“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.  Continue reading →