Homosexual Inroads in Education

* A school sex education program produced by the National Center for Health Education in New York City notes that “most people fall somewhere on a continuum between … homosexual and heterosexual orientation.” The program’s target audience: kindergarten through seventh graders. Its first-grade textbooks feature passages about “daddy’s roommate” and a girl who has “two mommies.” The books are designed to accustom first-graders to the idea of homosexual parents. This program is used in 45 U.S. states and 8,000 schools, according to a spokesman.

* Britain is following the same path in educating its children. Some children’s libraries feature books such as “Gloria Goes to Gay Pride,” about a girl with two mommies who goes to a Gay Pride meeting and how happy she is. This is just one of a series of books, part of a campaign to “change the traditionally negative and hostile environment in which young homos find themselves in school,” according to Hugh Warren of the London Gay Teenage Group.

* One of the most striking examples of homosexual influence is a sex counseling program for homosexuals in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Called “Project 10,” it is a program that has been introduced into numerous Los Angeles high schools since 1984. The aim: To target students who may be homosexual or who “express conflict over sexual orientation.” The program purports to “break the wall of silence” surrounding homosexuality. It teaches that homosexuality is simply another normal variation of sex and seeks to “develop a philosophy that is non-judgmental with regard to sexuality.” Project 10 is going strong in Los Angeles schools today, offering counseling, books and lectures on the homosexual lifestyle. “The only opposition,” said school district spokesman Shel Erlich, “is from so-called family-oriented groups who prefer to hide their heads a little bit.”

* A proposal for health education from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene notes that “a range of sexual orientations is normal.” And in a program called “About Your Sexuality,” distributed through the Unitarian Universalist Association, junior high-age youngsters are shown explicit filmstrips that depict various homosexual acts.

* New York has a special high school for gay and lesbian youth, cross-dressers and transsexuals: Harvey Milk School. Located in Greenwich Village, which has a large gay community, Harvey Milk has two full-time teachers and two classrooms for 40 students, only a handful of whom show up at the three-story waterfront building on a given day.

* San Francisco boasts the Lesbian and Gay Parenting Group, storytelling hours for tots at gay bookstores and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a largely gay synagogue with a Hebrew School for members’ children.

* Gay power is burgeoning at Harvard. For the first time, an assistant dean has been delegated to deal with gay issues on campus. A tutor specializing in gay concerns has been assigned to each of Harvard’s undergraduate houses. Lesbian couples now appear at Radcliffe’s formal Senior Soiree, and gays routinely dance together at Harvard events. That can sometimes lead to friction. In February a ruckus broke out when a gay student asked the younger brother of a straight student to dance. Gay students soon after staged a “kiss-in” to protest alleged harassment.

* Homosexual teachers in Switzerland enjoy total freedom of operation and are virtually untouchable as they spread the gospel of the pleasures of gay life into the minds of unsuspecting and innocent youngsters. To illustrate how liberal thinking has become the norm among intellectuals, here’s a statement from the principal of one of the most prestigious high schools in Switzerland, Dr. Lscher: “I’m not interested in what kind of sexual beliefs my teachers subscribe to. This is their private affair. If they choose to reveal their homo or heterosexuality to their students, that’s entirely their own business. We can’t stop them from doing this! If they would `come out’ and make statements to the class like, `Some people are heterosexual, others are homosexual; personally, I fancy the homosexual way of life’, they’d be perfectly within the bounds of legality and are merely exercising their legal rights of freedom of expression.” Consequently there are several gay teachers associations which meet, convene and plot very openly how to further their cause, sowing the seeds of sodomy into the hearts of their young students. Their phone numbers are proudly advertised in brochures.

Switzerland begins its sex education classes in the 5th grade in some cantons, and addresses homosexuality very openly. The head of one education department said, “We endeavor to present our students with a liberal view of these matters (homosexuality). `Normalization’, not `Polarization’, is our concept here. We … want to present this to our students as normal and nothing out of the ordinary.”

