IFI News Release: IFI Breaks ‘Day of Silence,’ Invites Chicagoland Students to Hear Testimony of Former Homosexual Stephen Bennett
4/13/2005 9:46:00 AM
By Illinois Family Institute
Hundreds of Glenbard West High School Students Reached with Truth that 'Gays' Can Change
GLEN ELLYN - Illinois Family Institute took advantage of a rare 'Day of Silence" for pro-homosexual school activists today by inviting students across Chicagoland to hear the testimony of former homosexual Stephen Bennett, who will be speaking this week on the reality of change for people struggling with same-sex desires.
Illinois Family Executive Director Peter LaBarbera and IFI Youth Coordinator Erin Joyce went to Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, passing out fliers inviting students to "Come Hear the Other Side to the 'Day of Silence'...Learn the Truth: Nobody has to be 'Gay.'"
The fliers contained tracts with former homosexual Stephen Bennett's testimony (www.sbministries.org). On Thursday evening at 6:30, IFI will sponsor a Bennett presentation at Wheaton Evangelical Free Church at 520 E. Roosevelt Rd in Wheaton, and on Friday night at 6:00, he will speak at Christian Liberty Academy at 502 W. Euclid Ave in Arlington Heights. (See www.illinoisfamily.org for more details.)
Many students accepted the fliers while others did not. Some were decidedly intolerant, yelling vulgarities at those passing out information.
Glenbard West listed the "Day of Silence" on its school calendar, and in past years has seen strong support for the pro-homosexual event in which participating students take a vow of silence to protest the alleged "silencing" of homosexuals worldwide.
Another group of concerned moms stood outside Glenbard West greeting students with signs such as "Parents Have a Right to Know" and "Your Tax Dollars at Work: No Talking Today."
IFI also be visiting the pro-homosexual "Night of Noise" rally tonight in Chicago (5:30 at the State of Illinois Building) to invite pro-"gay" students to hear another viewpoint by attending one of Bennett's talks. "Night of Noise" is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) of Chicago, a Day of Silence sponsor that promotes the acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in Chicago-area schools.
IFI's LaBarbera said students need much more "silence" from "gay" activist students and teachers-and less "silence" regarding the severe health risks associated with homosexual behaviors.
"The deafening silence among pro-gay elites-in the education system and among the media-is their failure to communicate the enormous health risks of homosexual sexual practices, especially among males," LaBarbera said. "It's politically correct to say that all sexual behaviors carry risks, but clearly some are more risky than others."
One homosexual writer, Jack Hart, describes anal sex and another perversion common among male homosexuals as "highly efficient ways of transmitting disease." (see full quote below).
"Amazingly, liberal educators pat each other on the back for being 'gay'-affirming even as homosexuals continue to die young due to their unnatural and dangerous lifestyle," LaBarbera said.
He said students deserve better than another pro-homosexual propaganda exercise: "Instead, they need to be told the truth: that homosexual acts are life-threatening; that homosexuality and gender confusion are not inborn but are changeable behaviors; and that this lifestyle is immoral and against God's created order."
"The good news is that God loves people caught up in homosexuality enough to help them overcome it, hence the existence of thousands of ex-'gays' and ex-lesbians," LaBarbera said.
LaBarbera said he hopes that students from Chicagoland schools who favor diversity or are questioning their sexual identity will come and hear the presentations by Bennett, who once considered himself "gay" but is now married to his wife Irene, and the proud father of two children. Through his worldwide Christian ministry, Bennett reaches out to others who are struggling with homosexuality and sexual brokenness.
Health Information Resources
As a resource on the dangers of homosexuality, LaBarbera suggested Dr. John Diggs' "The Health Risks of Gay Sex," available online through the Corporate Resource Council.
Also, the following is the full quotation by "gay" writer Jack Hart, available on the Culture & Family Institute's website:
QUOTE: Sodomy: Efficient Disease Transmitter
[Warning: upsetting material]
The following excerpt comes not from Rev. Jerry Falwell or the "religious right," but a homosexual writer, Jack Hart:
"Many sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) occur more often among gay men than in the general population. Several factors contribute to this difference: Gay men have the opportunity to engage in sex with more people than do most heterosexual men, and some practices common in the gay community - especially rimming ["gay" slang for oral-anal stimulation] and anal intercourse [sodomy] - are highly efficient ways of transmitting disease....."
- Jack Hart, author, Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men (Allyson Publications: Boston, 1991), p. 156, in section on "Sexually Transmitted Disease." The writer goes on to write that "the increasing acceptance of safer sex" has lessened the spread of STD's, and then discusses the "most common" sex-transmitted diseases other than HIV confronting homosexual men, including: chlamydia, crab lice, giardiasis, gonorrhea, hepatitis-B and -C, herpes simplex, nongonococcal urethritis, scabies, syphilis, and venereal warts.
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