I could preface this article with a technical treatise detailing how every major medical and psychiatric organization recognizes that homosexuality is just something that happens naturally a certain percentage of the time, or I could point out the multitude of species in which homosexuality is observed in nature, but I won't bother, since the people I'd be arguing with don't listen to reason anyway. Instead, let's focus on the wanton hypocrisy. That's more fun anyway.

The anti-gay religious extremists rant to no end about how the homosexual conspiracy is trying to advance its nefarious "gay agenda" in the public schools, subversively recruiting youngsters into its dark power. Mind you, it's nothing more than spreading FUD. To them, everything is about sex, and more importantly gay sex. If you say "please don't beat kids up because they're gay" they will start spouting the above rhetoric. It's their God-given right to harass, defame and assault gays, you see. It's in the bible. Ezekiel 23:20, I think.

Those of us who have heard the tired anti-gay rhetoric for quite some time now and observed the actions of those who vomit it know that often times it amounts to Freudian Projection; because they can't deal with their own feelings of hatred, obsessive sexuality and control, they assume that others must feel the same way, and they project their feelings onto those people. One way this manifests itself is with patently offensive hypocrisy.

For example, a middle school in Dothan, Alabama sent pamphlets home with their students titled "The Top 10 Questions Teenagers Ask about Sex," produced by the religious organization "Generation Life" which, like many modern religious organizations, exists to hate the right things. They hate abortion. They hate sex. They hate MTV (okay, so I'm with them on that one). They hate feminism. And to the point of this story, they hate gays.

One of the questions from their pamphlet reads, "What can I do if I am attracted to someone of the same sex?" Their answer? "Too often, homosexuality is shown as a legitimate lifestyle equal to a heterosexual lifestyle." Then it calls homosexuality "contrary to the laws of nature." This is not a scientific opinion. This is not a legal opinion. This is not a balanced opinion. This is not a twenty-first century opinion. This is a radical anti-gay religious and political opinion.

So who's really pushing an agenda in the public schools? Is it the gay people who want to be treated respectfully and have the same access and same rights as other students? Or is it the anti-gay people whose actions speak far louder than their words?

---Nick