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NEWS BRIEF: "TOP 10 STRATEGIES USED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS IN SCHOOLS", Insight Family Research Council, by Peter LaBarbara, http://www.frc.org/insight/is99f4hs.html  11/23/99.

"Of all the advances of the homosexual agenda, perhaps none is more disturbing than the penetration of the nation's schools with messages and programs designed to teach homosexuality as normative. In recent years, homosexual advocates have injected pro-homosexuality discussions into early grade classrooms . including kindergarten . in the name of . tolerance. and . diversity.. In middle school and high school, youngsters are being encouraged to . come out. as . gay,. . lesbian,. . bisexual. or even . transgender. through pro-homosexuality school clubs. Meanwhile, activist teachers are incorporating homosexuality-affirming lessons in curricula and defending their . right. to be openly homosexual in the classroom . regardless of parental opposition."

In 1989, I asked renowned Christian educator, Dr. Samuel Blumenthal, to speak to one of my seminars held in Mansfield Public Library.  The first words he spoke were, "Christian parents, it is high time to get your children out of public schools.  I used to counsel working within the system as active parents, but I am here to tell you the public school system is now so corrupt, you now need to just pull your children out."

Dr. Blumenthal listed several reasons he believed the Public School System was so corrupt that it was no longer capable of being reformed by activist parents.

First, Dr. Blumenthal say a complete moral breakdown is permeating public schools.  Sexual activity between boys and girls was rampant, with virgins of both sexes under tremendous pressure to become sexually active.  He also felt homosexual activists had taken over the National Education Association, a topic we shall discuss more thoroughly in this article.

Secondly, Dr. Blumenthal felt that elementary discipline within the schools had broken down so completely that real learning was no longer possible.  When teachers are more concerned with just keeping the classroom from exploding than they are with teaching, true learning is impossible. Further, when teachers cannot discipline the child when they need it, true teaching is impossible.

Thirdly, Dr. Blumenthal was well aware that the textbooks had been systematically "dumbed down" in a progressive plan in operation since World War I.  Since today's teachers learned in school systems already "dumbed down", and since textbooks had been similarly stripped of thorough knowledge, kids today in public schools did not have a chance of receiving a quality education.

If Dr. Blumenthal was correct in his assessment in 1989, he is triply correct in 2000.  During most of the decade of the 1990's, the #1 scorers in national achievement tests have been Home Schooled children, followed closely by students of private Christian Schools.  Way, way down the list are children of Public Schools.

Now, let us discuss the terrible way in which brilliantly active homosexual activists have succeeded tremendously in getting their agenda accepted in Public Schools.  This agenda is not fully implemented in all school districts, but is silently being implemented in schools throughout the nation. Your public school system will get this homosexual agenda sooner or later.

TOP 10 STRATEGIES OF IMPLEMENTING HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IN PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 

1.  PROMOTE VICTIM STATUS; EXPLOIT . SAFETY. RHETORIC.

Homosexual activists have successively cooperated with the Clinton/Gore Administration to force a very pro-homosexual program based upon the false precept that gay students are "at risk" because they face "discrimination" from students not gay.  These activtists openly admit that gay students are more troubled and commit suicide far more often, but attribute this fact to the "discrimination" faced by gay students.  Further, activists admit that gay people face more risk of diseases and premature death, but say adamantly that this situation would be reversed if schools just taught "safe sex", coupled with teachings on how "normal" and "healthy" homosexuality truly is.

2.  START WITH VERY YOUNG CHILDREN

You will be shocked to know that the plan to train children to accept homosexuality extends all the way down to preschool!  Activists acknowledge that children are more teachable if they are reached at this young and tender age.  If you are taking your children to public day care, or to preschool, you must actively search out what they are teaching.

3.  DISCUSS ALTERNATIVE . FAMILIES. /CELEBRATE . DIVERSITY..

Homosexual curricula has re-defined "Family" to include same-sex couples.  This is the reason we are suddenly seeing more and more gay couples adopting children from the state agencies.  And, just as Liberal Protestants use the word 'diversity' to bring all religions together under the same roof, so homosexual activists are using this word to promote acceptance of this sexual lifestyle among the children in public schools.

4.  ENACT SCHOOL NONDISCRIMINATION CODES

Activists for the homosexual cause discovered that a change in public attitude was most often preceded by, and actually aided by, a change in the school code.  Therefore, they have worked very hard in local communities throughout our land to get the Public School Board to make "discrimination" of gay students against the school code.

5.  PROMOTE . COMING OUT. AND . GLBT PRIDE..

When authority figures in a society embrace something, they make it far more attractive to people who do not have a strong predisposition or prior training against it.  Homosexuality is no exception.  Students who might not have even seriously considered gay sexuality might be tempted to try it if they see their public school authority figures accepting it and promoting it heavily.  Kids emulate sports figures because of their glamour; they also tend to emulate what their teachers are promoting, especially in the targeted Elementary and Preschool areas.

6.  ENCOURAGE (AND FUND) PRO-HOMOSEXUALITY STUDENT CLUBS

The most logical extension of the above "Pride" in being gay on behalf of authority figures is to create gay student clubs that will even more effectively spread the gay message throughout the student body.

7.  ADOPT HOMOSEXUAL-AFFIRMING CURRICULA

Textbooks have been rewritten to promote homosexuality. Consider, for example, how a math question has been worded so it promotes homosexuality.  "The use of same-sex couples in word problems; (example: if 10,000 people marched in the Gay Pride March in 1990 and 25,000 in 1992, what was the average increase?)..?" [Ibid.]

