Kids’ Book Prizes To Include Gay And Lesbian Award
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NEW YORK (AP) — An award for gay and lesbian literature will be included in the American Library Association‘s annual announcement of children’s prizes, a list which features the prestigious and influential Caldecott and Newbery medals.
The library association issued a statement Monday saying that the Stonewall Children‘s and Young Adult Literature Award has been added to the ALA’s Youth Media Awards, watched closely by educators and librarians as they decide which books to add to their collections. The Stonewall prize honors “English-language works for children and teens of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience.” Stonewall awards for adult books were started nearly 40 years ago, but the children’s category only now.
Books with gay and lesbian themes often place high on the association’s yearly report of works most criticized and threatened with removal by parents and educators. “And Tango Makes Three,” Justin Richardson‘s and Peter Parnell’s acclaimed picture story about two male penguins who become parents, topped the list from 2007 to 2009.
“Ours is a very inclusive profession and we represent a wide variety of viewpoints,” says association president Roberta Stevens, who noted that the decision to add the Stonewall prize was made well before the recent wave of suicides by teens believed to be victims of anti-gay bullying. “Millions of children in this country are being raised by gay or lesbian parents. There are young people who are gay and sometimes they feel very alone. This is a real opportunity for youths who may be feeling alone to read about other like themselves.”
The Youth Media awards, announced in January, already include a variety of categories, such as African-American literature, lifetime achievement and best children’s audio book.
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Comments (106)
OBAMAWORSHIOER
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:15amThe Library Association si among the most leftist organizations in the USA. This is NO surprise to me in anyway. Disgusting to the extreme.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:14amI’d love to see a title “Kids’ Book Prizes To Include Christian HONOR/MORAL award”. Nah, I forgot that Christianity is not “hip” anymore and it ain’t cool to keep your promises, have morals and guidelines.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:08amAmren, you are quite right about the unfair burden put on teachers. Teachers are educators, not social workers, not psychologists, and certainly not nannies. If teachers could focus only on what they were educated/trained to do we would have better quality education all the way around. Most parents who won’t take responsibility for their kids have never taken responsibility for themselves, either. Parents these days have huge skill-set gaps. I know it sounds ‘progressive’, but I do think prospective parents should have to pass a thorough test in parenting/child behavior before having access to ANY tax dollars benefiting their child(ren).
Report Post »KCEddie
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:00amThey should have added a communist, muslim, bestiality awards!
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:28pmYou, my friend, sound foolish. I think only one of those categories can be called disagreeable, and as a matter of fact, a Muslim literature category should be added. I can’t believe how intolerant people are of homosexuals. Good thing the intolerant generation is generally old. My generation is far more accepting of people’s differences. Centuries of racial discrimination has taught us nothing.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:53amIf I understand the Stonewall award will be for subject matter of homosexual issues it will be a big red flag on a book to warn me away from buying it or allowing it in my home. I will keep my eyes open for it and similar flags. I don’t care what others do with their lives, but I will not be forced to accept it into my family.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:53amThis is so ridiculous. Kids don’t have to worry about what others do in their own bedrooms. Let them just be KIDS. I don’t think they really care about these issues. It’s the ADULTS who want to push their own views. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE. That’s what parents are for! Teach it to your own kids and I’ll teach mine.
Report Post »AuntiEm
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:46amAs the pros and cons of gay marriage become a campaign issue, we have a provocative story this week from Betty Rollin on gay parents and their children. According to the Census Bureau, of the country’s nearly half a million same-sex couples, nearly a quarter — 28 percent — are raising children.
Doesn’t add up tp millions does it?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week720/cover.html
Report Post »Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:57amIt never does.
Report Post »And, it never will.
wj35
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:34amI‘m not against gays but if I ever had kid I wouldn’t them read thi
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:25amHow about this: We all develop good morals, we let kids be kids, not press any set of sexual values on them, let let them sort out what they want for themselves when they’re old enough to? It work for a few thousand years.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:18amWhether you have kids or not, get involved with the local school board–they determine what sort of educational materials kids have access to–remember, your tax dollars support the school board’s decisions, including bad decisions, like including homosexual and other questionable material into the curriculum/library.
Report Post »Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:51amThank you, thank you, thank you, Cat!!! I have been telling people this for years. As a teacher we NEED parental involvement. Parents, if you don’t get involved, then you are leaving your child’s education in the hands of people you may not agree with!!! This is how Planned Parenthood got into the schools to teach KINDERGARTENERS about sex!!!!! When I was in kindergarten, the most I had to worry about was what kind of cookies there was going to be at snack time and if my Partridge Family lunchbox was cool enough. We need to take our children’s childhoods back from the media and the sickos that are trying to sexualize them. Does this mean more work for you parents? YES!!!!! If you made the decision to have kids, then YOU need to be RESPONSIBLE for bringing them up right. It is NOT the teacher’s responsibility. They are there to TEACH! If your child doesn’t know how to behave in school, that is YOUR fault. Stop trying to be your kid’s friend and be a dang PARENT! They have enough friends.
