June 11, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

OBAMA APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR INSTRUCTS

NASA EMPLOYEES TO "CELEBRATE"LESBIAN, GAY,
BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
AND PROMOTE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVITIES

Family Policy Council Leader Blasts the Commander in Chief

and NASA's Acting Administrator for Being "Off-Mission"

(Orlando, FL) This past Monday June 9, the approximately 300,000

employees of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)
were instructed to join other organizations around the country and
"celebrate" Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride
Month by actively finding and or organizing their own gay rights
activities.

This internal NASA memo comes on the heels of President Barack

Obama's resurrection of a proclamation started by President Clinton
but not recognized by President George W. Bush. The Obama
proclamation even went farther than the original one and included
"bisexuals" and "transgenders" for the first time as well as advocating
for the policy positions of homosexual adoption, gays openly serving in
the military, hate "thought" crimes, civil union marriages and granting
special federal rights for homosexuals.

Christopher J. Scolese, the Acting NASA Administrator who was

appointed by President Obama earlier this year, encouraged NASA
employees to become active gay rights proponents which he claimed
reflects "American Values". His agency wide memo stated: "I
encourage you to participate in the programs and activities planned at
your NASA center in your community for LGBT Pride Month. If there
aren't yet planned events at your center, I encourage you to organize
one." (emphasis added)

Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger issued the

following statement in response:

It is stunning that the NASA Administrator would pander to the

Obama Administration by promoting activities which
"celebrate" aberrant forms of sexual conduct and are
completely off-mission and counter productive to the best
interests of children, families and the common good of society.
NASA's work is critical, exacting and if not done properly, life
threatening. With all the challenges, and tragedies that NASA
has had in its past, it is unconscionable that its administrator
would promote this type of a distraction and internally divisive
social activism. This overtly political move is not only entirely
inappropriate, but breeds bad internal morale and disrespects
the rights of conscience of tens of thousands, if not the vast
majority, of NASA's own 300,000 employees, who dissent and
sincerely object to the promotion of sexual activism. "NASA's
stated mission is to 'pioneer the future in space exploration,
scientific discovery and aeronautics research'. Promotions of
specific sexual orientations over others clearly is outside of
NASA's mission and is being paid for by tax payers dollars.
NASA should be for advancing scientific space research
objectives, not engaging in homosexual activism."

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