Who’s Bullying Whom?

I’m grateful for the internet – for the freedom to blog and email and create web sites. And for copy machines. And for postal services. And for private printing companies. And for independent radio stations. These are outlets still out of the reach of those who seek to abridge my first amendment rights. Let them call me the worst things you can call a person; I’m still at liberty to speak freely in the above ways. But not in other ways. Not on TV. Not on big radio stations. Not in the major newspapers. And most recently once again, not in a PTA meeting.

Steve, my husband, a respected citizen in the community, was invited months ago to speak at a high school PTA meeting at a nearby school on the infiltration of pro-homosexual propaganda into schools, along with another speaker who was to inform parents about the very real dangers of pornography. We prepared his 30-minute speech, its points supported by Utah codes against advocacy of homosexuality in schools, including plenty of documented evidence that children are being purposely exposed to harmful ideologies, along with ideas on how parents can protect their children. We put together some relatively tame video clips from a 15-year-old documentary showing the realities of the homosexual movement, fearing more recent film footage would be too disturbing. (Things have gotten much worse than “We’re here, we’re gay, we’re in the PTA.”) Then, just hours before the meeting was to be held it was cancelled by the high school principal. Gay activists from Salt Lake City’s Utah PRIDE group got wind of it and I suppose that was that. A little fear, a little intimidation, and a little misinformation can go a long way. It can even make you care more about appearing “tolerant” and “inclusive” and “loving” and “Christian” toward adults behaving irresponsibly than about the health and safety and well-being of children and families. And intimidation by one group towards another evidently begins a chain of intimidation. For instance, we might wonder what authority a high school principal has to cancel a PTA meeting. The PTA is a private organization which the school allows to meet on its campus during work hours, but which can actually meet anywhere, anytime that can be arranged. Nevertheless, the principal sent emails to all parents cancelling the meeting at the last minute, too late to do anything about it, an action that was not within her jurisdiction. That’s presumption. That’s intimidation. Of course the PTA desires a good working relationship with the school administration, but it should never take a subservient role.

Parents need a heads up as to what public school administrators think of them. These people have no respect for parents. To them, parents are an unenlightened class of people, a primitive annoyance school administrators are forced to put up with. They don’t want parents meddling with their school or their students. They flatter parents into thinking they care about their concerns or that they appreciate their input and service, but they generally don’t feel this way, not when it comes to anything really important. Notice the type of programs the PTA is involved in: festivals, fund-raisers, teacher appreciation, service projects. To some of these “educators,” parents are even thought of as a necessary evil. To paraphrase what one gay Oregon college professor said, let the heterosexuals breed, but when children enter the education system they are ours. Yes, traditional education, that is, the transmission of academic knowledge, is fast becoming transformational indoctrination with the aim of turning society upside-down. Teachers are no longer teachers but change-agents. It’s frightening.

Speaking of fear, one wonders what in the world gay activists are so afraid of that they rush to quash a little Utah Valley PTA meeting. I’ll tell you what they are afraid of: the Truth, and they sniff it out like bloodhounds and kill it before it makes a peep. They don’t want tax-paying parents to know that GLSEN, the NEA, the National PTA, textbooks, teachers, and administrators are pushing sex of all kinds on their kids as young a kindergarten, here and little, there a little, in a remark, in a paragraph, in a library book, in a text book, in a school newspaper article, in a school-sponsored pro-gay “Day of Silence.” In the name of their own freedom to break time-honored taboos and to recruit young people into all manner of extreme, harmful, unbounded, and phony sex and sexuality, they feel perfectly fine about silencing others. That’s right. Today’s champions of civil rights act as if they are the only ones who deserve them; anyone who disagrees with their worldview must be totally shut up. What’s more, they cannot allow the sordid and disturbing truths about homosexual behavior to see the light of day. Not until they’ve finished “overhauling straight America,” to use their own words. They’ve made great progress. Some have been completely conditioned into believing unlimited sex is wholesome, normal, and safe, and that children, yes, children, should be enlightened on its merits.

Plato said that the purpose of education is to teach the young pupil what he should regard as valuable and what he should regard as disgusting. This does not happen automatically. It must be taught. The principal of American Fork High School has made it clear where she stands: the idea of parents becoming aware of propaganda aimed at their children which promotes risky sexual behavior is disgusting, while the idea of celebrating unnatural sexual proclivities and recruiting young people into them is valuable. Also, that freedom of speech for homosexuals is valuable, while freedom of speech for people who espouse traditional values is disgusting.

As for the tired argument that people should only be allowed to speak on controversial topics when all sides are presented, if that were true, there would never be a single speech made anywhere. Speeches are made from singular views everywhere, every day. Our Constitution guarantees this sort of thing. Take Martin Luther King, for instance. There was no white supremacist there at the microphone at Lincoln’s feet presenting an opposing view to King’s dream.

So, while things are pretty bad, I’m thankful I can still write this and post it on my web site for thousands of people to read, much to the frustration of those who seek to highjack the freedoms of others. I’m sure they’ve congratulated themselves on their victory over a tiny Utah Valley PTA meeting and are wracking their brains to find more ways to silence people like us further. But it’s them, not me, I am sorry for. Because they can never fully succeed in covering up Truth they live in fear of being exposed.

-Stephen & Janice Graham

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