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- From: wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni)
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:09:08 GMT
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- From porthos!walter!att-out!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!zeus.tamu.edu!rlc1028 Tue Dec 29 08:47:28 EST 1992
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- In article <1992Dec28.180753.664@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni) writes...
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- >|What about children who get teased because their parents are drug addicts,
- >|child molesters, or just enjoy a quite evening with a farm animal or two?
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- > It depends. Do enough people think that drug addicts and child
- >molesters are persecuted unfairly or unnecesarily? Probably not.
-
- Who cares about whether or not the individuals in question are persecuted
- unfairly? The original post dealt with the children NOT the individuals!
- Afterall, it is not the children who commited the offense.
-
- > If the world could depend on you to teach your children to follow
- >your example of tolerance, there would be no need for teaching it in
- >school.
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- Shouldn't this read "if the world could depend on you to teach your children
- to follow MY example of tolerance ...". Besides, my understanding is that
- what is being taught is acceptance NOT tolerance. If tolerence was the
- main objective then we need not mention homosexuality at all; just teach the
- kids that all people deserve respect regardless of their differences!
-
- > If the government were interested in forcing a curriculum in your
- >home, let me assure you that they would bring more firepower than you.
-
- This is true!
-
- > As it is, the issue of religious freedom is contradictory to public
- >education unless public education can accomodate all religious beliefs.
- >Public education usually fails at this. This issue has been mulled over
- >many times. There's never a principled solution. It's simply a matter
- >of concessions.
-
- Better yet, why not school choice? If I am paying for my children's
- education, which I am, why should'nt I be given the choice of which school
- I would like to send them to? Isn't the purpose of the government to serve
- the people? In a "free" society one would think so!
-
- My guess is that what is being sought is acceptance, not tolerance. The
- problem is that living a gay lifestyle is not OK (my values). That is not
- to say that homosexuals are inherently evil, but that God did not intend us
- to function this way. Nor did he intend for us to be sexually active
- outside of marriage, indulge in "immoral" behavior, ....
-
- My children are a precious gift that God has given my wife and I. We have
- been entrusted with the responsibility of raising our children in a manner
- consistent with the teachings of our faith. Jesus Christ is as real to us
- as the keyboard that I am using at this moment. When the school teaches that
- homosexuality as a valid lifestyle, it operates in direct conflict with the
- values I attempt to instill within my children.
-
- These are my beliefs. I don't expect you to adopt them, nor do I expect you to
- accept them. All I ask in return is that you give me the same respect in
- return. In my view, teaching my children views which are in direct conflict
- with our (my wife and I) values is a violation of this respect.
-
- Bill Buoni
- my opinions are my own and do NOT represent those of my employer!
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