Over the Rainbow: - Wrestling With Angels

efore the Wirthlins had moved to Lexington, Mass. another couple, David and Tonia Parker
were startled when their kindergarten son brought home a “Diversity Book Bag” which included
a picture book called Who’s In a Family?. The text began “Laura and Kyle live with their two
moms, Joyce and Emily…Robin’s family is made up of her dad, Clifford, her dad’s partner,
Henry, and Robin’s cat…” (Curtis,2008).
When The Wirthlins and the Parkers filed suit against the town of Lexington asking to
exempt their children from teaching about homosexuality, The U.S. District Chief Judge Mark
Wolf ruled against parental rights stating, “The (state) Constitution does not …permit the
Parkers and the Wirthlins to exempt their children from teaching about homosexuality or samesex
marriage.” He wrote. “After all, if a few parents could do it, others would follow, maybe in
vast numbers” (Curtis,2008).
Political Correctness in Academia
In 1993, David Woodward, a political science professor at Clemson University, was asked
to serve as an expert witness for the state of Colorado to testify about the political power of
homosexual groups in America. When he testified in support of traditional values he
discovered that to publicly oppose gay rights was “the equivalent to being sent to the university
Gulag.” He was labeled ‘ideologically incompatible’ with the values of the university, the press
attacked him viciously, and he often found the word ‘Homophobe’ scribbled on his office door.
In his book, Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong, Woodward and coauthor,
Jim DeMint, point out, “historically freedom of speech is crucial in any democracy…The demise
of good government comes when this conversation is abbreviated.” We now suffer from what
John Stuart Mill called, “tyranny of prevailing opinion” (Colson:2008).
Concerned Christians Organize
Concerned Christians and groups supporting traditional family values worked tirelessly to
challenge and oppose the gay takeover of educational institutions. The Traditional Values
Coalition, under the direction of Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, networked with 43,000 churches to
provide materials for Christian voter mobilization and pro-family lobbying activities. Sheldon
wrote, “Children have long been targets of homosexual activists. …GLSEN has established Gay
Straight Alliance clubs in hundreds of junior and senior high schools. The goal of GLSEN is to
convince sexually confused children that they were ‘born gay’…Each year, GLSEN uses its Gay
Straight Alliance clubs to promote its political and social agenda. The Day of Silence is supposed
to give students a chance to protest alleged discrimination against homosexual, bi-sexual, and
transgender students at junior high and senior high schools. In reality, the effort is designed to
intimidate and silence any opposition to the homosexual agenda…”(Sheldon, 2005)
Over the Rainbow: The Gay Battle for Social Reorganization of America. 2010
Dr. M. L. Coppock
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