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Anti-Bullying Program Promotes Gay Agenda
By Christina Quick | May 15, 2008
I think everyone can agree bullying is a bad thing. With an estimated 30 percent of U.S. youth affected by it — either as aggressors or victims — it’s clear more needs to be done to prevent this schoolyard plague.
So when an organization offers to partner with schools to combat bullying, it seems like a good thing. But sometimes looks can be deceiving.
The Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based gay rights organization, is trying to push its liberal agenda on young children under the guise of an anti-bullying program.
Called “Welcoming Schools,” the curriculum apparently has more to do with normalizing gay and lesbian lifestyles than preventing bullying. Three Minneapolis elementary schools are scheduled to pilot the new program, a plan that is sparking controversy among parents and community leaders.
In last Sunday’s edition of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, columnist Katherine Kersten wrote: “Teachers begin lessons by questioning students to identify their current beliefs. Then they use group exercises, films and books to convince the kids that any traditional attitudes they harbor about family structure and homosexuality are harmful ‘stereotypes.’ At the end of a lesson, teachers ‘evaluate’ students to ensure that their views now pass official muster.”
According to Kersten, students are to fill out worksheets that ask what they used to think about homosexual issues and what they now “know” after having completed the exercises.
The program teaches vocabulary words like lesbian, gay, bisexual, dyke, and transgender. It uses books such as “The Sissy Duckling,” and “King and King,” a story about two men who fall in love and marry.
It also employs a puzzle in which students are asked to arrange pictures of children and adults into families. The catch, as students are meant to discover, is that the puzzle doesn’t form seven traditional families. Placing same-gender adults together is the only way to complete it.
The curriculum “does not address bullying until its third and final section,” Kersten wrote. “It says relatively little about bullies’ traditional targets — kids who are overweight, short or the wrong skin color, for example…”
The Alliance Defense Fund recently sent a letter urging Minneapolis Public Schools to reconsider its decision to allow “Welcoming Schools.”
“According to its own statistics, HRC represents only 4.1 percent of American adults who identify themselves as homosexual, but it is attempting to implement its agenda on our children and the remaining 95.9 percent of American adults who don’t identify themselves as either gay or lesbian,” says ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks.
When children are forced to embrace ideologies that are in opposition to their families’ moral beliefs, it sort of makes you wonder who the real bullies are.
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May 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Thank you for printing this article.It seems that many young people are trying to sort out their thinking concerning the “gay lifestyle.”
One young man who is twenty years old claims to have left Christianity due to the, “narrow minded Christians,” who do not accept gay marriage. However, from what he writes, it is doubtful that he actually had a relationship with the Lord.
Thanks to the internet blogs we are in dialog.Unfortunately, he seems to only want to justify the homosexual lifestlye in his own mind.
Thanks again. Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Kathreen