In a recent issue of “SLZ” (an influential Swiss magazine for teachers), the writer gave a discourse on how to deal with the growing rate of youth homosexuality: “We have to learn to view youth homosexuality in a positive light. If any given youth seems to have homosexual tendencies, they should be encouraged to stand by their convictions and not feel condemned about these feelings. We advocate directing them immediately to an appropriate group or association of like-minded homosexual youth, where they can find the help and assistance they need to lead a normal life. We further suggest that more assistance and support should be given to such organizations and associations of young homosexuals, modelled after the example of the Northern European countries such as Denmark and Holland, where such associations receive substantial governmental funding and support.”

* Australian homosexuals object to the fact that “The education system presents children with a heterosexual, nuclear family oriented lifestyle model.” They insist that the education system accept and teach that homosexuality is “a normal variation of sexual behaviour.” In “Young, Gay and Proud,” a book published for high school students by the Melbourne Gay Teachers and Students Group, students are told: “You have probably been told as you have grown up that your anus is a dirty place and shouldn’t be touched. This is stupid. People should be happy with all parts of their bodies, and if they aren’t, it means they can’t like themselves very much.”

In a 1982 report on Discrimination and Homosexuality, the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board specifically recommended that non-government (including Christian) schools should be forced both to employ openly homosexual teachers and to revise curricula to present homosexual behaviour in a positive light.

Homosexual Inroads in Religion

* The Metropolitan Community Church is a church founded specifically for homosexuals, and now has over 267 churches in 11 countries. It was founded by Troy Perry, who claims to be an Evangelical, but has reported that at one of the crucial junctures in his life, an occult minister directed him by prophecy to leave the gay world and return to the Christian ministry as an active homosexual.

* One-third of the bishops of the U.S. Episcopal church now knowingly ordain homosexuals and lesbians.

* The United Church of Christ in America also knowingly ordains homosexuals and lesbians.

* The Unitarian Universalists openly welcome gay clergy.

* After three years of study and debate, a special committee of the 8.9 million-member United Methodist Church said it was unable to agree on whether homosexuality is compatible with Christian teaching. In a report to the nation’s second largest Protestant denomination, the 24-member committee did say the church should be “a place of acceptance and hospitality to all persons.”

* Homosexuality has apparently made tremendous inroads in the Roman Catholic Church. Father Andrew Greeley complained in a recent article that regard for priestly celibacy is being undermined by a “national network” of actively homosexual clergy. “In some dioceses, certain rectories have become lavender houses,” he grumbled. (Lavender is a common homosexual theme colour.) Theologian Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame contends that homosexuality is so widespread that “heterosexual males are deciding in ever increasing numbers not even to consider the priesthood.” Just how common is homosexuality among the Catholic clergy? A Washington Post article cited the figures of a Baltimore therapist, A.W. Richard Sipe, who, after 25 years of interviewing 1,000 priests, concluded that 20% of the nation’s Catholic clergy are gay, half of those sexually active. Sipe also estimates that 4% of priests are sexually attracted to adolescents and an additional 2% to children under 13.

Catholic spokesmen in Basel, Switzerland, commented, “We have arrived at a point where it seems unavoidable that we have to accept the officially still abnormal practice of homosexual love as normal. We can’t help but accept that love can exist between consenting homosexuals of legal age. And since the prerequisite for marriage is love, there shouldn’t be any reasons why we can’t let them marry.” (Sorry, pet-lovers, it’s still out of the question for you!) On the issue of homosexuality and Catholic priests, he said, “Since Catholic priests are supposed to abide by their vows of celibacy, it makes no difference to us whether or not a priest has homosexual inclinations or not. Even if certain tendencies are known to us, as long as we receive no complaints and things don’t get out of hand, we won’t act on this.”

* Leaders of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada, have decided that homosexuals can be considered for the ministry.

* Many Danish theologians believe homosexuals shouldn’t be condemned for their “weakness.” One said, “No one can stamp homosexuals as degrading or non-Christian without at the same time stamping himself as being degrading and non-Christian.”

* The organization of Reform rabbis broke with 4,000 years of Jewish tradition and endorsed homosexual rabbis as qualified leaders of congregations in the United States at its 101st annual convention.

* The media spokesman for the Uniting Church in Australia said they “have every sympathy with homosexuals” and that it is only a matter of time before they ordain professing homosexuals.

* In the Anglican Church of Australia, the Archbishop of Perth ordained their first homosexual minister in 1992. This was front-page news in many Australian papers, but didn’t cause much of a reaction from the public.

