In the current climate of promoting diversity, multiculturalism and similar ideas in all aspects of American culture, a program is currently being used in many public schools to advocate social change. The name of the program is Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity or SEED, and its teachings promote cultural egalitarianism and the acceptance of homosexuality as a sexual minority. Through its National SEED Project, the organization seeks to transform the views of both teachers and students in K-12, to effect SEED’s idea of enlightened social change. The program was begun in 1987 and has been training teachers across America in aspects of culture and belief systems which reflect anti-Americanism, victim status for minority groups, anti-Christian values and the normalization of homosexuality as a “sexual culture”.
SEED promotes victim status for minority groups by creating two discrete groups of Americans – the oppressors and the oppressed. Oppressors are described as any group, who by their sheer number of members is a majority in the country. This includes whites, Christians, and heterosexual men and women. SEED training materials stress a collection of isms, including classism, sexism, heterosexism, etc., and all members of the majority – the oppressors – are considered to display characteristics of these “isms”. The oppressed are any minority group such as a given race, homosexuals, and atheists who are oppressed by a racist, heterosexist and religious majority. According to SEED, oppressed individuals enter the “cycle of oppression” when they are born into the minority group, and when society then reinforces one or more of the “isms”, which creates feelings of anger and fear among the oppressed. SEED’s teachings suggest that these minorities be permitted their own form of righteous indignation as they seek to blame others for the circumstances of the minority’s life. The only way to break this cycle of oppression, it is taught, is for teachers to engage in a “relearning” program in both their personal and professional lives.
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Another alarming aspect of SEED instruction is its refusal to include salient facts about America’s history and the Judeo-Christian values that were integral to our country’s founding and that have shaped this great nation. SEED takes a “blame America first” stance and pointedly focuses on our nation’s weaknesses while emphasizing and even magnifying the positive aspects of other cultures. Patriotism is not valued in the sense of the Founding Fathers and America’s heroes and culture are deconstructed and denigrated until the picture emerges of a racist and oppressive United States of America.
One predominant focus area for SEED is its presentation of homosexuality as a “sexual culture” wherein homosexuals are described as an oppressed minority in need of special rights and protection. In essence, the program teaches that a person has an identity based solely on his or her sexual behavior, not what he or she is as a person. SEED’s training materials on the issue of homosexuality contain no evidentiary or scientific information and instead, they rely on information from homosexual advocacy groups and the discredited research of the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Teachers are not presented with the facts on how homosexual feelings can change, nor are teachers given information regarding the dangerous medical consequences of the homosexual lifestyle. SEED instructors regard this factual information as hate-filled or homophobic, and they encourage teachers to adopt books and curricula that reflect racial and sexual diversity – especially materials that include gays, bisexuals and transgender groups or individuals.
The materials handed out to teachers during SEED instruction include pro-gay articles and something called the “Heterosexual Questionnaire”, which describes heterosexuality as aberrant behavior. Books with the pro-gay agenda are readily promoted, including Paula S. Rosenberg’s “White Privilege” which stresses the “reality” of five genders as contrasted with the traditional two. Rosenberg suggests that gender is used as a power play in America and that words like “husband” and “wife” are heterosexist and convey a privilege of heterosexuality. Another book, “Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence” by Marion Dane Bauer, contains short stories for adolescents and includes sexually explicit gay and lesbian themes.
Perhaps the most destructive aspect of SEED is its instructors’ and directors’ refusal to allow dissenting viewpoints among teachers. Tight control is maintained over the training groups and opposition to the SEED viewpoints is not tolerated or even recognized. Any voice in support of traditional values and conservative beliefs is quickly met with harassment, intimidation and even discrimination, so that all opposition to SEED ideas is silenced. In SEED training classes, no ex-gay speakers are allowed and dissemination of materials opposed to the gay agenda are not permitted, all the while lesbians and gays are brought in to share their “coming out” stories”.
The question most often asked is “what is the goal of seed”? SEED seeks to effect social change through education by employing training and curricula recommendations which stress visibility for gays, cultural and moral relativism and deconstruction of traditional American values and teachings. SEED openly states that its effort is in “transforming the mainstream” by promoting its message not only to teachers, but also to students as young as kindergarten age. Parents of children are prevented from knowing what their children are being taught and no outside person is allowed to observe any SEED class.
In Minnesota, SEED has built a network that continues to include more teachers each year who are then able to impact students. In the 2002-2003 school year, SEEDed teachers (that is how they are referred to) impacted the lives of approximately 63,000 students in Minnesota. One enticement for teachers to earn SEED credits is the ability for them to receive “A” grades upon completion of the program’s courses, thereby allowing them to receive salary increases.
In summary, the SEED program contains a small portion of insightful information on ethnic cultures in its effort to promote diversity, however, the prevalence of other materials that reflect anti-American sentiments, pro-gay bias and victim status do little more than promote a harmful social agenda. Since teachers are suppressed from disagreeing with SEED ideas and speaking out against them, there is never any semblance of an open forum in which to exchange ideas and discuss facts surrounding these ideas. Teachers are discouraged from challenging the SEED agenda and therefore, it is likely that many feel they must accept that agenda and bring it into their own classrooms. The fact that SEED presents some positive information such as some of its insights into other ethnic cultures, but mixes those insights with destructive ideas of victimization, gender confusion, and radical homosexual ideas, makes it less likely that teachers will feel safe to present views which challenge SEED teachings.
As SEED-trained teachers in schools are allowed to quietly mold the views of children and adolescents, the impact on American society will soon follow and we cannot yet imagine how destructive that impact is likely to be. This program has negative implications for all Americans and it illustrates how the seeds of change can evolve into seeds of a nation’s destruction.
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Under the guise of safety and diversity, activists are introducing children as young as first grade to sexual lifestyles that are unhealthy and dangerous. These kids are encouraged to accept and celebrate perversity even before they have an understanding of normal sexuality. After all, gay people are just born that way, aren't they?
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