February 2, 2012

Issue

Super Bowl — Madonna and Now GLSEN!

Details

As you know Madonna will be performing during the halftime show at the SuperBowl on Sunday.  More bad news!  GLSEN will be running their “Think B4YouSpeak” PSA’s on the big screen outside the stadium where the SuperBowl will be played in Indianapolis.   Tens of thousands of fans will see their pro-homosexual message.

This from our friend Linda Harvey at Mission America: ” “ThinkB4YouSpeak” is a campaign that seeks to instill the false idea that only by enthusiastically approving of homosexuality and gender confusion can we prevent bullying.

It’s impossible otherwise, we are all supposed to believe.

This manipulative, immoral public relations effort is getting a boost by Grazie Media, a Toronto-based event firm, which donated the medium to GLSEN for this shameful message.

Our kids are also supposed to believe people are born this way, so that insulting a “gay” identity– as in “That’s so gay”–is just like insulting a boy or girl by name. Grant Hill and Wanda Sykes deliver this slick propaganda via short PSA’s.

The truth is, people are not born this way. It’s immoral and unnecessary behavior. It’s not identity. We need to say this over and over to our kids so they can un-learn the lies of GLSEN and jaded celebrities.

Remember, no one needs to endorse homosexuality or gender-swtiching in order to stop bullying. This issue is being used by the anti-Christian, aggressive “gay” lobby for its XXX-rated, anti-child goals.”

Action Step

So Grazie Media has bought into GLSEN’s lies and is now helping advance their agenda of encouraging kids to experiment with homosexuality because they are ‘born that way’ and students who identify as homosexual, bisexual or transgender are the ones most bullied in school!  Contact Grazie Media in Bolton, Ontario at 1-888- 904- 3337 AND email, info@graziemedia

Three Pennsylvania Mayors Want to Legalize Counterfeit Marriage

(Harrisburg) — Three Pennsylvania mayors — Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, John Callahan of Bethlehem and Joe Sinnot of Erie — have joined about 100 of their fellow anti-family mayors in signing a statement calling for the legalization of counterfeit marriage, also known as same-sex “marriage.”  This statement was in cooperation with the homosexual group Freedom to Marry.   The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family group, is appalled that three of our city mayors would support the redefinition of marriage and oppose what is best for children.

“Children need a mommy and a daddy and for Nutter, Callahan and Sinnot to support something that does not give that to their cities’ children or the other children of this Commonwealth and the nation is beyond outrageous.  They’ve signed onto lies – one,  people are born homosexual; two, homosexuals cannot already marry and three, children raised by two individuals of the same-sex are not adversely affected,” Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA stated.

In a November 23, 2007 Philadelphia Inquirer article Michael Smerconish calls on incoming mayor Michael Nutter to encourage marriage to help bring down the violence in Philadelphia because studies had shown children from an intact family are less likely to be involved in violent crimes.  He said in the article, ” I was anxious to question Michael Nutter about data I’ve studied and written about that suggests a link between crime and the dissolution of marriage. I offered the data. Nutter was dismissive.”  Unfortunate for Philadelphia as they closed 2011 as the ‘Per Capita Murder Capitol of the United States.’

Other findings on the importance of a married mother and father to children include:

1.) “Dual-Parenting: A Social Science Perspective For Optimal Child Rearing,”:  ”…there is no fact that has been established by social science literature more convincingly than the following: children ordinarily develop best and develop most fully when they are reared by both a mother and a father and are able to experience regular family interaction with both genders’ parenting techniques during their childhood.”

2.) The only major study to directly compare children raised in married, single-parent and same-sex households “Children in three contexts: Family, education and social development,”:  “Overall, the study has shown that children of married couples are more likely to do well at school, in academic and social terms, than children of cohabiting heterosexual and homosexual couples.”

3.) Journal of Divorce & Remarriage examined a number of “gay parenting” studies and reported: “The conclusion that there are no significant differences in children reared by lesbian mothers versus heterosexual mothers is not supported by the published research data base.”

“To think that these three Pennsylvania mayors joined other far left mayors in undermining  marriage and putting children further at risk is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Additionally, they do not represent the views of the majority of their constituency.  The small minority of homosexuals have a loud voice, but that does not change the fact that the majority of Pennsylvanians understand that marriage is between one man and one woman no matter what three city mayors may sign,” Gramley concluded.

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Will Only One Side of the Story Be Told?

(Harrisburg) — Tomorrow night the Dallastown High School Gay Straight Alliance Club will be showing the “documentary” Out in the Silence.  The target of that documentary is the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA).

