NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  October 9, 2008

CONTACT:  Diane Gramley   1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

National Coming Out Day and Penn State Altoona

(Harrisburg) –   Many institutions of higher education, not only in Pennsylvania, but across the country, will participate in “National Coming Out Day” activities.  Penn State Altoona is one such school which will help in the effort to normalize the very dangerous homosexual lifestyle.  The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group, notes that homosexual activists are attempting to hijack the civil rights movement, but those efforts are actually undermined by “National Coming Out Day.”

“Homosexuals say they are born that way, according to them they have no choice in the matter; it is perfectly natural and normal.   If that was the case, then wouldn’t all their family and friends know about their ‘natural’ homosexual tendencies?  Why the need to make a special announcement.  African-Americans or Asian-Americans don’t need a ‘coming out day’ to announce their ethnicity.  National Coming Out Day is simply another homosexual activist’s gimmick,” stated Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

“I don’t believe parents pay big bucks for their children to go to college to be ‘helped’ by the school to ‘discover’ they are homosexual,” Gramley said.

On October 11, 1987 about half a million demonstrators descended on Washington, D.C. and demanded more rights for homosexuals.   Since then the day has been commemorated annually as National Coming Out Day to try to convince Americans, as one of the common slogans of that day said, “We Are Everywhere.”  But the true intentions of that day included legalized same-sex marriage, discard all sodomy laws and give civil rights protections to homosexuals.  

A May 2008 study by Hunter College in New York and funded by a grant from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that homosexuals are not everywhere.  In fact, only an approximate 2.9% of American adults consider themselves to be gay, lesbian or bisexual.  These findings undermine the assertion by homosexual activists that “We are everywhere.”  That simply is not the truth.

Increasingly universities and colleges, such as Penn State Altoona, are becoming institutions of social change and not institutions of higher education.  Students are taught that the homosexual lifestyle is simply a safe alternative lifestyle.  Bisexuality is becoming more commonplace on campuses.  However, even in 1987 bisexuals were rejected by the ‘homosexual community’ as being a ‘little strange.’  Up until recent years sexually confused individuals (transgenders) were also considered ‘a little off the wall’ by homosexuals.  It was upon the realization that they would need to combine forces to accomplish their goals of so-called ‘civil right protection’ that homosexual activists laid down their animosity toward bisexuals and transgenders. 

“There is no such thing as a gay gene.  There are thousands of former homosexuals.  The more the truth is revealed about the dangers of the homosexual lifestyle, the more desperate homosexual activists become to convince school and college age students that ‘it’s okay to be gay.’ National Coming Out Day – giving a forum to troubled students to announce they are homosexual --  is one of those tools of misrepresentation and deception,” further noted Gramley.