PARENT GROUPS ASK MARYLAND TO STOP NEW SEX ED LESSONS

Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays ^ | 2/23/07 | PFOX

[dcnd9]

PARENT GROUPS ASK MARYLAND TO STOP NEW SEX ED LESSONS Neutral Unisex Bathroom Created for Cross-dressing Student

Montgomery County, Maryland – Three parent organizations are asking the Maryland State Board of Education to halt the new sex ed curriculum approved by the Montgomery County, Maryland Board of Education (BOE). Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX), Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), and Family Leader Network have filed an appeal requesting Maryland to stay Montgomery County Public School’s sex ed plans.

The newly approved curriculum, entitled "Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality," promotes cross-dressers, homosexuals, transgenders, bisexuals, the intersexed, and other non-heterosexuals. It teaches children about “coming out” as gay, “gender identity” for men who think they’re women and vice-versa, and “homophobia” as a label for anyone who disagrees.

In one lesson, a boy begins to wear dresses to school, calls himself “Portia,” and wants to be known as a girl. The principal gives him a key to a private restroom and a new student ID identifying him as a girl. “Although transgenderism is considered a gender identity disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, the lesson plan fails to recommend counseling for students with gender confusion,” said Regina Griggs, PFOX Executive Director. “Instead, it implies that schools should create new unisex bathrooms for cross-dressing students.”

The lesson also refers to “Portia” as a ‘she’ when the law and biology classify ‘her’ as a “he.” “This gender bending forces students to acknowledge ‘Portia’ as a female when he is not and creates gender confusion for children,” said Griggs. “This flawed educational policy is not based on medical or scientific facts.”

Despite repeated appearances by former homosexuals and a former transgender before the BOE, the Board voted to exclude ex-gays from the lesson plans although gays, transgenders, and the intersexed are included and taught to students. “Why do the lesson plans censor ex-gays when every other sexual orientation is discussed and supported?” asked Griggs. “The BOE violates its own sexual orientation non-discrimination policy by choosing which sexual orientations it favors based on politics and not science. Its discriminatory actions contribute to the intolerance and open hostility faced by the ex-gay community.”

PFOX was a member of the curriculum committee representing the ex-gay community, yet the BOE voted to teach students that it is normal to change your sex (transgender) but not normal to change your unwanted same-sex attractions (former homosexual). “The lesson plans instruct students that homosexual orientation is innate and inborn, despite testimony by former homosexuals before the BOE and all contrary scientific research,” explained Griggs.

“The lesson plans are entitled “Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality,” yet the ex-gay community receives no respect and is deliberately left out of the curriculum,” Griggs said. “The actions of the Montgomery County Board of Education are discriminatory, endanger children, and are politically motivated.”

“What happens in Montgomery County will happen to the rest of Maryland, so it is imperative to stop this ‘sex ed’ program now before it is fully implemented,” said Griggs. Concerned Maryland residents can take action at http://www.mcpscurriculum.org/take_action.shtml

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[dcnd9]

Thanks for this info!!

[scripter]

The homosexual agenda tries to desensitize young children as can be seen from the following list of books.

Title	Author	Age Group
123 A Family Counting Book	Bobbie Combs, Danamarie Hosler	4-8
ABC A Family Alphabet Book	Bobbie Combs, Desiree Keane	4-8
All Families are Different	Sol Gordon, Vivien Cohen	4-8
Daddy's Roommate	Michael Willhoite	4-8
Felicia's Favorite Story	Leslea Newman, Adriana Romo	Preschool
Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans	Johnny Valentine, Lynette Schmidt	4-8
Heather Has Two Mommies	Leslea Newman, Diana Souza	4-8
How My Family Came to Be: Daddy, Papa and Me	Andrew R. Aldrich, Mike Motz	4-8
Jack & Jim	Kitty Crowther	4-8
Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin	Susanne Bosche, Andreas Hansen	All
King & King	Linda De Haan, Stern Nijland	4-8
King & King & Family	Linda De Haan, Stern Nijland	4-8
Molly's Family	Nancy Garden, Sharon Wooding	4-8
My Two Uncles	Judith Vigna	4-8
Oliver Button Is a Sissy	Tomie De Paola	4-8
The Daddy Machine	Johnny Valentine, Lynette Schmidt	4-8
The Family Book	Todd Parr	4-8
The Sissy Duckling	Harvey Fierstein, Henry Cole	4-8
Who's in a Family	Robert Skutch, Laura Nienhaus	4-8

[70times7]

WE ARE ALL HETERO AT BIRTH..... HOMO BY DESIRE.

For some this is true, but this is not the case for everyone. Blanket statements like this are shortsighted IMO. I have not seen credible evidence that homosexuality is any sort of genetic determination. What is more likely is that there are personality characteristics that make some individuals more likely to become homosexual due to environment. Too many individuals have struggled with and fought against same sex attractions to presume it is always and only a simple progression of deviant and immoral behavior.

