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- From: glen@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Glen Sonnenberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.221747.10694@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:17:47 GMT
- References: <1hq25lINNnra@hp-col.col.hp.com> <29DEC92.19262311@enh.nist.gov>
- Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
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- In article <29DEC92.19262311@enh.nist.gov> aberson@enh.nist.gov writes:
- >In a previous article, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) wrote:
- >>wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni) writes:
- >>
- >> stuff deleted
- >
- >I would be fully willing to respect your viewpoint if you were in any way
- >willing to respect mine. As a taxpaying citizen who may or may not have
- >children to send to school, I find that teaching my children views which
- >are in direct conflict with my values a violation of respect for me.
- >When you teach me how my values can be respected, I will be sure to follow
- >your great example. Until that time, I don't believe you have any say in
- >the matter. When any mention of heterosexuality is removed from schooling
- >of children, I will be able to fully agree that any mention of homosexuality
- >and bisexuality can be deleted also. I don't want my children to be
- >indoctrinated into a belief system which is in such conflict with my values.
-
- I can agree with this. I would rather my kids come home and discuss sexual
- topics with me. I am willing to discuss it and I will teach them my views.
- Most of the time anyone suggests this it get drown out by all those people
- who think that the public school system needs to replace parents in the
- education of kids about sex. Just because there are some parents who don't
- take an active role in talking to their kids about sex doesn't mean that
- it needs to be a mandatory subject at school. There should be (if anything)
- an elective class that parents can request for there students. REQUEST is
- the operative word. I do not favor automatic teaching of sex ed. where a
- student must get a form to NOT attend. This will allow parents to easily
- control whether they want there kids to attend. There are small details
- like orphans, etc. but the basic premise I would tend to agree with.
-
- >
- >Your children are just as likely to be homo/bisexual as anybody else's.
- >Your attempts to control their sexuality will come to nothing in the end.
-
- WRONG! I don't agree. My kids will not have as much chance because I will
- teach them to control irrational desires.
-
- >Your children will be who they are whether you like it or not. Simply
-
- WRONG! How I bring them up will have a VERY large effect on who they are.
-
- >stated, you are just advocating making your lesbigay child's adolescence
- >and adjustment in society that much more difficult by insisting that they
- >should be indoctrinated into a homogeneous heterosexual society whether
- >they are heterosexual or not.
-
- I would argue that in our society and for a long time to come, "lesbigay's"
- who come out and admit to being homosexual have a much harder adolescence
- then heterosexual's and probably even harder than those who supress their
- "lesbigay" feelings. Maybe it's because of prejudice or religious beliefs
- but that's still the way it is. BTW, as far as I have seen there isn't
- any conclusive proof which shows homosexuality as a trait rather than a
- lifestyle choice. If this is true then your arguement is moot. If not,
- then please state where I may have a look at this info. Thanks.
-