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September 19, 2007, #32

You Know, For Kids

As we entered the high school I saw a boy with a red curly hair walk by. I suppose he was at least 14 but he looked very young for a high school student – undeveloped physically and unsophisticated socially. Just a child really. The traits of the boy particularly struck me because my husband Steve and I were visiting the school in order to attend a PTA meeting to present information about the homosexual agenda for schools, an agenda that had wormed its way into our own “world class” Utah Valley high school by way of a pro-gay article in the school newspaper. This young boy, along with the other 2,000 minors at this school, had become an unwitting target of perverse sexual propaganda.

The PTA president that year was a woman I was well-acquainted with. Our families had interacted in church and school events for decades. Although her first reaction to our concern was to wholeheartedly invite us to speak at the next PTA meeting, something had gone wrong in the meantime. My first shock came when she had a board member call and uninvite us to the meeting. Thinking there must be some mistake I called her. There was no mistake. In addition, she denied ever scheduling us to give the 20-minute presentation she had suggested a month or so before. Obviously, someone had gotten to her, probably the school administration who had treated our concerns at best casually and at worst with veiled contempt. I finally convinced her to give us five minutes.

That PTA meeting marked a new low for me in our battle to conserve public traditional morality. Even though we sat ourselves at the conference table, we were completely ignored for 90 minutes, except to be offered cookies and milk as they were passed. The big issues discussed were student attendance and how delicious the cookies were, where they came from, what they were made of, etc. Oh, and how the disc jockey at the most recent dance had shown inappropriate videos not up to the standards of the school. It seemed the meeting was about to close when an old friend of mine I’d know for 30 years timidly piped up: Didn’t the Grahams have a presentation? At this, the president seemed to become frightened, turned to the assistant principal and whispered in his ear. After this private little consultation the assistant principal nodded and we were given our five minutes. Make of that what you will, but I wondered, since when does the PTA take its morals and values marching orders from the school administration?

Our hurried message and offer to give a more in depth presentation at another time was met with blank or condescending looks. Board members responded with such bland comments as, “Well, it all comes down to the home,” And “My kids would never believe any of that in the school paper,” (both from leaders of the PTA which supposedly has thousands of young people’s welfare at heart!). And “You shouldn’t be threatening the school. People are always threatening to sue the school and that doesn’t accomplish anything except hurt the school,” (from one of those I-wish-I- were-still-a-teenager parents who pals around with the kids and volunteers so much the school finally gives them some sort of job).

This is Utah Valley. The way our important message concerning the health and welfare of minors was cancelled, overlooked, and disparaged in a supposedly religious and family values-based community was very discouraging to me. I went home to collect myself while Steve visited the community council which met next. Almost the same reaction occurred there. No one was interested in becoming informed about the homosexual agenda targeting their public schools. Long story short, in so many words, the adults in charge decreed that the promotion of homosexuality and pro-gay web sites is a perfectly fine topic for the student newspaper at Lone Peak High School. To quote a line from the Hudsucker Proxy, “You know, for kids.” But Hudsucker was promoting his invention, the hula hoop, and Lone Peak, with the publication of its newspaper, has promoted risky, perverted sexual ideas and behaviors. To kids.

It’s a new school year. With each new school year homosexualists make new inroads into America’s school systems, from kindergarten on up. Their tactics are often subtle, instigating innocuous-sounding events such as “Day of Silence” and “No Name-Calling Week.” They’ve even highjacked Martin Luther King Day in some schools. There are also such events as “Coming Out Day,” “Gay and Lesbian History Month,” and “Transgender Day of Remembrance” taking place. Linda Harvey of Mission America has produced materials to point out these tactics so parents and leaders can protect children against them. See below. (Evidently schools are caving in without a struggle, in many cases inviting such events.)

But events like these are only part of the agenda. You’ve probably heard of gay-affirming picture books being read to kindergartners. Along that same line, Steve is in the process of reviewing a Psychology textbook used at Lone Peak and throughout our school district, and suggesting its removal. The false and convoluted information it contains is obviously politically rather than scientifically based, and promotes radical individualism and moral relativism (such as it doesn’t matter what sex you were born or what the primary purpose of sex is, what matters is what sex you feel like being and what kind of sex you feel like doing at the moment). Statements presented as facts have either never been proven or have actually been scientifically debunked. Here are some quotes, some of which are highlighted in the margin of the text:

“Society assigns each of us . . . the social category of male or female.” (Emphasis mine.)

“How is it gendered?” (Caption to a cartoon showing a woman asking a mother about her baby.)

“Gay men simply don’t have the brain cells to be attracted to women.”

“Studies indicate that male homosexuality is more likely to be transmitted from the mother’s side of the family.”

“Were it not for the delicately balanced combinations of genetic, neurological, hormonal, and environmental factors, largely occurring prior to birth, each and every one of us would be homosexual.” (What?)

In addition is a color-highlighted table listing “biological and behavioral traits of gays” such as occupational preferences, male body size, handedness, fingerprint ridge counts, and finger length!!! Imagine, a minor can know right away what kind of sex he should prefer if he’s lefthanded or interested in being a “decorator, florist, or flight attendant”!!! And there’s much more very bad information in this book. (David G. Meyers, Psychology, Worth Publishers, 2004, p.128-9, 478-9.)

The academic world is largely gay-affirming. As a result, many schools are misleading, indoctrinating, and endangering children. Risky, dead-end, licentious attitudes about sex are being taught, which amounts to sexual abuse. Kids are sponges. They often believe what is sanctioned by adult authority figures such as teachers and school administrators. Keep your eye out for homosexual propaganda in your kids’ schools. We all know sex, inlcuding homosex, is not for kids. Linda Harvey’s web sites are www.choice4truth.com and www.truthatschool.org and www.missionameric.com. She also has an excellent free printed newsletter you can sign up for. Go to www.choice4truth.com, click on the parents/adults section, then click on the email link on the left.


-Stephen & Janice Graham

 


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