Is homosexuality wrong? Scripture plainly states it is. Even from an evolutionary standpoint it is nonsensical. So what to do, accept it? I think not. Reject those who are engaged in homosexuality? Never. It's not easy; public resistance to the acceptance of homosexuality will always be considered a rejection of homosexuals. But Christ died for us all. If the prostitute that was brought before Jesus had been a homosexual man would He have said to stone him to death? Would anyone reading this have the right to throw one? I don't. How about you?

[scripter]

Thanks for this info!!

You sure about that? Because that link is so graphic I thought you might have said something similar to: "Thanks, I think." :-)

Don't forget there is no homosexual agenda targeting our children. </sarcasm>

[dcnd9]

All I am saying is.....

Same sex attraction is an unwanted unasked for condition, however the behavior is always a choice of desire.

[dcnd9]

Graphic indeed.....makes me sick....schools inflicting this on teens is disgusting!

[scripter]

What is more likely is that there are personality characteristics that make some individuals more likely to become homosexual due to environment.

That is key to understanding the issues surrounding homosexuality. It's too bad politics has to interfere with studies of those characteristics and traits.

One of those characteristics, traits or gifts depending on how you look at the issues are effeminate men. One important issue many don't realize is there are many more effeminate straight men than gay men.

[70times7]

Understandable, perhaps our disagreement is over the word "desire". Would you say Paul was wrong when he described that he found himself doing the evil that he loathed rather than the good he wished to do? I do not have the singular focus self discipline and drive of Paul and he had problems. How about you? Does this mean one should give up the resisting of temptation and sin? Never. But it also suggests we should not be quick to over simplify and condemn only because we have no temptation in an area that someone else struggles with. Hopefully I'm wrong, but that is the impression I took from your comment(s).

[dcnd9]

"One important issue many don't realize is there are many more effeminate straight men than gay men."

I totally agree!

[Starboard]

"Students graduating from montgomery Copunty High Schools cannot fill out an Income tax form, They havent received an education on the various Insurances they may need during their lifetime, They know nothing of how to choose a physician,or how to invst wisely,but thanks to homosexuals and fruits they know all about queers."

Whenever I drive into Montgomery County I always get the feeling that I've left Maryland and suddenly driven into Massachusetts.

[dcnd9]

No condemnation from me. I am very compassionate and understanding of those affected with SSA. However, I will also state the chosen behavior of this attraction is wrong. We are called to judge actions right or wrong just not to judge the individual to the results of those actions...i.e. to hell. This is what Christ meant by judging others. We must stand up for what is right and against what is wrong.

[Judith Anne]

I've read the entire thread. I don't know you, and don't want to, but I can tell you that your comments seem agenda driven.

The last word on the homosexual lifestyle has not been written. To assert that it has, is evidence of a fixed, illogical viewpoint. To label people [who have changed their sexual orientation] the way you have in numerous posts on this thread is not logic, in any way. It is bombast.

Science, including the science of the human brain, is still learning. For you to continually post that the brain is fixed in granite, instead of plastic and malleable at all phases of life is ridiculous on the face of it.

Humans are omnisexual. A multitude of stimulants can excite sexual desire in homosexual or heterosexual people. Choices, habits, interests, social and legal boundaries all affect people.

Monogamous heterosexuality is the healthiest, most mature adaptation possible for humans, and is composed of much more than the animal homo sapiens sapiens, it is composed of all that is potential for humans.

The worst fault of folks like you is to assume that humans BY THEIR NATURE must respect and act on every sexual impulse that crosses their mind. Focussed sexual maturation is anathema to you, isn't it?

[70times7]

Bullseye.

[scripter]

There is good news in all of this. Here is some of it:

Confession from a former homosexual.

We're seeing more and more similar confessions every day.

[LtdGovt]

Therefore I purpose that the suit must be given merit (not laughed out of the courtroom) with the end result in favor of the petitioner/s (no segregation/seperate bathrooms). It doesnt have to be all over the US or in every school district. Just one, such as this article.

I think that right now, you could find a single bathroom in the US that isn't seperate. Therefore, I propose the following benchmark: 40% of the bathrooms will not be seperate in 2030 (that is your claim).

Alarmist? Are you joking? LOL

My dear lady, you are the one claiming that pedophilia will be more accepted in 44 years time. I cannot blame you for thinking that. You read about children who have been abused all the time, and you pull the hair out of your head from distress. However, it is worthy to note that strides have been made in the last 30 years. Pedophilia has become less accepted than it was 30 years ago. I have seen a lot of references to leftist politicians, leftist platforms in Europe saying that sexual intercourse between teenagers and adults of any age should be legal, or that child pornography should be legal. That was in the 70's. Now, you don't have that. The sexual revolution caused a moment of moral confusion, so to say, when the boundaries of society were being tested. What would we accept, and what would we not accept? We concluded that pedophilia is not acceptable (I was a child back then, so don't blame me). And if you look at what the direction of the country is, it is indisputably moving into the direction of harsher laws for pedophiles, and thank God that it is.

