This was a good media day. Our State Executive Director, Bob Larimer made one live national talk show (Oliver North), was a panelist on the first airing (nationally) of a prior taping of the Rolonda TV show, and gave an interview for NPR to be aired at a future date.
There is an upcoming National Public Radio broadcast about homosexual theater groups visiting local school
districts and putting on plays designed to evoke a sympathetic, affirming response from impressionable public
school children. I told the interviewer that this is blatant political advocacy by sophisticated homosexual activists.
I was recently an eyewitness to these 'Thespian' exploits, but only because I was invited by an outraged
community member.
Two years ago in our state capitol, Olympia, I debated one of the troupe's leading characters in a radio format. I
pointed out that many communities objecting to the group did so on the grounds that little effort was made to
alert parents to the actual content of the plays (these folks purposely try to get in under the radar, and this was
admitted during a Q & A session after the play I attended), and that taxpayer financed school facilities should
not be used to promote homosexuality. I was challenged as 'just another critic' who had not seen the plays
himself so, on the air, I said I would like to be notified as to the time and place of the next performance. They
made a big show of saying how welcome I would be and promised, on-air, to invite me to a performance. I never
heard from them.
At the recent Q & A session (Held along with the play in a school auditorium on Bainbridge Island in
Washington's Puget Sound) I pointed out that the reason the troupe broke their promise to me was that they
really do not prize "diversity" at all. They do not want scrutiny or input from conservatives. They claimed that
my exclusion was "just an oversight" (Sounds like the Clinton White House).
I also asked them - since they were employing the term "homophobia" in the play and at the Q & A sessions,
and making sure school kids understand that this terrible behavior is to be avoided at all costs by caring,
compassionate people - in all the school districts they had performed in had they ever encountered an actual
school district policy which defines "homophobia" and forbids the practice, or are children merely expected to
self-censor?
This threw them for a loop, and for a moment they sat there on the stage in silence. Then a lesbian in the cast
said "That's a loaded question."
I said yes, purposely so. If kids are having their rights to freedom of speech restricted, then they had better be
told exactly what kinds of speech constitute "homophobic remarks" and exactly what rules pertain to avoiding
such speech, and exactly what disciplinary action will be taken if they dare to utter such words.
I then suggested that if there are in reality no school rules against such speech, then it was a disingenuous attack
on academic freedom, and an inappropriate, manipulative effort to foster a "chilling effect" (to turn ACLU
rhetoric on its head) to warn kids about the horrors of practicing "homophobia."
I got the sense that I wasn't welcome there, although parents and grandparents came up afterward to thank me
for my remarks.
Anyone who doesn't believe that America is in the midst of a civil war of cultural values ought to check out one of
these plays, which make silly attempts to piggyback claimed sexual conduct onto the back of the civil rights
movement, and which are taken very seriously by the education establishment.
Homosexual activists know that they are not likely to change the minds of adults, so they are concentrating on
the fertile fields of public education, hoping to convert future graduating classes into unquestioning liberal voters
who will automatically support all attempts to create pro-homosexual public policies.
An added bonus is that the homosexual lobby avoids having to pay for its own political advertising. Public school
district patrons, involuntarily parted from their hard-earned wages, are carrying that burden - as well as
supplying captive audiences of impressionable children - for sophisticated homosexual activists.
I'll forward particulars about time and date of this NPR broadcast when I am notified.
On the Ollie North radio show, I spoke about the attempt to normalize homosexuality and advance the
homosexual political agenda through Ellen Degeneres' prime-time sitcom "Ellen."
I said that the homosexual lobby will milk the "Ellen" episode for all it’s worth and compared the claimed
behavior of lesbianism to hunting, gun ownership and National Rifle Association membership, saying, "If Ellen
had 'outed' herself as a hunter and NRA member and had sought acceptance, approval and affirmation for this
claimed behavior from her friends on the program, there definitely would have been complaints that this was
political advocacy. If the program had run spots by the NRA promoting America's hunting heritage during
commercial breaks, would they have been considered as appropriate as the pro-homosexual "Human Rights
Commission" spots aired during "Ellen's" lesbian 'coming out' episode?"
Ollie laughed and joked: "I hope you are not saying that you're either a hunter or a homosexual?" Then he
volunteered a free advertisement for the National Rifle Association's convention in Seattle this weekend.
He also apologized for singling out Seattle as having some of the highest TV ratings among cities which tuned to
the "Ellen" lesbian episode. I assured him: "No need to apologize Ollie. Washington state also has an existing
Executive Order which creates a "liaison" working out of the Governor's policy office who's official duty is to
serve as an 'advocate' for the concerns of homosexuals and lesbians state-wide."
Ollie responded: "Clinton has the same thing in his administration! I agree with everything you're saying, Bob."
He also predicted that programs such as the "Ellen" show would be used to promote efforts to pass legislation
such as the so-called "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA).
I agreed and concluded that the lesbian "Ellen" episode was merely the tip of the iceberg regarding
entertainment media efforts to further the homosexual agenda.
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