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G'day from the Sentinel Team

This Update looks at Gender issues and in particular the push to EDUCATE our children about Gay relationships. It is quite scary!

Please Pray for our teachers and also our Education Authorities

I have included articles from the USA that highlight the strategic propaganda of their Homosexual movement and the ways they have sought to change mainstream thinking ... also the powerlessness of one particular parent who sought to remove his 6 year old from lessons on homosexuality.

"As Christians, we know that the sacredness of life is based on God’s character—not our characteristics. We truly are not our own; we were bought with a price. Knowing this, we should not be cruel to anyone “different” from us . . . including homosexuals. We must respond to them in love, just as Christ did. Yet, showing kindness, respect and love for others doesn’t mean we have to affirm all that they do" (Focus on the Family)

Under His Banner


Bev Holmes-Brown

CHILDCARE staff are using taxpayer-funded booklets to teach toddlers about gay families.

A booklet called We're Here, used in more than 2000 children's centres, encourages staff to use stories, books, posters, games and dolls to actively challenge homophobia.

Suggestions include:

CHANGING Father's Day to "A Day for Someone Special".

USING the terms Partner A and Partner B on forms instead of Mum and Dad.

TELLING children that "some families don't have dads".

The booklet has been slammed by the Australian Family Association and the State Opposition as an assault on parents' rights.

The We're Here booklet was funded by the City of Darebin through a community grants scheme. It is distributed by FKA Children's Services, which is funded by the State and Federal Governments.

.... Also widely used is a collection of 10 laminated family posters, one of which features two lesbian parents.

Australian Family Association president Bill Muehlenberg said the material was taxpayer funded propaganda designed to brainwash children.

Read Full Article on the Herald Sun Website : "Upset at kinder gay family guide" by Susie O'Brien - 05aug05

In August 2005, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on the "furore" that erupted when Carmel Tebutt, the NSW Minister for Education [left] banned material that encouraged students to "imagine they lived in a gay world"

A Daily Telegraph article by Bruce McDougall entitled, "School in gay class furore"was the catalyst for concerned debates around the nation with parents reacting strongly to the idea of asking year 9 children being asked "to .. visualise themselves being kissed by a member of their same sex..."

They were asked to think about attending a school dance where everyone was gay and they were the only heterosexual ..... "The material ... referred to "girls dancing with other girls and boys dancing with other boys, holding each other close".

Questions also included "What will you do if your date starts snuggling up to you and tries to kiss you?"

"What if they find out about you [that you're heterosexual]. They might throw you out or even beat you up - just for a laugh..... Some people say that it's a sin to be a heterosexual.

"How do you feel when you hear people in your church talking like this?"

The Telegraph declared this to be "brainwashing and social engineering" Thank Goodness for Carmel Tebbutt who was prompt to step in and ban its future use saying, "This material is inappropriate to be used in schools," she said. "I am advised it's been used on one occasion in one school. It will not be used again."

According to SMH, "The key source book for NSW state school teachers, Talking Sexual Health, published by the federal Department of Health, has several similar exercises. ... It suggests teachers give students various "scenario cards" and they are to imagine being the person in the scenario. Suggested scenarios include "a gay boy who is HIV-positive", a "homeless young lesbian", a "young gay Asian boy" and a "bisexual boy in a steady relationship with a girl".

The NSW Teacher's Federation were determinedly critical of Carmel Tebutt's reaction to the syllabus calling "the response of the government as simply a disgraceful act of cowardice.." ... they point out that the "banned program resembles the lesson plan on 'Challenging Homophobia' published by the Tasmanian Education Department on its website." (A questionnaire used in this lesson plan is below)

Apparently the lesson title "Dealing with Difference" and text for this was influenced by a publication called "A Guided Journey" by US author, Brian McNaught.

NOTE : Brian McNaught's website describes him as "the country's leading corporate diversity consultant dealing with gay issues in the workplace". The New York Times labelled him "the godfather of gay sensitivity training" .... He is certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) as a sexuality educator.

