Bay State Activist Bothered That Tax Money Going to Governor's Pro-Homosexual Group
by Bill Fancher
May 26, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A pro-homosexual commission under the direction of the governor of Massachusetts is poised to receive a big increase in funding. According to pro-family activist in the Bay State, school activities sponsored by that commission are not for the faint of heart.
The Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth has been on a roller coaster ride recently. After being informed about the Commission's activities, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney disbanded it. But attacks by the pro-homosexual lobby and the liberal press in the state led to its reinstatement.
Brian Camenker of the Massachusetts-based Article 8 Alliance has been a vocal critic of the Commission. He says the word "depravity" does not do justice to the nature of the events sponsored by the group. Camenker's organization obtained pictures and information from some of those events and delivered them to the governor's office.
"His staff was so sickened by what we showed them that a few days later the governor announced that he was disbanding this Commission," he explains. That led to a firestorm of attacks from homosexual groups and the press that, evidently, had its desired effect. The governor backed down, says the Article 8 spokesman. "He went back on his word and reinstated the Commission," he says.
According to Camenker, the Commission-sponsored events are pushed on children as young as kindergarten age. And despite Governor Romney's directive to the Commission to clean up its act, that has not happened, says Camenker. He says the May 13 "Gay Youth Pride" event was the worst ever.
In addition, dozens of high schools marched in a Commission-sponsored "Youth Pride Day" parade on May 21 through downtown Boston. Article 8 describes the event as "an entire day of celebrating homosexuality for kids" that was funded by taxpayer dollars.
The Commission received $425,000 from the state this past year, which Camenker says is spent "giving grants to high schools and other ways of pushing homosexuality to kids." And now, he says, the State Legislature is poised to quadruple funding for the Commission to almost $2 million a year.
"So if you think it's bad now -- if you think the school propaganda and the Governor's Commission events are horrible now -- wait until next year," says the Massachusetts activist. "It's just getting started."
Bill Fancher, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
