When Silence Would Have Been Golden     4/10/2002
Acts of Homosexual Promotion to Youth that We Wish Had Never Happened
By Peter J. LaBarbera

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

On April 10, 2002, young pro-homosexual activists nationwide staged their sixth annual "Day of Silence" protest in middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country. The event sought to portray homosexual, bisexual and "transgender" youth as victims of neglect and oppression, and teens who oppose homosexuality as "bigots" and "haters."

Student-activists from over 1,000 schools and universities were slated to participate in the protest. (The figure does not represent the number of schools officially endorsing the event since a response by just one student from a school to the Day of Silence Web places that school on the list.) According to the Web site, participants pledged to mute themselves all day while passing out cards with this message:

I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices….¹

Pro-family groups and conservative students, with tongue in cheek, welcomed the voluntary "gay" silence as a respite from homosexual and "transgender" advocacy in schools. Contending that aggressive promotion of homosexuality in the education system has gotten out of hand, they called for the Day of Silence to be extended to a Week of Silence, and perhaps even the full school year.²

Many students, like their parents, resent demands that they approve of (or not criticize) homosexual behavior and gender confusion in the name of tolerance or fighting "prejudice." They do not accept the "gay" lobby's contention that opposing homosexuality is analogous to racism or other forms of irrational bigotry. (In fact, there are ample indications that homosexuality is less popular among U.S. minorities than among Caucasians.)³ Moreover, many students believe homosexual behavior is dangerous and immoral, and no more deserves approval than other sinful, harmful behaviors.

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

GLSEN JOINS 'SILENCE' CAMPAIGN
Day of Silence organizers received a big boost this year when the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), the leading homosexual pressure group in schools, agreed to join with them in coordinating and promoting the protest. The New York City-based GLSEN has drawn critical attention from pro-family citizens across the country by sponsoring pro-homosexual events and conferences, including some in which students were exposed to explicit, perverse sexual messages (see below). The organization, with an annual budget exceeding $3 million, also promotes pro-homosexual and pro-"transgender" lessons for elementary school children, and homosexual-affirming student clubs called "gay-straight alliances" in middle schools, high schools and colleges.⁴

One irony of the "Day of Silence" theme is that many parents are given the silent treatment by school administrators intent on allowing homosexual activism in schools. Often, parents do not learn about pro-homosexuality events in their child's school until after they are over. Time and again, cases surface in which parents are outraged to learn of a controversial school event, or a pro-"gay" lesson plan at the last minute and demand to know why the school was wasting valuable learning time on one-sided propaganda. Christian and other religious parents who have been told that there is no place for the Bible in public schools are distressed to learn that administrators have acquiesced to anti-Biblical teachings that normalize sexual sin (homosexuality) to their children. Often, they feel intimidated by school bureaucrats and helpless to do anything about it.

The following are documented school-oriented activities, events and quotations that promoted homosexuality and transsexuality either directly to youth, or to adults who work with students and young people. They qualify as the sort of "gay" activism that many parents and natural family advocates — young and old — find deeply offensive and wish would have been replaced by silence.

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

GLSEN'S 'FISTGATE' IN MASSACHUSETTS
The most notorious education scandal involving homosexual activists is a GLSEN-sponsored conference that occurred on March 25, 2000, dubbed "Fistgate" by conservatives. Three homosexual activists employed by the Massachusetts Departments of Health and Education led a youth workshop titled "What They Didn't Tell You about Queer Sex & Sexuality in Health Class" — part of the annual Boston-GLSEN "Teach Out" conference held at Tufts University. The "Queer Sex" session, advertised to "youth only ages 14 to 21," was attended by Massachusetts family advocate Scott Whitemen, who taped it while standing in the back of the room.

In the workshop, instructor Michael Gaucher, prompted by a teen's question, verbally guided the students on the mechanics of "fisting" — a homosexual slang term for a sadistic sex act in which a man inserts his hand and arm into another person's anal cavity. Another instructor, Margot Abels⁵, said fisting "often gets a really bad rap," and described it innocuously as "an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with." Abels and Gaucher also guided the students on techniques of oral sodomy and lesbian sex.⁶

Other panels at the Boston-GLSEN conference — which is still at the center of litigation due to Whiteman's taping of the workshop⁷ — included:

• Ask the Transsexuals
• Early Childhood Educators: How to Decide Whether to Come Out [as a Homosexual] at Work or Not
• Lesbian Avengers: How to Promote Queer-Friendly Activism in Your Schools and in Your Lives
• The Struggles and Triumphs of Including Homosexuality in a Middle School Curriculum
• The Religious Wrong: Dealing Effectively with Opposition in Your Community⁸

