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originally posted by: ScepticScot
Lol OK so everything is normal to you? I also would not call it a lifestyle choice...
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: ScepticScot
I think treating people lifestyle choices as abnormal when they have absolutely no impact on you is a bit bigoted.
Lol OK so everything is normal to you? I also would not call it a lifestyle choice...
originally posted by: ScepticScot
What's normal? Husband, wife, 2.4 kids and dog?
Why not people just get on with their own lives without having to brand then abnormal?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: ScepticScot
What's normal? Husband, wife, 2.4 kids and dog?
Why not people just get on with their own lives without having to brand then abnormal?
What is abnormal...
Violation of social norms, statistical rarity, personal distress, and maladaptive behavior... I also find it interesting you see negative connotations to the term abnormal, in some cases there can be, but in others it doesn't necessary mean negative.
So the bottom line is you do not like the word...OK
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Bottom line is it's a word loaded with meaning and you pretending otherwise doesn't change that.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Why would we remove it from the english language? But let's not pretend you don't mean anything negative when you use it to describe people.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Why would we remove it from the english language? But let's not pretend you don't mean anything negative when you use it to describe people.
You are applying it as negative. My original point was that I do not think a trans used to do story time just because the person is a trans is too deep of a subject to find comfortable for kids.
My point about abnormal follows what I expressed as what is actually abnormal... My point about being a disorder or even maybe mental illness also follows official publications. In all this I kind of lost your point other than you think I'm a bigot because I do not see trans as a normal behavior. This doesn't mean I have an issue with that they do, I don't have any issues with it, they can do as they like even if it harms them...don't really care, but I'm not going to say it is all normal.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Really where did I say that. Same hint again
originally posted by: ScepticScot
However that doesn't change the point that its a fundamentally good thing for kids to be tolerant and accepting of other people. Exposure to people who are different from what they might see on a day to day basis is one of the best ways to achieve that.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: ScepticScot
However that doesn't change the point that its a fundamentally good thing for kids to be tolerant and accepting of other people. Exposure to people who are different from what they might see on a day to day basis is one of the best ways to achieve that.
Well lets start the line now as 10,000 unusual behaviors line up to prevent intolerance. Kids in general are generally tolerant until past puberty maybe we save lifestyles that lean on sexual behaviors to when they are a little older.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Really where did I say that. Same hint again
Here is one quote of yours:
"And no this isn't a parental rghts issue. Sex education in primary schools basically consists of 'some kids have 2 daddies and that's ok.
If a parent has a problem with gays existing then it's even more important that the school provides lessons on tolerance."
This is very plainly saying that you believe that the schools should be able to teach this kind of junk to children even over the parents objections.
That very plainly means that you believe that The State has a superior claim to what your children are taught, which is another way of saying that they have an ownership interest in them.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
As pointed out about 19 times now there is nothing sexual in the content. It's about relationships.
Kids can be tolerant, they can also be extremely intolerant about what they don't understand. Showing them that its ok that little Johnny has 2 daddies or that little tommy goes to a different church is in no way a bad thing.
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Parents get to tell their kids whatever they want (barring the most extreme cases) at home.
That doesn't preclude then getting education at school.
The 'junk' in this case being teaching them about tolerance?
By 'very plainly' I assume you mean stuff you made up in your head, as you haven't been able to back up any of your claims about what I supposedly said.
Unfortunately that’s not all that’s being taught. Looks like some people have not seen some of the textbooks being used for grades k-7 Even at that level the books have pics of kids with boys heads on girl bodies and vice versa, and pics of kids in bed together. One is obviously promoting gender confusion and the other is just plain promoting sleeping together. This guy explains about the national sexuality education standards of Common Core m.youtube.com...
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Parents get to tell their kids whatever they want (barring the most extreme cases) at home.
And anywhere else they happen to be - including school.
That doesn't preclude then getting education at school.
I send my kids to school for an education.
Teaching my 6 year old that Heather has two mommies is NOT EDUCATION. It is INDOCTRINATION.
Sure, if - and I mean a huge IF - that is ALL they are being told, it isn't so bad, but I guarantee you that the teachers pushing this junk will never stop there, next thing you know, they'll be having trans story time.
It is called the 'slippery slope'.
The 'junk' in this case being teaching them about tolerance?
If I personally knew and trusted the teacher, and that that was all they were teaching them, I'd be ok with it.
I don't trust teachers.
By 'very plainly' I assume you mean stuff you made up in your head, as you haven't been able to back up any of your claims about what I supposedly said.
I already quoted what you said, and it was very plain. Pretend I didn't all you want.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: ScepticScot
Parents get to tell their kids whatever they want (barring the most extreme cases) at home.
And anywhere else they happen to be - including school.
That doesn't preclude then getting education at school.
I send my kids to school for an education.
Teaching my 6 year old that Heather has two mommies is NOT EDUCATION. It is INDOCTRINATION.
Sure, if - and I mean a huge IF - that is ALL they are being told, it isn't so bad, but I guarantee you that the teachers pushing this junk will never stop there, next thing you know, they'll be having trans story time.
It is called the 'slippery slope'.
The 'junk' in this case being teaching them about tolerance?
If I personally knew and trusted the teacher, and that that was all they were teaching them, I'd be ok with it.
I don't trust teachers.
By 'very plainly' I assume you mean stuff you made up in your head, as you haven't been able to back up any of your claims about what I supposedly said.
I already quoted what you said, and it was very plain. Pretend I didn't all you want.