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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
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- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:03:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.215902.18440@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>, krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- |> In article <16DEC199223251060@zeus.tamu.edu> rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
- |>
- |> >|So should families where one parent is a crossdresser be shown?
- |> >|Or both are? Does a distinction need to be made between 2-male families
- |> >|and households where there is a father and a male (non-gay relation)
- |> >|sharing the house (to share expenses) where they sleep in *different*
- |> >|rooms? Do we need to show families where daddy and the family dog are
- |> >|very close? Do we need to show families where mommy and daddy are
- |> >|swingers, and occasionally have someone else's mommy/daddy sleep over
- |> >|instead of the usual mommy/daddy? How about when daddy and daddy are
- |> >|swingers, and swap daddies now and then? I realize I'm going to an
- |> >|absurd length here, but do you see the point?
- |> >
- |> > Why do you feel it necessary to portray families as based on
- |> >the specific sexual practises? Isn't it sufficient simply to show families
- |> >as based on gender differences (or similarities) alone? In other words,
- |> >showing a family with two male parents doesn't even bring into question
- |> >the activities in the bedroom. And I think that's where alternative
- |> >family education in schools should end.
- |>
- |> It does exactly bring into question the activities in the bedroom, because
- |> sexual preference is a direct correlation with same-sex parents. Please,
- |> show me 3 same-sex couples who are heterosexual.
-
- Pardon me? You're claiming that in the mind of the average first grader,
- "sexual preference is a direct correlation with same-sex parents"
-
- I think that's complete nonsense. I don't think first graders have the
- slightest idea about sexual preference. In fact, Mr Smith's original
- complaint seemed to be that we were giving them one.
-
- |>
- |> Can you say "touche?"
- |>
-
- Touche.
-
- jon.
-