AFT to Distribute Tapes of GLSEN 'Fistgate' Scandal to Senators

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sun Feb 25 10:41:24 PST 2001


Remember when Jesse Helms brought the Mapplethorpe photographs to the Senate floor?

Michael Pugliese

P.S. Though, I did find it shocking when I saw the Mapplethorpe exhibition at the UC Art Museum in Berkeley that some parent had brought their daughter who looked to be around 12 to it. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ (CHANGING OF THE GUARD WorldNetDaily Exclusive Opposition to Cellucci over homosexual issue ) http://www.americansfortruth.org/ http://syninfo.com/ian/PRIVATE/2001/02/24/2001022421402435.html http://syninfo.com/ian/private/2001/ AFT to Distribute Tapes of GLSEN 'Fistgate' Scandal to Senators

From www.americansfortruth.org Americans for Truth Project of Kerusso Ministries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Peter LaBarbera (703)491-7975

February 23, 2001

AFT to Distribute Tapes of GLSEN 'Fistgate' Scandal to Senators as Opposition Mounts to Cellucci Nomination

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Americans for Truth Project Director Peter LaBarbera

announced today that his group will be distributing a copy of the Boston "Fistgate"

audiotape to every U.S. Senator as part of an effort to educate members on why

Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci should not be approved as U.S. Ambassador

to Canada.

The "Fistgate" tape -- produced by Parents Rights Coalition of Massachusetts -- is

based on an undercover recording of a March 2000 conference workshop about

"Queer Sex" sponsored by the Boston affiliate of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight

Education Network (GLSEN). Three Massachusetts government employees led the

GLSEN workshop -- advertised as "for youth only, 14-21" -- and gave "how to"

discussions about homosexual sex acts, including the dangerous practice known in

"gay" slang as "fisting." (A free copy of the Fistgate tape is available from

Americans for Truth: click HERE.)

Gov. Cellucci's nomination by President Bush for the ambassadorship has angered

parents and children's advocates in Massachusetts who oppose Cellucci's ardent

support of taxpayer-funded, pro-homosexual programs in the state's schools. For

more information on Cellucci's pro-homosexuality record in Massachusetts, click

HERE.

The anti-Cellucci campaign was joined by other groups across the nation as word

spread that the Governor refused to even meet with parents concerned over the

"Fistgate" scandal. Last July, Cellucci also snubbed Ambassador Alan Keyes, who

came to Boston to address a rally of parents opposed to the growing promotion of

homosexuality to students. (He rudely declined to greet Keyes, who was then

welcomed by the Democrat-controlled legislature.)

More than 20 local and national groups have signed on to a petition opposing the

Cellucci nomination, with more signing on each day. See www.massnews.com.

"By opposing Paul Cellucci, we are sending a message to politicians that whether

you are Republican or Democrat, it is wrong to promote homosexuality in schools

and they will be held accountable," LaBarbera said. "Gov. Cellucci has embraced the

Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual group, and the result is that he refused to

publicly denounce an event at which 14-year-olds were exposed to graphic talks

about homosexual perversions.

"It seems that the closer politicians gravitate to homosexual lobby groups like the

Log Cabin Republicans, the farther they drift from the moral concerns of parents,"

LaBarbera said. "President Bush must realize that after eight years of government

promotion of homosexuality under Clinton, Americans are yearning for a return to

normalcy and decency. We will resist any promotion of the idea that it is acceptable,

normal or healthy for men to have sex with men, or women with women."

He urged President Bush to reconsider his administration's budding alliance with the

Log Cabin Republicans. On Thursday, Attorney General John Ashcroft chose to

meet with leaders from the homosexual activist group as "his first meeting with a

group concerned about civil rights enforcement," AP reported.

"Log Cabin is in the business of promoting the acceptance of homosexuality within

the GOP. Its leaders brand biblical Christians as haters and bigots. This group's

agenda is by definition not a conservative, family-friendly agenda," LaBarbera said.

This week, LaBarbera was a guest on FOX talk show "Hannity & Colmes" and

Christian talk show host Marlin Maddoux's popular nationwide radio program. He

urged listeners to call Sen. Jesse Helms, Cairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee, to resist the Cellucci nomination (Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121).

Calls from citizens who are concerned about Cellucci representing the United States

of America in Canada are pouring in to Helms and other Senators.

LaBarbera said that the Cellucci nomination is rallying parents across the nation and

helping alert the public to GLSEN's radical agenda. The homosexual organization

supports pro-homosexual classroom lessons for elementary-age students including

kindergartners. GLSEN has admitted that the "Fistgate" seminar went too far, but its

newsletter account of the incident focused on the alleged

"privacy" violations of the

students who had attended the "Queer Sex" workshop.

GLSEN: Open Up to Public

Noting that GLSEN is now a de facto consulting group in public (and private)

schools across the nation (it receives government grants in Massachusetts),

LaBarbera said the group's agenda -- as revealed in its conferences and seminars --

should be fully open to the public.

"I challenge GLSEN to stop hiding behind 'privacy' and make tapes of all its events

available for purchase by everyday citizens," LaBarbera said. "Parents shouldn't

have to sneak into GLSEN events to find out what this influential group has in store

for their children."

GLSEN's two recent national conferences were not taped, while most sessions in

earlier gatherings were recorded, LaBarbera noted.

"If GLSEN has nothing to hide, and its goals are not harmful to young people --

which I strongly doubt -- then its leaders should have no problem allowing parents

and educators full access to review their methods and goals," he said.

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Americans for Truth is a Washington, D.C.- based project of Kerusso Ministries,

headquartered in Newport News, Va. Since 1989, Kerusso has provided a

Christian perspective regarding homosexuality as it relates to both ministry and

public policy.

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