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Boston Magazine Wants Teenagers Encouraged In Homosexual Sex

January 2001

You won’t hear Boston Magazine ever writing that teenagers should be encouraged by the schools to have homosexual sex without the knowledge or permission of their parents, but that was the essence of a wonderfully empathetic piece they wrote about children who live with homosexual couples last month. In between the niceness, they took very nasty digs against any parent who has questions about what the schools are doing.

A velvet, hatchet job was written by Boston Magazine last month about those parents who disagree with the homosexual message that is being taught to their children by the Lexington and Newton schools.

They’re telling some teenagers, without the knowledge of the parents, that they should be engaging in homosexual intercourse – because they are “different.”

The article in Boston was an effective, saccharine story about three homosexual couples who are raising children in the Boston area – with some nasty stuff about parents sandwiched in.  It pictured the couples as pleasant, successful parents.

The article said there are 10-million children living with homosexuals in the United States. That unbelievable figure was raised several times in the story without any indication where it came from. It is obviously nowhere close to the truth.

The article was mostly about the homosexuals and their children, but it also painted two parents, one in Lexington and one in Newton, who have questioned their schools’ teaching, as evil people. It said they are homophobes and haters.

The reporter, Gretchen Voss, obviously doesn’t understand the lawsuit that has been filed by five residents against the town of Lexington. Or else she chose not to report it accurately. The suit is about the separation of church and state. It challenges the “entanglement” of the town with the Unitarian Church which sponsored a homosexual event.

The magazine reported that the residents “lost” the suit. But it hasn’t even come to trial. The residents had asked for the court to do a very unusual thing and issue a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the event before a trial was held, which the court declined to do. But the suit is not “lost” even though it will face a tough time in the politically liberal federal courts of Massachusetts.

Boston also reported that one of the plaintiffs from Lexington, Lorraine Fournier, lives in a brown house. The significance of that has not yet been established.

According to the author, the Fistgate scandal was a wonderful conference where one seminar somehow “drifted” to “the finer points of fisting, mutual clitoral stimulation, and the spit-versus-swallow debate.” Somehow, all these terms seem warm, friendly, familiar and uneventful to Ms. Voss.

She also went after the man in Newton, Sam Washburn, who is trying to bring the town together on this issue and protect the rights of all. We were told that he has “a thin hand,” but we don’t know if that is good or bad. We learn that he looked like a person “who has just realized he’s about to be ambushed” when large numbers of homosexual activists showed up at a meeting he had planned for residents, which always happens when you attempt an intelligent discussion in Massachusetts. She doesn’t reveal that the meeting did turn into a respectful discussion for most of those who attended.

She also doesn’t think it important that Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Young showed his lack of integrity by apparently giving her all of the information that any parent had left for him to read after Washburn and his group attempted a dialogue with him.

She even mentioned Massachusetts News as “the stridently anti-gay Massachusetts News,” without bothering to discover the truth. We are not “anti-gay.” We are not against people who are homosexual. However, like most people, we believe that the practice is a foolish and dangerous choice. If children are taught about it in the schools, they should also learn the many problems that come with it. It should not be glorified as Lexington and Newton schools do.