* The utter contempt with which many homosexuals hold Christianity is illustrated in the first issue of Homosexual News Service, which was compiled and published by the Australian Union of Students. This newsletter contains the poem “The Love That Dare Not Speak its Name,” which was outlawed in Great Britain when the magazine that published it there was convicted of blasphemy by the British Crown prosecutor. (The poem describes a Roman centurion engaging in varied and repeated homosexual acts on the “still warm” body of Christ after it had been taken down from the Cross.) The publication of the poem was bad enough, but the reasons given by the AUS were as follows: “We reprint it not for any necessary artistic or political merit in the poem itself, but as an act of solidarity with English homosexuals and as an act of blasphemy against Christianity and all religious idiocy.”

The contempt of many homosexuals for Christianity is further illustrated by a Sydney group calling themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Adopting names like Mother Inferior, Sister Malicious Intent, Sister Disgrace, Sister Ophelia Dick, they dress in nun’s habits and perform mock religious rituals at homosexual functions and rallies.

Of course, their attack on Christian freedom of belief is best illustrated, not by their act of blasphemy, but by their demands for access to Christian schools and churches as teachers, priests, and role-models.

Other Homosexual Inroads in Society

* In the last 21 years, legal battles have produced major changes in the status of gay men and lesbians. The repeal or reform of Sodomy laws has taken place in half the states of the U.S., comprising over half the nation’s population. According to a recent Gallup Poll, public tolerance for homosexuals is now higher than support for racial integration was 40 years ago. The gay community’s goal is “integration–just as it was with Martin Luther King,” says Harry Britt, president of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. “We want the same rights to happiness and success as the nongay.”

Most Americans now seem to feel homosexuals are entitled to those rights. An August 1992 poll by Newsweek magazine found that 78% of the public believes gay men and women should have equal rights in job opportunities. Getting down to specific jobs, 64% believed homosexuals could or should be hired as members of the president’s cabinet, 59% as members of the armed forces, 54% as high-school teachers, 51% as elementary-school teachers, and 48% as clergymen.

* More than 140,000 people marched in “Gay and Lesbian Pride” parades across the U.S. in June, 1992, on the 23rd anniversary of a police raid on a New York bar that helped fuel the gay pride movement. In the New York parade, one of the grand marshals was a homosexual with the AIDS virus recently elected to the city council. In Chicago, dignitaries and politicians joined the marchers. And in West Hollywood, California, the parade went on as planned despite two severe earthquakes in the region. More than 200 groups ranging from the Gay Bankers to the Radical Fairies to a Shriners marching band signed up for the Fifth Avenue march along a lavender line painted down the center of the parade route. The marchers included drag queens and disco floats led by the “Dykes on Bikes” brigade of motorcyclists in leather regalia.

* In the U.S. there are 1,580 gay and lesbian organisations nationwide, including political, social, activist and student groups.

* More and more, homosexuals are coming out on television. U.S. television shows such as “Cheers,” “Northern Exposure,” “Roseanne,” “The Golden Girls,” “Designing Women,” “L.A. Law” and “Thirtysomething” have all depicted non-heterosexual characters. Chris Fowler, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, said television is miles ahead of films in the positive portrayal of homosexual characters. “The incidence of gay characters in episodic television series is phenomenal,” he said. Hollywood is changing its act, though. At least six major gay or AIDS-themed films are in development now.

* The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Los Angeles is a major force in Hollywood, and many studios submit movie scripts dealing with homosexuality to them for approval before shooting takes place.

* A homosexual who was fired from his job with a Shell Oil Co. subsidiary won $5.3 million for wrongful termination in what is believed to be the largest award of its kind by a U.S. court. Jefferey Collins was fired after he prepared a “house rules” flyer for a “safe-sex” homosexual party on a company word processor and mistakenly left a copy of it in the company’s copy room, where it was found by his secretary the next day and passed on to his superior.

* Since April of 1990, a group called Queer Nation has staged mass “kiss-ins,” as they term them, at heterosexual bars and demonstrations outside the homes of accused gay-bashers. Another group, the Pink Panthers, organizes late-night patrols of Greenwich Village to protect homosexuals from assailants.

