Family Advocate Angry Over Legislature's Pro-Homosexual Move
by Jim Brown
July 28, 2005
(AgapePress) - A Masschusetts pro-family group is blasting the state legislature for overriding the governor's veto of a 70 percent increase in state funding for homosexual programs in public schools.
Last month, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney vetoed a $175,000 funding increase for Gay Straight Alliance clubs and school assemblies promoting same-sex "marriage." However, the state legislature, led by House Ways and Means chairman Robert DeLeo, voted to override Romney. Brian Camenker, who heads the Waltham-based group Article 8 Alliance, recalls DeLeo's influence in the matter.
"The chief of staff of this guy [DeLeo] had a phone conversation with me [during which] he talked about, in very graphic ways, how he liked these programs," the pro-family spokesman says.
Camenker notes that the conversation is described on his group's website, but describes its content as "very, very disturbing" -- adding that "that's the kind of culture that's going on in the Massachusetts legislature." And that culture, he contends, exists mainly because the homosexual movement "aggressively lobbies the legislature every single day of the year."
As for the funding approved by the legislature, Camenker expects it will be used to fund such things as the "Little Black Book" -- a graphic how-to manual on homosexual sex that was recently distributed at Massachusetts' Brookline High School -- and other pro-homosexual promotions.
"Gay days in the public schools, assemblies, all kinds of homosexual programs and clubs and handouts and counseling sessions with kids, and their parades, their get-togethers downtown. It's every parent's nightmare," he states.
According to Camenker, DeLeo changed his home phone number after receiving hundreds of phone calls from parents urging him not to override the governor's veto.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
