How We Got Here [ Print ]

Revolutions don’t happen overnight. Homosexuality is being widely accepted in schools now by administrators, school boards and some parents and students because of diligent, aggressive people who believe it’s okay. Some work for large, well-financed national “gay” activist groups; others are local volunteers. Some are practicing homosexuals who are educators; others are their relatives or sympathizers.

Regardless, this process has happened because traditional-minded parents and communities weren’t watching closely enough, and many thought supporting homosexuality was part of being kind, compassionate and tolerant. Most people never thought it would get this far.

But it has gotten very far. When the facts are laid before average Americans, most are incredulous. It’s gone way beyond being civil and nice to people who are “different,” as the activists claim. It’s at the point where school lessons portraying typical married parents with children are considered discriminatory in some communities. It’s at the point of defending the “rights” of students to be transvestites (cross-dressers) or for teachers to get sex change operations and return to their positions instructing the young.

Entire school days or weeks are devoted in some schools to “celebrating” homosexuality-and all students must participate.

It’s at the point where traditional-minded parents and students can seldom voice objections. Why are people being silenced?

All of this has happened, astonishingly, in the absence of credible research that shows homosexuality is inherited or biologically-determined. Amazingly, the “born that way” idea is now a widely held belief of many Americans. And while there have been some well-publicized studies, the scientific community has not accepted them as demonstrating anything like a “gay gene.”

The emptiness of this claim has gotten little publicity. (See Resources for more details.) Yet, the belief that “sexual orientation” is an identity or a basic right rests on this claim. Non-discrimination policies and laws are built on this erroneous assumption!

A little known fact is that most homosexual activist organizations in their own materials do not say that homosexuals are born that way. For an example, go to the PFLAG web site, www.pflag.org, and look at their Q & A section.

The roots of same sex attraction have been under study for decades. Emotional disorders, previous sexual abuse and reckless experimentation are in play here, not genetics. Young people struggling with this desire or who are experimenting with homosexuality deserve to know that it is not biologically-determined and that change is possible.

Should communities support high-risk practices for our children, especially when they are unnecessary? The behaviors involved are dangerous. Accepting these attractions is not kind nor ‘safe,” but just the opposite.