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

GLSEN'S JENNINGS: !&%#! THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT!
Addressing a church audience on March 20, 2000 in New York City — just days before "Fistgate" — GLSEN Executive Director Kevin Jennings offered a stinging (and quite intolerant) assessment of how to deal with religious conservatives:

Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual] bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we'll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] … over to our side. That's really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit — … I'm trying to find a way to say this. I'm trying not to say, '[F---] 'em!' which is what I want to say, because I don't care what they think! [audience laughter] Drop dead!⁹

It should be noted that GLSEN and Jennings make heavy use of the words "respect" and "tolerance" in their public rhetoric and in descriptions of their programs.¹⁰

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

JENNINGS: OK TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCHOOLS
Although Jennings has employed manipulative methods that exaggerate homosexual victimhood to advance his pro-"gay" agenda in schools, he has occasionally been frank about GLSEN's real agenda:

I'd like five years from now for most Americans when they hear the word GLSEN to think, "Ooh, that's good for kids." … Sane people keep the world the same [sh---y] old way it is now. It's the [crazy] people who think, "No, I can envision a day when straight people say, 'So what if you're promoting homosexuality?' or [when] straight kids say, 'Hey, why don't you and your boyfriend come over before you go to the prom and try your tuxes on at my house?'" … [I]f we believe that can happen, we can make it happen. The only thing that will stop us is our lack of faith that we can make it happen. That is our mission from this day forward.¹¹

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

PRO-HOMOSEXUAL PLAY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS
In 2001, children as young as age seven were required to attend a theatrical tolerance presentation with pro-homosexual themes at two elementary schools in the Novato Unified School District in Novato, California. The presentations were part of a series of skits titled "Cootie Shots," produced by an activist group called Fringe Benefits Theatre "dedicated to building bridges between gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youth and their straight peers, teachers and parents."¹² Parents were not informed about the loaded presentations, according to Pacific Justice Institute, which is suing the Novato school district over the play on behalf of parents.¹³

GLSEN's Web site sells the book Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Children, Parents and Teachers, which is described:

This assortment of plays, songs, poems and interactive performance pieces promote acceptance and celebrate diversity by presenting role models from many different races, classes, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, religions, ages, shapes and sizes. In all, Cootie Shots is comprised of fifty 2-15 minute educational pieces for elementary school audiences.¹⁴

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

BRAINWASHING KINDERGARTNERS
At the same 1997 regional GLSEN conference where Kevin Jennings revealed his goal to openly promote homosexuality in schools, New York teacher and GLSEN activist Jaki Williams led a workshop titled "Inclusive Kindergartens." What follows is Williams' chilling advice to other teachers and fellow GLSEN activists on how to push pro-homosexual themes on very young, impressionable children:

Children in the kindergarten age are "developing their superego," Williams said, and "that's when the saturation process needs to begin." … She explained that "five-year-olds really are very interested in the big questions. They're very interested in sex, death, and love, and they ask those questions, and they talk about them. And we want to help them find the answers … on their level." To initiate conversation, Williams said she has her class read from an assortment of pro-homosexual children's books, such as "Heather Has Two Mommies" and "One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads."¹⁵

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

'COMING OUT' TO KINDERGARTNERS
Yet another GLSEN activist, retired gym teacher Geraldine Burke of East Hartford, Connecticut, demonstrated that no child is too young to be on the receiving end of pro-homosexual messages. In 1999, Burke co-led a workshop at a national GLSEN conference in Atlanta, attended by this writer, and told the audience about how — in a kindergarten gym class — she seized on a student's innocent question to reveal, explain and defend her lesbian behavior. The dialogue below is striking because: 1) Burke easily could have avoided discussing homosexuality with her young charges but chose not to out of a devotion to the "gay" cause; and 2) she manipulatively equates homosexual behavior with familial love:

[Burke] explained that at her school she was "out" as a lesbian to the principal and to most of the teaching staff, and that it was important for her to be "authentic" about her sexual identity. According to Burke, one day a student in her gym class asked if she had a husband. She said no, and then another student asked if she had a boyfriend. Burke said no, "As a matter of fact … I have a girlfriend." After some of the children said, "Ohhhh!" as if shocked, they asked her if she kissed her girlfriend. Burke said she did.

