Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:52:02 0600
To: Rob Weinberg
From: Frank Grose
Subject: Government Promotion
Rob,
How do you feel about your tax dollars being used to PROMOTE this?
Lessons on homosexuality taking hold in U.S. schools
By Carol Innerst
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As the video camera captured the lively classroom discussion, a third grade teacher at New York City's P.S. 87 asks her charges to
decide if it's OK to let "gays" marry."How would you feel if homosexuals were the majority and the law said you had to be homosexual to get married?" argues one child, her mind already made up.
Blame it on AIDS and an official push for acceptance of diverse lifestyles, but notions of what even young children need to know have been radically altered. Kindergartners are learning about "homophobia" as lessons about alternative lifestyles and homosexuality appear in America's elementary schools often without parental knowledge.
Nearly a decade ago, state mandated AIDS instruction opened the door to teaching about homosexuality in schools, as teachers found it impossible to talk about how AIDS is transmitted without discussing homosexual practices. At first, discussions of the topic were largely confined to high school, but that is changing.
The Clinton administration recently endorsed grade school "diversity" training to encourage students to be tolerant of minorities, homosexuals and the disabled.
The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union and a powerful voice in American education, adopted a resolution urging schools to develop activities and programs that "increase acceptance of and sensitivity to" diverse groups, including homosexuals.
"Teachers need more opportunity dealing with these issues," said Richard W. Riley, the administration's secretary of education.
Hey, Rob, does a Presidential "ENDORSEMENT" qualify as "government promotion?" May I invite you to consider the following as analogous to this situation and the "prayer crisis" in America. Mat 7:3 "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" Where is the outcry against this? (This is not intended to prompt a discussion on homosexuality, but to, once again, point out government promotion of the "left" agenda in the public schools.) Read on.
"But to Florida mother Jodi Hoffman, the results at the classroom level have been disastrous.
"Ninety eight percent of parents out there have no idea what's going on in their schools," she says. "We know we've got a problem when they prosecute if you talk about God anywhere near a school, but it's OK to teach students that anal sex is an acceptable method of birth control."
Mrs. Hoffman and her husband, Paul, have pulled their three children out of Broward County public schools and filed a class action suit against the school board to stop what they call the board's promotion of homosexuality in sex education courses.
"I am furious and outraged that tax dollars are being spent to promote a lifestyle that if embraced will cut our son's life in half," says Mrs. Hoffman.
Among the Hoffmans' complaints: At one middle school, the school board allowed officials from a community organization to tell the children they would be lucky to be on the receiving end of oral sex and not to worry if their "cut free" leg happened to be splashed with HIV positive blood.
"I'm not a nut, I'm not a foaming religious right winger or a fanatical bigot," Mrs. Hoffman says. "What I am is pro parent and pro family. I'm for my children.
"Schools make the kids think about sex," she says. "When my daughter was 10, we opted her out of a sex education class and they put her in anyway."
I'll spare you the many other examples cited in this article. I think the point has been adequately made. How about two responses, one from Rob the man and father, the other from Rom the lawyer. Will you defend this kind of promotion, or are we in the same camp here, my friend?
Let me apologize for my thoughts. I realize I've been sitting here pre-judging you. I'm sorry. I should not have assumed you would defend this. Perhaps you will see it as "government promotion." Right now I am considering the "walk a mile in my shoes" of those parents. Care to try them on? I think about those two beautiful little girls in Texas (on your web page) and how they should be protected from such practice as this.
Thank God my children are grown and my son and his wife plan on homeschooling my grandson. When the courts banish prayer but allow this, something is dreadfully wrong in our country!
Enjoy the turkey!
Frank
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