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To: gidget7
However, the government needs to draw the line at laws and ordinances that force others to believe that alternate reality. Thought control, belief control is a very dangerous policy, ask any who fought Hitler. Societies cannot be forced to believe what it doesn't believe, nor can it be forced to ignore reality in favor of some PC alternate belief system that makes absolutely no sense.

However, the government needs to draw the line at laws and ordinances that force others to believe religious doctrine. Thought control, belief control is a very dangerous policy, ask any who fought Hitler. Societies cannot be forced to ignore reality in favor of some theorcratic domination of belief system - that makes absolutely no sense.

111 posted on 12/10/2006 3:38:43 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong
in favor of some theorcratic domination of belief system

Male homosexuals die an average of 20 years before heterosexuals. No theology there.

Why do you hate people so much that you want them to die early based on their behavioral choices? What a heartless way of thinking.

125 posted on 12/10/2006 3:44:26 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Sunsong; Howlin; gidget7
You may not like what gidget is saying, but the comment about homosexuality being forced as a lifestyle onto school children is absolutely correct. Here in MA, since the Supreme Judicial Court took the matter out of the hands of the voters and created a 'right' to homosexual marriage, it is now considered just another lifestyle, and homosexual activists are going into classrooms under the guise of 'counselors' or 'social workers' and introducing subjects having to do with homosexuality. In the Newton MA school system a few months ago, a woman who is a school social worker came into a third grade classroom, and showed the kids a picture of a family; mother, father and child. She asked the kids what they saw in the picture, and one little boy raised his hand and said "It looks like a mommy and a daddy who doesn't want to be a man anymore, and their little boy". The social worker just smiled, then went into the whole idea of sex change operations.

Needless to say, this was a set up by the school which knew about the little boy's family situation, and made it possible for this woman to come into the classroom, unbeknownst to the parents, and introduce this topic, which was totally inappropriate for third graders. They knew this woman, though a school social worker, was also an activist and member of GLESN, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network. They did this under the excuse of making the little boy feel more 'normal', regardless of the fact that none of the kids knew anything about his family situation, and neither did the parents of the other children, until the school did this. They found out when one little girl, whose mother had just had a little boy told her she was worried that her baby brother might be turned into a little girl, and explained why she thought this. The mother was horrified, but when she complained to the Principal, she got the cold shoulder. She even brought it up in a Parents Association meeting, after which the Principal loudly rebuked her because the man involved happened to be sitting in the group. The woman knew she would never get anywhere with the Principal, so she had no choice but to go to the expense of putting her daughter in a private school. When she went to the school to inform the Principal that she was withdrawing her daughter, the Principal, in front of staff and several parents and teachers said, "GOOD!".

Now you may think it's an anomaly, and attribute it to some small group of activists, but this is happening all over the state, and when parents complain, they are harassed out of the school, or in the case of David Parker, in Lexington, are arrested, then kept off the school preperty by court order, simply because he asked that his son be allowed to not participate in activities in the classroom that showed homosexuality as 'just another lifestyle'. He was not telling the school that they shouldn't do it, because he knew that wouldn't work, he was simply trying to protect his son from what he considers a sinful lifestyle. The arrogant Principal and Superintendent of Schools kept this man from having anything to do with his son at school because they were only interested in pushing this new 'right', no matter what the parents of the children in the elementary school might think about it.

Most folks in this country would not care what folks get up to behind their bedroom doors, but they're just sick of this 'lifestyle' being forced on them and even worse, their children, when it is a VERY small minority of people involved in it. You claim we're judgemental, and I guess we are. We're exercising good judgement in pushing back when these folks want to overturn laws without allowing citizens to have any say, and threatening people with 'hate speech' for daring to voice an opposing opinion, which represents what the majority of people in this country believe.

551 posted on 12/10/2006 9:15:16 PM PST by SuziQ
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