Common Sense Americanism - 'Legitimizing' Homosexuality Through the Public Schools

Common Sense Americanism - 'Legitimizing' Homosexuality Through the Public Schools

Special to CSA

"Legitimizing" Homosexuality Through the Public Schools

Gordon Bishop, On the Issues

8/1/2003

I grew up in the 1940s and ‘50s when one’s sexual preferences were a private matter.

Then government (our tax dollars at work) got involved, first with Roe V. Wade on abortion in the early ‘70s, and other court decisions involving homosexuality, including the recent Supreme Court ruling that homosexuals have a right of privacy to do in their bedrooms or homes whatever they want to do as far as sex is concerned.

The latest government interference involves the nation’s first “all-gay” public school in New York City, paid for by the city’s taxpayers. This is gross discrimination at its worst!

A full-fledged high school for homosexuals, lesbians, bisexual and transgender students in Greenwich Village, lower Manhattan. It’s called the Harvey Milk HS, which officially opens as a stand-alone public school with 100 students in September. Harvey Milk was the slain San Francisco homosexual politician, who became a kind of martyr for the nation’s homosexual community

The Harvey Milk HS in Greenwich Village first opened in the early 1980s with a few students. Very few people heard about it because it was a small operation funded by private individuals and organizations. But the “all-gay” high school is now undergoing a $3.2 million renovation, compliments of New York City’s Board of Education. It will eventually take in 170 students by September 2004, more than tripling last year’s enrollment.

A gay-rights advocacy group has hired the school’s first principal. He is William Salzman, a former Wall Street executive. “This school will be a model for the country and possibly the world,” Salzman told the New York Post this week. “We intend to have 95 percent of our students go on to college. We want to steer these kids in the right direction.”

And what direction is that? The perpetuation of the homosexual lifestyle? Hey, as comedian Jerry Seinfeld said in one of his popular sit-coms, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that?”

Seinfeld may be politically correct, but not when it comes to using taxpayers’ money to fund an all-gay high school.

Private funds okay. Public funds no way!

Of course, a New York State conservative politician has weighed in on the issue of an all-gay high school that discriminates against everyone who’s not a homosexual, or lesbian, or bisexual, or transgender student.

New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long calls it “social engineering” that wastes already limited tax dollars.

Long asks the obvious questions:

“Is there a different way to teach homosexuals?

“Is there gay math?

“This is wrong. This makes absolutely no sense.

“There’s no reason these children should be treated separately.

Long looks down the road and asks, “What’s next? Maybe schools for chubby kids who get picked on.

“Maybe kids who wear glasses should have special schools. It’s ridiculous!”

The conservative leader said, “Maybe this is one of the reasons the city has no money.”

The last thing America needs in this absurd age of “political correctness” is more “special treatment” for anyone with a personal agenda different from the mainstream of public education that accepts all ethnic nationalities, colors, religions, creeds and levels of intelligence. Remember the legendary Ellis Island Immigration Center and the great “melting pot” experiment?

It worked for almost a century until the politically-correct storm troopers arrived and started rewriting the Constitution through nine justices of the United States Supreme Court.

Yes, nine appointed justices now control the destiny of America and its culture and educational system.

This injustice has happened because more than half of America’s eligible voters no longer vote, allowing most politicians to be constantly reelected despite their anti-American agenda of promoting liberalism, socialism and Marxism, which collectively undermines the United States Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our freedoms.

Wake up, taxpayers and voters before we lose America and its sacred Constitution and freedoms!

Gordon Bishop is an author, historian and syndicated columnist.

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