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Originally posted by marg6043

Originally posted by Mynaeris

Marg: I have a question for you - when you see the screen names Edsinger and Grady philpott do you have to disagree automatically?

No only when they use misleading threads to encourage gay bashing.

And you are right is the parents duty to teach their children at home.

But do you think is ok for parents to tell their children that gays are sick and dirty and that they don't have a place in society?

Then when it comes to that somebody has to bring the tolerance as an issue, the subject is broader than some may want to give it credit.

Hate crimes should not be tolerated because of the believe of some.

Should a parent be allowed to tell their child gays are sick, dirty, immoral, and degenerate scum? Absolutely. It is their right as a parent to instil their own moral and political and religous beliefs on their children. I dont care what society thinks of it. Society and the govornment should have absolutely NO say in how a prent raises the child, provided the child is not being abused or neglected.

Tolerance should not be something taught in schools, period. Tolerance is a subjective and moral issue relative to whoever views it.

Forcing children to attend classes about tolerance of homosexuals is unconstitutional, period, because it violates the first amendment right of religous freedom. There are many religons that teach homsexuality is an abominible act, and that god hates and punishes homsexuals as a disgrace to nature. Christians, jews, Muslims, all view homosexuality as evil and sick.

it is the right of those parents to pass on their religous beliefs to their kids. The question of those beliefs being right or wrong is not an issue. Whether you agree with their beliefs or not, by law and right of any free society, those parents have every right to teach hate and intolerance to their kids. If those children should go out and beat up a gay kid, thats a totally different ball game. That crosses into practice and violation of another persons right to not be physically assaulted. If a kid beats up a gay kid, the kid should be punished by the law. That is where the state has right and authority. The only power the state and society should posses in this case, is the right of enforcing law. NOT dictating morailty or tolerance. Thats a personal, religous, and cultural issue.

Thus, children should NOT be forced to attend a class on tolerance. It should be entirely optional. If a parent decides they dont want their kids in that class, then they should not be required to attend this class.

Just like no one has a right to force homosexuals to be straight or christian, or jail them for being gay, gays have no right to force other people to tolerate them. The ACLU was right in making that school allow gay students to have their own meetings, but has overstepped its bounds in forcing straight kids to go through tolerance indoctrination.

Nice how Ed, in his neverending quest in support of theocracy, tries to slip in a petition about banning the ten commandments from the courthouse. Now, ED< what do the ten commandments have to do with gay tolerance classes?

Not only do I not plan to sign that petition, but I send in my letter of support to the ACLU for sucessfully winning a case to remove the superstitons of some outdated backwards religon from public grounds using public money. the ACLU was 100% right to have the ten commandments removed, as there was no good served by the things.

If the ACLU would spend more time keeping the boot down on religous nuts and the "moral majority" instead of trying to do the same thing the religous nuts tyr and do, id actually be more supportive of them.