Posted on 08/05/2003 10:06:21 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
A good measure of the government is how it spends our tax dollars. So let us consider what Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, had done with our hard-earned money. Despite across-the-board tax increases, Bloomberg recently funneled $3.2 million into Harvey Milk High School, which calls itself "the nation's first accredited public high school designed to meet the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth."
Just one thing: Teenagers simply aren't emotionally ready to make radical decisions about their sexual identity. What child, for example, knows for certain that he or she should have a sex change or engage in same-sex relationships the rest of his or her life? Yet the creation of a gay public high school passively encourages children to make these decisions; decisions that will follow them around every time they fill out a job application and are asked what high school they attended.
Proponents of the homosexual lifestyle consider it all a stunning victory. But there's something insidious about indoctrinating children in order to push the homosexual agenda into the mainstream.
Nonetheless, Mayor Bloomberg has signed on, ostensibly to protect our children from all of the hate-spewing antagonists out there. "I think everybody feels that it's a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools," Bloomberg told Associated Press.
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