Editorial:
Majority Agree With John Silber in Shutting Down 'Gay Alliance'

MassNews Staff
September 10, 2002

When John Silber announced last week that BU Academy was shutting down its gay/straight alliance, the Boston Globe went berserk.

It wants every teenager having casual sex, but the citizens don't agree.

A MassNews telephone poll, a few years ago, startled even us when 92% of the 600 citizens said that teenagers—whether heterosexual or homosexual—should not be encouraged to be sexually active. This disapproval of sex for teenagers was much higher than we had expected.

But that's exactly what the Globe wants to happen. Lots more sex by teenagers.

Many cheered Silber last week when he told the Globe, "We're not running a program in sex education. If they want that kind of program, they can go to Newton High School. They can go to public school and learn how to put a condom over a banana."

Silber complained that children get messages about sex "pounded" into them. He referred to slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey as an example and told the Globe, "Look at that little girl out in Denver that got killed—all dressed up like a whore when she was 5 years old."

Mostly Liberals in Our Poll

The Globe is totally off-base when it pretends John Silber is wrong. The citizens know better. The Globe is further damaging its already terrible reputation in this state.

Some 281 persons out of the 600 in our poll said they were liberal and 91% of those agreed that teenagers should not be encouraged to be sexually active. That's only 1% below the general response. (Only 240 people said they were conservative.)

And that poll was taken before the scandal at Fistgate.

The Globe was obviously flexing its muscles and warning Silber when it ran the front-page story in Section B last Friday, another on Saturday and prominent, nasty letters on Sunday and yesterday. We'll probably see an Editorial today..

But Silber is not like the President of Harvard who was totally humiliated back in early January when the Globe forced him to back off plans to question quotas that result from affirmative action. The Globe and its allies even brought Jesse Jackson in for that one and mounted a tremendous barrage for two weeks.

But John Silber is made from sterner stuff and the Globe is only going to self-destruct in the coming weeks if it tries to make a big issue out of this.

The citizens are sick of this sexual pressure being put on children, whether it is heterosexual sex or homosexual sex that it being pushed. "Just leave the children alone," is what they say.

When the 600 people in our poll were given a choice of six topics to pick as most important "to you personally," the largest number, 36%, replied it was the "breakdown of the family." The next most important was "health care" at 22%. Other topics were "quality of public school education" at 20%, "the economy" at 11%, "taxes" and "gun control" at 5% each.

The "status of the family" was a concern of 69% of those polled. They believed that the quality of family life is weaker than it was thirty years ago. Only 12% thought it was stronger and 13% said it is about the same.

The scandal of Fistgate where state employees encouraged young teenagers to try homosexual sex caused many to understand that gay/straight alliances are encouraging vulnerable children to become sexually active in a very dangerous lifestyle.

And then the scandal about some priests in the Catholic church showed how a trusted person can ruin the life of young teenagers, many of whom committed suicide. The citizens understand that this type of adult homosexual is not attracted only to the priesthood, but to the YMCA, Boy Scouts, the gay/straight alliances or any other place where vulnerable teenagers are available.

Hey, Boston Globe! Continue to make a fool of yourself. On you, it looks good!

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