Homosexuality encouraged in schools.

I really don't think a single person in the world is actually threatened by homosexuality.
What could they possibly be scared of?

Someone like this

smearing lipstick on them?

or

picking up their girlfriend.


Come on get real.

The only reason some people even care about gays is because of religion.
No religion no one would give a **** what others ****ed.

I don't know why people are threatened by it. However people are, friend of mine believes that homosexuality foretells the apocalypse. I'm not going to have a go at him for thinking that because I believe people should be able to do and think whatever they hell they want to think, regardless of whether or not it fits in with what the government wants you to think. Just in the same way that I don't have a go at my gay friends for being gay.

Cannibalism is normal yes. Many species do it, so there's point me arguing. It's only our society that tells us it's not acceptable as normal behaviour. There are other (human) societies where cannibalism is acceptated as normal behaviour. And who are you to judge whether that's okay or not, you have absolutely no concept of their society whatsoever.

And you think that by calling a homosexual person's lifestyle 'wrong' isn't abuse or harmful. I suspect that is someone said that something (that you didn't even have a choice in) was "wrong" and "unnatural" you would feel upset, no?

When you were at school, did you ever read a children's book? You may have noticed that the kids had 2 parents of opposite genders.

Would you think it was forcing it down their throats to have a character in a story who had two dads, or two mums?

Either the same rule for both (heterosexual and homosexual parents in books okay) or you should NEVER mention the parents in books at school.

Ditto, that shouldve been the end of the thread IMO

How isn't it good

I don't know how you define 'have a go at', but...

if my friend said something so incredibly stupid, I'd certainly explain what an idiot he was to him

So you think schools should completely deny the existence of heterosexual parents ...? Practically every story book that children read has a heterosexual couple in it, it's unavoidable. All that's happening is that some books are being introduced with gay couples in them.



This is nothing to do with sex. Why do people make the ridiculous assumption that by teaching children about different couples you're also teaching them about sex? This is about relationships, and has nothing to do with sex.

And yes schools should be places of learning, hence why we teach children that sometimes people have gay parents, so children know more about the wider world. Learning isn't just Maths, Science and English, but it's also PSHCE, and this is part of it.



Unavoidable or not, by his definition it's forcing heterosexuality down a child's throat, apparently.

Ergh..
I don't understand what the OP means by 'encouraged', it shouldn't be discouraged in the first place. And it's not like educating children on homosexuality's going to turn them into a homo..

And right now in schools the word 'gay' ^is almost like a new swear word/curse. You drop a cookie in the cafe and it just slips out... 'that's so gay!!' it's just part ofthe way they talk now.. Heck even my gay friend even uses it in that context. -which kinda shows how out of hand it ^is..
Perhaps educating them might prevent/reduce people being so ignorant? Not much else can be done, really.

But at 5 years old???

At 5 years old all I cared about was where my next bit of cake was coming from, surely it's confusing for a child to be taught about homosexuality so young?

I'd prefer it be taught with the sex education later on in a child's development.

If I ever have children, they won't be taking part in this ****, no matter what some loony left government pc plagued bureaucrat says.

Soon, we'll have books trying to teach white boys to be black, and christians how to be muslim.

edit: perhaps if we didn't actually teach it in school, but parents taught/spoke about this type of thing, then perhaps we would have closer families and less 13 year old parents.

As the family unit is an important sub-division of society, I have to say that "the state", or the rest of society, could reasonably have a say in what is desirable or not. This has always happened and certainly does today, with particular promotion of single-parent families as a good and ideal arrangement. Back when m+f long-term parent couples were promoted and supported by the state and society, that was the norm. Now that many alternative setups and alternative lifestyles in general are promoted and encouraged, that kind of family is becoming rarer.

Since when has single parent families been promoted?

Why can't people get it into their heads that tolerance or acceptance does not equal promotion?

For a few decades now, mostly since the 90's though.



I really don't see the distinction. You can't teach one without the other.

Read the OP again. It is not simply telling children that "Sometimes, people have gay parents." It is propaganda in that the Stonewall campaign isn't there to simply inform, it's to coerce children and "sell" homosexuality to them. I especially find the following line disgraceful:

"Head teacher Garry Ratcliffe, of Oakfield Community Primary School, added that children should learn to be “resilient” to the values of their parents if they disagree over homosexual issues."

Who is this little **** to tell anyone's children that they should resist the values of their parents? If I have a kid, and raise them to e.g. have a burning hatred for trees, then I have every right to.


I see this as a case of liberalism gone too far. The same has happened with racism in our society. The government (I presume Stonewall have permission from the government) must overcompensate on everything. Instead of simply giving information to accept homosexuality, they must advertise homosexuality as the better alternative. Instead of eliminating racism, they must instead bring in counter-racism where white people are discriminated against (affirmative action).