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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.161552.12883@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:15:52 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec28.180753.664@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <28DEC199216463769@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Dec29.150908.2994@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.150908.2994@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni) writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Perhaps this is a problem of semantics. Homosexuality *is* a valid
- lifestyle, and gay couples can be happy, raise children, be outstanding
- citizens, etc. This is a fact. To teach facts is what school is all
- about. To say something exists is not to condone it.
- It sounds more like you only want your kids to be told that
- homosexuality exists if you can be sure it's painted in a negative light at
- the same time. I sure hope that none of your kids turns out to be gay -
- what a parental message you're giving them. Attitudes like this are
- reflected in the very high suicide rate for gay teens.
-
- > 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.
-
- See above. If it's a "view" that gays exist in our society, so
- thoroughly intermingled that you know many of us without even being aware
- of it, your definition of "view" is weird. Galileo was shunned by the
- church for saying that the sun revolves around the earth. Didn't make it
- any less so, and, in the light of modern society, just makes the church of
- the time look stupid.
-
- >Bill Buoni
- >my opinions are my own and do NOT represent those of my employer!
-
- Well, *that's* a relief.
-
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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