Melton Hancock: “the Unsoeld amendment--or what I will refer to as the ``Unsoeld double-loophole'' amendment--is a gutting amendment…”

“the Unsoeld amendment--or what I will refer to as the ``Unsoeld double-loophole'' amendment--is a gutting amendment, pure and simple. It is a desperate attempt to undermine my amendment completely. A vote for the Unsoeld double-loophole amendment is essentially a vote against the Hancock amendment to H.R. 6. Indeed, a vote for the Unsoeld double-loophole amendment is a vote for allowing this kind of prohomosexual propaganda to continue unabated in our Nation's public schools. Allow me to explain. The Unsoeld amendment contains not one, but two separate and very clever loopholes which will allow any school in the country to use local, State, and Federal funds to blatantly promote and advocate the homosexual lifestyle to preschoolers, elementary school students, junior high students, and high school students. The first loophole in the Unsoeld double-loophole amendment is that it restricts only the use of Federal funds. In fact, the Unsoeld amendment explicitly affirms the right of schools to use other public resources to bombard our children and grandchildren with prohomosexual propaganda in the classroom.”