I am not discussing the decline of our entire society (thats a whole 'nother discussion) I am discussing the homosexual agenda. The progression of this movement is the reality. Am I to believe then, that things will move backward in this regard over the next 10-20 years?

This 'movement' is not a force that you cannot grasp. Think of yourself, why has this movement been so successful? Because it has managed to win the hearts and minds of at least part of the American people. Without that, they would be utterly powerless. Think of yourself: you think that gay people should be able to do what they want they want in private. Yet I bet that you don't think that pedophiles should be able to do what they want in private. You do see a difference. Queers don't hurt anyone, pedophiles do.That's why pedophiles will NEVER win anywhere near this level of public support, that is something I know.

Therefore Ill take your bet, but I think making it monetary makes little sense. By the time 2050 rolls around (the other half of our conversation) I will be in my mid 80's.

We're not making the bet to make more money. We're making the bet so that we can see who wins, and that winning will not be significant unless some symbolic sum is transferred to the other person. But I hope that when you were in your 80's, you would realize that you were being alarmist, that you worried for no reason.

If we both happen to still be around FR in 10-20 year for the firts half then I purpose the loser has to run around with something ridiculously stupid in thier tagline, chosen by the winner :-)

Sounds good to me.

We need to be realistic, but it doesnt hurt to have fun.

Indeed.

[expatguy]

That is SO gay

[LtdGovt]

It's interesting how your zero interest in this subject continues with various posters. You're not interested but you keep talking about it.

Aptly noted. It is always interesting to show people that they don't know what they're talking about, as they seldom do know. Also, I'm not one to walk away from a discussion, since I enjoy a discussion of any kind. Even with you.

Yes, I've called you uneducated in this subject because you continue to demonstrate a profound ignorance whenever you talk about it. Your ignorance is obvious to those who have spent years studying a subject in which you have zero interest. I'm quite secure in what I state here and will continue to point out your obfuscation.

I should warn you: your repeated aggressive reaction is quite telling, especially if you feel the psychological need to restate that you are 'quite secure'. Well, I cannot say that you aren't, but this response is quite telling.

Homosexual activists are the ones pushing the gay gene. That is, the single gene that causes homosexuality.

I don't care about what those people were pushing. This is not about them, this is about you. *You* were attacking a straw man, namely that my statement that it is partly 'genetic' means that a single gene is responsible for this condititoon, and that no credible evidence can be found about a single gene.

In fact, credible scientists have stated environment is the major factor behind homosexuality.

I know environment is a major factor behind many conditions. If you look at how schizofrenia might develop, genes play a very important role, but environment does, too.

You write as if you're familiar with the facts of homosexuality. To demonstrate your familiarity with the facts, point out the flaws in the articles I've presented then we'll have something to talk about. Until then you're just obfuscating.

You can't hide behind articles. Show some courage, my friend, and write something for yourself.

Your Wal-Mart reference is misdirection because you failed to point out the flaws in the articles.

I need not point out the flaws. If you say that the earth is flat, then that casts doubt on your credibility. When you continue to say that 9/11 was caused by the American government, I'll be less likely to put any stock in your second assertion.

[LtdGovt]

Same sex attraction is an unwanted unasked for condition, however the behavior is always a choice of desire.

I agree. Your first (misstated) post made it sound as if you were saying that we all have homosexual desires, which I gently rebuked with my previous post, by saying that you don't have to involve everyone else, just yourself. It was a joke.

[scripter]

I'm glad you realize you're continuing to talk about a subject in which you have zero interest nor any interest in the subject. The more you admit a non interest yet continue to avoid specifics hints of an agenda on your part.

Yes, I'm secure in what I write. You are not which is evidenced by your continued attempts to avoid talking about specifics.

Here is where you point out the specific flaws in any of the articles I've posted.

[LtdGovt]

I've read the entire thread. I don't know you, and don't want to, but I can tell you that your comments seem agenda driven.

Well, you're wrong.

The last word on the homosexual lifestyle has not been written. To assert that it has, is evidence of a fixed, illogical viewpoint. To label people [who have changed their sexual orientation] the way you have in numerous posts on this thread is not logic, in any way.

All I asked was: how to you know that they're speaking the truth? They may have changed their behavior, but have they changed their orientation. As far as I know, no experiment has shown that.

Science, including the science of the human brain, is still learning. For you to continually post that the brain is fixed in granite, instead of plastic and malleable at all phases of life is ridiculous on the face of it. Humans are omnisexual. A multitude of stimulants can excite sexual desire in homosexual or heterosexual people. Choices, habits, interests, social and legal boundaries all affect people.

Sounds like pseudescience to me. I don't know about women, but no amount of choices, habits, intersets, societal and legal boundaries could make men attracted to other men.

The worst fault of folks like you is to assume that humans BY THEIR NATURE must respect and act on every sexual impulse that crosses their mind.

I said no such thing. But if two peopel get together ant want to, let them, if it doesn't hurt anyone else.