by Mike Gray

School administrators often claim that expressions of disapproval of homosexuality make students feel “unsafe.” But what administrators mean when they say “safety” is actually “comfort.” Conventionally, safety refers to the absence of verbal or physical harassment or abuse. Now, however, “safety” has acquired an expansive redefinition. It has now come to mean absence of uncomfortable feelings. — Laurie Higgins

At RenewAmerica, Matt C. Abbott notes the propaganda campaign aimed at normalizing “the homosexualist agenda”:

Even more disturbing than the homosexual lobby’s infiltration into the conservative movement is their infiltration into the public school system.

Below is a significant portion of the text of an excellent talk given by Laurie Higgins, director of the Division of School Advocacy for the Illinois Family Institute, at the recent Americans for Truth conference. Higgins’ talk illustrates just how badly the homosexualist agenda has infected (ahem) the public school system.

Higgins indicates how the gay agenda is being promoted not only at the national level but also at the grassroots; the specific targets of their propaganda are school children who lack wisdom and discernment; and judges who also lack wisdom and discernment like it that way:

The nation’s first homosexuality-affirming middle school opened last year, not in Massachusetts or California, but smack dab in the Midwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In Massachusetts, two families, one with a kindergartner and one with a second-grader, sued their elementary school in an effort to be notified before their elementary school children were exposed to homosexuality-normalizing resources, so they could opt them out of such presentations. The judge decided that parents have no right to be notified and no right to opt their children out of such presentations.

More recently in the San Francisco area, parents sued their school district for the right to opt their elementary school children out of anti-bullying programs that affirm both homosexuality and transgenderism. A superior court judge denied their request. The judge determined that “any opt out right” is “outweighed by the policies against discrimination and harassment of students from LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] families.” So, opting your first-grader out of pro-homosexual presentations now constitutes discrimination and harassment of LGBT students ….

It’s a full-court press at all cultural levels to mainstream homosexuality:

Of course, both heterosexuals and homosexuals have equal potential for kindness, humor, intelligence, and love, but the possession of good qualities does not render immoral behavior moral. It’s now commonplace for children to be exposed to positive images of homosexuals on television, in plays, advertising, films, novels, and through guest speakers, including peer representatives from straight and gay alliances, that is, school clubs for homosexual students and their supporters.

…. The reason homosexualists seek to include this information is the very reason, traditionalists must oppose it. They are seeking to transform cultural views on homosexuality and Gender Identity Disorder by irrationally, fallaciously associating them with something positive.

The logic implicit in sympathetic portrayals of homosexual people or characters is a kind of inversion of the principle of “guilt by association.” Instead, we find innocence by association.