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sponsors the National Day of Silence at school campuses across the country to bring attention to the silence caused by anti-LGBT bullying (GLSEN, 2010). The Rainbow Curriculum. In the early 1990’s the gay agenda sought to promote tolerance and understanding of the gay/lesbian lifestyles in the public schools, and to normalize the lifestyles in the public perception. Homosexual activists pushed for schools to promote their sexual orientation as equal to heterosexuality through the elementary curriculum entitled Children of the Rainbow which encouraged diversity and inclusion of non-European, women’s and gay and lesbian history in every stage of education from kindergarten through high school (Buss.1993). Books supporting gay and lesbian families and the gay lifestyle were included in school curriculums. It’s Elementary In 1999 a ninety-minute video, entitled It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay and Lesbian Issues in School was shown on public broadcasting stations across the country. The video showed elementary grade-level classroom discussions about homosexuality. Young homosexuals informed the students of the five gender orientations: male, female, gay, lesbian, and bisexual. Although homosexual activists have made inroads into the public schools in every state, Massachusetts and California have incorporated homosexual behavior as normal and accepted behaviors in the schools. Indoctrination becomes more intense in the middle schools and high schools. In Framingham, Massachusetts, students were required to respond to questions that challenged their heterosexuality. Heterosexuality was presented as the abnormal behavior (Sears and Osten, 2003:62). Some of the questions asked were: 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When did you first decide you were heterosexual? 3. Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will grow out of? 4. If you have never slept with anyone of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn’t prefer it? Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America. 2010 Dr. M. L. Coppock 10 | P a g e
BACKLASH in Education When the video, Elementary: Talking About Gay and Lesbian Issues in School aired across the country, groups opposing the use of the schools to promote homosexuality staged protests. In San Antonio, Texas, 200 protestors picketed Public Broadcasting station KLRN to protest the showing (Dorsett:1999). The normalization of homosexuality became ‘politically correct’ in academic and educational settings. Silence was no longer imposed upon those supporting gay rights, rather those seeking to challenge the usefulness of the gay lifestyle were violently attacked and intimidated when they spoke out. Diversity training, when led by trainers with agendas, became sessions of intimidation. Courtney Halligan, a student at the University of Delaware was not opposed to attending a required diversity training session. Halligan soon changed her mind. In one-on-one group sessions in the dormitory, white students were made to feel like racists. Students were encouraged to speak openly about their sexuality and gay students felt pressured to publicly out themselves. In response to student complaints and pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based civil liberties advocacy group that monitors freedom of speech issues on campuses, the university suspended the program. Dr. Michael Gilbert, the school’s vice president for student life, said, ” The university had good intentions in initiating a program to teach students to be tolerant of those who are different from them, but the way the program was run was unacceptable” (Watson,2008). Parents Shut Out Nondiscrimination laws and diversity education opened the door for educational materials to promote and encourage homosexuality. When same-sex ‘marriage’ became legal in Massachusetts in 2003 the school room doors were thrown open to sexual activists and shut to keep parents out. In Newton, Mass. The rainbow flag is flown instead of the American flag at some schools. Pro-homosexual picture books were placed in the classrooms in the name of tolerance and diversity. Robin Wirthlin was puzzled when her 2 nd grade son, Joey, came home and reported to her a story about a prince who married another prince. He recapped the story about the prince who didn’t like the princesses his mother brought home. He fell in love with a prince and married him. Wirthlin was concerned that they were reading books like this to gradeschoolers. She questioned the teacher, who informed her that it was her responsibility to fulfill the school district’s mandate to read pro-gay lifestyle books to her students . The year Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America. 2010 Dr. M. L. Coppock 11 | P a g e
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