SMH : "Gay issues still light fires" - August 19, 2005
NSW Teacher's Federation : Minister interferes with school curriculum By Frank Barnes (convenor of the Gay and Lesbian Special Interest Group)

Two books targetting 6 to 8 year olds are the third and fourth books in the series developed by Learn to Include.

The Rainbow Cubby House and Koalas on Parade, depict same-sex parented families in everyday situations – the focus is apparently on the children and activities, not on the nature of the parent’s relationship. The books were launched at an event hosted by the NSW Teachers Federation on 11 February 2005.

Back in February, Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson spoke out against the books saying they were "an inappropriate use of children and of NSW taxpayers' money."

"We should be aware that some of these children who have been the pawns in the midst of this adult ideological battle may one day ask some very tough questions about their treatment," he said. ("See Jed's dads rile the minister by Kelly Burke, Education Reporter, Feb 12, 2005, SMH).

Andrew Stoner, Leader of the NSW Nationals, challenged Bob Carr to ban these books saying, “The books are clearly inappropriate for young children and are an outrageous attempt to brain wash our kids.

“Our children should not be used in Labor’s social engineering experiments.”

Mr Stoner said the books were funded through the NSW Attorney * General’s Department to the tune of $33,000 over two years and a teacher’s manual had been developed with assistance from the Department of Education and Training (Taxpayer Funded Books On Same Sex Marriages For School Kids A Disgrace - National Party website)

“…She [Plibersek"s 4 year old daughter] sees these books as great stories, and that"s why I think they"re such effective teaching aids and that"s why I think kids will enjoy them so much.” Quote from Tanya Plibersek, Federal MP for Sydney in Sydney Star Observer, March 05. (Link)

The following is an excerpt from the Queensland Studies Authority Sourcebook Module for Years 1-10 ... The text is loaded with controversy ... What is most interesting is that it is NOW assumed that some people are BORN Gay, despite the lack of evidence ... there is no consideration given to thoughts that the homosexual lifestyle is one that is CHOSEN ... it is also clear that the christian voice is given little respect :

Sexual identity and diversity

"... This module encourages young people to challenge stereotypical thinking, in the process coming to understand the social construction of concepts such as ‘normal’ and ‘natural’, particularly in relation to sexuality.

The development of sexual identity is a complex, lifelong process involving the interplay of sex, gender and orientation: sex refers to the biological characteristics of being female or male; gender is the socially constructed norms of masculinity and femininity; and sexual orientation refers to a person’s basic sexual attraction to another person

Our sexual identities are developed within a social framework of heterosexual dominance. We are surrounded by images and references almost exclusively heterosexual. This creates an environment in which people can make the assumption that everyone is heterosexual and those who aren’t are abnormal or deviant. This assumption is called heterosexism .... . The extreme outcome of heterosexism is homophobia — a fear of homosexuality in ourselves and others.

".... Narrow conceptions of masculinity and femininity, a lack of role models, geographical or emotional isolation, a lack of understanding, discrimination, harassment and violence have a major impact on the health and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, heterosexual and bisexual young people. All young people, therefore, benefit from learning about sexual identity — their own and others’. They need to examine their values and attitudes and to consider the effects of heterosexism, sexism and homophobia in the community...."

Note : There's a lot of information to plough through in this Module ... questions are very loosely written ... with a few gunpowder kegs amongst them ... for instance the "Colony on the Moon" exercise creates an imaginary environment where the majority of people are gay or lesbian. Anyone with an alternate lifestyle agenda to push could have a field day with this ...

".... A team of experts from around the world has been brought together to set up the experimental phase of the project. These people are the best in their field — engineers, architects, physicists, chemists, biologists, astronauts, geologists, meteorologists, doctors, tradespeople, and support personnel — and have passed the strict physical and psychological requirements for living on the moon. The team is made up of many different nationalities and ethnic backgrounds and is evenly made up of females and males. Everyone arrives on the moon and starts working on their various projects.

After a few weeks of settling in and getting to know each other they discover that the majority of the team are homosexual (gay or lesbian).

