Homosexual activists from ten liberal churches are demanding that the Winston-Salem/Forsyth School Board include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in the district's anti-harassment policy. The group has been joined in their efforts by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national pro-homosexual education lobby group.

Pastor Ron Baity of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, who is a long-time opponent of GLSEN's agenda, says the current district policy is fine the way it is. He maintains the homosexual group's push to add the terms "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" is just a facade.

Pastor Ron Baity

As for the churches backing the policy change, Baity says they refuse to take a stand for what is right and have no value system at all.

Baity, who is also a chaplain with the local police department, will be addressing the school board Tuesday night on behalf of 30 other evangelical pastors in the area. He says the pro-homosexual supporters are being hypocritical.

"They say we have bad attitudes and are mean-spirited, and yet some of the most militant, ill-willed people in America belong to the homosexual movement," the pastor says. "Since they cannot produce, they recruit -- they go after my children and grandchildren, and your children and grandchildren."

The Baptist minister notes that according to one psychological report, 20% to 40% of all molestations of children are committed by homosexuals. The risk of a homosexual molesting a child, he says, is "10 to 20 times greater" than a heterosexual molesting a child.

So far, the school board has indicated it will not change the district's non-discrimination policy.