* In Florida, a prisoner has sued his jailers for more than $50,000, saying they discriminated against him by separating him from the gay lover he was arrested with.
* A society for the defense of pedophilia exists in England; it has recently been encouraged by a visiting Catholic monk who is a child psychologist. A priest who finds nothing harmful in a homosexual practice with consenting children is currently ministering to gays in the Boston area.

* A new credit card issued recently, the “Pride Card,” is the first in the U.S. designed expressly to help fund activities and causes dear to the gay community.

* Gay and lesbian literature has become one of the book industry’s hottest niches. Even the staid Book-of-the-month Club is touting homosexual titles. Many gay bookstores generate impressive revenues. Norman Laurila’s three gay and lesbian bookstores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco gross more than $2.5 million a year, above average for specialty bookstores.

* An estimated 10,000 children in the U.S. are being raised by lesbians who conceived them by artificial insemination. Other lesbians make arrangements to have children with gay “uncles.” In New South Wales, Australia, the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby has embarked on a campaign to improve the chances of homosexual people to be able to foster or gain custody of children.

* The European Parliament has urged EC member states to abolish laws against consenting sexual relations between people of the same sex, introduce an equal age of consent for heterosexuals and homosexuals, ban the keeping of special records on lesbians and gay men by the police and other authorities, and reject the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. An EC-wide delegation of lesbian and gay groups has also urged the European Parliament to appoint a senior official with formal responsibility for homosexual issues and liaison.

* Delegates to a 1990 International Lesbian and Gay convention in Copenhagen claimed their peers numbered up to 30 million in the 12 nations of the European Community, or 10 percent of the region’s population. Whatever the case may be in the rest of Europe, homosexuals are certainly very numerous and active in Denmark, where an estimated 10,000 homosexuals are now able to get married in Danish town halls, and benefit from many of the legal advantages given previously only to heterosexual couples.

Danish homosexuals also have various teams which specialise in going to schools, youth clubs and institutions to give speeches on the homosexual lifestyle and share details on male prostitution. For those interested in more information, there’s the homosexual library in the center of Copenhagen, which features more than 700 different gay magazines from around the World, as well as around 4,200 books and publications in Danish and other languages. Copenhagen also has a daily gay and lesbian radio show called “Rosa,” gay and lesbian saunas, discos, video centers, and a few male escort services.

* Homosexuals are setting up their own organisation in the Dutch armed forces with Defense Ministry approval. The main Dutch homosexual organisation estimates there are half a million to a million homosexuals in a population of 14.5 million people.

* Switzerland has been a leader in homosexual legislation, with laws passed as early as 1942 allowing consenting partners to “enjoy” homosexual relationships. This led to an influx of German gays and laid the foundation for the current situation in Switzerland where just about “everything goes.” With the freedom of a new sex law, any adult can entertain a homosexual relationship with a 16-year-old teenager without having to fear any repercussions or legal implications.

The gay community of Switzerland boasts about being one of the few countries in the World to have had two consecutive annual “coming out days.” “Coming out” is a phrase commonly used for the process in the life of a homosexual where he begins to confess openly and publicly his sexual leanings. On October 10, 1991, thousands of gay youth took to the streets of Switzerland and let an astonished nation know that they were a force to be reckoned with and that they were going places. In an information campaign they presented themselves as an alternate “fun” lifestyle, laced with pictures of homosexual couples having “fun” together swimming, dancing, strolling down a sidewalk, talking, discussing, or relaxing. In Basel, much to the shock of many disgusted onlookers, they presented a gay couple lying in a bed, in the middle of the street, while others were passing out leaflets to passers-by. It’s certainly no coincidence that Switzerland, with 2,500 AIDS casualties so far, leads Europe on a per capita basis.

* The Israeli Parliament (Knesset) has legalised homosexual acts between men over the age of 18 despite a Biblical ban on Sodomy.

* A recent poll by AGP Australia showed that 45% of Australians said they believed that all Australian States and Territories should remove laws that make sex between consenting adults of the same sex illegal. In their lobbying to change the laws, gay activists have insisted that even silence was discriminatory in their attempt to force organisations to make statements supporting the legalising and acceptance of homosexuality. They’ve also fought against reforms to the law which were in their favour when they felt they weren’t strong enough.

