Resolution on Homosexuality and Public Schools

http://www.earnedmedia.org/em0608.htm Resolution on Homosexuality and Public Schools Continues to Roil Southern Baptist Waters - Experts Offer Testimony to Committee Regarding Resolution Robert Knight (CWA), Linda Harvey (Mission America), and Regina Griggs (PFOX) offer testimony to assist SBC Committee considering the Baucham-Shortt Resolution. To: National Desk, Education Reporter, Feature Reporter Contact: Robert Knight, director, Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000; Linda Harvey, President, Mission America, Columbus, OH, 614-442-7998; Regina Griggs, Executive Director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, 703-360-2225; E. Ray Moore, Jr., Chaplain (Lt. Col.) USAR Ret., Exodus Mandate, 803-714-1744 COLUMBIA, SC, June 8 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Last month Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., a prominent Southern Baptist lecturer, preacher, and author of The Ever-Loving Truth, and Bruce N. Shortt, co-sponsor of the 2004 Christian Education Resolution and author of The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, submitted a resolution for consideration at the SBC's 2005 Annual Meeting recommending that churches investigate their school districts to determine if their school districts have clubs, programs, or curricula that could influence children to regard homosexual behavior as an acceptable lifestyle. With the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention fast approaching, Robert Knight, director, Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America; Linda Harvey, President, Mission America; and Regina Griggs, Executive Director Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays have written to the SBC's Resolutions Committee Chairman, Pastor Gene Mims, offering to provide information and testimony regarding how a growing number of public schools are collaborating with homosexual activists to influence our children to regard homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle and to silence those within the schools who disagree. According to Robert Knight, "Far too few pastors and parents are aware of the extent to which many schools districts are collaborating with homosexual activists and the risk which that collaboration poses for our children and our culture. As the recent incidents involving the sex education curriculum in Montgomery County, Maryland, and the 'Little Black Book' in Massachusetts clearly demonstrate, homosexual activists are becoming much more aggressive. I would be happy to assist the committee in any way I can to provide the facts they need as the members consider the Baucham-Shortt resolution." Linda Harvey notes, "Based on my ten years of tracking and researching the growth of homosexual activism in public schools, I know that very few parents are aware that the majority of public school districts are selling our children the dangerous and false notion that homosexuality is a normal and acceptable lifestyle. I believe that the committee should be fully informed about this in its deliberations." Regina Griggs and PFOX work extensively with parents and friends of homosexual loved ones and advocates for ex-gay inclusion. According to Griggs, "The only hope for our schools and our children is for parents to be fully informed and to take a stand now. We must demand that our public schools be held accountable for what they are teaching our children about homosexuality. The committee that reviews the Baucham-Shortt resolution needs to be fully informed of the scope and seriousness of the problem." The Baucham-Shortt resolution encourages every SBC church to investigate whether the school district in which it is located has either a homosexual club or any curriculum or program that attempts to influence children to accept homosexual behavior as a legitimate lifestyle. If the school district has any of these, the resolution urges churches to inform parents of this fact and encourage them to remove their children from the district's schools immediately. The Baucham-Shortt resolution also: (a) commends Christians working in government schools, (b) asks Baptists to make a greater effort to provide and support Christian educational alternatives to government schools, especially for the benefit of children from low income and single parent families, (c) calls upon Baptists to pray for homosexuals, and (d) rebukes homosexual activists for slandering minorities by claiming that homosexual behavior has any authentic connection with the civil rights movement. Additional information, including the text of the resolution, can be found at www.exodusmandate.org. To schedule an interview with Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr. or Bruce Shortt, call Creative Resources, 800.858.9388, [email protected]

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