Embrace the world's diversity (Letter to the Editor)

Boston Globe ^ | May 1, 2005 | NANCY NOLAN

[R. Scott]

Hence their cry for laws specific to them:

The homosexual “community” of activists have decided they are a minority and are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Fortunately they don’t have a unifying and sympathetic figure like MLK.
Maybe my reaction was triggered by my BS in Sociology. Homosexuals can claim to be a “culture”, but that doesn’t make it so. Our language is changing, thanks to our media – and I am not adapting well to the change. I still think a “hero” is someone that risked life for others, not some one who just shows up for work. I still think there is a difference between “misspeak” and “lying”. An “error in judgement” that violates the law is still a crime.
Maybe now that I am rapidly approaching 60 I am finding some changes very difficult.

[raybbr]

It's not really private. As I said, I got it off of a public site. She is part of a group that has a link on the town of Lexington's web site.

[guardian_of_liberty]

Diversity in Nature is a wonderful thing.
Diversity in Society is chaos.

[expatguy]

I did my essay on tolerance ~ next is diversity. ;-)

Hope you like it. Only wish I could be as good as Steyn ~ maybe more humour.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

I've been following this story for the last few days. Apparently, the author of this letter seems to want us to believe that this is a progressive majority nation and that the vast majority of Americans are for shutting christians and conservatives out of society just because their ideas offend her sensibillities and the sensibillities of others.

This woman has an awful lot to learn about this idea of "diversity" before she come out and spew all this left-wing B.S. and C.F. This author's opinion IS NOT representative of the majority of thinking in this country and anybody taht says otherwise is a bald faced pathological liar.

The dad was clearly right to protest his son's school's having the book available in the school library. The first amendment gives people the right to protest an yaction by a school system they don't agree with. Anybody that's got a problem with it needs to go talk to the founding fathers in their grave.

Using goverment and the courts to bring about forced acceptance of the idea of shutting out christians and conservatives as is being proposed by the letter writer will only lead to absolute chaos. That's something people don't want. She's the one who is narrow-minded. Not the dad protesting his son's school actions.
Regards.

[snippy_about_it]

Well said EGC.

[Darksheare]

I didn't know that 'Massachusetts' and 'Lexington' were th erest of the country.

[E.G.C.]

Well that's fine and dandy. But I can tell you that if I had a son in school and he was exposed to stuff like this I whether anyone likes it or not would object. If my taxpayer dollars were going towards this kind of stuff I would object too.

It may the majority way of thinking in Mass. because that state voted for Kerry, but here in Oklahoma where I live things are far different in terms of ways of thinking.

How a parent chooses to educate his child is his or her own business. If that parent objects to how his her child is being educated it's his or her right to object whether anyone likes it or not.

Public schools do not need to be in the indoctrination business, They need to be in the business of reading, writing and aritimetic and leaves all of this nonsesne out of the curriculum.
Regards.

[DBeers]

Gosh, that doesn't leave much room for discussion

Some things are absolute -no discussion necessary. Such is life...

[PaRebel]

An excellent book, but in my experience, little known in the USA. Should be read by all interested in immigration, culture, and the future of Western Civilization... that is, if they think WC has anything of value to offer mankind.

[EdReform]

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