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D.C. Subway Ads Openly Recruit Kids to Bisexuality, Transgenderism

Posted by rcw on Thu Sep 16 15:39:26 2004

By Peter LaBarbera



The Washington Metro and Transit Authority (WMATA), which runs the subway system in the nation’s capital, is donating space for a homosexual ad campaign that encourages youth to embrace homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism.

The billboard campaign for the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) mimics a standardized test — filled in by a No. 2 pencil — of the type taken by millions of schoolchildren every year.

The ad is headlined, “This is the toughest question some teens will ever have to answer.” Inside the ad is a mock photo of the a standardized test with a question that reads, “I am,” and is followed by these five choices:

Heterosexual
Gay
Lesbian
Bisexual
Transgender
A pencil with its eraser is shown pointing toward the answers, with the circles adjacent to “Heterosexual” and “Bisexual” shaded in but then erased. The ad gives the impression that the nervous student filled in Bisexual, then erased it and filled in Heterosexual, or vice versa.

“This could not be a clearer case of explicitly recruiting kids into homosexuality,” said Culture and Family Institute Director Robert Knight. “If this suggestive ad does not send chills down parents’ spines, then they don’t have spines. It is not an act of ‘tolerance’ but indifference to stand by and watch as kids are tempted into trying sexually perverse and dangerous behavior.”

The bottom of the billboard reads, “For too many teenagers, confusion about sexuality and gender leads to isolation, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, even suicide. At SMYAL, we help youth find their own answers in a safe and supportive environment. But to help them, we need your help. …”

The ad contains SMYAL’s “Combined Federal Campaign” number, signaling it as a recipient of the United Way program used by many federal workers to donate to non-profit groups.

WMATA spokeswoman Cheryl Johnson said the company donated the space for the ads, and that they began running November 1 as part of a “public service” campaign. They were guaranteed to run at least for one month at 10 separate Metro stations, Johnson told C&F Report. As of last week, SMYAL’s ad remained at least at the Fort Totten Metro station in Maryland.

Johnson estimated the value of the donated ad space as ranging from a few thousand dollars to between $10,000 and $15,000. She said SMYAL paid for the creation and installation.

Johnson said that due to First Amendment issues, WMATA could not refuse the SMYAL ads. Asked if that meant WMATA would run countervailing ads that warn parents about homosexual groups targeting and indoctrinating youth, she said, “We’d have to. We can’t say that we must allow one viewpoint and then turn around and not allow the opposite viewpoint.”

‘Protecting’ Kids
SMYAL has a checkered past when it comes to shielding youth from harm. In 1999, it distributed a flier with sadistic imagery at the annual “Youth Pride Day ’99” rally held in a park in Washington, D.C. The flier featured a man in leather garb spanking the bare behind of another man and another photo of two men tied together with rope. At the time, SMYAL’s executive director did not return correspondence from Lambda Report, a conservative newspaper that monitored the “gay” movement, inquiring whether it is a common practice for his group to distribute sadistic-oriented literature to young people.

Several years ago, SMYAL was forced to issue a formal policy barring staffers from having sexual relationships with youthful “clients” following a scandal. The decision was reported in The Washington Blade, a newspaper for homosexuals.

SMYAL takes the standard “safer sex” line used by other homosexual groups, i.e., it promotes the notion that sodomy can be practiced “safely” with a condom.

“We encourage youth to have safer sex by using protection, to know their HIV status and reduce their risk of infection,” says the group on its Web site.

SMYAL also engages in political action for “queer youth.” Its Web site has a section entitled “Youth Leadership Initiatives: Queer Youth for Social Justice,” described verbatim as a gathering that “meets weekly to address current social or political issues, which concern youth. Issues we have focused on include the boy scouts, exclusionary policies, international imprisonments based upon sexual orientation, and the ‘war on terrorism.’”

The SMYAL Web site also has a link to the ACLU’s “Lesbian and Gay Rights School Protection Project, which promotes homosexual and radical gender activism in schools.

A page on the ACLU site devoted to “tips” for making schools “safer” advises, under the heading “In the Classroom”:

make no assumptions about students' families or their sexual orientation
recognize all family structures
educate using correct terminology
use sexual orientation neutral language
include LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] books in the library
put up positive visuals and images
incorporate [LGBT] issues in curriculum if appropriate

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