The kids responded again, "Ohhhh!" When she asked what was wrong, one of the students said "Well, boys aren't supposed to kiss boys and girls aren't supposed to kiss girls." [Editor's note: Out of the mouths of babes…]

Burke responded, "Some people think it's OK, and some people think it's not OK."…

Then the gym teacher asked one of the boys in her class, "Do you ever kiss your father goodnight?" He replied, "Yes." [Burke] asked one of the girls," Do you ever kiss your sister to show her that you love her?" "Yes," the girl responded. Burke then used the analogy between those kisses and her lesbian kisses as she told the children, "Some people will tell you that you shouldn't love some people [but] … your heart tells you who to love."…

"This was a very teachable moment … I was not in any way going to lie to my students," Burke said of her conversation with the kindergarten gym class. "At the elementary school level, the teachable moments are the really critical ones."¹⁶

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

PROMOTING SADISM, DRUGS & GENDER CONFUSION TO YOUTH
At a homosexual "Youth Pride Day" rally held April 17, 1999 in downtown Washington, D.C., a "gay" youth organization passed out "safe sex" condom packets containing a flier featuring sadomasochistic homosexual photos and a "nonjudgmental" approach to illegal party drugs. The packets were passed out in a large bucket manned by the group SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League) and were freely available to any youngster who walked by SMYAL's table. One photo pictured two men bound together with rope. Another featured a man's naked buttocks being spanked over the knee of a "leatherman," over the caption: "Some of us do ecstasy [an illegal drug used to create euphoric feelings]. Some of us do crystal [a powerful methamphetamine]. Some of us just say no. Some of us are tops [in the act of homosexual anal sodomy]. Some of us are bottoms. Some of us are versatile." This writer attended the youth event, and there was no information about the risks of anal sodomy or sadistic acts at the SMYAL table.

At the same "Youth Pride" rally, a teenage-looking boy dressed gaudily in female clothing spoke from the stage about his "transgendered" (perceived) conversion from male to female. Other transsexual speakers were featured at the event, as well as an adult, Jose Ucles, who produced sadistic sex "Dungeon Dance" parties held in D.C.¹⁷

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

CALIFORNIA USES PERVERSE 'GAY' WRITINGS FOR 'DIVERSITY' LESSONS

Worldnetdaily.com reported recently on some of the books that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is using to carry out California's new pro-homosexual school law. Reports the online news source:

"Young, Gay & Proud," "One Teenager In 10: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth" and "Homophobia as Child Abuse" are three of the 27 recommended titles….

In one excerpt from "Young, Gay, & Proud," the author writes: "There are lots of ways for gay men to have enjoyable sex. … It's up to you to find out what you like and how you like to do it. … [Masturbating] is a fun, safe and healthy way for guys to enjoy our bodies and fantasies." The author goes on to provide explicit details of how "gay men can make love." A note of encouragement follows profanity-laced tips on performing anal sex: "You may have to practice a bit before it starts feeling really good."

In "One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay & Lesbian Youth," 16-year-old Amy relates the blow-by-blow details of her sexual encounter at the age of 12 with her [female] dance teacher, aged 23. The encounter reportedly happened at a hotel after the teacher "asked [her] to give a special dance presentation in another city" over the weekend. Amy praises her teacher for bringing her "out" [as a lesbian] and for the relationship that continued for three years following that encounter. The "very conservative Baptist" later explains that her "parents do not know or suspect" and states, "I think finding out that people think homosexuality is bad made me more firm in my desire to stay a lesbian regardless of what would happen to me."

A two-page magazine article displayed at Hollywood High School under the caption, "The Gay Rapper," and obtained by WorldNetDaily is too profane and obscene to be quoted.¹⁸

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

LYING ABOUT LINCOLN
The same Los Angeles school district has also promoted the widely discredited piece of "gay" revisionist history that claims President Abraham Lincoln had a homosexual affair with his good friend Joshua Fry Speed. In 1995, Kathy Gill, director of the LAUSD's Gay and Lesbian Commission, defended the commission's use of a one-page document entitled "Abraham Lincoln's Love for Joshua Fry Speed." Gill told this writer that the paper gives a "balanced" account about the "homosexual activities that [Lincoln] did have." When questioned repeatedly about the irresponsibility of making such a claim, Gill said, "There are many people in history that have had bisexual activities. That's not a sin. It's not a sin to tell the truth."¹⁹

In reality, the "gay" Lincoln myth is rooted in the bizarre writings of one Charles Shively, a pro-pedophile academic. His book Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers, asserts, for example, that because Lincoln and Speed shared a bed when they rented a room together in their youth, it meant they were homosexuals. Lincoln scholars ridiculed that assertion as nonsense, saying, as one put it, "In those days, bed space was at a premium, so this was very common."²⁰ Michael Burlingame, a leading Lincoln scholar, said, "there is simply no evidence" to support Shively's theory, which, sadly, has since been given a wider audience on the Internet.²¹

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XY MAGAZINE FOR 'GAY' BOYS
The San Francisco magazine XY is geared toward self-identified "gay" male teens and collegians, and is available in Borders and other "mainstream" bookstores across the nation. The racy magazine is filled with shirtless young men, so much so that a homosexual writer at a "gay" newspaper in Boston said that it would be popular with "chickenhawks" — a "gay" slang term for adult men who like to have sex with boys and young men.

