Massachusetts Funding to Promote Homosexuality in Schools Condemned

Finn Laursen, Executive Director of the Christian Educators Association International, has called for the withholding of public funding due to be used for the promotion of homosexuality in schools across the state of Massachusetts, US.

"Public funding should not be used to promote sexual activity that puts our children’s health at risk," says Laursen. "That is exactly what will happen if Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney approves his state’s 2006 fiscal year budget."

The Massachusetts Department of Health and the Department of Education has allocated US$425,000 in the 2006 budget to be spent by the Governor’s Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth.

Both Departments work closely with the national Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to coordinate funding for Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs in high schools and middle schools across the state.

The GLSEN recently sponsored a Massachusetts school health fair, distributing booklets to school pupils which gave, according to Laursen, "detailed descriptions of various homosexual acts", as well as listing local sex clubs and "the kind of specific sexual activities that could be expected there."

Laursen scorned the state government’s open approach to homosexual issues, saying, that the encouragement of "high risk sexual behaviour seems at best unwise and at worst criminal.

"Schools should be safe havens for our children, not a place where they are actually encouraged to engage in sexual behaviour that we know is quite unsafe."

The Commission run by Massachusetts also coordinates homosexual assemblies, programs like the gay protest Day of Silence, gay-themed plays, printed matter, websites, and other gay-oriented material that go to children in all grades, beginning with kindergarten.

Laursen has urged other states not to follow Massachusetts’ example and to change the emphasis, saying, "If local and state governments want to fund safe sexual practices, they should fund the only practice that is proven safe: abstinence."