Free Republic

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has been busy for 10 years ... creating gay student groups at hundreds of high schools and passing laws or regulations that limit or eliminate harassment aimed at homosexuals....The organization has also used part of its $4.3 million budget to promote a reading list for students as young as those in kindergarten.... At the high school level, some of this indoctrination might be excused on the grounds that students are old enough to make personal choices and maybe some of them can define terms like "sexuality" and "gender." No such excuse can...

Question: Ignoring all legal issues.... Would you care/object if your children's teacher was openly (not flaming) gay? Would it make any difference if the gay teacher was male or female? Would it make any difference if the gay person taught elementary, middle school or high school?

When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks, deadheads, druggies, geeks, and all the rest. Just about everyone received an unofficial but virtually unchangeable assignment to a particular group. When I work in high schools today, I discover little difference. The groups still exist (with just a few changes in terminology), and the teachers and administrators still counsel against the labels. As they wisely explain, labels reinforce stereotypes and prejudices; they prevent us from accepting individuals and getting to know the real person. There is one difference, however. While still warning...

Camenker: Article 8 director responds to letters By Brian Camenker Thursday, June 23, 2005 David Parker's arrest made the national media. People across the country - including Massachusetts and even in Lexington - are still in shock. One would think it would cause a community to embark on some thoughtful introspection. But instead, a relatively small but very vocal (and angry) group of people has undertaken a campaign of hysteria, lies, fear, and intimidation to discredit and demonize David Parker, his family, and anyone associated with him, including other parents who came to his side, Pastor Jed Snyder of Countryside...

(AgapePress) - Most people would immediately recognize the significance of common abbreviations, like FBI, IRS or CIA. But there is another abbreviation with which parents might want to become familiar, because more than likely the organization it represents will be coming soon to a public school near them. That abbreviation is GLSEN (pronounced "glisten"). It is the acronym for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Begun a decade ago by homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, a former Massachusetts history teacher, the group has relentlessly pushed the homosexual agenda in the public school system. One of GLSEN's major annual campaigns is the...

I sort of came out in sixth grade, but like a lot of kids who get harassed for "being gay," it wasn't anything about my sexuality that prompted the harassment. It was because I was a boy who did his homework and paid attention in class and did all the things boys weren't supposed to do. I was harassed relentlessly through my junior high and high school years. I made a little promise to myself right there, and said, "I will do whatever I can so that the next generation has it better than we had it." So, I started...

Emboldened by the political right's growing influence on public policy, opponents of school activities aimed at educating students about homosexuality or promoting acceptance of gays and lesbians are mounting challenges to such programs, at individual schools, at statehouses and in Congress. Chief among the targets are sex education programs that include discussions of homosexuality, and after-school clubs that bring gay and straight students together, two initiatives that gained assent in numerous schools over the last decade. In many cases, the opponents have been successful. In Montgomery County, Md., for example, parents went to court to block a health education course...

A noted mental health expert says recent revelations regarding the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and its executive director indicate the group has a casual attitude towards sexual relations between adults and teens.In his book One Teacher in Ten, GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings reported the story of a 15-year-old boy named "Brewster" who came to him in 1989 for assistance. Jennings said the boy was having difficulty in school and did not know why. However, during a speech in Iowa five years ago, Jennings stated that "Brewster" had confided to him that he had a sexual encounter with...

That strikes me as something of a major understatement, but it makes a significant point. Jennifer had lived a life that some would have called ideal, but the crisis point came when the two most important influences in her life -- her parents and her school -- clashed irrevocably. And Jennifer could not cope. How can we expect our children to grow up healthy, with sound minds and hearts, when the schools we have taught them to respect and obey have taken it upon themselves to teach them values that contradict our own core beliefs on issues of right and...

Group admits giving out 'gay' sex book High schoolers received 'hard-core porn' homosexual 'how-to' Posted: May 20, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com After strong denials, a homosexual activist group admitted it made available to middle school and high school students an AIDS handbook described by critics as a "hard-core pornographic homosexual 'how-to.'" The Boston Chapter of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, GLSEN Boston, said the distribution at an April 30 event at Brookline High School violated its policy that no sexually explicit materials be made available. A Massachusetts-based group involved in opposition to same-sex marriage, the Article...