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 2:36pmRight now one of our high schools is welcoming in LULAC to mentor kids. The principal is trying to say that it is not political, but come on, when is LULAC not ever political. Our middle school has a health center in it, that along with giving immunizations to kids 18 and younger, they are also allowed to hand out condoms. Even if your kids don’t go there, you still need to be involved because, here in Texas, our taxes go to fund this crap and the only way to stop it is get involved.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:10amSo gay is an experience, strange people indeed. Their old name fits better.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:09amHEY, If their so inclusive how come they don’t have an award for rednecks? My ethnic group gets overlooked and discriminated against alot! People make fun of our lifestyle all the time! They make fun of the way we talk. My mannerisms and my fashion statement. They try to make me an outcast of society. They make jokes about us. They bug us about who we get married to. We have feelings too!!
YIKES!!……..I didn’t realize how much I have in common with gays……….yuk!
Report Post »kevtheatheist
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:53amThe story behind “And Tango Makes Three” was the “true” story of two male penguins who became a “couple” to raise a young penguin chick. This caused a lot of gay and lesbian organizations to point and say “Look! See! It happens in nature too!” What they don’t tell you is that when the zookeepers released a female into the group, the males went back to acting male and the female raised the chick.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:07amThat’s a good point KEV
i also know that bullfrogs will eat other bullfrogs if they are hungry. so i guess canabalism is ok…i mean if the frogs do it.
Report Post »Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:08amInteresting how they always leave stuff like that out, isn’t it? I once got into a discussion with a homosexual female who insisted that because there is a species of frog that can actually change its sex when there are no males around, that proves that homosexuality is “natural”.
Report Post »Of course she wasn’t able to spontaneously change her sex when I asked her to. She also wouldn’t try catching a fly with her tongue.
Rational Man
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:13amDid the males have sex?………maybe I don’t want to know
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:15amThe penguin story is false and a perversion of biology and common sense.
Penguin males are equal partners with their female in hatching and raising their chick.
They pass the egg to each other and keep other males away.
All unmated males stand together, because species stay with their own kind . Unmated penguin males dont huddle with females because she accepts only one male at a time and her mate won’t let anyone else near her. Single males have no alternative but to stand with other singles,
Roy and Silo are not “gay”, and certainly never tried to mate with each other.
They were handed an egg and they both did what came natural to them….. fatherhood.
This same thing applies to black swans and seagulls.
Confusing fatherhood and motherhood with homosexuality is a purposeful strategy put forth by some of the dumbest gay activists you will ever meet.
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 2:32pmThank you HIPPONIPS for giving all of the information. It is amazing how something like this eventually becomes to mean that animals are gay too. There are many species that can change sex, but they only do it if what is left is only of one sex. Clown fish are all born male and the bigger ones fight over who will become female. When that female dies, the cycle starts over.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:52amLook, I’m gay, but I am NOT for targeting children with an adult sexual identity.
And I’m not a lonley gay guy, most gay people don’t want sexuality to be promoted to kids.
Report Post »We don’t hold a vote for head gay leader. The gay activists groups do NOT represent all gay people and I suspect not even a majority.
Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:01amThanks, man. You are probably the voice of how many gay people feel. I vote for you as Head Gay Leader!!
Report Post »clhathaway
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:01amHipponips, I would hope you are right, but you wouldn’t know that from the way the media represents it.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:06amI know you believe what you’re saying. But seriously man? how many parades and parties do you need to flaunt your sexuality. from burning man to the gay pride parade and every drag show in between. Name one parade that is held to celebrate the heterosexual sex life. Do that and i’ll take back everything i just said
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:20amDIMMUBORGIR, you are unfairly putting HIPPONIPS collectively with people he does not agree with. That ranks right in there with “all Muslims are terrorists”, which they are not. Can we please get past pidgeon-holing people into groups and start looking at them as individuals.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:31amNO, i will not. All this tolerence is leading our nation to self-destruction.
I know not all Gays flaunt their sexuality, and I know that 1% of muslims aren’t radical (wink)
But i’m not going to say, “oh well one guy claiming to be gay isn‘t flamboyant so I guess i’ll stop speaking out about the other hundreds of thousands.”