As if XY's promotion of homosexuality as a good weren't tragic enough, the magazine regularly revisits even more extreme themes such as sadomasochism (e.g., boys photographed in chains) and "gay" porn. One issue showed a photo of a youthful male sexual threesome, hugging erotically.²²

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

IT'S ELEMENTARY: MORE GRADE SCHOOL PROPAGANDA
In 1999, two lesbian activists produced a pro-homosexual propaganda film, It's Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues and Lesbian Issues in School. The video shows actual footage of pro-"gay" lessons in the classroom in several public and private grade schools. The original, longer version of the film is revealing for its blatant anti-Christian bias. One scene shows a young boy claiming that Christians "torture and kill" homosexuals, with nobody answering this misinformation.²³ After protests from religious conservatives, this and other particularly offensive segments were edited out of a shorter version of It's Elementary that was shown on PBS TV stations nationwide. One portion of the film (included in both versions) shows very young students at a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attending a homosexual-affirming assembly. Both teachers and students wore pink triangle pins, a symbol of the "gay rights" movement. After a homosexual teacher compares not being open about his homosexuality to trying to play soccer with just one leg, the students are led in a rendition of "This Little Light of Mine," a Christian children's song that is actually about sharing your faith in Jesus Christ.²⁴

It's Elementary co-producer Debra Chasnoff is clear about her goals: "I would like to see mandatory homophobia prevention education integrated into elementary and secondary school curricula."²⁵ Unfortunately, many liberal-minded educators share her radical vision.

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

STRATEGY: ISOLATE DISSENTERS
Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), issued a press release on April 4, 2002, announcing the latest casualties in the pro-homosexual crusade for "tolerance." Freshmen at Arcata High School in Arcata, California are required to take a health class as part of the school's curriculum. According to Dacus, school administrators invited Planned Parenthood to address the class on the subject of homophobia and homosexuality. PJI reports that school administrators did not notify parents of the subject matter nor seek written parental consent.

Dacus describes what transpired:

As part of an icebreaker, Planned Parenthood asked the class to stand in a circle. Questions were then asked of the class regarding "homophobia" and homosexuality. Whenever a question was asked that applied to the students, the students were asked by Planned Parenthood to step into the middle of the circle, facing their peers. One question was, "Does your religion believe against or think homosexuality is a sin or something wrong?"

Feeling humiliated and singled out, only a few students stepped forward. "This made me feel very uncomfortable," claimed one of the freshmen students. "I felt like I was being judged as a bad person … my classmates stared at me like I had done something wrong."

Dacus called the line of questioning "religious-based harassment" and offered legal aid to parents throughout the administrative complaint process.²⁶

Introduction GLSEN 'Silence' Campaign 'Fistgate' in Mass. !&%#! the Religious Right! Homosexuality in Schools The Play for Elementary School Brainwashing Kindergartners 'Coming Out' to Kindergartners Promoting Confusion to Youth California 'Diversity' Lessons Lying about Lincoln XY Magazine for 'Gay' Boys Grade School Propaganda Strategy: Isolate Dissenters Conclusion End Notes

CONCLUSION
The above incidents are only a fraction of the educational abuses and examples of extremism that have occurred in the name of "tolerance" for homosexual and "transgender" students. Similar examples could fill the pages of a thick book, or perhaps several books. What is clear is that parents cannot remain "silent" or sit idly by in the face of growing "gay" militancy in schools. GLSEN's "Day of Silence" should serve as a wake-up call to both parents and students of the threat to their freedom and their beliefs — and, of course, the well-being of children—if the homosexual school agenda is allowed to take hold.

Parents and students can turn to the following Web sites for resources and help in combating the encroaching "gay" school agenda:

Culture & Family Institute (of CWA)
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Mission: America
Family Research Council
American Family Association
Abiding Truth Ministries
Pacific Justice Institute

Peter LaBarbera is senior policy analyst at the Culture & Family Institute (CFI) of Concerned Women for America, and editor or the Culture & Family Report, CFI's weekly Web-based publication.

