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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

From A Gay-Website "Please Just Start Admitting That We Do Actually Want To Indoctrinate Kids?"

This is a copy word for word by a gay web site where they admit to trying to brainwash kids into thinking homosexuality is moral, healthy, and normal.
On a widely read homo website
Gay Propaganda

 In response to New York’s recently introduced marriage equality bill, the so-called National Organization for Marriage got a bunch of pictures of black people and some guy who sounds like Foghorn Leghorn to repeat the same lies about indoctrinating schoolchildren that they ran in 2009. They accuse us of exploiting children and in response we say, “NOOO! We’re not gonna make kids learn about homosexuality, we swear! It’s not like we’re trying to recruit your children or anything.” But let’s face it—that’s a lie. We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it.

The battle over Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” has made this most apparent. Why would anybody get all up in arms about punishing teachers who mention queers in the classroom unless we wanted teachers to do just that? In response against the bill, FCKH8 hired some little girls to drop F-bombs in their online PSAs and gave out hundreds of “Don’t B H8N on the Homos” t-shirts, wristbands, pins and stickers to school children in front of TV cameras. Recruiting children? You bet we are.

Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?

Remember, Prop 8 passed along age lines with the very old voting largely in favor of it. The younger generation doesn’t fear homosexuality as much because they’re exposed to fags on TV, online, and at school. And I don’t know a single lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person who wants that to stop. I for one certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak. And I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and start fucking men. I want lots of young ladies to develop into young women who voraciously munch box. I want this just as badly as many parents want their own kids to grow up and rub urinary tracts together to trade proteins and forcefully excrete a baby.

I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children to queer sexuality AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. Hell, our opponents even do the same. Yes, they regularly appeal to parents, older adults, and “values voters” through their advertising but they also provide organizing materials so students so they can challenge queer acceptance on their own “Day of Dialogue.” The old Day of Dialogue website even contained a press kit so student organizers could alert the local media to come and cover their campaign. Anti-gay opponents are already unabashedly indoctrinating our children with the church and conservative politicians on their side and they make no bones about it.  
Sure, they blow the few instances of parental disagreement over queer education histrionically out of proportion, but we do our opponents an even greater service when we trip all over ourselves promising not to mention queers in front of the kids when in fact we’d love to. And because we hide from this very basic fact and treat it like something to be ashamed of, we end up with watered-down unemotional pleas for equality like New York For Marriage Equality’s incredibly weaksauce ad: 
Committed, loving relationships! Wedding vows! Until death do us part! We just wanna be able to say “I Do!” Forget the thousands of social benefits that regularly screw over queer people without marriage equality. Forget that marriage equality states have lower rates of queer youth and teen suicide. Forget that not educating our kids about queer issues makes them ignorant, hateful little morons. All that doesn’t matter just as long as Mary Jo Kennedy and Jo-Ann Shain can sit on a couch with matching glasses and haircuts and dispassionately discuss semantics.
Do you really think Mary Jo and Jo-Ann are gonna convince a bunch of parents who have just seen NOM’s scary ad that schools aren’t gonna teach their kids about gay fisting and anal sex? So what if NOM’s ad is full of lies and distortions? You know why they keep using those same tired old lies? BECAUSE THEY WORK. And if we plan on responding to scare tactics about indoctinating kids and outlawing religion with polite lesbian discussions about commitment, we’ve already lost.
How about this? How about we accept that we want kids to think better about queers and then create ads—with tons of verifiable supporting evidence—that just plainly state that denying marriage equality ruins people’s lives? That would at least be honest and a heck of a lot more compelling then this fearful mincing we’re doing to the tune and delight of our foes.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Gays infiltrating Orthodox Jewish Day Schools and Synagogues

logo of  jewish gays
Read this my friends and weep!
This is directly from their Website:
http://www.jqyouth.org/panels.shtml

JQY Panel programs of LGBT Orthodox Jews at a schools and synagogues can be a life-saving resource for those who may be closeted and feeling isolated and depressed. The value of a panel over a single individual speaker is that a panel sends a message of community and camaraderie, rather than tokenizing or isolating LGBT Orthodox Jews. JQY panels also offer the invaluable opportunity for rigorous interactive Q and A with the Orthodox community. Some of our past panels have included:

JQY Orthodox High school Panels:

