They’re Making Your Kids Gay!
I read about this over at “Southern Expressions” and I had to make a stink over here too.
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The crown prince rejects a bevy of beautiful princesses, rebuffing each suitor until falling in love with a prince. The two marry, sealing the union with a kiss, and live happily ever after.
That fairy tale about gay marriage has sparked a civil rights debate in Massachusetts, the only U.S. state where gays and lesbians can legally wed, after a teacher read the story to a classroom of seven year olds without warning parents first.
A parents’ rights group said on Monday it may sue the public school in the affluent suburb of Lexington, about 12 miles west of Boston, where a teacher used the book “King & King” in a lesson about different types of weddings.
“It’s just so heinous and objectionable that they would do this,” said Brian Camenker, president of the Parents Rights Coalition, a conservative Massachusetts-based advocacy group.
Camenker said he believes the school, Joseph Estabrook Elementary, broke a 1996 Massachusetts law requiring schools to notify parents of sex-education lessons. “There is no question in my mind that the law is being abused here,” he said.
This article from Reuters is worth a read. I try to avoid political topics here, but this kind of thing just gets to me. Read it for yourself.
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When I say it gets to me, I mean in the way that hate, intollerance, and fear get to me when they are used to supress others.
Gay is not something that is taught, learned or inherited. You either are homosexual or heterosexual or a mix of both. But it’s not something that is created by role models. Or why does homosexuality still exist in the first place? For the past couple of thousand years being homosexual has neither been a role model nor an evolutionary advantage of any sort. Yet this sexual orientation hasn’t been extinct. That means evolution tolerates it because it’s not bad. We should teach our kids to be tolerant, open-minded individuals.
Of course, with this argumentation, I see an outcry from the side of religious rebels: “EVOLUTION?? There is no such thing as evolution.” Well, then I guess god wanted gays to exist and us to respect them.
Ah well, of course this malicious argument will bring up the bad and the devil. Yep, I guess we need a good balance. Without the bad, good cannot exist. And we can go on and on…
I’m ranting, please excuse me.
Are Homosexuals the only ones who should have rights? Don’t parents have the right to tell their children what they believe about the homosexual lifestyle as well as politics, religion, and dietary restrictions. Do schools have the right to usurp the parents beliefs with ‘fairy tales’ that are obviously from a gay rights handbook. Would the school have the right to force a Muslum child to eat pork?
Parents should and do have rights for good reason.
I do not think that parents are teaching children to HATE, be INTOLERANT and FEAR homosexuals. If there are it is a miniscule minority. These are unsubstantiated charges frequently thrown out against the ‘Radical Religious Right’ because they (the right) don’t think of the homosexual lifestyle as being a viable lifestyle…
It is simply a disagreement between both sides. One says it is a choice and the other says they are born that way. Then we are faced with stories like Anne Hecht who decided to switch sides. So what is that if not a choice? Ellen DeGeneres decided to continue in the homosexual lifestyle. So what is that if not a choice?
Back to the original issue. Should parents have no rights at all in the raising of their children? Should the story of the gay princes, two men getting married be considered a sex education lesson?
If I was being taught about ‘different types of weddings’ I would be expecting customs of different nations not my home state…
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It is interesting to me how this topic remains so hot for so long. It has come and gone cycicly from popular conversation for generations. Gays have not always been seen as “weird” and obviously not always been seen as an “acceptable alternative”. Popular opinion is so fickle that I won’t trust it to direct my decision making processes not determine my life choices.
I sometimes get caught up in the rabble and find my self a little roused but I try to avoid it. I have behaviors that I am sure others are offended by like; picking my nose but I try not to offend with it. God seems to accept the fact that I have such a disgusting habit and it seems that He forgives me when I find my index finger deep in a sinus.
As a radical right wing Christian I must say that while God hates some behaviors, He never stops loving the one doing the behaving. We should exalt that attitude and emulate it as often as we can. The question is Grace not judgment.
Richard