Freshmen required to undergo homosexual indoctrination

What some, like French, might call an "illness" is, to others, just a high degree of "tolerance" for differences. Yet, notes French, the only "difference" not tolerated on campus is the belief that there is anything wrong with homosexuality. Indeed, on many campuses across the nation, opposing homosexuality on moral grounds is considered every bit as hateful and intolerable as being a racist, anti-Semitic member of the Ku Klux Klan.

As OSU-Mansfield Professor Hannibal Hamlin said in a March 9 e-mail to Savage, copied to the faculty: "Re Kupelian's book, would you advocate a book that was racist or antisemitic [sic], or are you arguing that homosexuals are not in the same category and that homophobia is not therefore a matter of discrimination but of rational argument?"

Freshman diversity education

Students at OSU-Mansfield are required to take a "diversity seminar" soon after they begin their freshman year.

To prepare for the seminar, students are invited to search online a "dictionary of terms related to diversity," to "Test your knowledge of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT)" and to "Take a test at Project Implicit’s website."

"Even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden biases may still influence our perceptions and actions," explains the OSU website. "Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created 'Project Implicit' to develop Hidden Bias Tests. After taking a test, read Tolerance.org’s tutorial to learn more about stereotypes and prejudice and the societal effects of bias."

One current freshman, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, attended OSU-Mansfield's mandatory diversity seminar last fall. After he told his father about it, the father sat in as an observer for a subsequent seminar session.

"It is required that incoming freshman must attend a diversity seminar," he told WND, "where the homosexual lifestyle is celebrated, and the students are put on a 'guilt trip' for having negative feelings and/or moral judgments about the behavior of these people."

The two- to three-hour seminar, he explained, included "some group-type exercises, where they tried to say you can't judge a person by looking at them." Four facilitators conducted the group exercises, he said, asking the students questions like, "Who do you think I am?" "Am I married?" "What kind of car do I drive"? and "Do I have children?"

At the very end of the seminar, the facilitators revealed for the first time that three out of four were homosexual. The message, said the OSU student's father, was "We're not bad people."

Other exercises consisted of pairing off the youths and "asking them what someone did to you to make you feel bad at some time in your life, playing on psychology," he said.

"At the end of the meeting, everyone stands in a circle and they ask questions of the group. If it's true, you step out. Other students stepped out, trying to get you to accept this nonsense in a public setting."

According to a report in World magazine by Lynn Vincent, such "diversity seminars" are very common on college campuses today.

"Freshman orientation used to be about teaching new students how to find their classes, the cafeteria, and the campus bookstore," said the report. "But today, left-liberal 'diversity' trainers have found in orientation programs a ready-made crop of captive and impressionable audiences ripe for reeducation on issues of sex, race, and gender. The basic messages: People of color are victims; whites are their tormentors. Homosexuality is normal; abhorring the behavior is bigotry."

Using the Milwaukee School of Engineering, or MSOE, as an example, the World report identifies the "exercise" the OSU dad described. It's called "Across the Line" or "Crossing the Line," "a diversity-awareness exercise that has also been used at Stanford University and Loyola University of Chicago," says the report:

Groups of about 25 students line up shoulder-to-shoulder along a line on the floor. A facilitator then reads a series of about 50 statements. Every student who feels a statement is true of him or her is supposed to step "across the line," leaving the group behind. Statements start off mildly enough: "You are from a large city or town." Then they get personal:

"You have participated in racial, sexual, or cultural jokes."

"You are pro-choice."

"You would feel comfortable entering into a relationship with a person of a different race."

"You feel comfortable around persons with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientation."

While such introspection is certainly not inappropriate for college-age students, "Across the Line" forces a public "outing" among strangers. The exercise adds an unsubtle layer of group pressure to an MSOE strategy that might well be described as "divide and conquer." To ensure freshmen are isolated from any friends they might have come to school with, orientation personnel computer-sort them into random groups.

"Sometimes if students are hanging out with two or three friends, they might feel their attitudes are not so readily challenged," MSOE Director of Student Activities Rick Gagliano told World. "This way they're in a different environment, forced to expose themselves to somebody else … This is done without parents around – sort of in a 'safer' environment." The strategy is not new: Mao Tse-Tung used it "re-educate" Chinese university students and pry them loose from their parents' political moorings.

Marketing evil?

"What Ohio State University has been doing to Scott Savage by attacking him as a sexual harasser – and to a far lesser degree doing to me by calling 'The Marketing of Evil' 'hate literature' and so on – is precisely what I write about in my book," says Kupelian.

"It is literally the 'marketing of evil' in action. First they desensitize these youngsters in highly manipulative, emotionally charged re-education sessions. If anybody challenges the pro-gay orthodoxy on campus, they are subjected to merciless 'jamming,' as we see with their threatening the reputation and livelihood of the librarian, Scott Savage. For people who are sufficiently confused, the college experience can bring about a total conversion. I explain these three devastating steps – Desensitization, Jamming and Conversion – in detail in chapter one of 'The Marketing of Evil.'"

Released in August, "The Marketing of Evil" has become one of the nation's most talked-about books, widely praised by Dr. Laura, David Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, D. James Kennedy and many others and garnering over 100 five-star reader reviews on Amazon.com. For the past week it has held down the top spot in Amazon's "Current Events" bestseller list.