Homosexual Recruitment - Examples of The Term's Use

Examples of The Term's Use

The term tends to be used in the context of opposition to LGBT rights, policies which present LGBT behaviour as acceptable, and any discussion (referred to as 'promotion') in schools and in sex education. Some examples:

• In 1977, Anita Bryant successfully campaigned to repeal an ordinance in Miami-Dade County that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Her campaign was based upon allegations of homosexual recruitment. Bryant said "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children." Michael Boucai states, in his Journal of Social History review of Fred Fejes' book on that campaign, describes Bryant's use of "recruitment" this way: "In 1977, singer and born-again Christian Anita Bryant successfully led a campaign in Dade County, Florida, to repeal an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "sexual preference." Fixating on a single context--classrooms--Bryant's organization, Save Our Children, framed the law as an endorsement of immorality and a license for "recruitment.""
• In 1992, U.S. writer Judith Reisman cited "a clear avenue for the recruitment of children" by gays and lesbians in her public support of Oregon Ballot Measure 9. In 1994 Reisman said at a conference of U.S. Christian right leaders in Colorado Springs that homosexual "recruitment is loud; it is clear; it is everywhere." She estimated the gay and lesbian population at the time to be 1-2% but predicted at least 20% (and possibly over 30%) "of the young population will be moving into homosexual activity" as a result of "recruitment". In her WorldNetDaily piece, "GLSEN and the Hitler Youth", Reisman also expresses concern that groups such as GLSEN are cover for recruitment of children, saying " Under color of a “Safe Schools Movement” battling alleged “bullying” of so-called “gay” children (K-12), some see GLSEN as a modern version of the Hitler Youth and as preparing the ground for a larger, sweeping, schoolroom Youth Brigade."
• In 2004, The U.S. The Traditional Values Coalition wrote: "The state-endorsed pro-homosexual teacher/teen 'Teach Out' held at Tufts University in Boston in March has outraged concerned citizens. There's growing concern among parents over the use of tax dollars to fund homosexual recruitment programs in the public schools. During the Teach Out, state HIV instructors taught teenagers how to engage in deviant sex acts and they also taught teachers how to indoctrinate children into accepting homosexuality as normal."
• The Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone made a number of statements about gays in 2010, including that schools had "been penetrated by gay activists to recruit kids." Those allegations were linked by the New York Times to the murder of gay-rights activist David Kato.