Posted on 06/27/2006 7:33:26 AM PDT by worldclass
Despite the controversy that can arise when gay issues are talked about in elementary school classrooms, a group of educators are trying to give schools the tools they need to do just that.“The initiative is going to support the development of advising and supporting teachers that want to begin exploring the age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate ways of introducing these issues,”
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This all is based on the non-proven theory that homosexuality is something that is inherent, and therefore protected as a civil right.
It also rides upon the theory that the stigma associated with homosexuality is worse than the problem itself, and therefore if we can just get people to accept homosexuality as a normal behavior, the problem will go away.
Both are not only unproven, but defy the real data that homosexuality is a learned behavior and that the cause of higher suicide rates among homosexuals is not stigma, but the mental disorder that causes the homosexual behavior itself.
Despite 30 years of activity in the psychological arena to remove the stigma, suicide rates of homosexuals are still at or above the rates they were when it was officially deemed a sexual disorder. Despite 30 years of researching the DNA and genetic aspects of homosexuality, no causal proof has been found.
So at this point, there is only one reason to normalize the behavior, to increase the odds of success in finding a mate.
In other words, recruitment.
Solamente Sez:
Get your kids out now. Home school them, or private school them where certain agendas haven't reached.
For parents who cannot afford to do the above, organize with other parents, and defy the law by keeping your kids out of those schools.
I'm sure Ben Franklin wasn't taught to today's young parents when they were in school: "United, we stand. Divided, we fall."
reading, 'riting & 'rithmatic....
Or, why not give heterosexuals equal time?
Actually, there was a study done, I think I saw it summarized on Townhall, that showed if you were a child in a public school, you were many times more likely to be sexually abused than if you belong to the Catholic Church.
It is just more entertaining for people to visualize priests abusing kids than school teachers abusing kids.
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