands of every student in the country.

You'd be surprised then to have watched at least three attempts here in North Carolina, in as many months, by agencies of state government to make rules for themselves and official employee policy, trying to make an end run around the legislature.

The application to UNC Law School actually uses the word "queer" in it's Q&A. When queried, we were told the question was not required, but of course that fact was nowhere indicated on the application. Those in charge of this said it was "to communicate a more welcoming environment," which is to say, I suppose, that it would be unwelcoming not to ask potential law students explicitly if they were "queer." And on an application to an exclusive Law School? (At least UNC thinks they're exclusive.) What does this have to do with LEX REX?

Mike Adam's column on the GLBT's, of Giblets, as he calls them, nails it.

This is going on under the radar, everywhere.

43 posted on 02/22/2008 5:13:18 AM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: RockinRight; Hoodlum91

Get your (future) kids out of the government skools ping!!!


44 posted on 02/22/2008 5:17:43 AM PST by DeLaine
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To: Morgana

It sounds like a party to me.


45 posted on 02/22/2008 5:22:57 AM PST by bmwcyle (I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
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To: wagglebee

All together now: homosexuals don’t recruit.


46 posted on 02/22/2008 5:24:20 AM PST by relictele (Liberal: one who walks away from a TSA queue still convinced government can solve problems.)
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To: wagglebee
"Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth"
 
Here it is: http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/facts.pdf
 
 

47 posted on 02/22/2008 5:29:23 AM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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For anyone interested in reading this garbage, there is a link to it at post #47.

48 posted on 02/22/2008 5:34:17 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Thanks for the ping.


49 posted on 02/22/2008 5:47:43 AM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: wagglebee

I sent the article out to all the pastors and conservatives on my email list.


50 posted on 02/22/2008 6:04:35 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: Greg F

People don’t get out of paying taxes for homeless shelters, or county health clinics either, but most recoil at the idea of using them or taking their kids there.

If the majority pulled out of the socialized school system, it wouldn’t take long to do away with school taxes and return to a free market system. Sure we might have some socialized schooling for the very poor, just like we have socialized housing projects and food stamps, but the tax rate for that would be a fraction of the rate to pay for the full blown socialized system we have now.

Instead, people prefer to have others subsidize their lifestyle by feeding at the public trough. Then they want to complain about what they get that others are paying for. As I said above, I have as much sympathy for their complaints as I do for the people in the government housing projects who complain about the location or the color of the carpet
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Read how you can help return the school industry to a free market system here:

http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm

http://www.freedomofeducation.net/


51 posted on 02/22/2008 6:12:07 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: xzins

You should send the PDF that’s linked in #47, I only skimmed a few pages of it, but it even reads like propaganda.


52 posted on 02/22/2008 6:13:39 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Prospero

A half a century ago this would’ve been seen as “corrupting a minor” and subject to criminal prosecution.


53 posted on 02/22/2008 6:13:49 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Shred it and burn the pieces!!! After all you don’t want some poor garbage collector or dumpster diver to become contaminated.


54 posted on 02/22/2008 6:17:14 AM PST by reg45
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To: SoftballMominVA

Thanks for doing some research on it.


55 posted on 02/22/2008 6:17:46 AM PST by beejaa
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To: G Larry
Since it came out in '53... you are old! :-) Well, perhaps older than I am. There was a reprint in '81 I believe..., so maybe you're thinking of that? I originally read the book in high school and since my son is going to read Fahrenheit 451 soon I wanted to check it out again. It's amazing what I missed in that book 30 years ago that made much more sense today.
56 posted on 02/22/2008 6:29:43 AM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: wagglebee

It’s only a matter of time before they start arresting church officials for not giving in to the nazi activists.


57 posted on 02/22/2008 6:36:57 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Damn the left)
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To: scripter

Ok, I was born in 1953.
Sometimes our memories print the impression that events didn’t happen until we became aware of them.


58 posted on 02/22/2008 6:43:20 AM PST by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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To: G Larry

Indeed.


59 posted on 02/22/2008 6:48:06 AM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: wagglebee; All

Why don’t conservative groups issue a counter NON RELIGIOUS book to the same schools?

Double the amount.

It has to be non-religious because the schools have classified christianity as a crime.


60 posted on 02/22/2008 6:48:18 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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