“Homosexual activists Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson targeted the AFA of PA accusing us of encouraging the bullying of students who identify as homosexual  and calling for the boycott of a lesbian-owned theatre.  All of which are false, yet they chose to distort and twist the facts as well as deliberately edit out any conversations that took place between Dean, Joe or CJ and me to fit their own agenda,” commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

For those who want to know the truth about what happened during the filming of this ‘documentary’  and read the letters that are referenced during the film, they can go to the AFA of PA website.    Interested parties can also go to the AFA of PA YouTube channel and watch excerpts of the AFA of PA response to Out in the Silence held in Coudersport in August 2010.

The AFA of PA has made it very clear that ALL students should be provided a safe learning environment.  Our letters and other communications have never indicated otherwise.  We fully support anti-bullying programs which address ALL bullying and do not single out certain groups for special attention.  The AFA of PA has also taken a strong stand in educating on the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle and not simply telling students that engaging in homosexual acts is simply a ‘safe alternative lifestyle.’  Additionally, the AFA of PA does not believe anyone is ‘born gay.’

Medical problems students should be warned of include:

– 57% of all new HIV cases in 2009 were men who have sex with men  (MSM)

– Young MSM, especially those of minority races and ethnicities, are at increased risk for HIV infection. In 2009, young MSM accounted for 27% of new HIV infections in the US and 69% of new HIV infections among persons aged 13–29. Among young black MSM, new HIV infections increased 48% from 2006 through 2009.

– increased cases of syphilis among men who have sex with men

– men who have sex with men can shorten their lives by up to 20 years 

– bisexuals are a bridge for HIV/AIDS into the heterosexual community

“Hamer and Wilson have used their false claims in the documentary to further their agenda and proclaim that all those who oppose their tactics and lies are haters and encourage the bullying of homosexuals.  I made it very clear to CJ Bills, in the conversation that was conveniently cut from the film, that what happened to him was wrong and the school should have investigated his accusations more thoroughly,” Gramley further stated.

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January 24, 2012

Issue

Vote on HR 2070 Scheduled

Details

HR 2070 – the World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011 (go to version number 2 -”Reported in House – RH”)  — is scheduled for a vote in the House sometime this week.  Remember this bill . . . direct(s) the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the Nation on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day.”  There were some concerns about the Commemorative Works Act  and its stipulation that a new memorial “does not interfere with, or encroach on, an existing commemorative work.”  In Committee, Section 3 was added which states the Commemorative Works Act “shall not apply to this Act.”  Of Pennsylvania’s Congressmen,  only Lou Barletta, Mike Kelly, Patrick Meehan, Joe Pitts,  and Todd Russell Platts are listed as co-sponsors!

Action Steps

Contact your Congressman and ask him or her to vote ‘Yes’ on HR 2070 when it comes to a vote later this week.  Click here for contact information.

January 23, 2012

Issues

1.) Is Your Child’s School Participating In This?

2.)  President Obama’s Statement on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade -Click here.

Details

1.)  This is “No Name Calling Week” (NNCW)   in our nation’s schools!  Sounds good until you realize it is the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) who is behind it.  GLSEN’s ultimate goal is to normalize the homosexual lifestyle – telling kids that ‘It’s okay to be gay.’  Last week they released a 68-page elementary toolkit called “Ready, Set, Respect

Here are some statements from that publication’s introduction:

[E]lementary school children are bombarded every day with messages about different groups of people in our society, many of which portray these groups in a negative, socially undesirable way. Those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) are often among these groups. In addition to influencing attitudes, the messages children receive about these people also influences (sic) how they will make sense of gender and inform how they think about their own identity… without intentional guidance, the messages children receive about groups of people, as well as various identities and gender roles can complicate this process and contribute to bullying, prejudice and bias.

While most elementary educators have embraced this work and construct and conduct lessons focused on diversity, recent research suggests that intentional efforts to include explicit lessons that foster respect for differences in gender identity or gender expression or that include families with LGBT parents/caregiver, siblings, or other individuals significant in our student’s lives, are less frequent. As a result, many students go through their elementary school years without positive mentions of families that include LGBT persons or friends or people who may be gender non-conforming.

The elementary school years offer a wonderful and important opportunity to instill and/or nurture positive attitudes and respect for individual, family and cultural differences, including diversity related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

More specific instructions include the following:

• Make sure the analogies you use when teaching don’t rely on hetero-normative or gender-normative images or viewpoints. A hetero-normative viewpoint is one that expresses heterosexuality as a given instead of being one of many possibilities. Such a viewpoint can translate into the development of all kinds of images that reinforce the view. The assumption (reinforced by imagery and practice) that a boy will grow up and marry a woman is based on such a viewpoint. A gender-normative image, on the other hand is one that delimits the possibilities for children of either gender by reinforcing stereotyped expectations.
• Find ways of grouping and lining up students other than “boys here, girls there” or “boys do this, girls do that.” While some students may enjoy these ways of separating the class, they can isolate other students who may feel uncomfortable conforming to gender-based stereotypes.
• Monitor choice activity time to ensure that students are not segregating themselves by gender.
• Become more aware of the ways that you support gender stereotypes in your expectations of students and their work and intervene when you hear students making genderbased assumptions.
• Write math problems with contexts that include a variety of family structures and gender-expressions. For example, “Rosa and her dads were at the store and wanted to buy three boxes of pasta. If each costs $.75, how much will all three boxes cost?”(emphasis added)

Now you see where GLSEN is coming from and such thinking will be reflected in this week’s NNCW lessons.

