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- From: fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands)
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.191105.6583@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:11:05 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec29.032532.7970@microsoft.com> <1hq1c7INNnba@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- In article <1hq1c7INNnba@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- | fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands) writes:
- | > It is, IMO, imperative, however, that
- | > the second concept -- that gays, moral or not, live together, can be quite
- | > happy and "normal" and can be good parents raising "normal" children --
- | > be taught.
- |
- | 1) At what age should this be taught?
-
- Good question. We started young. Our 5 year old knows that families come
- in all sizes. Of the three weddings he has attended, one of them had
- the societally-approved one penis and one vagina among the participants.
-
- | 2) What makes it imperitive?
-
- Because the child will likely have classmates who have gay parents, and
- because the child may grow up and find hirself gay. BTW -- I do not
- claim that orientation is completely automatic nor completely choosable.
-
- | 3) Should it also be taught that bisexuals do those things?
-
- Well, facts are sort of nice things for schools to teach, aren't they?
- Are there facts (not opinions, but facts) that schools should refrain
- from teaching?
-
- | How would
- | you do it?
-
- The "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum certainly seems appropriate.
-
- Fritz
-