Family Activist: Schools Should Focus on 'Civilizing' -- Not 'Feminizing' -- the Classroom
by Jim Brown
August 31, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A pro-family activist believes a recent school shooting in Missouri was not the result of "homophobic slurs" or gender-bullying, as claimed by homosexual groups, but rather the "increasingly imploding moral atmosphere" in public schools.
Last year, 17-year-old Joshua Minks opened fire with a shotgun in a bathroom at Farmington High Schol in Missouri. The 6-foot-5, 400-pound boy recently pleaded guilty to assault on school property and unlawful use of a weapon. Amanda Minks says her son was bullied relentlessly by his classmates for his "unmanly" appearance and was called "gay" names.
Linda Harvey with the conservative group Mission America acknowledges that while bullying is rampant and children can be terribly cruel, many schools are feminizing boys with one-sided, pro-homosexual misinformation in the classroom. Homosexuality, says Harvey, is a "time bomb" that is "run into the schools" and left there.
"[T]hen, when chaos erupts ... our boys [especially] are greatly stressed over this issue and they only hear one side -- then we wonder why these things are happening," she says. "Of course, they are going to erupt in a very immature way. That doesn't excuse it, but that's what's happening."
The Mission American spokeswoman says Minks was bullied -- not unlike the perpetrators of past school shootings like Columbine, Paducah, and Pearl -- but that the solution is not to "feminize" the classroom but to "civilize" all classrooms.
"[Students] are told that if you have one homosexual feeling, you're probably homosexual; [that] you're probably born that way and you'd better accept it," she says. "In the twelve- and thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boy, this is going to create a massive amount of internal stress that may erupt in all kinds of ways.
"The responsible thing to do is to de-stress the situation by taking the issue of homosexuality out of the schools," Harvey continues. "It doesn't belong there."
In response to the Minks case, a spokesman for the homosexual group GenderPAC issued a statement saying, "We're not going to stop school shootings until we address violent codes of masculinity among rural, white, teenage males."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
