Posted on 02/03/2005 6:01:08 AM PST by gieriscm
A Fairfax County School Board member has sent letters to the district's 24 high school principals urging them to ensure that students hear the views of people who believe that homosexuality is a choice and a "very destructive lifestyle."
In a Jan. 30 letter, Stephen M. Hunt (At Large) asked the principals to host speakers with an "ex-gay perspective" and offer students, teachers and counselors literature provided by the conservative group Concerned Women for America and other organizations.
"Children are being taught that homosexuality is normal and natural. It is neither," Hunt wrote. "To state that it is normal or natural is to promote the myth that accompanies the homosexual activist rhetoric."
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But in the letter Hunt said students often are exposed to the "Will and Grace version of homosexuality." He contended in the letter that gays often suffer drug and alcohol abuse or physical abuse and that gay men don't live as long as heterosexual counterparts. "There are huge ramifications for people who may make a choice to go into that lifestyle, and we should make sure they are fully aware of the entire issue," Hunt said in an interview.
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And we'll never see the episode where the "gay" character is on his death bed and his body wasted away with AIDS, and who knows what else.
No you won't, nor the fact that their life expectancy is cut in half, at best!
So anything that occurs in other species is OK? Cannibalism? Incest? Rape? Mutilation? Etc.?
I believe the point being made is that homosexuality orientation is probably not a choice. One can hardly make the case that animals would choose to be homosexual.
I can't say for sure if it's always a choice, but it should be made clear to the kids that it's either a curse or a horribly wrong choice.
I am interested in what you have said re homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Can you link me to any sources that have documented this in a study?
so you were quoting someone elses words and not mine =)
I know that :)
It would seem self evident that if there were any exclusive/predominant homosexual preference in other species it would not be observable because that specie would be extinct.
A thought I had yesterday... if posting the Ten Commandments is the "establishment of religion", then isn't posting/teaching/endorsing/presenting gay material a state's "establishment" of a lifestyle, as well? Isn't creating a sexualized work atmosphere (also known as sexual harassment)? And since children are involved...
I don't think anyone has studied homosexual behavior in animals, because the phenomenon is virtually non-existant. However, there are some observations of males mounting other males that may have been reported as an aside comment in published articles. I would begin with the work of Frank A. Beach with Beagles. There is a doctoral dissertation that uses feminized male rats (made that way by castration on day one of birth then given, in adulthood, ovarian hormones) who will behave like females in estrous (Robert K. Orndoff: 1975 or '76 in Dissertation Abstracts). Then there is the frequently reported mounting and pelvic thrusting behavior by estrous females directed to other females and males (see F.A. Beach) in rats, dogs and cows.
One more thing: There are many reports where the males and females are put together in groups and their sexual behavior observed. Although not the purpose of these studies, information regarding tendency to homosexual behavior can be derived by its absence. Again, Beach would be a good place to start.
Numbers 31
Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 20
Joshua 6
Joshua 11
The Isrealites invited condemnation on their heads by not obeying the command to completely destroy the heathens who occupied the promised land. Eventually the Isrealites mingled with them, intermarried and turned from worshipping the Lord, to worshipping the idols and false gods of those whom they should have destroyed. Eventually they became week as a nation, were conquered and scattered.
But this was not because they worshipped the wrong gods. There were specific reasons given for each. Being "outside the faith" was not one of them.
Shalom
If the students are allowed to hear both sides of the story, the truth will prevail.
gidget7 was a troll?!
How curious are you?
When's the last time the WashPost characterized, say, the National Organization of Women as a "liberal group"?
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