The colony is run according to the same laws, rules and regulations as on Earth but because the dominant group is homosexual, not heterosexual as on Earth, the social rules change slightly."

• What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
• When and how did you decide that you were heterosexual?
• Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you may grow out of in time?
• If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good gay lover?
• Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
• Do your parents know that you are straight? When did you tell them?
• What about your friends and room-mates?
• Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality?
• Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
• Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
• Why do heterosexuals feel so compelled to introduce others into their lifestyle through constant scenes of heterosexual sex in the media?
• A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual.
• Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
• Just what do men and women do in bed together?
• How can they truly know how to please each other, being so anatomically different?
• Despite all the societal support for marriage, the divorce rate and the rates of family violence are spiralling.
• Why are heterosexuals so incapable of forming stable relationships?
• Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted disease.
• Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run such a high risk of disease and pregnancy?
• How can you expect to become a whole person if you limit yourself to compulsive, exclusive heterosexuality?
• Considering the menace of overpopulation, how can the human race survive if everyone is heterosexual?
• Could you trust a heterosexual therapist to be objective? Don't you feel that she or he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her or his own leanings?
• There seems to be few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to.
• Have you considered trying aversion therapy? Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems he or she is bound to face

On April 27, a Lexington, MA, parent, David Parker, was arrested by the Lexington police and charged with "trespassing" at his son’s elementary school during a scheduled meeting with the principal and the town’s Director of Education over his objections to homosexual curriculum materials. Parker had asked for notification and possible opt-out for his son for homosexual curriculum or ad-hoc discussions by adults in his son’s kindergarten class.

After several months of communication, he was repeatedly told that his requests are "not possible." He finally said he would not leave the meeting until this was resolved.

After being arrested and spending the night in jail, Parker was arraigned on Thursday, April 28, in Concord District Court. When he informed Judge Robert McKenna that he had not been allowed to call his lawyer, the judge scolded him for not being respectful. Parker was released on $1,000 surety bond. A hearing is scheduled for June 1. He was officially informed that he may not set foot on any school property in Lexington, or he will be arrested again for trespassing

Statement by David Parker (April 27, 2005):

“I, David Parker, am the father of a kindergarten student at Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Since the beginning of this school year, my wife and I have learned that school materials and discussions about gay-headed households/same-sex union issues have been exposed to the children. There are definitive plans to increase the teacher/staff/adult mediated discussions of these subjects.

“We have officially stated on many occasions—to the Lexington school administration—a request that we be notified when these discussions are planned, and want our 6-year-old opted out of such situations when arising “spontaneously”.

“Our parental requests for our own child were flat-out denied with no effort at accommodation. In our meeting on April 27, I, insisted that such accommodation be made and refused to leave the meeting room. I was informed that I would be arrested.”

Read Correspondence & Statements on the Article 8 Alliance Website

Story also found on World Net Daily : Dad on trial over homosexual book District banned him from property after dispute at meeting ...Examples quoted : ""Laura and Kyle live with their two moms, Joyce and Emily, and a poodle named Daisy. It takes all four of them to give Daisy her bath." .....

Similiar Article From Article 8 : Two parents ejected from explicit all-day high school homosexual forum after one begins videotaping. Three police squad cars summoned by principal to escort the parents out, threatening them with "trespassing" charges if they didn't leave immediately. A writer for a local newspaper was also barred from attending.... The school never described to the parents what "ToBGLAD Day" (as it is called) really is. Only obscure mailings were sent out. ... Officially, parents could "opt out" their children from attending, but in practice there was great pressure to go, and kids were interrogated if they didn't attend. Several kids said that they were told they'd be counted "absent" if they weren't there.Read More

A 17-year-old lesbian student in California has sued the Garden Grove Unified School District in Orange County, alleging she was unfairly disciplined for hugging and kissing her girlfriend on campus. But one pro-family attorney views the suit as an attempt at social engineering through student activism. handbook ...

