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   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.   
      
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