Social
Issues
08/15/2003
SPECIAL
SCHOOLS FOR HOMOSEXUALS?
Last
week our executive
director, Peggy
Birchfield, wrote about
the lawsuit brought by Rev.
Ruben Diaz in New
York City, against the
school district for
establishing a
homosexual high school.
Dr. Diaz is an old
friend of mine with whom
I have worked over the
years. Numerous times he
has brought busloads of
Hispanic pastors to
Washington, DC to assist
the Religious
Freedom Coalition in
encouraging Congress to
vote for social
conservative, pro family
legislation. When I
originally met Dr. Diaz,
he was the president of
the New York Hispanic
Clergy Association.
Since that time he has
been elected to the
state Senate in New
York. Although a
Democrat, he is more
conservative than some
Republicans I know. I am
sure the Democrat party
leaders in New York wish
that he were not a
Democrat.
Rev.
Diaz is
"pro-choice"
but not the kind of
"pro-choice"
politician that liberal
Democrat leaders like.
He is pro-choice when it
comes to school vouchers
for inner city kids
trapped in failing
schools. What outraged
Dr. Diaz was the plan to
spend $3.2 million
dollars a year of tax
money on a school for
about 170 "gay,
lesbian, bisexual,
transgender and
questioning youth."
The city claims they
will have a graduation
rate of 95% from the
Harvey Milk School for
gays. (The school is
named after a homosexual
San Francisco city
councilman who was
gunned downed by another
loony councilman who
claimed he committed the
crime because he ate too
much junk food that day
and it drove him to
kill. - Only in San
Francisco)
New
York City claims the
school provides
homosexual youth with a
"safe and
supportive
environment." Don't
all children deserve
this kind of educational
environment? Should
those kids who claim to
be homosexuals receive a
better education at a
higher cost in a safer
environment than all
other kids in the city?
Oddly, Democrat leaders
stand against Senator
Diaz. They don't want
minority kids from the
Hispanic or
African-American
community to have the
same freedom of choice
to go to a school that
can get them into
college as will
homosexuals.
In
an editorial on the
issue the Wall Street
Journal said,
"Though the
headlines have had a
field day playing up the
issue of sexual
orientation, a lawsuit
just filed by a Hispanic
state senator exposes
the real scandal here: a
city public school
system willing to
deliver choice to a
politically influential
group while subjecting
hundreds of thousands of
others to education
triage."
Liberals
claim to want everyone
to be "equal"
and at the same time
demand that
African-Americans be
given preferential
treatment in higher
education over Chinese
or Japanese. Why? Is it
because most Orientals
are Republicans? Now
Democrat leaders want
special high cost public
schools for their
homosexual supporters.
What next, special high
schools for the kids of
union teachers? If
public education is not
going to be uniform then
it should be abandoned
and vouchers handed out
so parents can choose
the right schools for
their kids. A normal
heterosexual family
should have the same
choices in education for
their kids as a
dysfunctional family
that produces messed up
kids who can't figure
out whether they are
male or female.
MORE
CORPORATE GAY TIMES
American
Airlines can't pay its
pilots, but it can pay
to sponsor a bisexual
conference in
California which will
include masturbation
demonstrations. This
year American Airlines
said it would have to
reduce pay to all
employees in order to
stay out of bankruptcy.
But the company has
plenty of funds
available to promote the
homosexual agenda. The
auto rental firm, Avis,
is also sponsoring the
event in San Diego. The
key note speaker for the
event is Congresswoman
Susan Davis (D-CA).
To contact the
congresswoman to tell
her how you feel about
her participation in the
event call 202-225-2040
or e-mail the
congresswoman at susan.davis@mail.house.gov.
Concerned
Women of America of
San Diego County has
asked the hotel involved
what it was doing to
protect other guests,
particularly families,
from the activities
planned at the
conference. Some of the
names of the
"workshops"
are so X-rated the hotel
has been forced to
inform the group that
they cannot place signs
on the doors of the
meeting rooms until the
wording is "toned
down."
THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Thousands
of Christian
demonstrators have come
to the Alabama Supreme
Court to support Justice
Roy Moore and help
"protect" the
Ten Commandments. Many
vow to be arrested
rather than to have the
granite monument to the
Commandments be removed.
Unfortunately it did not
have to come to this.
Many
of the Christians who
are so shocked at the
court ordered removal of
the Ten Commandments
refuse to become
involved in the
political process. Most
evangelical Christians
are not registered to
vote. Most of those who
are registered to vote
don't bother to go vote.
Only a minority of
evangelical Christians
actually go to the polls
and vote. Of those, 99%
are not dues paying
members of a political
party. Very few
evangelical Christians
give financial support
to political candidates
and even fewer support
organizations such as
the Religious Freedom
Coalition. In summary
evangelical Christians
do a great job of
complaining when the
other side wins, but are
unwilling to participate
in society to stop the
liberal march toward
victory in the public
square.
For
several sessions of
Congress Congressman
Robert Aderholt
(R-AL) has proposed
legislation to protect
the display of the Ten
Commandments. The
current version of the
bill, the Ten
Commandments Protection
Act of 2003, sits on a
table somewhere awaiting
a vote by Congress yet
again. The bill is
stalled for lack of
public pressure.
Although polls indicate
that Christians, and the
public in general,
believe the Ten
Commandments should be
displayed in public,
there is little effort
on the part of the
Christian community to
pass Congressman
Aderholt's bill.
Christians can blame the
ACLU and courts for the
removal of religion from
the public square, but
it is their own lack of
participation in the
political process that
is the real problem.
MISSION
TRIPS
EMERGENCY
OPERATION
My
daughter, Katie, had
emergency surgery in a
small town in Guatemala
last week. She was on a
mission trip with her
High School Spanish
teacher and a church
group. The mission team
Katie was with was
assisting an orphanage
for severely handicapped
children in
Chimaltenango which is
west of Guatemala City.
There is a public
hospital there; however,
the local missionaries
recommended that Katie
be operated on in a
small private clinic.
Because there was a
possibility of a
ruptured appendix there
was no time to take her
to a private hospital in
Guatemala City. Only the
truly impoverished use
public hospitals in
Guatemala, which are
among the worst in the
world.
I
learned of Katie's
condition about an hour
before she was operated
on late last Wednesday
and managed to get to
Chimaltenango before
noon the next day. Her
mission team left the
day I arrived. Within a
week Katie was well
enough to make the trip
back to the United
States. Her biggest
regret is that she may
not be able to run the Army
Ten Miler and the Marine
Corps Marathon with
me this year. Katie is
very active in ministry
work and produced a
video entitled Holy
Land Teenagers
during a mission trip to
Israel. She is a senior
this year.
BRUSSELS
MEETING STILL A GO
I
am scheduled to
participate in a major
conference on religious
liberty to be held in
Brussels, Belgium next
month. In coming weeks
more details about the
conference will become
available. This is a
major opportunity for
the social conservative
view to be taken to
liberal Europe. The
conference will be
covered by major media
worldwide.
William
J Murray, Chairman
Religious
Freedom Coalition
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