According to an ACLU press release, Charlene Nguon was told by Santiago High School principal Ben Wolf that either she or her girlfriend would have to leave the school at the end of her junior year and attend a neighboring school. She was also suspended for a week, says the ACLU, and an invitation to her to join the National Honor Society was rescinded. ... The ACLU lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Santa Ana on behalf of Nguon and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, seeks to clear any discipline from the student's record and to create a district-wide policy and guidelines ensuring equal treatment of homosexual students.

Lawsuits Indicative of a Trend

Scott Lively is a Christian attorney in nearby Temecula. He says he has noticed a trend during his years of following lawsuits filed by homosexual students against schools. The trend, he says, shows that the students typically set up schools for litigation by intentionally behaving provocatively on campus. This, Lively contends, creates a no-lose situation for the homosexual students.

"They either win and usually get a settlement from the school," the attorney says, "or even if the gay and lesbian students don't win, they create a lot of pain for the school officials who have to deal with the lawsuit." According to Lively, such cases rarely ever make it to trial because schools will "cave in and give ... a fairly sizable award." He adds that "there's nothing schools fear more than litigation."

In a very real sense, he says, the homosexual students are "setting up" the school. "They'll file a complaint with the school saying that they're being harassed, somebody's calling them names, or whatever; they'll make several complaints," he explains. "Then they'll file a lawsuit alleging that the school is not doing enough to protect the gay and lesbian students from harassment."

Lively says when homosexual students file such lawsuits, schools are put in a no-win situation and often eventually adopt a "sexual orientation" non-discrimination policy. In order to win the Garden Grove case, says the attorney, the school district must show it has uniformly enforced a policy against public displays of affection.

Source : Agape Press : Attorney Sees Pattern in Pro-Homosexual Lawsuits Against Schools By Jim Brown and Jody Brown - September 15, 2005

Quotes from the 1989 Book : After the Ball ... "How America will conquer its fear and hatred of Gays in the 90s" (Penguin Books)

The following Quotes come from the Article 8 Alliance website article entitled.

"Putting strategies to work: the homosexual propaganda campaign in America's media"

NOTE : Marshall Kirk is a researcher in neuropsychiatry. The book describes his co-author Hunter Madsen as having received a doctorate in Politics from Harvard in 1985 and an expert on public persuasion tactics and social marketing, who has designed commercial advertising on Madison Avenue and served as a consultant to gay media campaigns across the country, and appears frequently on national media as an advocate for gay rights.

DESENSITIZATION

"We can extract the following principle for our campaign to desensitize straights to gays and gayness, inundate them in a continuous flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straights can't shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get used to being wet. "

JAMMING

"The trick is to get the bigot into the position of feeling a conflicting twinge of shame, along with his reward, whenever his homohatred surfaces, so that his reward will be diluted or spoiled. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, all making use of repeated exposure to pictorial images or verbal statements that are incompatible with his self-image as a well-liked person, one who fits in with the rest of the crowd. Thus, propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths and assholes--people who say not only 'faggot' but 'nigger,' 'kike,' and other shameful epithets--who are 'not Christian.'

CONVERSION

"It isn't enough that antigay bigots should become confused about us, or even indifferent to us--we are safest, in the long run, if we can actually make them like us. Conversion aims at just this .... In Conversion, the bigot, who holds a very negative stereotypic picture, is repeatedly exposed to literal picture/label pairs, in magazines, and on billboards and TV, of gay- explicitly labeled as such!--who not only don't look like his picture of a homosexual, but are carefully selected to look either like the bigot and his friends, or like any one of his other stereotypes of all-right guys-- the kind of people he already likes and ` admires. This image must, of necessity, be carefully tailored to be free of absolutely every element of the widely held stereotypes of how 'faggots' look, dress, and sound. He--or she--must not be too well or fashionably dressed; must not be too handsome--that is, mustn't look like a model--or well groomed. The image must be that of an icon of normality"

Source Article : http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm

NOTE : First up here is a link to an article from the Family Foundation Website that comments on the strategies of GLSEN entitled : Information Alert: Homosexual group undermines parents and also an article on Focus on the Family's New CitizenLink website entitled : Homosexual Agenda in Public Schools Marches Forward ... Both speak of GLSEN's stunning progress in public schools by shifting the debate away from parent authority to sexual orientation, student safety, equal access, and anti-discrimination.


GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network are based in New York and have recently celebrated their 10th Anniversary.

Their website states that they envision "a future in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression."

To commemorate their 10th year Executive Director, Kevin Jennings wrote :

One Decade Ago...

The education community was in profound denial about the very existence of LGBT students.

Fewer than a hundred gay-straight alliances existed.

Fewer than 2 million students attended schools where harassment based on sexual orientation was prohibited. In short, just about nobody cared.

“The Nineties” has already begun taking its own place in the realm of popular culture nostalgia. The emergence of LGBT rights issues into mainstream American politics and culture was unprecedented during the nineties, and yet the issue of safe schools environments for LGBT youth was barely on the radar.

Today, ten years after we began our mission, more than 12 million students are protected by state laws.

Nearly 3,000 schools have GSA’s or other student clubs that deal with LGBT issues.

Over fifty national education and social justice organizations, including the National Education Association (NEA) have joined GLSEN in its work to create safe schools for our nation’s children through projects like “No Name-Calling Week”.

When I think of all of GLSEN’s accomplishments, the years have a way of blending together, the great victories and depressing setbacks, our measured progress and ever-present challenges, all interwoven into a textured fabric.

This fabric is our legacy and we should all rejoice in its creation and take great pride in its strength. In the midst of our celebration though, we should also pause to recognize that despite the important progress we have made, anti-LGBT bias is still pervasive and endemic in our schools... 75 percent of America’s students still do not have legal protections in place; More than 80 percent of our high schools still lack GSA’s or similar student clubs;

Nearly 70 percent of high school students admit that they personally use homophobic and derogatory epithets frequently or often. Clearly, it is not yet time to rest on our laurels. (Source Link)

Received From Bill Muehlenberg :

Sometimes the enemies of all things decent, sensible and right become so out-landish in their proposals, you do not know if you should laugh or cry. But unfortunately they often have access to power and influence, and can be a real force for evil in the world.

Scandinavia is a case in point, where progressivist, anti-family policies have ruled for decades now...One political party in Sweden aims to abolish marriage altogether, and open up legal unions involving two or more people.

When we in Australia fought to save marriage from same-sex couples, and warned that polyamory (group sex and group marriage) was the next logical step, critics laughed. But polyamory is where many of our intelligentsia are leading us. (Still don't believe me? Just do a google search on the term - you will get 483,000 hits.)

And lest you still think I am just crying wolf, let me tell you another story. A film maker emailed me today, asking to interview me for a new documentary he is making on (you guessed it) polyamory. He is quite serious about he project, and wants my opinions (he is curious as to why I might not think it is a great idea).

So be warned, the battle for marriage in the Western world is not over, and the battle fronts are opening up every day. Be on guard and be involved. I will keep you posted on both these developments.

Article : "Party Aims to Ban Marriage"
12 September 2005

The Feminist Initiative, which expects more than 20% of the vote in next year's election, claims marriage "is not about love, but about ownership".

FI founder Tiina Rosenberg, said: "Instead of marriage we want to promote a co-habitation law that ignores gender and allows more than two people in a partnership."

But she said in allowing relationships to involve more than two people, the FI did not want Sweden to fall back into a "patriarchal structure" with one man having a harem of women. "A man who lives with eight women in a patriarchal structure, where the man decides and the women obey is not what we are aiming for," said Rosenberg.

And in order to encourage men to vote for them as well, the party's all-female board is also calling for the introduction of a six-hour working day.

Background :
The Feminist Initiative is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 and announced on 9 September 2005 that it will put up candidates for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden. ... At their recent launch the Media focussed on the "decision to campaign to abolish marriage and the current state-recognised cohabiting partnerships, and instead introduce a new Cohabitation Act (Swedish: sammanlevnadsbalk) which would encompass a new legal status for private relationships between more than two people, irrespective of gender, thereby legalising polygamy. (Source : Wikipedia)