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Curriculum ignores ex-gays

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007

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Regina Griggs, Fort Belvoir, Va.

The writer is affiliated with Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays.

Montgomery County’s new sex education lessons are entitled ‘‘Respect for Differences in Human Sexuality” and promote acceptance for homosexuals, transgenders and the intersexed. Yet the only sexual orientation in the school system that receives no respect are ex-gays.

The lessons also teach children about bisexuals, lesbians, ‘‘coming out” for gays, ‘‘gender identity,” ‘‘homophobia,” and intersexual, but nothing about the ex-gay community.

As one of the organizations serving on the curriculum committee, we requested the school board to include former homosexuals, but they refused. Evidently, the new curriculum favors homosexuals and cross-dressers over ex-gays.