Expert Outs "No Name Calling Week" as GLSEN Pro-Homosexual Strategy

by Jim Brown
January 17, 2005

(AgapePress) - A conservative expert on sexual orientation is exposing the real agenda behind an upcoming event called "No Name Calling Week." The weeklong observance is the brainchild of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) and is based on The Misfits, a book by James Howe legitimizing homosexual behavior in middle school.

The stated objective of "No Name Calling Week," which targets children in grades five through eight, is to highlight the destructive nature of name-calling and bullying in schools. But sexual orientation researcher and columnist Dr. Warren Throckmorton says, ironically, the national spokesperson for the event has displayed little tolerance or acceptance for those who object to the homosexual lifestyle.

According to Throckmorton, several years ago GLSEN founder Kevin Jennings used language in an address that might have gotten him expelled from many schools. "He swore a number of times in the speech," the researcher says, "and one time, directly at those he labeled the religious right. And there's a part of his speech [in which] he said that the religious right could just drop dead."

The conservative columnist, who also serves as Associate Professor of Psychology and director of College Counseling at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, often finds homosexual activists to be quite intolerant of those who disagree with their lifestyle or contend that homosexual orientation can be changed. For example, he notes a member of the National Education Association's Gay Educator's Caucus said of him at last summer's NEA Convention, "There's a special place in hell for people like you!"

In fact, Throckmorton points out, homosexual activists often resort to name-calling in an effort to stop name-calling. "It seems strange to me as a strategy, but this seems to be the way they operate, often -- to in a sense try to shame people for having the beliefs that they do in order to silence them," he says. "And one of the ways they do that is to do the very thing that they say shouldn't be done."

Ultimately, Throckmorton believes the upcoming No Name Calling Week, which begins next Monday, is more about condoning homosexuals' behavior than ending harassment and bullying in schools. If schools really want to end such intolerant behavior, he contends, they need to enact anti-harassment policies that cover all students and then enforce them fairly.