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Old 12-23-2008, 11:25 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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Originally Posted by xxDragonFlyxx View Post
School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.

Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting Equality” into every school library in the state.
Sorry, I can't figure out how to quote your quote... and I'm a little confused about where it originally came from (what I put above). But as a librarian myself, I would of course like to respond. Every library, whether academic or public, has a librarian who is in charge of book selection - and they have the final say on what goes on the shelves. Some libraries now do have GLBTQ collections, but the only one I know of with shelves of them are in large public libraries. No grade-school library would have the space, money or desire for such a collection, so I'm calling BS on that piece of "information."

That being said, libraries are for ALL people to use, and therefore we must represent all points of view... if a book with gay themes is deemed appropriate by the librarian, they have every right to put it on the shelf. Don't like it? Don't check it out! School libraries are generally more stringent in their criteria, but even they can select books of "questionable" content (depending on the book & the school).

 
Old 12-23-2008, 11:29 PM
 
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This is yet another case of "tragedy of the commons". The one-ideology-fits-all government indoctrination centers (aka "public schools") simply don't work. The parents should decide what their kids learn and how they learn it. With more school choice, or better yet an entirely privatized education system - everybody wins.
 
Old 12-23-2008, 11:29 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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So according to you we dont pass our genes to the next generation. In the past gay ppl were forced to be with the opposite sex so they wouldnt be discriminated. I can puntuate as well as the next guy but I dont becouse its easier that way.oh and havent u heard of of dominant and recassive genes?
Recassive genes? Nope, haven't heard of those... but I have heard of recessive genes, LOL. What does that have to do with homosexuality?
 
Old 12-26-2008, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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What are your thoughts on it?

There is a curriculum that some schools use, I think "Welcoming Schools" that teaching kids to embrace gays, etc. I think it does cover some anti-bullyiing, which I understand, but why as there never been anti-bullying on short kids,kids with big nose, Christian kids, etc?

Some schools have even read stories about gays in KINDERGARTEN! Here are some links that tell about it:

Protect Marriage - Yes on 8 » Video (http://www.protectmarriage.com/video/view/6 - broken link) (Make sure to watch it all)
Prop8
How same-sex "marriage" affects Massachusetts

Just wondering about your thoughts on this matter?
I think kindergarten is way too young to be talking/thinking about sex. Leave them alone and let them just be kids. The secular world thinks that if they begin indoctrination soon after the birth process, the world will be more accepting of deviant and sinful behavior. What they don't realize is that they are just providing ample opportunities for us parents to speak with our children about why homosexuality is wrong. Send a book home and it's gonna get compared to the Bible. God's word supersedes anything that proponents of the gay agenda can throw at us.

I believe that parents have to be involved in the educational process. Too many times parents just send their kids to school and don't pay much attention to what's going on there. Open dialogue (every day) with your kids is important. You would be surprised at what your kids will tell you when you are really listening.
 
Old 12-27-2008, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Aiken S.C
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"DADDY'S ROOMMATE"
By Michael Willhoite (Written and illustrated)
Alyson Wonderland 1990
ISBN 1 55583 178 8
Ah, gay parenting, one of the endless bug-bears of conservatives everywhere. But in this book, we get to see that having two dads can be accomplished with real class and style!
And at least one of them can grow a really kick-arse (pardon my language) moustache!

Narrated by a young boy who's parents have divorced due to his father's coming out, this book is real cute - you'd have to be an ogre not to love it. Or a Republican.
There's definitely a whiff of the seventies in some of those illustrations, which finds its brilliant apex in Frank, Daddy's new roommate. I love his comb-over and moustache combo - it's so Burt Reynolds-meets-Freddy-Mercury. And he sure does a mean muscle-T, or even no top at all! (check out pages 4 and 21! Rowr!)

There's a rhythm to the text which is reminiscent of kick-ass disco:
"Daddy and his roommate Frank live together, work together, eat together" (Ow! Baby! Hit me!).
And gay parenting is clearly a great antidote for the playstation generation as Dad and Frank put real flair into everyday activities which range from going to ball games to singing songs around the piano in the evenings (Cool! How often do people do that these days? 'Come on, kids, another round of 'Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits! "Aw Daddy and Daddy, do we have to? Can't we do Madonna?'')
These guys are parents we could all be proud of!

But it's the innocence of the narrator that puts the final piece on the mirrorball.
On the last pages he tells us, "Mommy says Daddy and Frank are gay."
Then he tells us exuberantly, "I'm happy too!"
Yay! Let's hear it for the boys!


Not surprisingly this book was number 2 on the list of books most americans wanted banned from their libraries during the 1990's. And it was in some pretty good company including:
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
n the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
As well as lots of books by Judy Blume, Robert Cormier, Norma Klein & Babette Cole to name but a few.
Follow this link to find out what else you shouldn't read...
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm (broken link)
 
Old 12-27-2008, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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Your point?
 
Old 12-28-2008, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Downey CA
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i want to know how would gays answer the infamous
were do babys come from?
question
 
Old 12-28-2008, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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i want to know how would gays answer the infamous
were do babys come from?
question
They can't, so they probably avoid the question when i comes up or maybe their version sounds a lot like this.

Where did you come from? Well, Daddy and Frank don't have the God given ability to give birth to you in the "right way" so we had to pay someone who was willing to rent out their uterus to us. When we finally found a willing participant, we donated sperm in a cup (so we wouldn't know which one was your real father) and you were mixed in a petri dish because the other way would just be too gross, then you were planted in your surrogate oven for nine months and now look, here you are.
 
Old 12-28-2008, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Pensacola, Fl
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They can't, so they probably avoid the question when i comes up or maybe their version sounds a lot like this.

Where did you come from? Well, Daddy and Frank don't have the God given ability to give birth to you in the "right way" so we had to pay someone who was willing to rent out their uterus to us. When we finally found a willing participant, we donated sperm in a cup (so we wouldn't know which one was your real father) and you were mixed in a petri dish because the other way would just be too gross, then you were planted in your surrogate oven for nine months and now look, here you are.
I don't necessarily agree with the agenda to teach kids about family structure at such a young age (I don't really care, they'd already be exposed to different types of families and I'd just tell them as they asked-big deal), but you are just out of line to demean a homosexual family like that. It's obvious that you have some deep unfounded contempt for those who are homosexuals and you dare call yourself a Christian? It's people like you who spew hate that give Christians and Christianity a bad name. You need to repent and stop trolling on the message boards; do us and Jesus that favor.
 
Old 12-28-2008, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Camberville
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They can't, so they probably avoid the question when i comes up or maybe their version sounds a lot like this.

Where did you come from? Well, Daddy and Frank don't have the God given ability to give birth to you in the "right way" so we had to pay someone who was willing to rent out their uterus to us. When we finally found a willing participant, we donated sperm in a cup (so we wouldn't know which one was your real father) and you were mixed in a petri dish because the other way would just be too gross, then you were planted in your surrogate oven for nine months and now look, here you are.
Jesus would be ashamed of you.

And how absolutely RUDE of you to everyone- gay or straight- who is unable to have children. I have PCOS and will probably never be able to have children. You can thank your God for that.

I guess when I adopt children, I'll have to teach them young about a little thing called hypocrisy and the lack of manners and compassion of others since my kids will have to deal with the children of people like you.
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