The Liberal Education Establishment And The Homosexual Agenda
By William R. Alford
With an eye for the future, the battleground for gay activists is in
the schools and children are the targets, a new book, The Homosexual
Agenda reveals. Developments in at least one state capitol seem to
bear the authors out.
Quoted is a rallying point from a 1999 Gay Lesbian Straight
Educational Network (GLSEN) conference:
The fear of the religious right is that the schools of today will be
the governments of tomorrow. And you know, they're right. If we do our
jobs right, we're going to raise a generation of kids who don't
believe the claims of the religious right.
Authors Alan Sears and Craig Osten describe a phenomenon that does
more than threaten religious freedom. The 'sexual orientation
community' is actively working to impose its value system upon the
rest of society. The chapter entitled "Stupid Parents, 'Enlightened
Kids"' is of particular interest to those who are concerned about
childhood indoctrination.
Quoting homosexual activist Chuck Jones: "This is war, so act
accordingly." How is this war waged in the classroom? Gay orthodoxy is
being imposed upon minor children in class as undisputable fact,
rather then even the subject of controversy or debate.
A high school boy found himself made fodder for ridicule when he
questioned a biology teacher's assertion that homosexuality is
genetic: "What's the matter, Kyle? Are you unsure of your sexuality?"
As the other students laughed, the teacher went on, "did you know that
the people who scream the loudest turn out to be gay themselves?"
Before his historic loss, California Governor Gray Davis signed a sex
education law that compels students to "adopt a healthy attitude
towards homosexuality." According to Amy Koons at the Capitol Resource
Institute in Sacramento, Calif., schools are themselves embracing the
law on which the ink has scarcely dried.
"I had a distraught mother tell me that her twin sons came home
thinking that 70 percent of the population is homosexual," Koons told
AIA. An openly lesbian legislator, State Senator Sheila Kuehl,
introduced California's new sex education law, which the state
teachers union supported. Kuehl, a former child star, appeared in the
television series Dobie Gillis.
In The Homosexual Agenda, Sears and Osten report that America's
largest teachers union, the National Education Association, is
enthusiastically developing programs to incorporate the gay agenda
into public school curricula for children of all ages. Many of them
are in place today and have been for some years now.
"GLSEN regularly collaborates with other national education
organizations to broaden the reach of our message and materials," the
lobbying group's executive director, Kevin Jennings writes in a recent
fundraising letter.
"For example, last year we helped the NEA -- boasting 2.7 million
members -- pass sweeping new policies directing its members to address
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in their work."
Agendized educators are exploiting the confusion that characterizes
normal adolescence, according to Sears and Osten in The Homosexual
Agenda. "As bodies change and hormones rage," the authors explain,
youths are told that their feelings may indicate that they are
bisexual. Further, heterosexuality is portrayed as being passé, while
'alternative' sexuality is promoted as chic and more likely to result
in peer acceptance.
Children as young as kindergarteners are to be taught, according to
quoted recommendations, that a "family is a 'unit of two or more
persons, related either by birth or by choice, who may or may not live
together.'" Further, from a very young age, children must be taught
that "all families should be validated" - even those "with no dads,
three dads or a 14-year-old mom."
The authors also warn that removing children from public schools is
not necessarily a definitive escape from such indoctrination. The NEA
is currently trying to have state governments force private schools
and even home-schoolers to teach pro-gay and lesbian material if their
diplomas are to be recognized as valid.
Organizations such as the aforementioned GLSEN are targeting children
for gay advocacy participation, write Sears and Osten. The Homosexual
Agenda describes an annual Day of Silence that GLSEN orchestrates,
wherein students are not to speak. Instead they are to present a card
explaining that they will not speak that day in support of Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people.
Children are told that friends and family members who hold that
homosexuality is wrong should be considered enemies and treated as
such, according to cited research. Alienating children from their
family and indoctrinating them in school is a small price to pay to
attain the ultimate objective, the authors conclude. Sears and Osten
head the Alliance Defense Fund.
