I was virtually speechless when I read Camille Paglia’s op-ed piece “No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class.”

Paglia seems put off by a proposed new drug that might help women whose libido seems to be out of whack. She explains her doubts in a curious discussion of how she thinks the media’s oversexed messages, corporate boardroom conflicts between men and women, and distorted family life (one that puts women in the driver’s seat and men on the front lawn) all contribute to a middle-class case of having no interest in sex for its own sake. It’s really rather sad to read through her analysis and realize that she has, perhaps unwittingly, derived her interpretation of the culture’s alleged problems from a perspective devoid of God, moral values and common sense.

First and foremost, women don’t need a feminine equivalent of Viagra. There’s enough evidence today to prove that such pills provide only a physical response to what really is, at its core, a question of basic appreciation of each other as human persons. Such concoctions solve nothing, because selfless love for another human being does not come in a pill bottle.

Far too many Americans have been brainwashed into accepting attitudes that dehumanize their identity as men and women, insult members of the opposite sex and compete in almost every venue as though traditional male and female roles are but a footnote in history. In other words, if there is truly a defining difference between men and women in our culture today, it is apparently only seen in the windows of Victoria’s Secret stores or the pages of GQ.

There’s not much left of the camaraderie once equated with spending a lifetime in marriage trying to understand the mystery of loving, while being one with a member of the opposite sex through the grace of God. My sense is that Paglia doesn’t understand the predicament underlying what she laments as today’s so-called “middle class values.”

Step back for a moment and consider the following story, which is indicative of how widespread this crisis has become. A woman who apparently ready to become pregnant had her batch of frozen embryonic children transferred into her body.

When she learned somebody goofed and she was carrying another couple’s embryonic babies, she was upset. Her response to the news was to kill them all by ingesting a morning-after pill. I believe that’s the same pill—we are told—that does not cause an abortion! Tell that to the dead babies.

How easily we describe our children as if they were batches of cookies. We respond to bad news by eliminating our problems, even when they happen to be children. Further, for the most part, parents have absolutely no problem with consigning their kids to the electronic, mouse-driven babysitter that invites them in and pollutes their minds.

And Paglia thinks the problem is inhibitions? I don’t think so! The real problem is total disrespect for ourselves, our spouses and the God-given gift of sexuality which allows us the privilege of bearing children the old-fashioned way!

The Pew Research Center tells us, in our “middle-class” state of “androgyny,” as Paglia describes it, “Among all women ages 40–44, the proportion that has never given birth, 18 percent in 2008, has grown by 80 percent since 1976, when it was 10 percent. There were 1.9 million childless women ages 40–44 in 2008, compared with nearly 580,000 in 1976.” Some of the reasons for this childlessness, according to Pew, are contraceptives, better job opportunities, less social pressure to get married and have children, and more freedom to choose when and if to have a child. Oh! Well then, I guess we can say that, as our society has become more sterile—thanks to contraception and abortion—women have become less like those old-fashioned ones who welcomed children, wanted to stay home and be a mommy and really expected Daddy to provide for the family.

As the latest twist, the drive to develop and perfect a male birth control pill, moves forward, the effort to examine what’s really wrong with America’s attitude toward family life seems even less likely to arrive at the correct solution. When the folks who make the big bucks on contraception and abortion examine the state of society today, they find ways to render men and women ever more subservient to sex without passion, sex without devotion, sex without God. And as that juggernaut continues to pick up steam, the institution that we used to call marriage—one that wholly involves man, woman and God—seems to be in enormous trouble. It can only be rescued by a return to God.

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Just when you thought it was safe to send your children to school, the Jennings scandal expands yet again.  Several days ago, Big Government broke the story that the Jennings led GLSEN passed out directories to school aged kids attending GLSEN events.  The directories contained addresses to gay bars and anonymous sex clubs.  Here is their coverage…

Only in the Obama White House can a man with a history of handing out bar guides to teens be promoted to Safe Schools Czar.

Earlier today it was reported that Kevin Jennings’ Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization was distributing gay bar directories to high school students at the 2005 Massachusetts GLSEN conference.

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This wasn’t an isolated incident.
Mass Resistance Blog today reported that GLSEN passed out directories to gay “leather” bars to teens at several of their events.

GLSEN organization also passed out guides to gay leather bars in Chicago to students in 2000.

World Net Daily reported:

LaBarbera questioned why GLSEN’s organizers — already bruising over the recent arrest of a Chicago GLSEN leader for soliciting sex with an underage boy (GLSEN expelled the man) — did not take the “simple step of keeping these gay sex club ads from reaching the teenagers in their care.”

“For years, GLSEN has claimed to protect ‘at-risk’ kids. But they are now helping put young teenage boys at risk by uncritically passing out a gay guide that hawks anonymous sex clubs and ‘leather’ bars in Chicago,” he said. “This fits into a pattern of GLSEN failing to shield its young followers from a homosexual male sexual culture that not only tolerates, but often celebrates promiscuity.” (At last year’s GLSEN conference in Atlanta, a similar sexually-laden booklet was passed out to attendees.)

