How is this for parenting?

Wate TV ^ | 06-05-2013 | MONA NAIR

[HogsBreath]

OAK RIDGE (WATE) – An Oak Ridge boy and his family are celebrating after taking on a local lawmaker and winning what they call a victory for gay rights.

State Rep. John Ragan was named Reformer of the Year by the education reform group StudentsFirst.

Ragan is also co-sponsor of the Classroom Protection Act. Critics have called the bill a stronger version of the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Marcel Neergaard, 11, of Oak Ridge, started an online petition asking StudentsFirst to withdraw its award to Ragan.

[HogsBreath]

Tennessee State Rep John Ragan was co-sponsor of the bill telling teachers not to proselytize homosexuality to grade school and middle school children. Rep John Ragan then received an award as Reformer of the Year from a group called StudentsFirst. Then the parents of an 11 year old started an online petition asking the group to withdraw the award because it impacted their 'gay' 11 year old. I am not making this up!

[Borges]

How is this for child abuse

[exDemMom]

Excuse me—a “gay” eleven year old?

He’s not even close to being aware of his sexuality, and it is common for children of his age and older to experiment with others of the same sex. That behavior does NOT mean he is gay! His sexuality is still developing!

What are those parents doing to their son?

[HogsBreath]

Thank God somebody agrees with me. The Wate website only has posts about how ‘brave’ the child is.

[proud American in Canada]

I think the parents have been watching too many episodes of Modern Family.....

[sr4402]

Another step towards Gomorrah.

[Resolute Conservative]

I constantly argue with my wife that Modern Family and most all other shows are nothing but conditionalizing tv just like DWTS shows the human side of losers like Chaz and subliminally tries to show it is just a human like us. She tries to counter with you have to be smart enough to know what to glean from the shows. That is the problem 75% of people in this country are too stupid to be able to do that and especially not kids.

Complain about the MSM, but it has been tv that has done more damage to this country than any other vehicle.

[JimRed]

Critics have called the bill a stronger version of the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Don't say gay, say homosexual.

HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.

[Irenic]

Yep.

[HogsBreath]

Are they allowing this child to be sexually active? If so, the child should be removed from the home. If not, what meaning does it have for him to self label as homosexual?

[BlueMondaySkipper]

An Oak Ridge Boy?