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I'm certainly relieved that this fascist organization calls itself "non-partisan"!
GLEN ELLYN, April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is taking steps in Illinois to counter the "Day of Silence"-a national propaganda event organized by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to promote the acceptance of homosexuality and "transgenderism" (gender confusion) in schools.
Today, students in over 100 Illinois schools are reportedly participating in some way in the organized D.O.S. protest, taking vows of silence all day to protest alleged bias against homosexual and "transgender" students in schools.
"If a school or teacher allows students to be 'silent' in school and not participate, that represents an endorsement of this pro-homosexual protest," said IFI Executive Director Peter LaBarbera. "This is part of GLSEN's larger campaign to use schools to push a radical pro-homosexual, pro-bisexual and gender confused agenda on impressionable students."
"The 'Day of Silence' is a distraction from the proper role of schools: teaching kids solid academics. It infringes on the rights of nonparticipating students. Schools should simply not be endorsing controversial sexual and political agendas," he said.
LaBarbera noted that "the saddest thing about all the pro-'gay' propaganda in schools is that the kids rarely hear the other side, particularly about the tremendous health risks associated with male homosexual sex."
IFI has responded to "Day of Silence" and other pro-homosexual activism in Illinois schools in the following ways:
-- IFI, in cooperation with the Concerned Citizens-Safety of Students, sent out thousands of postcards alerting parents of District 214 high schools (Prospect, Hersey, and Rolling Meadows) to 'Day of Silence' activism. The postcards state: "Parents want teaching, not activism...student participation, not special privileges for activists. Politicized, 'silent' protests are disruptive and interfere with other students' learning."
-- IFI, in cooperation with CC-SOS, sent out information packets to D214 administrators informing them about the other side of the homosexual issue, e.g., the existence of a large and growing "ex-gay" movement.
-- IFI is monitoring high schools throughout the state on their involvement in "Day of Silence" activities.
Illinois Family Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to defending marriage, family and the sanctity of life in Illinois.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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"the Tremendous Health Risks?"
Ok, so the stress of beinggay and unable to handle it? Of being transgendered and unable to handle it? These don't matter at all?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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As I read this latest tirade, one sentence stuck out like the proverbial sore thumb:
Politicized, 'silent' protests are disruptive and interfere with other students' learning."
How could one student's silence possibly interfere with another student's learning? And if it does, then that student must surely be suffering from the ultimate in attention deficit disorder (being an expert in such things, what say you, David?).
Yet again, whenever these people open their mouths, they give new meaning to the concept of "convoluted logic" (the same sort of thought pattern which gives rise to the fear that a gay couple's marriage will automatically have an adverse effect on their own); and every time I hear such hate-filled preaching, I'm convinced all over again that they represent what they themselves claim to fear as "the Anti-Christ".
As it is, schools already have more than enough problems with intolerance among the student body (as exemplified by that play and film "Bang Bang You're Dead" which smith told us about awhile back); so they certainly don't need any more (especially from the likes of groups like the IFI).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/04/042204MichMed.htm
This could have some SERIOUS and far-reaching implications!
Seems there's a lot of hateful yet powerful people determined to stomp as hard as they can on anything they don't approve of. Undoubtedly a backlash to the efforts accomplished over these past few decades.
Let's hope these guys can be stopped in time! You Americans ought to write your congressmen and all that methinks and let them know your honest opinion.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer
LANSING, Mich. - Some gays are worried that a package of bills passed this week by the Michigan House could allow health care providers to refuse them treatment on ethical, moral or religious grounds, unless they need emergency care.
The legislation would allow health care workers and insurers to refuse for reasons of conscience to perform procedures, fill prescriptions or cover treatment. The legislation would not apply in medical emergencies.
"As written, this law would allow a health care provider to not provide health care services to someone based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation," said Democratic state Rep. Chris Kolb, the Legislature's only openly gay lawmaker. "It's very worrisome and disturbing."
Michigan law already allows doctors or nurses to decline to perform or assist with abortions. It also lets pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for morning-after birth-control pills.
Republican sponsors of the bills said they are not targeting gays and simply want to protect providers from compromising their personal convictions with respect to such things as abortion, stem-cell research, cloning and genetic testing.
Opponents plan to challenge the legislation in court if the Senate and Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm approve it.
Republicans control the state Senate 22-16. Most GOP senators are expected to support the measure when it emerges from a committee.
The governor's spokeswoman, Liz Boyd, said the package is "too broad" and must be changed before Granholm will sign it.
"We are sympathetic to this issue, and we want to work with the Legislature to develop a version of the legislation that we all support," Boyd said.
The bills bar health care providers from refusing to treat anyone based on religion, race, national origin, age or gender. Sexual preference is not on that list.
"If they wanted to cover sexual orientation, they would have to add it in there, and they obviously have not done so," Kolb said. "It's blatantly discriminatory at the very least."
The Michigan State Medical Society objects to the legislation.
"We don't believe it's necessary. Medical ethics has dictated for decades, if not centuries, that a physician isn't required to do anything that's against his or her morals," spokesman David Fox said.
Sean Kosofsky, policy director for a Detroit gay-rights group called the Triangle Foundation, said the issue is not religious freedom but conservative GOP politics. "It's completely radical, completely unconstitutional and violates every ethic in the medical profession," he said.
Rep. Randy Richardville, another GOP sponsor, said he would be willing to revise the proposal to protect medical treatment for gays.
"We are not trying in any way, shape or form to push our moral, ethical or religious beliefs on anyone else. What we are doing is trying to protect those beliefs for those providing medical care," he said.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Another Illinois story...what's up with that poor State?? 
It's not just Illinois, Michigan's up to mischief too. 
