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News Release
For Immediate Release: February 27, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

Statewide Group Condemns Use of Tax Dollars to Fund Homosexual Activism Training for Students

(Harrisburg) -- Yesterday Dickinson College hosted the ‘Second Annual Gay Straight Alliance Leadership Summit.’ This was an event to train members of Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) and teachers how to become activists to promote homosexual, bisexual, transgender lifestyles. Additionally, one session asked them to question ‘fixed labels’ concerning sexuality. Unbeknownst to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania, they helped pay for the event. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group, has contacted state lawmakers about this misguided use of hard earned tax dollars.

“Pennsylvania faced a $2.3 billion budget deficit before the federal government’s bailout through the so-called stimulus package. The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s co-sponsorship of this event is yet another example of how our tax dollars are being misused, and in this case on an agenda the majority of Pennsylvanians do not approve,” stated Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

As the AFA of PA has warned in the past, the real goal of homosexual organizations such as the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network which wants students to form GSAs is to create homosexual/transgender activists. Students and teachers took an entire school day to learn how to promote a lifestyle which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, is the major cause of HIV/AIDS among men. In fact, between 2001 and 2006, male-to-male sex was the largest HIV transmission category in the U.S., and the only one associated with an increasing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses.

The jump was highest — an increase of 12.4 percent — among boys and men between the ages of 13 and 24 years who had sex with other males, particularly among ethnic minorities.

For more details on the dangers involved with participation in the homosexual lifestyle, read Dr. John Diggs report.

“These underage children – the entire alphabet soup of LGBTQA -- are being encouraged to question their sexuality and identify however they feel the most comfortable. One session was about religion and sexuality – was it designed to have these students question their parents religious beliefs on homosexuality? The children of Pennsylvania are being used as guinea pigs and the tax payers are being forced to help pay for the experimentation. To describe this as outrageous is an understatement,” concluded Gramley.

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