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I was about to respond to this comment to my last post, but my comment became so long that I decided to promote it to a post. Below is the response to my last post by prying1 that sparked this one. I reprint it in its entirety to be fair to the author.
prying1:
May 1st, 2006 @ 6:22 pm
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…
My response follows. I know that many of you who read my blog regularly may disagree with my politics. That is why I rarely discuss politics here. I appologize if this disturbs or offends you (I don’t really appologize for my views, however).
The difference, prying1, is that your views are supported and taught in most schools and you do not complain that my viewpoint is not represented.
Your response is extreme and typical of the responses that I am concerned about in the first place. No one in this situation is saying that parents don’t have rights. The only people being denied rights in this situation are those who want tolerance and diversity taught to the children in that school.
Saying this fairy tale amounts to sex education is absurd as well. If we accept that argument then all books, magazines, newspapers, movies, and discusions that depict two individuals in any kind of relationship or having any physical contact beyond a handshake ought to be considered sexual education material and only made available to students after the informed consent of the parents. How would you re-write sleeping beauty? Perhaps she could be awakened by a loud knock at the door or the ringing of her cell phone. The prince wouldn’t dare enter the bedroom of a sleeping princess and kiss her without her consent. In my state that would be a sexual offense.
I don’t think children should be taught that they ought to try being gay and see how they like it, I do think that children should be taught that gay people exist in the real world and they are not out to harm you or anyone else. That homosexuality, whether it is a lifestyle choice or a predetermined preference, is not a threat.
I will not accept that the “religeous right”, as you call them, have a right to determine what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, what is to be tolerated and what is to be supressed. If you look back into the history of our country you will see that we were founded on principles that guaranteed not only freedom of religeon, but freedom from religeon.
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