All this over acceptance of everyone is poison.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:34aminfact GRANDMAOF5,
i really don’t need to take advice from the generation that gave us the flaming liberal hippies, ok?
maybe if you and your children weren’t so accepting of everyone and everything no matter how immoral, my generation wouldn’t have to be fixing all this crap for our kids.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:38amI’ve never been to a Pride parade, lol
I think innate pride is not a virtue, it’s an attempt to put yourself worth before others.
And I think anyone being proud of their sexuality is terribly misguided.
Now prride in what you or others have accomplished is honorable and good…..like the pride an American might feel for their country because it’s based on the establishment and protection of nation based on personal freedom and liberty.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:46amHipponips
you are 100% right
There is a reason pride is one of the 7 deadly sins.
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:52amThey have the right to assign awards based on their own criteria. The only people being forced to read these books are the judges.
If you’re a parent, you have ultimate say over what a child reads or watches. Considering how controversial many of these books tend to be, I find it hard to believe that any class would force the kids to read them.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:03amWell then you don’t have children in school. You MUST review everything your child learns in school. The teachers are doing exactly what you are doubting.
Report Post »2
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:50amWhy don’t they just put Barney Frank and Janet Napolitano or however you spell it.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:48amClearly, we are not getting through to “educators” if they keep coming up with new abhorations like this. Will it take a bullhorn directly in their ears to make them stop?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:13amNo, it will take getting rid of tenure. As long as they don’t have to worry about being fired they will do as they please and the unions will back them. It is time for and overhaul.
Report Post »Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:31amBoil, many times it’s not the educators that are the problem, it’s the administrators. We teachers are given a list of “standards” that we are expected to teach by the state. Now, the best teachers can teach these “standards” so that they are not passing on the Lefty crap that most textbooks contain. However, there are those “teachers” that are Lefties and embrace the garbage printed in the pages of the books or are too lazy to do their own research into the facts. This usually isn’t a problem in subjects like Math, where 2 + 2 will always equal 4. However, in my subject, Social Studies, which includes geography, economics, and History, you can see where a ******* “teacher” would not want to go off-script and teach the actual history of how our country came to be.
Report Post »What it will take to stop the indoctrination is for parents that don‘t agree with what’s being taught to GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION!!!!!! School is not a day-care center. If you are a parent and are not aware of what’s being taught to your children, then SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
It got this bad because nobody got involved. It’s easier to sit back and let someone else take care of the problem. THAT’S THE PROBLEM!!!! GET OFF YOUR A$$ES PARENTS AND GO DOWN TO YOUR CHILD’S SCHOOL AND DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT. YOU CAN OPT YOUR CHILD OUT OF SUBJECTS THAT YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH.
If the principal won’t accomadate you, then go to the school board. The trick is, DON’T GIVE UP!!!!!
Parents, you have all the power. If you take your child out of the school before the first 100 days are up, the school doesn’t get money for your child.
BoilitDown
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:36amGrandmaof5:
Report Post »True, tenure itself is an abhoration which needs to be removed. Apparently educators will only respond to a credible threat and, tenure removes the sting of threats. I fear for my grandchildren.
Rdgteacher
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:56amI don‘t think it’s the educators. We have a list of state mandated standards that we must follow. It‘s been my experience that the decision makers haven’t stepped into a classroom since they graduated.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:58amAMREN
Report Post »I apologize for not qualifying the source of these efforts. I should have targeted those responsible for generating and promoting these programs rather than generalizing “educators”. You are right in urging parents to become more aware.
grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 2:16pmDIMMUBORGIR, so now I am responsible for all the dope smoking liberals from the 60′s when I clearly have never smoked anything, have been a conservative all my life (married a conservative whose father was GOP chairman in FL many years ago), raised three children who are conservative, who are raising their five children as conservatives. You clearly have no confidence that you are in control of your children’s future and their choices in life, even tho you are trying to “fix” it. I didn’t say I would make the choice others have made but it is none of my business, it’s called freedom to choose. Unless you are planning to practice eugenics I think you had better make sure your glass house is in order.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:48amMakes me sick..
Report Post »BeckFan1964
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:48amI’m glad my children are adults!
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:06amHow true,Now i worry about my grandkids.
Report Post »crossdraw
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:47amLiberal progressives are crossing the line. LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE. BASTARDS. Am I wrong that gaiety and gays need to shut the hell up. Perversion! Think not? Look at any “gay rights” parade. Keep your perversions to yourselves and shut the hell up about rights. Keep screwing with the children and the only right you will have is the right to expire. Freakshow on display. BAH
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:46amPC run a muck, in a public institution, big surprise.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:45amChildren need to be children as long as they can – which in today’s timeline is not very long. Not only do the progressives indoctrinate in textbooks, now they want to chose which path our children go down in sexuality. I can only assume this has the blessing of the sicko Obama has as “child safety”czar. Tuesday just can’t come soon enough. Let me be clear tho, if you are an adult and chose a lifestyle I don’t adhere to, fine, just keep my grandchildren out of it. When they are ADULTS they can make their own choices.
