October 7, 2012|6:30 pm
One of the nation's oldest
organizations founded to protect and defend blacks during
the civil rights era has become one of the leading
advocates for homosexual rights and is promoting "mix it
up" day in over 2,400 public and private schools on Oct.
30.
The Southern Poverty Law Center began the program in 2002
as a way to encourage children to break through racial
barriers and accept different lifestyles, including
homosexuality.
According to the group's website, "SPLC is a nonprofit
civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and
bigotry. Founded in 1971, SPLC is known for investigating
and exposing hate group activities throughout the world.
They focus on widespread issues of social injustice
including children at risk, hate and extremism, immigrant
justice, and LGBT rights. But they go a step beyond fighting
hate and seeking justice for the vulnerable. The SPLC
conducts one of the nation's leading programs for teaching
tolerance."
Initially designed as a "Teaching Tolerance" program, the
organization claims they are reaching hundreds of thousands
of student annually about not only the civil rights
movement, but what they term the "struggle for social
justice," often associated with the legalization of same-sex
marriage and other activities of the pro-homosexual
movement.
Elementary and junior high schools are the ones mostly
targeted by SPLC.
Although nothing is taught in the classroom, SPLC is using
school lunch periods to promote the ten-year- old program.
"So on one day – October 30 this school year – we ask
students to move out of their comfort zones and connect with
someone new over lunch. It's a simple act with profound
implications. Studies have shown that interactions across
group lines can help reduce prejudice. When students
interact with those who are different from them, biases and
misperceptions can fall away."
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However, groups such as the American Family Association are
warning parents to check and see if their children's school
is on the list. According to SPLC, there are over 2,418
schools worldwide that are on the list, including some
Catholic schools such as St. Dominic School for Boys in
Memphis, Tenn.
Click here for a list of participating
schools.
AFA is encouraging parents to contact their schools to
confirm if they are participating in the program, and if so,
protest the school's participation by voicing concern to
administrators and elected school board members. But if
those efforts fall short, they also encourage parents to
keep their children out of school that day.
"AFA is joining other family-oriented groups in urging
parents to keep their children at home that day if their
local school is sponsoring the 'Mix It Up' project," reads a
statement on the association's website. "The Southern
Poverty Law Center is using this project to bully-push its
gay agenda, and at the same time, intimidate and silence
students who have a Biblical view of homosexuality."
SPLC, which has become known for their "Hate list," has
included AFA, along with the Family Research Council and
others on the list. SPLC has the following statement about
AFA and its founder, Don Wildmon, on its website:
"Wildmon has never made a secret of his anti-LGBT views.
One of his statements on the AFA's website reads, 'I never
dreamed I would see the day when sodomy would be called
normal, and those who held to traditional values based on
Christian teaching would be called bigots.' According to the
AFA, the primary goal of the 'homosexual movement' is to
'abolish the traditional, Judeo-Christian view of human
sexuality, marriage, and family.'"
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