December 1--After attending the Gay/Straight Alliance mentioned in the above story, the following questions were received from a reporter for the high school newspaper. 

Q: Why do you think someone decides he is homosexual?

A: It’s not what I think. It is what psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals think. There is great disagreement among them. A few weeks after our first article appeared, the Boston Globe changed its mind on February 7 and said that the "gay gene" is dead.

A person might decide he is homosexual because he was sexually abused as a child very early in life, or he may not have had any attachment with his father or there could be many other reasons.

Q: What is the biggest problem facing the American people? 

A: The loss of our basic values. There are no longer such things as "truth" and "right and wrong."

Q: Why did you send the mailings out to local homes? 

A: Most of us are so involved in our own lives that we don’t have the time to realize what is happening. We don’t really care about homosexuality and children because only about 3% of the children turn out to be homosexual. We figure "they’re different," so "let them do what they want." Inasmuch as 25% of 12-year-olds say they are uncertain whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, should we not protect those vulnerable children from pedophiles? Should we be telling them it is not a big deal whether they try homosexuality to see if they like it? Should we send them off to Boston where they will be mixing with homosexuals up to 25-years-of-age at parties and on weekend retreats in New Hampshire? If we’re going to teach about homosexuality, why don’t we teach all sides – the bad as well as the good.

Q: What are your feelings about local high schools establishing acceptance organizations such as the Gay/Straight Alliance? 

A: Everyone agrees that pedophiles will do almost anything to meet young people. A lawyer from Dover just flew to San Francisco this year to meet a 13-year-old he had met on the Internet, but he was met by the FBI. Although most homosexuals have integrity like anyone else and are not pedophiles and most advisors of Gay/Straight Alliances are not pedophiles, there is a total reluctance on the part of these groups to even consider the subject of pedophilia. In addition, the very existence of these groups sends a bad message to vulnerable youngsters that this is something with which they were born and they should be happy with any feelings they might have.

Q: What are your feelings about homosexual young adults killing themselves because they are too frightened to deal with their isolation from straight people? (This includes family, friends, etc.) 

A: This is a subject that requires great detail and not a quick answer. There are quotes from the homosexual activists that the way they got the Alliances going in Massachusetts in 1992 was by continuing to hammer on "safety" and "suicide." They still do that today. These subjects are both greatly distorted by the activists.

Q: Do you see the amount of "out of the closet" gays changing?

A: I have no idea.

Q: Why do you consider people involved in Gay-Straight organizations to be "recruiters?"

A: I never said that. However, there is no question that the very existence of these organizations sends a very strong message that any teenager who ever questions his sexuality is a homosexual and should begin following that lifestyle.

Q: Describe what you feel homosexuals represent in society.

A: I don’t know that they "represent" anything any more than any other group.

Q: Describe any of your personal encounters with homosexuality.

A: I have known many homosexuals over the years and have hired them in top positions in my former company. I feel much about them as I do about my good friend who is a cigarette smoker – I think he has a foolish habit but that is his business as long as he does not go into the schools and tell the children that it is a wonderful thing to do.

I should also point out that back in the early 1960’s I was the Chairman of the Teachers Committee of an autonomous school board which had the power to levy taxes and reported to no one except the citizens.

We had an excellent system of which we were very proud, with more than 10,000 pupils.
 

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