Report Post »1959
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 12:54pmYes dear GRANDMAOF5 I agree, our children do need to stay children as long as possible.
Obama’s czar is none other than Kevin Jennings the “Safe Schools Czar.”
“President Obama’s “safe schools czar” is a former schoolteacher who has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, expressed his contempt for religion and detailed an incident in which he did not report an underage student who told him he was having sex with older men.”
“…Jennings praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.”
“…. Jennings wrote the forward “to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers.”
This is sickening.
God Bless our children.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:15pm1959 ” Way to do your homework!!
Report Post »CBMiller72
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:40amLeave the parenting to the parents. If you don’t have them, then you don’t know what is best for them!
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:42amexactly, what kind of lie are they trying to pass off as truth:
“Millions of children in this country are being raised by gay or lesbian parents”
seriously???? what make believe gay-land is this even true in???? MILLIONS!!!!
Report Post »Thommy
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:34amLove the sinner,Hate the sin,,, But,,, It is Sin… Period.. God save the Children..
Report Post »YOOPER69
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:44amAman Brother
Report Post »smorningstar
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:44ambeing gay is not a sin, a physiological disorder, yes. the sin comes from premarital sex. since most churches and religion only recognize a marriage between a man and women and same sex marriage is not. i do not believe someone can sin for being themselves or for something that is wrong with them whether its physical or physiological.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:52ammorningstar…sodom and gomorrah ring a bell?
Report Post »GUERRILLAGUITAR
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 12:36pm“‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.” Leviticus 18:22 (NIV); “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.” Leviticus 20:13 (NIV); “In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” Romans 1:27 (NIV). Sure sounds like a sin to me. Ever wonder what the “due penalty” is that they “received in themselves?”
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 12:57pmSMORNINGSTAR needs to read 2Tim:3 vrs.1-5 and wake up.
Report Post »Timmtamm
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:59pmI think you are misunderstanding smorningstar. From what I gather of his words, smorningstar is stating that “having a same-gender attration is not a sin, it is a disorder of the mind.“ and that it ”doesn’t become a sin until they start participating in sexual acts outside the bond of marriage.”
I do not agree with those statements 100%, but I do see the point that is being brought up.
Report Post »smorningstar
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:25pm@TIMMTAMM
Report Post »That is what I was trying to get at. And I was saying someone can not BE a sin. The sin is sex and actions, not the person.
Oh, God!
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:33amAnd here was my son looking for a Volcano book and having a hard time finding one. Man, what was I thinking? I could of just substituted “And Tango Makes Three”. So not only can he learn about saving our planet, but as a bonus he can learn about gay penguins.
Homeschool, homeschool, homeschool.
Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 9:56amC’mon, Oh, God! You’re not being very “tolerant” here.(Sarcasm dripping everywhere!)
Report Post »I agree with you and I am a teacher. Not a lefty, greeny, pc, *******, indoctrinator, but a REAL teacher. I taught Social Studies to middle schoolers and boy-howdy, did I have to undo a ton of indoctrinating. Their perception of this country is totally screwed up from watching those idiotic teen dramas like DeGrassi, One Tree Hill, and Gossip Girl. What crap!
We actually had a discussion one day about how these shows portray homosexual characters “coming out” to their group of friends and all the friends saying, “How brave and wonderful of you! We love you even more now and are totally accepting of your lifestyle.” I asked the boys in class if that’s how they would react and they ALL said, “Nope. We would stop hanging around a guy friend if he came out.” That is the reality.
It had nothing to do with “Homophobia” (Which doesn’t make sense as a word no matter how many times you say it.) It was simply that this person was now living outside of their paradigm and they chose not to be part of this person’s world anymore. There was no “hate speech” because they didn’t feel hate toward anyone. There was nothing; just their own decision.
Now, I‘m sure I’ll get flamed for the above, because I didn’t make them all take “sensitivity training” and tell them that the homosexual “lifestyle” is a healthy one. And, honestly, I don’t care.
I just wanted to let you know that there are teachers out there that still teach the truth and aren’t influenced by the Pink Mafia or the PC police.
grandmaof5
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:10amAMREN, how refreshing to know that you are TEACHING children and not indoctrinating them. Are there many like you or are you the “lone survivor”? I don’t know how you feel about tenure but my feeling is that it needs to go, along with incapable teachers, and get back to the core values of the educational system. Thank you for your service to young people.
