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Homosexual Group Targets Schools
This article is written by John Freeman of Harvest USA. From the September 1997 issue of Tennessee Citizen, published by The Family Institute in conjunction with Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine, and provided by and with permission from Nelson Griswold III, Vice President for Policy of the Family Institute, Nashville, Tennessee: "With students heading back to school, I thought the following article we just published would be of interest to those wondering just what our children are are learning in school."
While Mr. Freeman wrote the article for Tennessee citizens, you can easily replace the name "Tennessee" with "YourState" and the article will apply just as well.
Mr. Freeman echoes me in that homosexuality is indeed not an innate or inherited trait - I hold it is purely a matter of choice! For every Kinsey-style report and other so-to-speak scientific report that claims homosexuality is - for some - normal and natural and healthy, I'll betcha I could find two or three scientific reports to refute that speculation - probably the greatest report being the Holy Bible. Please understand that the homosexuals try to incorporate kids into a sexual lifestyle - homosexual of course - at an age before the kids even know what "sexual" is: before they are "corrupted with heterosexuality." While this technique is extremely low, cheap, and detestible, it sometimes works - at least to deeply confuse children to the point of acceptance to avoid further confusion and pressure - and the homosexual community knows it!
Let me once again state that while we are indeed charged by the Word to hate homsexuality, we are to love the homosexual and do what we can to bring him/her into the Light and Truth of God's Holy Word and to the acceptance of the Blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ: to understand that Jesus loves every one of us so much that He would have permitted that which killed His flesh even if it would have saved only one of us - any one of us!
Herein you will find that all than glistens is not gold.
Thomas A. Carder
President
ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP)
P. O. Box 177
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Homosexual Group Targets Schools
by John Freeman
Unknown to many in Tennessee, an aggressive pro-homosexual movement
is having a serious impact on schools across the nation. The Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN, pronounced "glisten"), headquartered in New York City, is working-quite successfully-to influence policy in public and
private educational circles. [EDITOR'S NOTE: GLSTN has just changed its name
to GLESN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Its mission and
tactics remain the same.]
Boasting over 40 chapters nationwide and a membership of 4,000, GLSTN
is comprised of teachers, students and parents. The largest national
organization of its kind, GLSTN is "working to insure schools are places
where all people are respected and valued, regardless of sexual orientation,"
according to its literature. GLSTN says it is attempting to raise awareness
among teachers and students about the impact of "anti-gay bias" on campus.
Although GLSTN has yet to establish a presence in Tennessee, the
group has chapters in a circle of states surrounding Tennessee: Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas and Missouri. With the
large, active homosexual communities in Nashville and Memphis, I expect that
GLSTN will organize a Tennessee chapter at any time. [Find out if your state
has a GLSEN chapter at their web site. Go to www.GLSTN.org and click on the
"Chapters" button.]
As a Chattanooga native and UT graduate, I have a personal interest
in Tennessee. Additionally, my Philadelphia-based ministry, Harvest USA, has
been invited to open a Tennessee office. So, naturally, I am concerned about
the activities of pro-homosexual groups in the state.
When GLSTN arrives in Tennessee, here's what it says you can expect.
GLSTN sponsors several programs aimed at reaching youth with a
pro-gay message. GLSTN's in-school programming includes "curriculum
development such as a Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual History Project and support
programs such as Gay-Straight Student Alliances."
At the beginning of each school year, GLSTN sponsors its
"Back-to-School Campaign," which encourages "lesbian/gay/bisexual adults and their allies [to] mount a major education campaign through letters back to
their former schools... to change the `hearts and minds' of [the] leaders who
control our schools." GLSTN successfully developed and implemented a
statewide, gay-affirming curriculum for the Massachusetts Department of
Education. It is now attempting to take this curriculum nationwide.
Additionally, GLSTN uses videos to reach teachers and school
administrators with its message. It has been responsible for the wide
circulation of two videos, Teaching Respect For All and It's Elementary:
Talking About Gay Issues in School.
It's Elementary, a feature-length documentary, attempts to make a
compelling case for including gay issues as part of "multicultural"
education. This video serves as "a window into how teachers can find ways to
teach children about gay issues," particularly in elementary- and
middle-school classrooms. The Tennessee premier of It's Elementary occurred in Murfreesboro this past February during the Southeastern Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual College Conference held at Middle Tennessee State University. To date, however, there have been no reports of either film being shown in Tennessee classrooms.
In my opinion, this movement represents a dangerous threat to the
welfare of students. Admittedly, students who already have identified
themselves as homosexual may need protection from students who might see them
as a target. As Christians, we should want no one to experience scorn or
emotional or physical harm because they are homosexual. But underneath
GLSTN's seemingly noble cause lies a hazardous agenda.
It is outrageous to try to identify and empower kids to enter into
the homosexual lifestyle. Many pre-teens are confused about their sexual
identity. Gay movements like this one seize upon this vulnerable time and, in
too many cases, unduly influence teens.
Any effort, including this one, that targets America's schools and
says that homosexuality has to be affirmed in order to conquer homophobia
(fear, hatred or intolerance of homosexuals) is seriously flawed. It is a
mockery of the role of the educational system to assert that children, as
young as elementary-school age, need to be identified, singled out, affirmed
and encouraged to accept a sexual identity-one that has devastating, lifelong
emotional, spiritual and physical consequences. These efforts result in
nothing less than propaganda which takes no captives, but only corrupts the
hearts and minds of a precious asset-our children.
John Freeman is executive director of Harvest USA, a ministry providing
information, services and programs to those desiring freedom from
homosexuality and to their families. For more information, call (215)
342-7114.
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