Action Steps

1.)  Call your child’s school and see if they are participating in ‘No Name Calling Week.”

2.)  Share this information with others who are concerned with what is going on in our schools.

Traditional Values Group Listed in PA Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension ‘Bias Incidents’ Report – Why?

(Harrisburg)  In November the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group which advocates for natural marriage, family and children, criticized the US Department of Education for its criticism of the Penn State/Sandusky homosexual predator scandal.     Today the criticism by the AFA of PA will be discussed at the PA Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension meeting as our criticism made page 3 of the recently released report of ‘bias incidents.’

“This is yet another example of political correctness gone amuck.  Our attempt in November was to expose the efforts of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to encourage schools across the country to establish gay straight alliance clubs which many times places impressionable students in harm’s way by validating the dangerous homosexual lifestyle and puts them in contact with outside homosexual groups and individuals.  Then he turns around and criticizes Penn State for not being more careful in monitoring Sandusky.  It really seems that Secretary Duncan does not fully understand what he is advocating,” remarked Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

On June 14 Secretary Duncan sent a “Dear Colleague” letter  to federally funded schools across the country advising them to allow the establishment school clubs, especially gay straight alliance clubs in order to ” help ensure that all students, including LGBT and gender nonconforming students, have a safe place to learn, meet, share experiences, and discuss matters that are important to them.”

“Perhaps Pennsylvania’s tax dollars could be better used than listing efforts by a child advocacy group to protect school students from US DOE attempts to  get kids into gay straight alliance clubs.  Any “interagency tension” created by our November 17th news release was created by the PA Inter-Agency Task Force on Civil Tension itself, not the AFA of PA,” Gramley concluded.

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Pennsylvania Group Backs Attempt to Expose the Southern Poverty Law Center

(Harrisburg) — This afternoon African-American pastors and Christian and Jewish leaders of pro-family groups gathered at the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, AL to hold a press conference to expose the lies the SPLC is telling about pro-family organizations in labeling them as ‘hate groups’ because of their stand against the very real homosexual agenda.   The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), the state affiliate of the Tupelo, MS-based American Family Association (AFA), has been labeled a hate group by homosexual activists in Pennsylvania because of the ‘hate’ label attached to the national office of the AFA.

“The AFA of PA fully supports this effort to expose the Southern Poverty Law Center for its attempts to marginalize traditional values groups by labeling them as ‘hate groups.’  We applaud this effort by Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality and all those involved in this afternoon,” commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

In December 2010 the AFA of PA signed onto a full page ad in support of several national pro-family groups which had been labeled ‘hate groups’ by the SPLC.  These appeared in two Washington, DC newspapers.  Within days the AFA of PA received a letter from Richard Cohen, President and CEO of SPLC, trying to validate their listing of these traditional values groups as ‘hate groups.’  However, his letter equated pro-family groups to neo-Nazis who call Jews ‘vermin’ and accused them of the ‘propagation of know falsehoods’ and ‘repeated, groundless name-calling’ – all without documented proof of such accusations.  That letter was more hateful than anything the pro-family groups demonized by SPLC have said or written.   On January 31, 2011 the AFA of PA responded to the Cohen letter, but has yet to receive a response from the SPLC.

“It continues to be clear that the SPLC has lost its way and is in full support of the efforts to redefine marriage, family and American society as a whole as it supports radical homosexuals and target groups which are trying to preserve the American way.  The SPLC needs to reexamine its misguided efforts in attacking pro-family groups and get back to its original efforts of monitoring real hate groups like the KKK and Neo Nazis,”  further stated Gramley.

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January 17, 2012

Issues

Voter ID — HB 934

Details

HB 934 would require valid “proof of identification” in order to vote in a Pennsylvania primary or general election.  This would greatly cut down on voter fraud.  On June 23 HB 934 passed the State House and went to the Senate State Government Committee.  It was amended and reported out on December 12th.  On December 14th is was referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee.  Our primary election is April 24th and it would be great if HB 934 could be passed and signed into law before then!

Action Steps

1.)  Contact Senator Jake Corman, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and ask him to move H.B. 934 forward for a vote in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

2.)  Contact your State Senator and ask him or her to support HB 934 when it comes to a vote in the full Senate.