Jennings’ organization handed out bar guides to teenagers. Today Kevin Jennings is Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar.

You figure it out.

So then, how much evidence do we need to get the administration to throw Jennings under the bus?  Quite a bit, apparently.  With the attack on FOX, the administration has “persuaded” (Yeah, persuaded, that’s it) the MSM to not follow these stories, so there is a big segment of the population that has not heard of this situation, and likely never will.  That gives the administration cover.  They can pretend that the story doesn’t exist.

There is also another, even more  important issue with the campaign to get Jennings to join the growing crowd under the bus.  Jennings may, one day, be gone from the administration, but his agenda, propelled by GLSEN, will still be in the schools.  We can cut the head off the snake, but this snake will simply grow another.  It would be a victory to send Jennings back to GLSEN, but it will be a hollow one.  GLSEN will still have access to million of children in the public schools.

So then, how might we correct this?  I know, many of you will say “get out of the public schools.”  I believe that many of the readers here have already done this.  However, there are obviously people out there that are either ignorant of the agendas being pushed in the schools, or are approving of them.  The people that agree, we will never reach no matter how much information we show them.  They are either useful idiots, or blind followers, so they are a waste of our time.  It is the people that don’t know that we need to reach.

To reach some of these still unsuspecting parents, I came up with some ideas.  This might be useful if a school already has had some dealings with GLSEN, or is considering it.

1. Get a group together and pass out information on GLSEN to parents.  It could be at a school board meeting, a sporting event, or any other event that there will be a large number of parents.
2. Go in a group!  There is always strength in numbers.  Everyone should have a camera, in the event that things get ugly.
3. Use direct quotes from GLSEN.  They are our best tools.  You can be discounted (and people will no doubt try).  Direct quotes from GLSEN cannot (they will try, but the bulk of evidence will make them look even worse) .  Make fliers or other materials that have quotes from the books on the recommended list, or quotes from Jennings.  Also, you can quote media reports of GLSEN’s misdeeds as described above.  I wouldn’t add too much commentary or interpretation.  The content should speak for itself.  Their material is so obvious and over-the-top, that we won’t need to add commentary to help people connect the dots.
4. Get on the agenda for the local school board meeting.  There is often local media at school board meetings.  I know where I used to live, there were some meetings televised on local stations. That is all the better.  If you get a chance to speak, still try to use a much of GLSEN’s materials as possible.  Try to remain calm, and cite your sources.  Do you homework, and be able to speak with clarity and conviction.  Remember that we have GLSEN exposed; all you have to do is repeat what they have already said or done.
5. Did I mention ALWAYS HAVE CAMERA? the Gay Rights Crowd does have a habit of threatening people.  Including attacking little old ladies, so be careful.  Know that fact going in, and take precautions.  ALWAYS post a copy of video footage to YouTube.  If we see it, we’ll make copies so the GLSEN folks can’t get it “scrubbed” from the Internet.
6. Don’t turn up the rhetoric.  You don’t have to get dramatic.  You don’t have to over blow a thing.  GLSEN has already indicted itself-they need no help.  Drama just makes people question what you are doing.
7. Be aware that the left tries to change the subject from the content to the individual.  Don’t fall for it!  They’ll call you a homophobe so you’ll start trying to defend yourself.  This takes you off message.  If this happens, continue with the content.  Something like, “Calling me a name doesn’t change the fact the GLSEN gave the addresses of gay bars to school-aged kids,”  would suffice.  No matter what they say, keep on the content.  Let them get flustered and act foolishly.  Believe me, it isn’t hard.
8. If you’re really wanting to get the message out, consider leaving flyers in public areas, like Dr. offices, grocery stores, churches, and so on.  Again, we don’t have to embellish this, just present what GLSEN has said or done.  Hyperbole will not convince a skeptical person, facts will.
9. If you’re really fired up, use a word processor to make up some small cards, or even slips of paper.  Then cut them out and slip them into books at a bookstore or local library.  I don’t think it’s illegal.  If it is, don’t do it.  Otherwise, be aware that librarians or bookstore managers may not appreciate it, so use your own discretion.  As for the content, keep it short, maybe just a short statement and a web address.
10. NO VIOLENCE!!!  I cannot state this one enough.  It’s wrong.  Additionally, violence does not advance our goals, and it plays into the hands of GLSEN.

I think if some folks can spread the word about GLSEN, we can do the same thing to them that is being done to ACORN; exposing their misdeeds to so many people that no one will trust them.  If folks get on board with this, GLSEN will become as big of a joke as ACORN has.  People will see the name, and automatically know that they seem to suggest a lot of things about sex with kids.  Not because we said it, but because GLSEN has.

UPDATE: Representative Micheal Burgess (R-Texas), has introduced House Resolution 966, calling for the firing of Kevin Jennings.  Getting Jennings put under the bus may get the media’s attention.  However, just expect another report saying that the poor guy was the victim of the evil, redneck, terrorist, teabaggers.

© Matt Ross

Originally posted at Conservative Hideout 2.0

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