“It’s Elementary, Talking about Gay Issues in School”
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, July 5, 2013 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
After viewing a video entitled, “It’s Elementary, Talking about Gay Issues in School,” a parent said, “It was Sunday School in Reverse,” and she was absolutely right. If you saw it, you’d say that, too, because that video shows children in both private and public schools being skillfully led to accept and affirm various sexual orientations.
“It’s Elementary,” which was aired in 1999 by Georgia Public Television, has been used in public and private schools, as well as teacher training, for the sole purpose of promoting homosexuality to children in school. It ignores the law, students’ religious training and home-taught morality, while never explaining the possible negative impact students and their families might face.
In the video, a fourth grade teacher in New York’s Public School 87 explains to her class that there is no right or wrong side in the homosexual discussion. In another class, a third grader is shown reading to classmates her contest-winning poem about celebrating Mother’s Day with her two moms, who sat in the class wearing pink triangle pins, a symbol of homosexuality. The segment about Cambridge, Massachusetts, Peabody Elementary Public School shows students viewing an exhibit called, “Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families.” Entire classes were led to the display, where they stopped to study the pictures and hear their teachers read aloud the captions under each one. The promotional flyer explained that the exhibit is a photograph-text exhibit of twenty diverse families with lesbian or gay members designed to celebrate family diversity and bring more visibility to gay and lesbian people.
Eighth grade teachers in San Francisco’s Luther Burbank Middle School turned social studies and science classes over to a lesbian and a male homosexual to discuss their homosexuality and answer questions about their lifestyles. The 24-year-old said she “came out” when she was 19. The other said he came out at 17.
In that video, Cambridge Friends School, a Quaker School in Cambridge, Massachusetts was shown celebrating its 4th annual gay pride day. The children and their teachers were wearing pink triangle pins to indicate support for alternate lifestyles.
How did the U.S., which was founded on Christian principles, get to this point? The 1978 article “To Capture a Nation Change the Religion,” by John Steinbacher, explained the “conversion process” that was underway then and continues to this day. He accurately identified sensitivity training as the humanistic psychological therapy chosen to bring about social change. So, humanism, wherein man is god, became the basis for public education. The DeKalb County Health Curriculum, actually, noted that the county’s health education is based on humanistic values.
Five sex education manuals by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stated that sex education was/is based on international values, not community values. Result: God-less confusion wherein “every man does that which is right in his own eyes.” After 14 years of this and a denial of absolute values of right and wrong, no wonder there is so much confusion about lifestyles! For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.