Band Member Told High School Students That Gays Die At Age 42, Says TWO

Band Member Told Students That Gays Die At Age 42, Says TWO

Truth Wins Out expressed outrage today that a fundamentalist rock band
known for preaching offensive hate messages was allowed to spew its
misinformation at a Dunkerton High School assembly. While on-stage a
Junkyard Prophet band member said, "Homosexuals died at the age of
42." Bradlee Dean, a Minnesota radio talk show host who had been
praised by Rep. Michele Bachmann, leads the rock band.

According to reports, "students and teachers at an Iowa high school
say they were blindsided when a traveling band slammed them with
anti-gay, anti-abortion and other extremist views during what was
billed as an assembly about bullying."

"We are outraged that students were subjected to such a disgusting,
hate-filled message that clearly violated the separation of church and
state," said Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen. "School
administrators have to do their homework to ensure they are aren't
booking extremists with sectarian agendas."

In fact, Truth Wins Out's "Center Against Radical Extremism" warned in
April 2010 that Dean boasted to a panel at the Awakening conference in
Lynchburg, VA, "We've been to 330 schools and only two asked us to
leave." Upon hearing this, Vision America's Rick Scarborough cheered
Dean and declared, "We need more special forces like yourself," and
then spoke of the importance in engaging in "guerilla warfare."

Superintendent Jim Stanton responded to the community's fury by saying
that Junkyard Prophet offered "a very strong anti-violence, anti-drug,
anti-alcohol" message. He added that the presenters shared "an opinion
about intolerance that's not in line with the beliefs of the Dunkerton
Community Schools. We promote tolerance for one another. We will
continue to celebrate diversity in our student body."

While Stanton's words are welcome, it is baffling that the band was
reportedly allowed to perform and remain on campus for three hours,
causing many students to break down in tears. Many in the community
are calling on Stanton to resign, while some reports says he was
already considering stepping down.

"We are profoundly disgusted that Junkyard Prophet was allowed to
perform, and even more disturbed that school officials did not pull
out the hook and yank these fanatics off of the stage," said TWO's
Besen. "It is crucial that schools understand that religious zealots
are actively searching for ways to infiltrate classrooms to
indoctrinate youth with extremist messages. It is the responsibility
of school administrators to stop the attacks on students as soon as
they recognize that they are occurring. In this case, the school badly
failed at the expense of the students' mental health."

Dean is also the founder of the Minnesota Christian organization You
Can Run But You Cannot Hide, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has
listed as an official hate group. Dean has called LGBT people
predators and child molesters and caused a brouhaha when he gave the
opening prayer in the Minnesota State House.

LGBT people were not the band's only targets while at the event.
Junkyard Prophet attacked Lady Gaga, Elton John, and women.

"They told my daughter, the girls, that they were going to have mud on
their wedding dresses if they weren't virgins," one mother of a
Dunkerton High School junior, told the Lacrosse Tribune. The girls
were told to assume a submissive role in their household and remain
"pure" until marriage, students said. The boys said they were shown
images of musicians who died of drug overdoses and images of aborted
fetuses. The Tribune reported that the school district is working to
get back the $1,500 fee they paid Junkyard Prophet for the school
event.

"Very rarely do such hate organizations stick to attacking one group
or minority," added TWO's Communications Director John Becker. "They
usually have a wide array of targets they dislike and aren't shy about
denigrating a number of people."

It appears that the band's assertion that gay men die at age 42 comes
from the disgraced researcher Paul Cameron of the Family Research
Institute, who was permanently expelled from the American
Psychological Association and the Nebraska Psychological Association
for peddling falsehoods about LGBT people.

Truth Wins Out is a nonprofit organization that fights anti-LGBT
extremism. TWO specializes in turning information into action by
organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality.

Please e-mail superintendent Jim Stanton at express your disgust

that a hate group was allowed to speak:

jstanton@dunkerton.k12.ia.us

More:
TruthWinsOut.com

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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy

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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy

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