By Rusty Pugh and Jody Brown
July 26, 2001

(AgapePress) - The Santa Fe, New Mexico, Public School District plans to unveil a new pro-homosexual program that uses terms that one pro-family expert describes as "attempts to eliminate any opposition."

Santa Fe educators are putting the finishing touches on Project Respect, a "human rights" curriculum being touted as promoting tolerance. According to district spokeswoman Joanne Ferguson, the program will address "homophobia" and homosexuality in the context of racism. But that is all just a smokescreen to Linda Harvey, who heads the Ohio-based group Mission America.

According to Harvey, the curriculum uses terms like "tolerance," "respect," and "homophobia" in an attempt to change the meaning of the words to promote the homosexual lifestyle. She specifically noted "homophobia" is a concocted term designed to silence opposition.

She says the homosexual activists are trying to capture a civil rights platform, which does not fit this issue.

"Homosexuality is not an issue of civil rights -- it's an issue of a behavior that is known to be changeable," Harvey says. "What's happening here is that, once again, you have educators who are trying to indoctrinate children while they are simultaneously silencing parents, students, teachers, administrators, and anyone in the community who would dare to speak up and say homosexuality is a problem."

Harvey calls Project Respect another example of the liberal left forcing homosexuality on schoolchildren. She says homosexual indoctrination programs like this have the full endorsement of the National Education Association.

The NEA, the world's largest union of teachers and educators, earlier this month backed away from a resolution that advocated development of education material and programs designed to meet the needs of "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students." Many pro-family groups in the U.S. had voiced their strong opposition to the resolution.

Although the NEA dropped the resolution during its annual convention in Los Angeles, union officials stated they plan to establish a task force to explore other ways to advanced pro-homosexual policies in the nation's schools.

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