  AFT to Distribute Tapes of GLSEN ‘Fistgate’ Scandal to Senators as Opposition Mounts to Cellucci Nomination WASHINGTON, D.C. Americans for Truth Project Director Peter LaBarbera announced today that his group will be distributing a copy of the Boston “Fistgate” audiotape to every U.S. Senator as part of an effort to educate members on why Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci should not be approved as U.S. Ambassador to Canada. The “Fistgate” tape –– produced by Parents Rights Coalition of Massachusetts –– is based on an undercover recording of a March 2000 conference workshop about “Queer Sex” sponsored by the Boston affiliate of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Three Massachusetts government employees led the GLSEN workshop –– advertised as “for youth only, 14-21” –– and gave “how to” discussions about homosexual sex acts, including the dangerous practice known in “gay” slang as “fisting.” (A free copy of the Fistgate tape is available from Americans for Truth: click urlLink HERE .
) Gov. Cellucci’s nomination by President Bush for the ambassadorship has angered parents and children’s advocates in Massachusetts who oppose Cellucci’s ardent support of taxpayer-funded, pro-homosexual programs in the state’s schools. For more information on Cellucci’s pro-homosexuality record in Massachusetts, click urlLink HERE . The anti-Cellucci campaign was joined by other groups across the nation as word spread that the Governor refused to even meet with parents concerned over the “Fistgate” scandal.
Last July, Cellucci also snubbed Ambassador Alan Keyes, who came to Boston to address a rally of parents opposed to the growing promotion of homosexuality to students. (He rudely declined to greet Keyes, who was then welcomed by the Democrat-controlled legislature. ) More than 20 local and national groups have signed on to a petition opposing the Cellucci nomination, with more signing on each day.
For more information, see urlLink www.massnews.com . “By opposing Paul Cellucci, we are sending a message to politicians that whether you are Republican or Democrat, it is wrong to promote homosexuality in schools and they will be held accountable,” LaBarbera said. “Gov. Cellucci has embraced the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual group, and the result is that he refuses to publicly denounce an event where 14-year-olds were exposed to graphic talks about homosexual perversions. “It seems that the closer politicians gravitate to homosexual lobby groups like the Log Cabin Republicans, the farther they drift from the moral concerns of parents,” LaBarbera said. “President Bush must realize that after eight years of government promotion of homosexuality under Clinton, Americans are yearning for a return to normalcy and decency.
We will resist any promotion of the idea that it is acceptable, normal or healthy for men to have sex with men, or women with women.” He urged President Bush to reconsider his administration’s budding alliance with the Log Cabin Republicans. On Thursday, Attorney General John Ashcroft chose to meet with leaders from the homosexual activist group as “his first meeting with a group concerned about civil rights enforcement,” AP reported. “Log Cabin is in the business of promoting the acceptance of homosexuality within the GOP. Its leaders brand biblical Christians as haters and bigots.
This group’s agenda is by definition not a conservative, family-friendly agenda,” LaBarbera said. This week, LaBarbera was a guest on FOX talk show “Hannity & Colmes” and Christian talk show host Marlin Maddoux’s popular nationwide radio program. He urged listeners to call Sen. Jesse Helms, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to resist the Cellucci nomination (Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121). Calls from citizens who are concerned about Cellucci representing the United States of America in Canada are pouring in to Helms and other Senators. LaBarbera said that the Cellucci nomination is rallying parents across the nation and helping alert the public to GLSEN’s radical agenda. The homosexual organization supports pro-homosexual classroom lessons for elementary-age students including kindergartners. GLSEN has admitted that the “Fistgate” seminar went too far, but its newsletter account of the incident focused on the alleged “privacy” violations of the students who had attended the “Queer Sex” workshop. GLSEN: Open Up to Public Noting that GLSEN is now a de facto consulting group in public (and private) schools across the nation (it receives government grants in Massachusetts), LaBarbera said the group’s agenda –– as revealed by its conferences and seminars –– should be fully open to the public.
“I challenge GLSEN to stop hiding behind ‘privacy’ and make tapes of all its events available for purchase by everyday citizens,” LaBarbera said. “Parents shouldn’t have to sneak into GLSEN events to find out what this influential group has in store for their children.” GLSEN’s two recent national conferences were not taped, while most sessions in earlier gatherings were recorded, LaBarbera noted. “If GLSEN has nothing to hide, and its goals are not harmful to young people –– which I strongly doubt –– then its leaders should have no problem allowing parents and educators full access to review their methods and goals,” he said. 
