{"id":5839,"date":"2013-05-03T21:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:14:50","slug":"2013may03ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013may03ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolgirls forced into lesbian role-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5842\" alt=\"Todd Starnes got the story right.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes-600x453.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ToddStarnes.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Starnes got the story right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now who would force schoolgirls into lesbian role-play?\u00a0 Would it be some sadistic sex-maniac?\u00a0 The correct answer is the Principal of Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an &#8216;anti-bullying presentation on gender identity and sexual orientation&#8217; given to a class of 8th-graders (that&#8217;s 13-14 for us Brits), at least one of the girls was instructed to ask another girl for a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>The story was reported by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/middle-school-anti-bullying-lesson-includes-lesbian-role-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Starnes of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0who was immediately castigated by the liberal press.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/alvinmcewen\/fox-news-gets-story-wrong-about-forced-lesbian-kiss-middle-school-workshop\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet accused him and Fox news<\/a><\/strong> of having got the story about a &#8216;forced lesbian kiss&#8217; wrong.\u00a0 But Starnes never said there was a forced kiss, only that the girls were forced to ask for one.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/fox-news-says-middle-school-anti-bullying-class-is-les-486982783\" target=\"_blank\">Another blogger said, amid bad language<\/a><\/strong>, that\u00a0Starnes was wrong to call it &#8216;lesbian role play&#8217;, but it is difficult to know what else to call it.<\/p>\n<p>But the line Starnes took was defended in eloquent terms by another blogger, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrconservative.com\/2013\/04\/13247-school-forces-13-year-old-girls-to-ask-each-other-for-lesbian-kisses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Conservative<\/a><\/strong> whose post is worth a read.\u00a0 (In the US, we should point out, a &#8216;conservative&#8217; is someone concerned to defend the status quo, including the Christian faith, the institution of the family and basic morality.)<\/p>\n<p>According to the local paper, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/article\/20130417\/NEWS01\/304160055\/Anti-bullying-lesson-puts-parents-edge-Red-Hook?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">the PoughKeepsie Journal<\/a><\/strong>, parents were especially angry that no notice was given about the class, which included the now mandatory sex education propaganda about it being OK to have sex &#8216;when you are ready&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8221;I am furious,\u201d said Mandy Coon, whose daughter was in the class. \u201cI am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it\u2019s okay for her to have sex?\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Comments like that, of course, betray the 20th-century thinking that so many parents have.\u00a0 Times have moved on.\u00a0 The State is now your child&#8217;s parent, Mandy.\u00a0 You are just her\u00a0birth mother.\u00a0 Or so it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Coon told reporters that her daughter said, \u2018Mom we all get teased and picked on enough. Now I\u2019m going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The case illustrates that anti-bullying classes run by homosexuals, or designed to further the gay cause, are not about reducing bullying, they are about desensitising and indoctrinating with the ruling State philosophy that homosexuality is not just acceptable but good and to be promoted.<\/p>\n<p>Tolerance towards homosexuals will hardly be increased by such lessons, but maybe just one child will start to think &#8216;maybe I&#8217;m gay&#8217; and be recruited to the lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>This side of the pond, we have Sir Ian McKellen, Stonewall and organisations such as School&#8217;s Out driving the push to normalise homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>As the US National Organisation for Marriage points out, such lessons will become the norm in schools the moment &#8216;gay marriage&#8217; is legalised, as it was in New York in July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The story has implications for the United Kingdom.\u00a0 We should never think things can&#8217;t get worse.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now who would force schoolgirls into lesbian role-play?\u00a0 Would it be some sadistic sex-maniac?\u00a0 The correct answer is the Principal of Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York. 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