8.  USE OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL TEACHERS AND . ROLE MODELS..

Once again, we cannot reiterate how devastating it is for many students when their authority figures are openly gay or are pressing a homosexual agenda.

9.  PRO-HOMOSEXUALITY COUNSELING FOR TROUBLED YOUTH.

Once again, homosexual activists admit that gay youth are more troubled than normal youth, but refuse to admit that the reason is the inherent mental confusion and instability created by engaging in a sexual practice absolutely forbidden by Creator God.  If a person pours kerosene in his oil spigot in his car, he knows he will ruin the engine because he is doing something other than what the engine was created to accept. The same principle applies with our bodies and minds; when a person engages in certain heinous sin forbidden by Creator God, they immediately begin to receive God's judgment in their minds and bodies.  [Romans 1:18-32, but especially verses 27-29]

10. EQUATE OPPOSITION WITH HATE, BIGOTRY AND PREJUDICE

The Cutting Edge Ministries was very quickly added to the "Hate List" of homosexual and lesbian groups because we taught the Biblical truth.  The Clinton Administration has been very active in getting laws passed and Executive Decisions created that have systematically laid the groundwork for governments Federal, State, and Local, to one day physically move against all Christians who oppose the practice of homosexuality based upon Biblical beliefs.  The trap has been laid already, awaiting only the right moment to strike.

BIBLICAL TEACHINGS ON HOMOSEXUALITY

1. Genesis 18:20-19:25 -- God preserves for eternity the story of Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed because of their open practice of homosexuality. God destroyed these cities completely. What is shocking is that this instance occurred hundreds of years prior to God's Law which we will quote you in a few moments.  Thus, God had taught men orally prior to eternally establishing His Law with Moses and the Jewish nation forbidding these practices.

Since God never punishes without first warning, we know that His unwritten commandments included, not only prohibitions against murder, but homosexuality.

2. Leviticus 20:13 -- "If a man lies with a male as if he were a women, both men have committed an offense -- perverse, corrupt unnatural, abhorrent, and detest able." (Bible Commentary) The King James Version uses the word "Abomination" instead of abhorrent. God also issued this command against homosexuality in Leviticus 18:22, again referring to this practice as an "abomination". In chapters 18 and 20, God uses this word, "abomination" five times in connection with His prohibitions against various sexual sins. Do you think God was trying to impress something upon us?

The entire chapter of Leviticus 18 governs the practice of various types of sexual sin. God concludes His warnings in 18:24-29, "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the ...land is defiled; therefore, I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants...Who ever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off (killed) from his people."

These are strong words from an Omnipotent, Unchanging God. Americans would do well to heed them.

3. Deuteronomy 23:17, God forbids cult prostitution, either male or female.

4. 1 Corinthians 6:9, "Do not be deceived [there's that word again], neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality...shall inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God."

5. 1 Timothy 1:8-11, Paul lists all the sins which are properly controlled by the Old Testament Law. One of the sins so mentioned is "those who abuse themselves with men". This is shorthand way of referring to homosexuality.

Jesus also had some very stern things to say about homosexuality in Revelation; in Chapter 21, He tells us that certain people will be cast eternally into "the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone." (verse 8) Earlier in this verse, Jesus listed those types of people who would be cast into this Lake of Fire. He includes those who are "depraved and defiled with abominations..." Jesus used the same words, "defiled" and "abominations" here that He used in Leviticus 18 and 20 to refer to homosexual acts!!! Remember also that God said in Leviticus 18 and 20 that these sexual sins defiled the land, and the land would vomit out her inhabitants. Here, Jesus reiterates that this sexual sin defiles.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that and only that is what he shall reap." That word, "deceived" keeps popping up again and again, particularly during the End of The Age.

Therefore, it is highly imperative that Christian parents yank their beloved children from Public Schools and get them into either private Christian schools or Home Schooling.  Both Bob Jones University [http://www.bju.edu/ministries/acad_home_ed/]  and Pensacola Christian College [http://www.abeka.com/ ]

have excellent materials, as does Christian Book Distributing in Peabody, Massachusetts, in their Home Schooling catalog [978-977-5080].  Any Mom, Dad, or Grandparent can systematically follow the detailed daily lesson plans and impart more knowledge than most public school teachers are giving students in this day and age.  Standardized test results tell the whole story:  Home Schooled kids are getting the superior education!

Christian parents, your children's souls are at stake. And, given the violent nature of the students in public schools today, your children's physical safety might be at stake also.  Parents need to make whatever changes in their lifestyle they need to make to pull their children out of Public Schools.  Pastors need to make a maximum effort to organize schools that utilize Christian Home Schooling materials. The time to act is now:  our children can no longer afford for the adults in their lives to wait any more. 

You do not want to face the Lord Jesus Christ on Rewards Day only to listen to Him complain about the fact that you left your children to be a prey to the Public School System.  You will not lose your salvation, but you will lose some reward.  Every parent is charged with the protection and training of their children, before Jesus Christ.

Truly, this concerted effort to move America into the condition facing Sodom and Gomorrah is one more solid proof that we are living at the End of the Age.  Jesus prophesied that the same conditions would exist in nations at the End of the Age as existed in Sodom and Gomorrah [Luke 17:28-29]  We should not be surprised at this sudden upsurge in the acceptability of homosexuality, and the promotion of it amongst the population, but we must protect our vulnerable children!

Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.