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"A review of the schedule of the conference workshops clearly shows that there are no sessions titled: “teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other
students.” In other words, and not surprisingly, the MassNews has lied again."

If you listen to the tape of the original session, there was much discussion about playing with genitals, fisting, oral sex, and whether toungue piercings enhance oral sex. You are correct in stating that the title of the session did not mention any of this. I am not surprised that the upcoming conference does not contain these topics in session topics- why are you so sure that the same sorts of discussions will not take place?

One interesting session title in the original conference (the one originally named fistgate) was titled The Religious Wrong, and here is a quote from an article about the session:

"After his brief introduction, Mitchell showed a video to the audience containing hate speech against Christians and other people of faith. "The video was very disturbing," one teacher told Massachusetts News. "They showed various images and quotes from Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to give the impression that their views were shared by all religious adversaries. It was an attack on all people of faith. Anyone who disagreed with Mr. Mitchell was labeled a homophobe and compared to Robertson and Falwell. Mr. Mitchell concluded after the video "This is who we are fighting! This is the religious right!""

The teacher said she thought the conference was supposed to be about safe schools and stopping discrimination. "To think that David Driscoll and the Department of Education would be preaching religious hatred to students and teachers under the pretense of safe schools was frightening. And they were using our tax dollars to endorse it. This was nothing more than a government -sponsored attack on religion and anyone who disagrees with the gay political agenda on the far left," she said.

At one point in the video they said "Studies show that lesbians are the best mothers in America. Are you interested in the truth Pat (Robertson)"? The teacher says she was shocked. "I have been teaching for over 25 years and I've been studying these issues for over a decade. I have never seen a study that lesbians make better mothers. I was traumatized by what I was seeing. What was really appalling to me was that no teacher in the room seemed to be bothered by what Mitchell and the video was saying. They just took it all in and accepted it as fact."

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I understand your dislike for Massnews and I also do not care for their style or tendency to sloganize issues. But, without Massnews, there are many things (like the GLSN conference) that we simply would never hear about, at all, from any news source.

"If you listen to the tape of the original session..."

I've asked madg to listen to the tape and comment on sections of it, but he refuses to address it. His reply was:

"And the tape again? Oh, for Heaven’s sake, Ed, how many times are you going to post the same crap? It’s not "documentation" of anything aside from a few seconds of a workshop. That tape is forty-five minutes of propaganda by the two lawbreakers themselves. Give it up already."

"that we simply would never hear about, at all, from any news source"

Certainly not the Boston Globe, whose writing staff is riddled with homosexual activists.