By Jim Brown
October 30, 2002

(AgapePress) - There has been a major pro-family victory in the State of West Virginia, where the state board of education has temporarily dropped a school-based program intended to change student attitudes about homosexuality.

On a 5-1 vote, the West Virginia Board of Education decided to put on hold a program intended to normalize homosexuality. The board has now launched a task force to investigate the "Civil Rights Team Project" and other materials being put out by the West Virginia attorney general's office.

Kevin McCoy with the West Virginia American Family Association says the community had strong objections to the controversial program, which he believes promotes the homosexual agenda.

"My wife and I went up to Taylor County a week prior to the vote and had put out an action alert, alerting [citizens] to the program and the fact that the state school board was going to be meeting there on the 17th [of October]," McCoy says. "There was a tremendous turnout -- more than 300 people -- who showed up, demanding that [the project] be terminated."

He says the program itself is political, noting that it was the result of a 1997 brainstorming session featuring then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. But McCoy cautions there is no guarantee the board will reject the Civil Rights Team Project entirely.

"I'm confident that they will [reject the project] once they realize exactly just how pro-homosexual the program really is," he says. "If it is repudiated, and we believe that it will be, then it will not be permitted in [any West Virginia] schools whatsoever."

McCoy says the program is supported by pro-homosexual activists in the state attorney general's office, as well as Governor Bob Wise's Cabinet on Children and Families.

McCoy appeared recently on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the Civil Rights Team Project and the attorney general's role in it. He says his research indicated the AG's office bypassed educational procedures -- and perhaps state law -- in training students to become "thought police."

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