[dak]

Why is your son being gay such a horrible thought? Maybe you're not 'ok' with it after all?

The world as a whole will never be ok wih it, that is why I am not ok with it.

Even blacks in this country are still treated as second class citizens in many places despite they are infinitely more accepted by the collective social mindset than homosexuals.

It's a horrible thought in the same sense of my son losing partial brain function, limbs, sight or any other handicap. Because like it or not, being gay in our society is a handicap and it isn't going to change in any of our lifetimes.

And Eomer, how is it any different? According to the media teenagers wanted to smoke cigarettes because companies said it would make them look "cool". Those teens of course want that above all else because in their hormone laden, twisted little minds looking cool equated to venting the nagging, ever present sexual frustration they are facing every day.

As a teenager every single person on this forum at some point had a homosexual desire simply out of pressure to relieve some sexual tension with someone you can actually get along with. No big deal of course, but i'm pretty sure if we had an authority figure telling us it was ok to do it a majority of us would have acted on those feelings. Since a teacher said it was alright you would have someone to blame freeing yourself of any harm.

Maybe I am missing some fundamental factor but I really don't see how pushing a product on teens that equates to looking cool and ultimately increases their chances of intercourse is any different than pushing literature on teens that ultimately says it's reasonable and normal to have intercourse with anyone including the same gender friends you spend the majority of you socializing time with at that age without the risk of pregnancy. Smoking and being gay are both hazards to the life, liberty and the persuit of happiness, sure one is a hazard for strictly health reason and the other is mostly social reasons but both are hazards regardless and both have no business being taught to children as something a person does if given a choice.

If they want to teach kids about gays in school they should be forced to say up front. "Hey, look kids. The worlds not fair, we are trying to make homosexual lifestyles more acceptable but if you take this route expect to be a second class citizen in the eyes of the majority of the country including apparently the government. Make sure you are really gay before you try being gay".

In an ideal world we wouldn't even be debating this because it would be none of our business and nobody would care how homosexuals chose to live their life. Turn on the news though, the world is far from ideal. Being gay or any other minority for that matter is and will always be a considered liability.

It's a simple matter of numbers. The ratio of new people exhibiting gay behavior encouraged by having homosexual tolerance taught in school will be always be less than those who remain straight and unwilling to accept homosexuals as equals.