Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels
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sponsors <strong>the</strong> National Day of Silence at school campuses across <strong>the</strong> country to bring attention<br />
to <strong>the</strong> silence caused by anti-LGBT bullying (GLSEN, 2010).<br />
The <strong>Rainbow</strong> Curriculum.<br />
In <strong>the</strong> early 1990’s <strong>the</strong> gay agenda sought to promote tolerance and understanding of <strong>the</strong><br />
gay/lesbian lifestyles in <strong>the</strong> public schools, and to normalize <strong>the</strong> lifestyles in <strong>the</strong> public<br />
perception. Homosexual activists pushed for schools to promote <strong>the</strong>ir sexual orientation as<br />
equal to heterosexuality through <strong>the</strong> elementary curriculum entitled Children of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rainbow</strong><br />
which encouraged diversity and inclusion of non-European, women’s and gay and lesbian<br />
history in every stage of education from kindergarten through high school (Buss.1993). Books<br />
supporting gay and lesbian families and <strong>the</strong> gay lifestyle were included in school curriculums.<br />
It’s Elementary<br />
In 1999 a ninety-minute video, entitled It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay and Lesbian<br />
Issues in School was shown on public broadcasting stations across <strong>the</strong> country. The video<br />
showed elementary grade-level classroom discussions about homosexuality. Young<br />
homosexuals informed <strong>the</strong> students of <strong>the</strong> five gender orientations: male, female, gay, lesbian,<br />
and bisexual.<br />
Although homosexual activists have made inroads into <strong>the</strong> public schools in every state,<br />
Massachusetts and California have incorporated homosexual behavior as normal and accepted<br />
behaviors in <strong>the</strong> schools. Indoctrination becomes more intense in <strong>the</strong> middle schools and high<br />
schools. In Framingham, Massachusetts, students were required to respond to questions that<br />
challenged <strong>the</strong>ir heterosexuality. Heterosexuality was presented as <strong>the</strong> abnormal behavior<br />
(Sears and Osten, 2003:62).<br />
Some of <strong>the</strong> questions asked were:<br />
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?<br />
2. When did you first decide you were heterosexual?<br />
3. Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out of?<br />
4. If you have never slept with anyone of <strong>the</strong> same sex, how do you know you wouldn’t prefer<br />
it?<br />
<strong>Over</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Rainbow</strong>: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America. 2010<br />
Dr. M. L. Coppock<br />
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