Kushner Yeshiva High School – Being LGBT and Orthodox
JQY worked with Rabbis at Kushner High School to create a youth-based panel program for their 12th grade class.
With Rabbi Richard Kirsch

SAR Yeshiva High-School, Bogrim Program – Homosexuality in the Orthodox Community
JQY worked with SAR to create a panel of LGBT Orthodox Jews for the SAR Bogrim Program.
With Rabbi Tully Harcsztark

JQY Yeshiva Panels:

Yeshiva University, YU Gay Panel - Being Gay in Yeshiva
JQY organized the groundbreaking speaker’s panel in Yeshiva College at Yeshiva University. The JQY panelists (consisting of YU students and alumni) talked about what it was like to grow up gay in Yeshiva. The event had almost one thousand attendees and the subsequent online videos of the event have over ten thousand viewers. The program has been credited with inspiring the Statement of Principles, in which over 200 Orthodox Rabbis called for the welcoming and acceptance of gays in the Orthodox community.
With Rabbi Yosef Blau and Dr David Pelcovitz
Press Coverage
Press Coverage

View the videos for this panel.

Yeshiva Chovevei Torah - Hearing from Gay Orthodox Jews
JQY members spoke to the YCT Rabbinical class about the issues facing LGBT Orthodox Jews.
With Rabbi Dov Linzer

JQY Orthodox Community and Synagogue panels:

Lincoln Square Synagogue - Orthodox and Gay: at school, at shul and at home
JQY served as consultant for this program and organized the panel of Orthodox Gays and Lesbians for this landmark event.
With Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi Chaim Rappaport, Dr Michelle Friedman, and Rabbi Dov Linzer

The Jewish Education Project (formerly BJENY-SAJES) - Bullying in Jewish high schools: "Bully" Screening and Panel
JQY provided the Jewish Education Project with LGBT Orthodox high school students who shared their stories about bullying in Jewish high schools

Chicago West Rogers Community Panel - Tradition and Compassion: Homosexuality and the Orthodox World
JQY organized a panel of LGBT Orthodox Jews and their parents who shared their stories with the West Rogers Orthodox Community in Chicago Illinois.
With Rabbi Asher Lopatin

JCC Manhattan and the United Orthodox Synagogues of the Upper West Side -Tehillim Service & Panel in honor of the Tel - Aviv Shootings of Gay Youth
Following the Tel Aviv tragic shooting of LGBT Youth, JQY organized a community-wide memorial and tehillim service. Rabbis and representatives from NYC Orthodox synagogues spoke publicly in support of gay youth, and renounced homophobia in the Orthodox world.
With Rabbi Yosef Blau, Rabbi Avi Weiss, Rabbi Dov Linzer and Elana Stein Hain

View videos from this event.



JQY College Panels:

Yale University Orthodox community at Hillel (Slifka Center) - LGBT & Orthodox Shabbaton Program
JQY worked with the Orthodox community leaders at Yale Hillel to organize an LGBT & Orthodox Shabbaton consisting of multiple panels on the topics of Orientation, Gender and Orthodoxy.
With Rabbi Noah Cheses

University of Maryland, Kedma Orthodox Community at Hillel - LGBT & Orthodox Shabbaton Program
JQY worked with the Orthodox community leaders at UMD to organize the largest ever Hillel LGBT & Orthodox student event, with over 200 Orthodox students taking part in multiple panels and workshops on the topics of Orientation, Gender, and Orthodoxy.
With Rabbi Eli Kohl
Press Coverage

U of Penn Orthodox Hillel Community - "Being Gay and Orthodox"
JQY collaborated with Rabbi Mordechai Friedman at the Orthodox community
of U Penn Hillel to develop a weekend program of panels, speeches, and learning opportunities. Over the course of the weekend, the campus community explored the issues involving being gay and orthodox. The event has become a template for a nationwide Hillel program.
With Rabbi Mordechai Freedman
Press Coverage

Columbia Orthodox Hillel Community - "Being Gay and Orthodox"
JQY collaborated with the Orthodox community of Columbia University and NUJLS on a panel about the hopes, challenges, and issues facing LGBT Jews in the Orthodox Community.
With Rabbi Yonah Hain

NYU Bronfman Center - "Religion and Sexuality"
JQY speakers discussed their thoughts and feelings about being gay and living in the Orthodox community.
With Rabbi Yehuda Sarna