I agree with everything you said in this post.
There’s going to be a whole lot of PC nonsense because of this and our soldiers/military don’t need this on top of the other stuff they deal with daily.
There are some here, maybe many, who think this is a generational thing (that it’s only older people that have a problem with accepting homosexuality as normal) and that’s not the case. I’m in my 40s. My kids are in their late teens to pre-teens. They see it daily, in movies, tv (pop culture trying to make it appear normal) and they know it’s not normal. Heck, my kids even joke about which character is the homo in a movie or tv show and say it’s usually the nicest, most perfect character. Even the commercials, there’s one, a PSA, that states “that’s so gay” is cruel, or wrong, etc. So of course, the chorus from our house is “that’s so gay.”
Kids aren’t stupid. Especially teens. Next week is mid terms at our public high school. Mid terms start on Wednesday. Since Tuesday is the “historic” inaugeration(sp), they have an extended homeroom and shortened class times. And the day before midterms, when they should be reviewing for midterms, all teachers are supposed to spend their shortened class period discussing the innaugeration. Just about every one of my teens teachers, especially the science and math teachers, told their classes, they don’t want to force any views on them, but they have to discuss this historic innaugeration. My senior’s AP Chem teacher told them today, ok we have 5 minutes to discuss this because on Tuesday, we’ll be reviewing for the midterm in our shortened period. My junior’s honors chem teacher told them they’ll spend a few minutes discussing this historic innaugeration, and he emphasized he wasn’t trying to force any views on any of them, but the majority of the class time will be spent on mid term review. AP Calc and honors pre calc teachers told both of my kids classes, that they do math during class time and history or english class or one of their other classes will spend time on discussing the historic innaugeration. My junior’s music tech class (an elective) decided to have their midterm on Tuesday since it will be an “easy” day and free up their scheduled mid term later in the week so they can study for their non-elective class midterms. My senior’s music appreciation class (another elective) teacher told the class today if anyone wants to discuss the innaugeration, he’ll discuss it, but if anyone wants extra help with music, that’s good to go, too.
My 5th and 7th graders in Catholic grade school also said they’ll be watching the “historic” innaugeration. 5th grader is ticked because it happens during math class and she’d rather do math. 7th grader said it happens during social studies and anything is better than taking the enormous amount of notes her history teacher gives. 4 years ago, neither of these schools watched the innaugeration. And 7 years ago, they didn’t turn the tvs on in every class to watch our country being attacked. And THAT was historic and an important lesson to teach.
I really have to check how to spell inaugeration, lol.