The Fenway Community Health Center yesterday acknowledged its mistake in displaying a graphic safe-sex booklet for homosexuals at an event attended by middle- and high-schoolers at Brookline High. ``Fenway Community Health regrets accidentally making available a small number of copies of the `Little Black Book,' an HIV prevention publication for gay and bisexual men over the age of 18, at an event where young people were present,'' said Dr. Stephen Boswell, Fenway's president and CEO.

On April 30, 2005, a "gay education" conference took place at Brookline High School, in Brookline, MA. 500 people attended this event, about three-fourths of which were young people under the age of 18. The event was was sponsored by the "Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network." According to the Article 8 Alliance, a local grassroots organization which has brought attention to the active homosexual agenda in Massachusetts schools, a booklet containing graphic descriptions of homosexual behavior, among other pro-homosexual material, was distributed at the first table after the registration table. This booklet was written by the Boston-based "AIDS Action Committee"...

Homosexual Group Admits Obscene Material Was Handed Out at Conference 'Outed,' GLSEN Boston Confesses Sexually Explicit Literature Was Made Available to Kids at Its Event Caution: This story contains terms that some may find offensive. By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker May 19, 2005 (AgapePress) - A Boston health clinic has admitted to distributing pornographic books to middle school students and others at a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conference hosted by a Massachusetts high school. Initially GLSEN Boston categorically denied its recent 15th Annual Conference event at Brookline High School featured sexually explicit materials. However, the Fenway...

The booklet, ``Little Black Book: V 2. Queer in the 21st Century,'' which includes graphic instructions on how to safely perform gay sex acts, was described as ``vile and disgusting'' by Brian Camenker of the anti-gay marriage Article 8 Alliance, which claims it was given to students. Brookline Superintendent William H. Lupini said GLSEN rented the high school for the event.

Some experts are saying there is a trend in public education toward pro-homosexual programs and curricula that may pose a serious danger to children. "Radical gender and homosexual advocacy groups influence teacher-training programs dealing with 'sexual orientation' and 'diversity,' creating school environments that are heavily biased against Christian moral teachings," stated Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth and executive director of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI). According to Agape Press (AP), LaBarbera has monitored the homosexual movement for 15 years, with special focus on its “campaign to penetrate schools." He said groups like GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education...

Audiotape of Massachusetts public employess demonstrating how teens can fist their sex partners At Tufts University GLSEN-sponsored conference in 2000. [At TraditionalValues.org] Stream Track One - Approx 30 minutes Stream Track Two - Approx 15 minutes Download Track One To Your PC 32 MB Download Track Two To Your PC 17 MB

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com 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...

LINCOLN, Neb., May 12 (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage, saying the measure interfered not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in a variety of other living arrangements. The amendment to the state's Constitution, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was passed overwhelmingly by the voters in November 2000. The Nebraska ruling is the first in which a federal court has struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage, and conservatives in the United...

Police: Alleged Gay-Bashing At Marin High School A Hoax Perpetrator 'Confessed To Everything' May 8 (AP) — A 17-year-old top wrestler at an area high school here faked a series of gay-bashing incidents that prompted a police investigation, authorities said. The rash of gay-bashing incidents at Tamalpais High School was the work of a student gay leader who claimed she was the victim of hate crimes, according to Mill Valley Police Capt. James Wickham. The teen, who heads the school's Gay-Straight Alliance, admitted to authorities that she was the perpetrator of the incidents, which included vandalizing her own car with...

Montgomery County Public Schools yesterday halted a new sex-ed curriculum that was to have begun today, after a federal judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit that charged the course is unconstitutional and promotes homosexuality. U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. had granted a 10-day temporary restraining order yesterday to halt the teaching of the new course. "I have directed the office of the deputy superintendent of schools to review and evaluate the materials referenced in the judge's order," Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said, "...before any decisions are made about any future pilot testing of the revised curriculum in our...