(AgapePress) - An eyewitness to a student conference in New York State that was sponsored by a homosexual activist group says parents should be warned about the organization's efforts to indoctrinate and influence young people to accept the homosexual agenda.

The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, recently hosted the eighth annual "Healing the Hurt Conference" in White Plains, New York. According to Jeanne Sparks, a Christian activist who observed the event, one of the keynote speakers there called on middle school and high school students to rebel against parental and governmental authorities that do not support homosexuality.

Sparks says the speaker, former civil rights attorney Dani Newsum, referred to Colorado's marriage amendment as "obscene violence to the Constitution" and predicted that "Southern Baptists will apologize in 100 years to [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer] people."

However, the Christian activist notes, a homosexual minister who spoke at the conference went even further. "This minister said, 'I'm not waiting a hundred years,'" she recalls. And if the rhetoric heard at the White Plains event is any indication, Sparks points out, homosexuals are clearly pushing for same-sex marriage. "They do not want civil unions," she insists, noting that the homosexual minister who spoke said he was "ordained one year ago, not to be part of an institution but to change it."

Sparks encourages concerned parents to find out whether their local school has a "Gay-Straight Alliance" club of any kind and, if so, to oppose it vigorously. "I really don't believe that parents actually know what GLSEN is all about and what these conferences are all about and what Gay-Straight Alliances in their schools are all about," she says; but she believes the homosexual group sponsors these conferences and student clubs to indoctrination young people.

At the recent "Healing the Hurt Conference," the Christian attendee points out, "There was one workshop where there was an open-mike forum, and one young girl said she forged the papers to be there, so her parents didn't know." And a show of hands revealed that among "almost half of the students in the conference, in this particular workshop, their parents did not know they were there," she says.

The main objective of the GLSEN-sponsored conference, Sparks adds, was to encourage students to take up homosexual activism and "to change laws" to align with the homosexual agenda. Parents would be appalled, she contends, if they knew what their children were hearing at the event.

Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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