Posted on 08/17/2005 7:58:48 AM PDT by Dr._Joseph_Warren
Question:
Ignoring all legal issues....
Would you care/object if your children's teacher was openly (not flaming) gay?
Would it make any difference if the gay teacher was male or female?
Would it make any difference if the gay person taught elementary, middle school or high school?
Most homosexuals have jobs and obligations, just like anyone else. It's tough to meet those obligations if you are at an orgy until 5 AM every night.>>>>>>>???????
Can't agree, they are NOT like everyone else. Whether or not they get to "not be tarred with the same brush", they are ALL still part of that society seeking to destroy the family. And they will deny that. But the effect is the same, the truth is the same, it doesn't matter how badly you still love them in spite of their sins, they are still public sinners, whether out or not. People KNOW things. Tolerance by employment and other evidences of enlightenment will just get us all closer and closer to the point of no return. Like the day your grandchild gets adopted by two men or two women. Churches having voices muzzled, like what is happening now in Canada.
Pity, help, but no tolerance. Thats my advice
That's just a mindless comment.
I am assuming you were at least an adult at the time, if you were an adolescent, you might not have been able to determine just exactly what was 'teaching' or 'indoctrination'....if you were an adult at the time and the rest of the class was adult, don't you think that the teacher might have been more prudent and knowledgeable (aware) that he probably better stick to the business at hand? I'm still not persuaded.....
Compared to, say, heterosexuals on Spring Break?
of just go to a gay club or bathhouse... you will find even those that are "professional" and even claim to have "committed" relatioinships... OFTEN engage in activities outside that little picket fence facade.
Gays cheat on their partners. Wow. That's unique to homosexuals, right?
Certainly not all, but it is an overwhelming activist myth if you think the typical gay male is a guy in a committed monogomous relationship with another man.... or even LOOKING for that.
The only difference between gay males and straight males when it comes to promiscuity is that gay males are in an environment where they can be as promiscuous as they want. We straight males are, unfortunately, limited by womens' desires for monogamy.
Depends on what you mean by 'openly'. The sexuality of the teacher should not be discussed with the students. The opinion of the teacher about sexual issues should not be discussed with the students.
As long as those two things are adhered to, and the teacher isn't pushing it in MY face demanding 'acceptance,' then no biggie.
Would it make any difference if the gay teacher was male or female?
No.
Would it make any difference if the gay person taught elementary, middle school or high school?
No.
Since we homeschool, yes I'd be quite upset to find out my wife is gay. Shocked too.
My opinion almost exactly.
If the teacher was "openly" gay, i.e., seeking community approval, I'd move my son out of that class.
Homosexual behavior is at best an illness, and I'd not have him exposed to it.
You are wrong. ESPECIALLY teachers who are around impressionable children, should NOT be homosexuals. Teachers teach even by passive example.
Homosexuals are essentially teaching children that their recreational lifestyle is somehow "normal".
Any ONE homosexual example is irrelevent, the next generation of society needs to be educated not recruited. Even the mere presence of a homosexual teacher is an effort at recruitment to the "normalcy" of the deviance.
Homosexual teachers have demonstrated through GLSEN and the GSA's (which usually have a homosexual teacher advisor) they are little more than homosexual recruitment/dating services using the public schools.
But in all seriousness, gay teachers is one of the reasons we don't send out kids to public schools. One of many reasons.
Doc:
Suggest you do this in poll format. Personally, I would not have an issue with it as long as he/she kept their sex life private...same applies to hetrosexuals; sex education should be taught at home, never in school, never EVER!
I am of the absolute belief that a gay person can no more keep their personal beliefs out of the classroom than a liberal news reporter can keep their personal beliefs out of their writings.
A person's personal sexual persuasion influences EVERYTHING they do and think, from the words they use to the lessons they subconsciously choose to emphasize in the classroom.
The people on this board who (naively) say they would not care about an open gay teacher are deluding themselves, I believe, out of a false belief that a gay teacher could keep their lifestyle/opinions out of the classroom.
I also believe that many teachers in public schools today are gay, and thus we get the constant barrage of liberal teachings in daily classroom events.
Dr._Joseph_Warren, has anyone gone to DU to ask if typical liberals would object to a gun totting ex-Marine ultra conservative, evangelical teaching their children?
It all depends on if by 'open' you mean someone with an agenda.
I don't think that the sexual orientation or relational situation of ANY teacher is something to be discussed with children.
If it is simply a 'known' fact without any slant to the curriculum then in principle I have no issue. If he/she is on a 'mission' and pushing their choices/situation then I would find that just as inappropriate as I would if there were a hetero-sexual male gym teacher coming in every Monday to discuss his most recent conquest. Both are equally inappropriate for the classroom environment.
It's not 'mindless.' Regardless of whether you NEVER had such, I have and I know of other who have, and I hear at least weekly of teachers (middle school, high school, etc.) etc. who DO. There was one yesterday afternoon about a teacher in middle school who had a vocab/spelling list with definitions that she made up to illustrate the meanings. One had to do with the word 'spin' and it was defined in a left-leaning liberal context. If you never was subjected to it, then I congratulate your fortune, either that, or you must be living in LA LA land.......
Phantom,
Sorry, but you are very misled by that. Representatively homosexual males are far far far more likely to be engaging in exactly these types of behaviors than any other segment of the population.
Most gay men are not going home to their loved one at night, and only them night after night. Go talk to anyone who deals with these groups on a regular basis and you will see the reality, if it if isn't politically correct.
Ask the state cops why they have to patrol rest stops.. it isn't a bunch of straight guys and gals meeting for group and anonymous sex... go ask your county sherrif why they have to patrol the bathrooms and woods at local parks... it isn't straight guys and gals meeting there night after night for anonymous group sex... ask the University of Pittsburgh why they are no doors on the stalls in the mens room of the Cathedral of Learning... its not because straight men and women are having anonymous sex in the stalls there....
You are just turning a blind eye to reality, because it doesn't match the activist bs, and pc lines.
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