Teachers insist: Being 'gay' good*

'Educators' promoting homosexuality no matter what children learn at home

Posted: April 29, 2007
LifeSiteNews

A nationally distributed training video produced by a "gay" advocacy
group – which claims it's been shown on more than 100 public television
stations – advises teachers to promote homosexuality as normal and
healthy to children as young as kindergarten age, regardless of what
values the child has been taught at home.

"We are asking kids to believe this [homosexuality] is right. Not as a
matter of moral principle, but as a matter of, we're educating them and
this is part of what we consider to be a healthy education," one
unidentified teacher said during the videotaped meeting of educators
preparing to teach – or as their critics charge, "brainwash" – their
students.

That particular response was to a question from another teacher who
wondered how to approach homosexual advocacy when a student comes from a
background of biblical teaching, that is, that homosexuality is a sin.

"I don't know what to do about this but, as a school are we saying that
kids have to support this? I guess that's what it sounds like to me that
we're saying. If a child comes from a background that says homosexuality
is not correct, are we telling that child that they're supposed to, this
is what you are supposed to do?" asked the teacher.

The answer was a resounding yes.

The comments are just some of what is horrifying parents who now are
seeing video clips of the "It's Elementary" video prepared for use in
schools.

Brian Camenker, who heads the Mass Resistance organization, which also
has publicized the videos, said people are flooding his office with
calls, asking what they can do.

"They're physically sickened by watching that. People with kids are
wondering is this what's going to happen to them in schools in America,"
Camenker said. "The reaction we've gotten has been overwhelming.

"It's one thing in the abstract to read about what's happening in the
schools, it's another thing to actually see it," he said.

The first video excerpt, which follows here, shows actual footage of
teachers indoctrinating children that homosexuality is "healthy education."

Part 1

California lawmakers currently are considering a bill that would not
only promote homosexuality, it would ban anything from public schools
that could be perceived as "reflecting adversely" on the homosexual
lifestyle choice.

Could that target a statement of Christian belief, or a Bible verse?
Sure, say those battling the issue.

Camenker said the videos originally were posted on Youtube, but were
taken down suddenly to be replaced with some pro-homosexual promotions.
"It's some really nasty stuff. The gays have put up things calling
anybody who doesn't [endorse homosexuality] bigots," he said.

Camenker said the 78-minute video was produced and distributed by
homosexual activists and is "meant to be a training video for homosexual
activist teachers across the country."

The video shows administrators telling teachers to talk "about gay and
lesbian issues" and teachers showing students pictures of celebrity
homosexuals.

Students are grilled by teachers about how they would feel if someone
told them they couldn't have two moms. "What do you mean by
open-minded?" a teacher asks what appears to be about a 1st-grader.

"If you're not very open-minded, say there's a new vegetable, then you
won't try it. If you are open-minded, then you would try it," the
student responds.

Another teacher asks students to think about words that would "make a
gay person feel bad."

Another adult is quoted, "I don't think it's appropriate that values
only be taught at home …"

Still another segment shows young children applauding wildly as a
teacher publicly announces his homosexuality.

More of the "educating" goes on in the second excerpt:

Part 2

"Although 'It's Elementary' was made over a decade ago, it's still a
major training film for homosexual activists, is still being shown in
schools across the country, and has become a standard feature at
homosexual teachers' conferences," the Mass Resistance site says. "How
much further has that agenda reached since then? How many more young
children are being desensitized to homosexuality in their young years by
these sophisticated techniques. And more importantly, when are you going
to get involved to do something about it?"

A LifeSiteNews report quoted Stephen Bennett, who runs Stephen Bennett
Ministries as warning about the "brainwashing" shown in the video.

Bennett told LifeSiteNews he was horrified, and "had tears in my eyes"
after watching. "It's so heartbreaking to see little kids brainwashed,"
he said.

The online company that still sells the video notes that it has been
shown on more than 100 public television stations and "model's excellent
teaching about family diversity, name-calling, stereotypes, community
building and more."

"We make films that make change," said Women's Educational Media, the
maker. "We ensure that our films are used to inspire meaningful social
change."

It also has produced films promoting homosexuals as parents and the 2004
San Francisco debacle where thousands of same-sex couples were given
marriage licenses that later were declared invalid by the state Supreme
Court.

The homosexual activist strategy is stated plainly in the film's
promotion. "Waiting to teach children to accept differences of all kinds
until middle school or high school is too late; statistics show that by
sixth, seventh and eight grades, harmful stereotypes already have begun
to take hold …"