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- From: snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.184740.20472@lclark.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:47:40 GMT
- References: <28DEC199216463769@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Dec29.150908.2994@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <29DEC199212481513@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- In article <29DEC199212481513@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> bwood@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Wood) writes:
- >>
- >>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.
-
- You are doing fine to this point. I mean so far you are asking the viewing
- audience to respect your values.....key word here is "YOUR".
-
- I feel that if sex education is to be taught in school it should be optional
- and it must include homosexuality as an equal sexuality. I do feel that
- all school should be required to have Counsoling for 'sexuality confused'
- students. I am tired of the suicides of Gay teens in this country.
-
-
- 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.
-
- And of course you feel the same way about pray in school activities?
- You must respect other's values in the school also, the Jew, the Hindu and so
- on. I mean I pray all the time at work, even on work time.....
-
- >
- >
- >>You know bub, Jesus may be real to you (as he is to me), but HE IS
- >NOT TO THE JEWS!! AND MILLIONS OF OTHER RELIGIONS! SO GET OFF YOU
- >DAMN SOAPBOX!!
-
- But this Bub is allowed to have his beliefs, no matter how foolish they
- may seem. I took this posting as a discussion in values...maybe I
- came into the middle of something I shouldn't have come into.
-
- Bil Snodgrass III
-
- P.S. My only issue with this supposed Christian is his claim to be a
- Christian....but that is another topic matter....
-