Science has come light years since the 80’s. There is a school of thought based on research in the Netherlands and here that homosexuality is not developed at a young age, but is progressive throughout their youth. Also not every youth that expresses homosexual tendencies actually participates in gay sex. Openly gay teachers espousing a pro-gay agenda could have undo influence. Keep it in the bedroom, bath houses or wherever, but keep it out of my child's classroom. I am not to sure Ronnie would not have altered his opinion after all the scandals involving Priests. See, we have a precedent for our concerns.Nor would he have changed his view that such a measure as Proposition 6 would have enabled the wreckage of an innocent life merely by false innuendo. Reagan was nothing if not a man who believed against bearing false witness. It was one thing to stand against openly gay teachers---and Reagan made a point of stressing the protections against those were in place already at the time---but it was something else entirely to sanction a false accusation of homosexuality.
I am sure Reagan would have amended his opinion had he known what is known now about how homosexuals develop their illness.