Family Advocates Outraged by Pornographic Handouts at GLSEN Event

by Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
May 18, 2005

(AgapePress) - A pro-family group in Massachusetts is blowing the lid off an obscene homosexual education conference put on by the Boston chapter of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

GLSEN Boston's 15th Annual Conference was held at Brookline High School on April 30. Although the purported theme of the conference was "Challenging Intolerance -- Sustaining Hope," some conservatives feel a more fitting theme might have been "challenging public decency standards and sustaining moral outrage."

Among other things, the pro-homosexual network's "educational" conference featured distribution of pornographic materials encouraging homosexual acts. And according to at least two witnesses' estimates, the event was mostly attended by children of middle school age and up.

Brian Camenker, head of the Massachusetts conservative group Article 8 Alliance, notes that among the first handouts distributed at the conference was something called "The Little Black Book." In a recent interview with American Family Radio news, he says he was scandalized at this graphically illustrated pamphlet, subtitled "Being Gay in the 21st Century," and at "the fact that this would be available to kids, the first thing you got when you got there. And when you saw this thing ... I can't even describe it on the radio -- it is essentially [explaining] how you can do various homosexual acts."

Camenker is one of many pro-family activists in Massachusetts who are enraged over GLSEN's taxpayer-funded homosexual education conference and the obscene materials the group put into the hands of attendees -- materials effectively encouraging middle school and high school students to engage in homosexual sex acts. And of the so-called "Little Black Book," he says, "I've never in my entire life seen anything so vulgar, so gross, so disgusting, and just demeaning. It's almost animalistic."

In the interest of informing people about the magnitude of the outrages being committed by homosexual activists since the legalization of homosexual marriage in Massachusetts, the Article 8 Alliance has posted a link to the obscene pamphlet on its website. The pro-family group's spokesman feels it is important to document exactly what kind of perverse material was put into the hands of children at the GLSEN conference, "although," he warns, "I wouldn't necessarily suggest people look at it, because it's that bad."

Stephen Bennett, a national pro-family spokesman and former homosexual, agrees. He calls the booklet handed out at the GLSEN Boston conference "nothing less than hard-core pornography with vulgarity," and says the adults responsible for "polluting these young children's minds need to be arrested and thrown in jail for what they have done -- including the [school] faculty, staff and all state officials involved."

A Dangerous and Deadly Agenda
Bennett is the executive director of Stephen Bennett Ministries, an organization that works to educate the public about the dangers of the radical, extremist homosexual agenda being carried out all over the U.S. He says what happened at GLSEN Boston's 2005 conference is no less than indoctrination, and he warns, "This is just the beginning of the attack on America's children by militant homosexual activists."

The "Little Black Book" handout was created by the AIDS Action Committee and the Massachusetts Department of Health, which latter agency is directed by a man who recently married a same-sex partner. Besides the publication's gratuitous descriptions of homosexual acts, Brian Camenker notes, "it has 'health advice,' which -- according to a local physician who is an expert on sexually transmitted diseases -- is misinformation. It's basically [telling you] how to kill yourself."

Besides the taxpayer dollars used to pay for the GLSEN Boston 15th Annual Conference, Camenker says corporate dollars also flowed into the event. Among those companies supplying generous donations to help fund the conference were Bank of America and the Massachusetts Teachers Union.