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(CNSNews.com) -- A new sex education program for 8th and 10th graders in Montgomery County, Md., public schools is being attacked by conservatives for allegedly advancing a homosexual agenda. The chairman of the advisory committee that drew up the sex education curriculum is a homosexual activist whose writings on a religious website include, "Gay Marriage, A Jewish Perspective."

The revised curriculum, will be piloted in three county middle schools and three high schools in mid-April and then evaluated in June. The curriculum calls for, among other things, a condom demonstration video and information about "sexual variation."

Steve Fisher, spokesman for the newly formed Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, told Cybercast News Service that the new Montgomery County curriculum is pro-homosexual and would unfairly ask students to examine their sexuality.

"One of the things the new curriculum is proposing to do is to encourage children as early as 13 to self-identify their sexual preference in school," Fisher said. "The new curriculum is essentially saying that same-sex experimentation and play among adolescence is normal and should not be discouraged."

He described the new curriculum as a "blatant attempt to make sure that the only information that was going to be provided to the teachers as far as resources and background information was [pro-homosexual]."

Fisher said attempts by some of the members on the Montgomery County Board of Education's advisory committee "to balance the information with recommendations from other organizations like various mainstream churches" were denied. Instead, he said, the curriculum was "pushed through pretty much without a whole lot of exposure or discussion from the parents."

David Fishback, chairman of the panel officially known as the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, was reportedly inspired to join the panel because he has two sons who are homosexual.

Fishback is also listed as the contact for the Temple Emanuel Outreach, which declares its support for "Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgender inclusion" on its website and informs visitors to the site that the group "participated at the Capital (Gay) Pride Festival on June 13th in downtown Washington."

In the annual report explaining the revised sex education curriculum, produced by Fishback's advisory committee for the county board of education, the panel states that it "recognized the concept of sexual orientation as an essential human quality and [stated its belief] that individuals have the right to accept, acknowledge, and live in accordance with their sexual orientation, be they heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian."

The report cites the conclusions of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, "and every other mainstream medical and mental health organization in the United States ... that homosexuality is not a disease or mental disorder."

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