Report Post »Amren
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:39amgrandmaof5, you will be glad to know that most teachers that I have worked with are Conservatives. My first teaching assignment I worked across from a woman that played Christmas music all December. I asked her if she was afraid of recrimination and she said, “They can kiss my butt. It’s Christmas, not winter holiday, and I’ll play Christmas music if I want to.” I was shocked, amazed, and relieved.
Report Post »As for tenure, yes, it needs to be done away with. It makes teachers lazy. I know teachers that are using the same lesson plans they wrote 15 years ago.
1959
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:01amA recent Fox news report on this topic states that “…A partial summary of adverse effects due to the sex educators’ interferences during latency is that they: 1) Make the 6 to 12-yr-old student less educable; 2) can block the develpoment of compassion; 3) weaken the mental barriers controlling base sexual instincts, thereby making the child vulnerable to perversions in later life.”
My once completley tolerant view of the gay lifestyle has become one of disgusted intolerence due to the in-your-face nature of today’s society and media influence. Exposure of this topic to children is where I draw the line and become angry. I have had enough of this gay tolerance barrage and believe ALL sexually active adults should just shut up about their sex lives.
Thank you AMREN for your excellent commentary and for being a strong, postitive influence on our young people.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 11:35amThe problem is that the gay/lesbian community just doesn’t want to be accepted….they want to be glorified in their lifestyle choices.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 12:58pmOh my, not that should be an award that anyone would want to win. Right?
Report Post »cmaczko
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:10pmThank you Amren & all other GOOD teachers out there – you’re appreciated!@!!!!
Lord, i WISH I could homeschool. I have no parents to hand the kids to for homeschooling either (within reach that is). I‘m PRAYING and studying myself to teach them the errors they’re being force fed at school & via medial.
it does help to understand this is communism indoctrination, by design and calculated. Now, we must begin to calculate back to the truth.
GOD IN HEAVEN, HELP US ALL TEACH OUR KIDS TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:25pmamen to that…this is exactly why I do homeschool…can you imagine if they had a award for most christ-like…and besides what is the point of promoting something like this at their ages…sexual orientation is an ADULT thing…must be some kind of indoctrination…
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 2:15pm@ 1959, completely agree, I really don’t want to know what you do in your bedroom. So why this is SO important for them to “come out” is not something I can comprehend. What I do in my private life, is private, theirs should be too.
@AMREN, good for you, there needs to be more teachers that have those same standards.I teach my kids the facts, good and bad, and we discuss everything that they were taught. I have no problem with them reading books on communism, but they need to know the facts first so they can filter out all of the nonsense that is put in those books. My in laws fled Cuba in 1960, so they are good sources for information, more my father-in-law though. He remembers Che and how awful he was. He does not portray him as an activist for the people. If you are still teaching, keep up the good work.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 6:37pmTimmtamm,
I wouldn’t even try to understand their point, here’s why… There are hundreds of millions of people around the world that have evil and sinful thoughts. Many of them are good people. What makes them good people, is that they do NOT act on those thoughts because they understand they are a sin. They fight the urge to sin and win over evil. This is kicking the Devils ass at his own game!
SMORNINGSTAR is wrong.
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Report Post »ILFarmer
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:33pmI don’t care what people do in their own bedroom, but to subjugate children who at that age generally don’t understand what defines a person as gay to themes and ideas above their real understanding is a tipping point. If you’re Gay/Lesbian/Transgender and a writer, that’s fine, but don‘t be pressing that lifestyle into a child’s head. They’ll have plenty of time to get confused and decide their path when they hit puberty and beyond. Until then, just let them be kids.
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace” – John Wesley
Report Post »thoughts2words
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:06pmThey want to give an award to people who write books promoting sexual oreintation–
How long will it be before we have awards for pedophiles, beastiality, or masterbaters?
We need to love all people who have been mislead–we don’t need to glorify the choices though.
Report Post »Buttercup
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:43amAmren, you are not alone. As we learned last year — “we surround them.”
Report Post »OrlandoStrongman
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:27am@ AMREN
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:39am
“I asked her if she was afraid of recrimination and she said, “They can kiss my butt. It’s Christmas, not winter holiday, and I’ll play Christmas music if I want to.” I was shocked, amazed, and relieved.”
People might not know that teachers are asked to call Christmas, “Winter Holiday” so as to not offend anyone. I for one am glad to find out that there are teachers like you and the Christmas lady. Thanks for staying true and keep up the good work.
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