Early in June, the White House spent two days addressing LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) topics. The first-ever federal LGBT youth summit is one of Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jenning’s last acts before he leaves his position next month.
“How interesting,” notes Candi Cushman (CitizenLink, 6-7-11), “that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) chose this particular moment to release an important study that tells us a lot about what’s really safe for youth — that is, if one looks at the objective facts, rather than view them through a political filter.”
The CDC reports that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are at a greater risk for unhealthy and unsafe behaviors. Students who identify themselves this way are significantly more likely than heterosexual students to engage in high-risk behaviors such as drug and alcohol use, actions that lead to violence, suicidal behavior, and sexual experimentation that can expose them to diseases. [1]
Focus on the Family, CitizenLink, and others have been pointing to such well-documented facts for some time. [2]
Why does the Obama administration seem to be ignoring those facts and, instead, recommending more homosexual advocacy for children in public schools? Does this have anything to do with the influence of Kevin Jennings? (Remember, he’s the one who founded GLSEN, one of the nation’s largest homosexual activist groups.) The CDC, for example, wants to help establish more gay straight alliance clubs in schools. Such alliances were founded by GLSEN. GLSEN encourages students to lobby for gender-diversity materials in schools and events such as a “queer-friendly prom.” [3]
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promoted GLSEN as a national model for schools, reports Cushman in CitizenLink. Sebelius said that “we know” the risky behaviors warned about in the study actually “are a result of the discrimination.” A CDC review of its own study cited “stigma, discrimination, family disapproval and social rejection.” Cushman notes a problem. “It’s a mystery how they [the CDC] reached those conclusions — because the study itself does not address or measure the causes of risky behavior.”
Children should be protected from harm. Parents are the ones entrusted by God to do that. Cushman also notes that “fact-based studies should not be allowed to be twisted into furthering a political agenda at the expense of our nation’s children.”
Parents need to be aware. They need to work closely with teachers who really want to teach students not one-sided messages from sexual advocacy groups, but math, science, English, and history. Parents who present factual medical and health information to teachers and administrators need to be heard and respected.
Parents need to be heard because they — not the school and not the government — are ultimately responsible for their sons and daughters.
[1] news release
[2] truetolerance.org
[3] to reduce health risks
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