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Popular homeschooling resource quietly promotes LGBT to children

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The LGBT agenda has subtly wormed its way into online instructional videos that are popular with homeschooled, private and public students. Some of Khan Academy ’s free offerings are laced with a politically correct view of homosexuality. Math, English and other subjects may seem morally neutral, but they are be used to promote ideas and worldviews having nothing to do with Math or English. Here is an English "problem" on a Khan Academy session: The lesson is on "Irregular Plural Pronouns: from 'f' to 'ves.'" The unsuspecting student is told to "Choose the correct plural pronoun to use in this sentence: 'Brittany and Sofia went to lunch with their _____ every Saturday.'" Khan Academy's “correct” answer reveals the gay agenda behind the English "problem": The only choices are " wifes" or "wives." The LGBTQ agenda is forcing recognition of same-sex marriage and transgenderism in co...

Farewell, Frappuccinos

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February 21, 2012 (FRCblog.com) - My home state of Washington has produced some of America ’s leading corporations and entrepreneurs: Microsoft and Bill Gates ; the Nordstrom, Boeing and Weyerhaeuser families and their eponymously named companies; the Eddie Bauer sporting goods empire; and the nearly omnipresent Starbucks (almost 11,000 stores worldwide). Starbucks emerged in the 1970s at Seattle’s Pike Place Market .  One of my sisters bought me a bag of cocoa powder from this location more than three decades ago; if I still had it, it likely would fetch a nice collector’s price. For many years, I’ve enjoyed going to Starbucks, becoming acquainted with any number of “baristas” and drinking enough of its variously flavored beverages that “grande” characterizes my waistline as much as the size of a given drink.  Even when traveling in the Middle East, the taste of a frappuccino has been a welcome reminder that one can go home again.  And I’ve always been glad to go int...