" That is quite a broad brush statement. What if the religious teaching makes sense or is in fact the true best option? Does one throw ot the baby with the bath water"
Of course not. Murder is a good example. We can have zero tolerance for violence but not because the bible says Thou shalt not kill (meaning murder)but because violence interferes with education and harms the students.
"I thought you were Catholic so was surprised to see your position on this -maybe I am confused as to your religion"
My family is Primitive Baptist on side and Southern Baptist on the Other. My family attended a Methodist church once they moved to Atlanta but I was never really personally a Christian until I was 18 and attended a revival and had a personal experience with God.
And for the record, I don't think any of the stuff we are discussing should be taught in public grammar or middle schools.
But I don't believe we should ban things from public schools based on religious beliefs. I favor elimination of all government sponsored diversity training, not just as it relates to homosexuality.
That said. Outside of public school I don't feel any more animosity toward gay people than I do to any other sinner.
There is an awful lot of selective bible quoting going on. People will focus on the verse about homosexuality and then pretend the rest of the book isn't relevent.
There is an awful lot of selective bible quoting going on. People will focus on the verse about homosexuality and then pretend the rest of the book isn't relevent.
Well it appears we are in agreement that parents should be the ones who decide what and when regarding the sexual though...
We may disagree on just what constitutes exposure to the topic of sexuality. I am of the opinion, objectively, since the only differentiating attribute between heterosexual and homosexual (not gay -nothing gay about it!) is the sexual activity that an individual is predisposed to or engages in --that one can not broach homosexuality in any way it is manifested without at minimum broaching the topic of sexuality...
Yes, this broaching of innocence may happen accidentally at an inappropriate age and parents would of course choose to deal with it on an individual basis; however, the fact that an innocent child may accidentally be exposed to information does not warrant intentional broaching of a subject that parents choose not to expose their children to.
The Trojan horse methodology that homosexual activists employ as part of the homosexualization of society methodology is in attempting to distance themselves from the activity that they define themselves by and that defines them -sex -abnormal, unnatural unhealthy and depraved. This methodology is of course propaganda plain and simple... No less shell game than that the abortionists employ -happy shiny people in happy shiny clinics (who just happen to slice and dice innocent babies for a living)
One can not discuss two mommies or two daddies without discussing at the same time the disorder that is basis for the illegitimate relationships they comprise. In essence broaching the topic inappropriately and against the wishes of parents is further compounded by omission of that which the parents would teach had the subject been broached legitimately or responded to legitimately by the parents...
Just because it is the school system that is indoctrinating, desensitizing, and psychologically raping the innocent rather than the local pedophile does not make this 'tolerance' stuff any less illegitimate and inappropriate...