1. See www.dayofsilence.org.
2. See, for example, the sample press release at Mission: America's Web site at http://www.missionamerica.com/twid_news.htm. Ex-homosexual Stephen Bennett's (www.sbministries.org) made similar comments on the Day of Silence.
3. For example, 58 percent of white voters in California cast ballots supporting marriage (Proposition 22 said only marriage between one man and one woman would be recognized in the state) in March 2000, compared with 62 percent Black voters in support, and 65 percent of Hispanic voters who supported traditional marriage. Source: Los Angeles Times exit poll on Prop 22, "A Look at California Voters," published March 9, 2000.
4. GLSEN's 2001 budget was projected at $3.5 million, up 106 percent from 1999, according to the Washington Blade, a newspaper for homosexuals, April 4. 2002.
5. Abels was fired by the Massachusetts Department of Education due to her role in the "Fistgate" scandal. She subsequently claimed in a lawsuit that the Department "knew of and supported her work," according to the Boston Globe (November 28, 2000, Scott Greenberger) and, following an arbitrator's ruling, was reinstated with back pay. For more information on "Fistgate," see the Massachusetts News Web site at www.massnews.com.
6. Lambda Report on Homosexuality (April-May 2000, pp. 1-4) reprint of Whiteman affidavit, submitted April 18, 2000 to Hon. Martha Coakley, District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
7. For more information or to receive a copy of Whiteman's audiotape, contact Brian Camenker of Parents Rights Coalition at 781-433-7106, or write: Parents Rights Coalition, P.O. Box 175, Newton, MA 02466. E-mail: Office@ParentsRightsCoalition.org.
8. Lambda Report, April-May 2000, p. 5. Boston-GLSEN conferences in subsequent years similarly have featured workshops devoted to pro-homosexuality discussions in elementary and middle school classrooms, and others endorsing "transgender" concepts.
9. Jennings speech to Marble Collegiate Church, March 20, 2000.
10. For example, GLSEN's annual conferences are called "Teaching Respect for All," and the group has produced a video by the same name.
11. Jennings comments October 25, 1997 at GLSEN's Mid-Atlantic conference in New York City, Lambda Report on Homosexuality, January/February 1998, "GLSEN's Jennings: 'That Is Our Mission from this Day Forward," page 5, Brian Burt, reporting.
12. Diana Lynne, "Schools Sued over Pro-Homosexual Skits," WorldNetDaily.com, February 6, 2002.
13. See January 31, 2002 press release at www.pacificjustice.org/press/2002/pr013101.htm.
14. The book's editors are Norma Bowles and Mark E. Rosenthal. See section on GLSEN's Web site: "Bookstore: Resources for Primary Students."
15. Brian J. Burt, Lambda Report, January/February 1998, op cit., p. 4.
16. Reported by author, "How One Teacher Defended Her Lesbianism to Kindergartners," Lambda Report on Homosexuality, Fall-Winter 1999, pp. 1-2. Burke's session was titled, "Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Except What to Do When I Hear the Word Fag or Dyke in Class."
17. SMYAL flier obtained by the author, who attended the "Youth Pride" event. Ucles' affiliation with sadistic "Dungeon Dance" parties appeared in advertisements for the dances in the Washington Blade.
18. Diana Lynne, "Lawmakers Sanction Use of District-Approved 'Porn,'" WorldNetDaily.com, January 24, 2002.
19. Interview with author, then publisher of Lambda Report, "L.A. Educator Asserts Lincoln Had Homosexual Affairs," Lambda Report, April-June 1995, p. 1-2.
20. Tim Townsend, historian with the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois, interview with author, Lambda Report, April-June 1995, p. 1.
21. Ibid., interview with author. Burlingame is the author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Homosexual activist Larry Kramer has joined those popularizing the spurious "gay Lincoln" story; see the May 3, 1999 article in online magazine Salon.com (Carol Lloyd, "Was Lincoln Gay?") at http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/04/30/lincoln/.
22. XY magazines in possession of the author.
23. See article by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, "'It's Elementary' Doesn't Teach Tolerance,' JewishWorldReview.com," June 7, 1999.
24. See article on Concerned Women for America Web site, "'It's Elementary': A Video Review," May 1999: http://cwfa.org/library/education/1999-05_pp_elementary.shtml
25. Chasnoff, quoted in OutFacts (New York: Out Publishing, Inc., 1997), p. 43. For more information, see Family Research Council (FRC) paper by author, "Top 10 Strategies Used by Homosexual Activists in Schools," November 23, 1999; it is available online at http://www.frc.org/get/is99f4.cfm - 25. Also see adjoining FRC paper by author, "How to Protect Your Children from Pro-Homosexuality Propaganda in Schools," November 24, 1999, http://www.frc.org/get/if99j1.cfm.
26. Pacific Justice Institute press release, April 4, 2002.

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