Courts have generally supported the homosexual cause. A recent front-page article in the Sydney Morning Herald announced an endorsement by the courts for a “sex on premises” homosexual club with the headlines “Gay Sex Club Gets the All-Clear.” The article went on to say, “A gay club which offers private rooms for its members to have sex is fulfilling social and public health needs.”

Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is now in its 15th year and has grown to become one of Sydney’s premier social and tourist events, promoted as being the largest such gay and lesbian event in the World. Advertising for the event features such groups as Toyota, the New South Wales police and the State Transit Authority. The Toyota ad shows two men with their dogs and a Toyota Seca. It is headed “The Family Car.” Reaction to the ads has reportedly been “overwhelmingly positive,” a situation the advertising executive puts down to a more tolerant society. “People who might have been morally aghast a few years ago appear to be far more accepting now,” he said.

In general, gays reject the “family values” that many politicians espouse nowadays. Dennis Altman, an Australian writer and academic, himself a homosexual, notes that “The homosexual represents the most clear-cut rejection of the nuclear family that exists.” He also notes that, “By and large it seems true that as long as the concept of the nuclear family remains the central reference point of social organisation, the homosexual will necessarily be excluded from society. Because of this, the radical wings of the homosexuals’ and womens’ liberation movements came together in common opposition to the nuclear family concept.” Homosexuals repeatedly and indignantly point out that, “One of the ideological functions of the family is to impose the values of heterosexuality and monogamy.”

Homosexuals are childless, of course, and most of them report feeling “very positive” about the fact. As one man interviewed in The Gay Report commented, “Straight people concerned with the problem of overpopulation ought to be happy there are gay people. Of course, some people need to continue having children, but I don’t think heterosexuals are an endangered species.” (By the way, many homosexuals contemptuously call normal males “breeders.”)

Conclusion

The homosexual lifestyle is directly opposite the Scriptural lifestyle, and while some homosexuals openly detest Christians, other homosexuals are secretly infiltrating the churches, schools, government and society at large to change attitudes towards sodomy. This homosexual “Trojan Horse” carries evil men who are often against Christianity, and will seek to destroy it in any way they can. Christians, beware! God’s judgments have fallen heavily on past civilisations that tolerated or promoted homosexuality.

Many homosexuals will say that this is a bigoted perspective on homosexuality. But disagreeing with homosexuals about their rights and disapproving of their behaviour does not make someone a bigot. Opposition is not necessarily a violent hatred or exaggerated fear, rooted in unfair and irrational attitudes based on blanket preconceptions; it is not an evidence of “homophobia.”

Viewing something as immoral is not the same thing as being bigoted; for example, someone who condemns the killing of innocent people is not a bigot toward murderers!

Some gays claim that those who criticise homosexuality are guilty of having a judgmental attitude. It has been said that “surely it is neither the Christian’s responsibility nor prerogative to judge other people’s lifestyles.” But when God’s Word has condemned something–in fact, made it a crime punishable by death–the Word itself, Jesus, has already judged it and found it guilty. Remember, in the Old Testament “every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense.”–Heb. 2:2. Homosexuality is so contrary to Creation and to God’s Will that every hint of wiping out the created distinction between the sexes was also forbidden. Even impersonating the other sex by one’s clothing was abominable. (Deut.22:5).

To be true to God and His Word we cannot be uncritical of or neutral toward those things Scripture prohibits. People must be warned against attitudes and behaviour that are displeasing to God. Homosexuality was so heinous that in ancient Israel it called for capital punishment. Accordingly the child of God must be repulsed and outraged at this vile behaviour: “Therefore I esteem all Thy precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way.”–Psa.119:128.

If you believe that Sodomy is wrong (against God’s Will for humanity), then you must oppose it, or help those who are involved in it. Homosexuals can escape from their lifestyle, if they want deliverance. Groups like Homosexuals Anonymous and Exodus International are having success in 30 to 50% of the cases they treat. There is 100% deliverance through Jesus for those who want it! Jesus said, “I give you power over all the power of the Enemy.”–Luk.10:19. And “as many as received Him (Jesus), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe on His name.”–John 1:12. Jesus calls all men to become “new creatures,” “denying ungodliness and worldly lusts” (2Cor.5:17; Tit.2:12), and He gives us the power to do so. Receive Jesus today and see what He can do for you!–He will help you!

A testimonial of a man with same sex attraction who overcame it through Jesus Christ!