Pro-Family Groups Unveil Homosexuality School Risk Audit as
Response to 'Day of Silence'
Apr 24, 2006
Pro-Family Groups Unveil Homosexuality School Risk Audit as Response
to 'Day of Silence'
In the wake of the SBC’s passage of Education Resolution
at its 2005 Annual Meeting, American Family Association, Concerned
Women for America, Family Research Council and a pro-family coalition
encourage investigation of local school districts
To: National Desk, Education Reporter, Feature Reporter
Contact: Steve Crampton, Chief Counsel, American Family Association
Center for Law and Policy, 662-680-3886; Robert Knight, director,
Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women
for America, 202-488-7000; Tony Perkins, president, Family Research
Council, 202-393-2100; Eunie Smith, president, Eagle Forum of
Alabama, alaeagle@charter.net; Linda Harvey, president, Mission
America,614-442-7998, www.missionamerica.com; Dr. Bruce N. Shortt
and E. Ray Moore, Jr., Exodus Mandate, 803 714-1744, www.exodusmandate.org;
Diane Gramley, president, AFA of Pennsylvania, 814-271-9078; Gary
Glenn, president, AFA of Michigan, 989-835-7978; Peter LaBarbera,
executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, and president
of Americans for Truth, 630-790-8370; Cathie Adams, president,
Texas Eagle Forum,972250-0734; Phil Burress, president, Citizens
for Community Values, 513-733-5775; and Hon. Twyla Roman, president,
Ohio Eagle Forum, 330-877-8339
COLUMBIA, SC, April 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Last June
the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention approved
a version of a resolution submitted by Dr. Voddie Baucham and
Bruce Shortt that, among other things, warned parents of collaboration
by public school districts with homosexual activists and urged
parents and churches to investigate their local school districts.
The Baucham-Shortt resolution was endorsed by over 60 conservative
grassroots organizations, including many state chapters of the
American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Eagle
Forum, and Focus on the Family.
Following the adoption of the resolution by the SBC, Linda Harvey
of Mission America developed a survey instrument known as the
“Risk Audit” to assist Christian organizations, churches
and parents in determining whether their local school districts
are placing children at risk by having clubs, programs, policies,
or curricula that could influence children to regard homosexual
behavior as an acceptable lifestyle.
Today, the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America,
the Family Research Council and state chapters of pro-family groups
such as Eagle Forum have announced that they are following up
on their effort with respect to the 2005 SBC Education Resolution
by encouraging their state and local affiliates to undertake risk
audits in local school districts, especially in the wake of homosexual
activist events involving students, such as the “Day of Silence”
scheduled for Wednesday, April 26.
According to Concerned Women for America’s Robert Knight,
“Far too few pastors and parents are aware of the extent
to which many school districts are collaborating with homosexual
activists and the risks that poses for our children and our culture.
As the recent incidents involving the sex education curriculum
in Montgomery County, Maryland, and the ‘Little Black Book’
in Massachusetts clearly demonstrate, homosexual activists are
becoming much more aggressive. CWA strongly recommends that concerned
citizens consider undertaking a risk audit project.”
Tony Perkins of Family Research Council said, “The insidious
alliance between some school administrations and homosexual activists
has been hidden from parents for far too long. Recent events in
Lexington, Massachusetts and similar instances across the country
demonstrate the next phase in the campaign to normalize homosexual
behavior - the capturing of America's youth. American families
need to know about the homosexual indoctrination being forced
upon young impressionable minds. Conducting a risk audit in local
school districts will help do just that.”
Steve Crampton of AFA Center for Law and Policy said, “Promotion
of the homosexual agenda to our children may be the single greatest
threat to public schools in America today, but most parents don’t
even know it is happening. This risk audit is the right response
at the right time.”
Linda Harvey, founder of Mission America notes, "Based on
my ten years of tracking and researching the growth of homosexual
activism in public schools, I know that very few parents are aware
that the majority of public school districts are selling our children
the dangerous and false notion that homosexuality is a normal
and acceptable lifestyle.”
Eunie Smith, president of Eagle Forum of Alabama, said: "For
too long, parents have endured substandard education in our schools,
with social engineering dominating the curriculum in many districts.
This Risk Audit puts a valuable tool in the hands of communities,
enabling them to hold schools accountable for politically-correct
agendas."
Dr. Bruce N. Shortt of Exodus Mandate, and author of The Harsh
Truth About Public Schools, applauds the American Family Association,
Concerned Women For America, and the Family Research Council for
their effort to protect children and better inform parents: “The
leadership shown by these organizations in connection with the
passage of the education resolution by the SBC’s 2005 Annual
Meeting was courageous and timely. Today, by encouraging their
affiliates and other organizations to undertake risk audits of
local school districts, these pro-family groups are taking an
important step to protect our children from a lifestyle that is
profoundly dangerous and that far too many school districts are
promoting as acceptable.”
Diane Gramley, president of AFA of PA, said, “This Risk
Audit will be an excellent tool for parents to use to discover
if their school is promoting the homosexual lifestyle and to what
extent it is being promoted. Those who promote this deadly lifestyle
in our nation's public schools have advanced their agenda unimpeded
for too many years and too many children are paying the price.
I encourage all parents with children in public and private schools
to use this Risk Audit to discover just what their children are
being exposed to behind the schoolhouse door."
Dr. Voddie Baucham, Bible teacher and author of The Ever-Loving
Truth, “I have believed all along that if parents knew just
how bad things were, we wouldn’t have to ask them to find
other educational alternatives; they would come asking us. However,
until now, parents have lacked either the will or the tools to
discover the truth. This risk audit is the right tool at the right
time. I just pray that the results bring about the right response.”
Gary Glenn of AFA Michigan, says, "Many parents have no
idea that homosexual activists are allowed to use our public schools
as a propaganda forum to indoctrinate and recruit young children
and adolescents. Here in Michigan, the homosexual Triangle Foundation
boasts that it has been allowed to use public school classrooms
as early as first grade to promote their high-risk agenda. Parents
need to be informed that the behavior and lifestyle homosexual
activists are promoting leads to dramatically higher risk of domestic
violence, mental illness, substance abuse, eating disorders, serious
life-threatening disease, and even premature death."
Cathie Adams of Texas Eagle Forum said, "Parents are responsible
for the education and upbringing of their children. That is why
it is imperative that parents have full knowledge of what their
children are taught in public school classrooms, especially concerning
lifestyles that are contrary to societal norms. It is most unfortunate
that homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality are embraced
by America's largest teachers' unions forcing even unwilling teachers
to become conduits for the union's radical agenda in classrooms.
Parents do not want their children held captive to that radical
agenda, which is why I am grateful that Mission America has designed
a Risk Audit to protect parents and their children."
Phil Burress of Citizens for Community Values said, “Most
parents do not want their children to be taught that homosexuality
is a beneficial and positive option, nor that homosexual marriage
is a civil right. We need to find out which schools are promoting
these ideas, and the Risk Audit provides grass roots citizens
with a valuable tool for doing this.”
Additional information, including the Risk Audit, can be found
at www.missionamerica.com, and www.exodusmandate.org.
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