Tenn. Senate OKs Ban on Teaching of Homosexuality
- Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:05am by
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bill passed Friday by the Tennessee Senate would forbid public school teachers and students in grades kindergarten through eight from discussing the fact that some people are gay.
Opponents deride the measure as the “don’t say gay bill.” They say it’s unfair to the children of gay parents and could lead to more bullying. Supporters say it is intended to give teachers clear guidance for dealing with younger children on a potentially explosive topic.
Debate: TN Anti-Gay Bill Passes Senate: MyFoxMEMPHIS.com
The bill isn’t likely to be taken up by the House before lawmakers adjourn this spring, but the sponsor there has said he would push it forward in 2012 when the General Assembly comes back for the second year of the session.
Passage would make Tennessee the first state to enact such legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In 2003, Washington defeated a proposal similar to Tennessee’s, as did California in 2005 and 2006. A Louisiana law forbids the use of sexually explicit materials depicting homosexuality in sex education classes.
Under the proposal, any instruction or materials at a public elementary or middle school would be limited to age-appropriate lessons about the science of human reproduction.
The legislation was amended from the original version, which said no elementary or middle schools will “provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.” Republican Senate sponsor Stacey Campfield of Knoxville said some of his colleagues were uncomfortable with that language.
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” Campfield said after the vote. “I got what I wanted.”
He said the language is appropriate because “homosexuals don’t naturally reproduce,” and he said it‘s necessary because the state’s curriculum is unclear on what can be taught.
However, a critic said the new wording could create other problems.
Sen. Roy Herron, D- Dresden, said it “may inadvertently prevent the teaching of ethics, morality and abstinence.”
Stephen Smith, assistant commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education, also said he’s unaware of homosexuality being taught anywhere in the state. He said there is nothing in the state’s curriculum standards that allows students to be taught about homosexuality.
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Comments (202)
Vital
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:54amI believe gay genes are not inherited ….it is the SOY injected into every food that we eat, causing feminine hormones in the male and confusing the hormones in the female.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:31amI believe it is the Reptilians from Planet Gliese that is turning every one gay so the Human Race dies off
Report Post »Ramona Gonzales Kulp
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:46amSince when did a person sex life become a matter for public education???? I have never heard of a class where you learned that janie has a mommy and a daddy
Report Post »mikester8888
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:18amIve never been as proud as i am today to live in Tennessee!! Why doesnt the federal govt. issue out some order placing these teachings. California, New York and throw in Mass., it would let them all move to those states and im sure they would be much happier.
Report Post »Just think of it, glittering parades, Elton John concerts, Rosie O’donnell day!! Hell, it would be utopia.
ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:49amRight on Tennessee!!! Maybe more will follow your lead!
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:18amYep, because the proper way to solve uncomfortable questions is to just ignore them and deny their existence, because that will make the problem go away….
This is the reason Teen Pregnancy is WAY WAY up, Parents say “We want to talk to our kids about sex” but then say “it is too uncomfortable for me so I will just ignore the issue” and are SHOCKED… SHOCKED that little Suzzy comes home preggo, or little Billie knocked up the neighbor girl
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:37amSo, your answer to poor parenting is having union/government employess teach your kid about sex?
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:54amSad but true, todays society, and pressure for both parents to be working have left a gap for others to raise the children. Parents do need to step up and be parents.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:03amAll you need to do is teach your kids some moral values.
Report Post »The lack moral values is the cause of teen pregnancy, violences and drug use.
the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:26amThe solution to bad schools and poor curriculum choices is not REMOVAL of class but changes to curriculum…
Sex Ed should be taught, at about the 9th grade level, and should include standard health bases education on symptoms and causes of STD’s and education about dangers of Teen Pregnancy, via a Health Based Program.
Just ignoring the problem will not make it go away, Society has unnaturally extended the “proper” age for sexual relations in the first place, not that I disagree with the goal, but the fact is nature via hormones and other biological functions tell teenagers that it is time to reproduce and nothing you can say or do will change that fact. The only thing you can do is provide them with enough information for them to make a educated choice for themselves.
More Speech, on any topic, is ALWAYS better than less speech…. PERIOD
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:32amAnd for the Record I am 100% all pubic employee unions, Government employees should not be allowed to Unionize, I am also 100% government run schools and strongly favor a public/private voucher program….
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:33amThat should be “100% against” not just 100%, my mind got ahead of my fingers lol
Report Post »tersky
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:40am9th grade is too late for Sex Ed. Kids are starting to have sex around age 11. On account of the sheer numbers of kids who are barely parented at all, especially in the inner cities, I believe Sex Ed is important, but the parents who care should be in full control of curriculum, and if the parents who disagree with you are in bigger numbers, then you let your kids sit out and/or teach them at home… or.. its time to move or homeschool.
The real problem is the type of people who go into education, who become teachers, and the college education they get. I let my credential expire for a couple reasons… so much paperwork the job was impossible to do right anyway, and weariness over working with so many morons. Hate to say it, but the education field does not exactly attract the best and brightest. It attracts people who can do lots of fun busy-work projects but who know they haven’t got the intellectual capacity to pass Math and Science courses beyond whatever grade-level credential they’re seeking.
Most of my teaching was in court schools, Juvenile Hall, that sort of thing, but when I did teach Kindergarten and First grade I was appalled at the stupidity of even the writers of the curricula. One “Science” unit in Georgia Kindergartens is about “Jungle Animals”. All the kids need to learn in a while week of studying “Jungle Animals” is that lions, zebras, tigers, giraffes and elephants live in the jungle. I mean, where did they do their research, the baby wallp
Report Post »tersky
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:42ambaby wallpaper store?
Sorry, got too wordy.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:42pmFortunately Statics do not back up your “facts”
Only 6% of High School Student have had sex before the age of 13, while 46% of High School Students have had sex (2009 CDC Autonomous Survey), Thus the Logical, Statistic Bases Target Age for Sex Education is 9th Grade, or maybe an Intro basic Class in 8th Grade Heath…. No Sooner…
Report Post »tersky
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:59pm6% sweetie, that’s one or two in every class, and they’re talking about it.
Report Post »tersky
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:13pmI wish you were right, really, but the horror stories I could tell you… How about the FIRST GRADER who was so in love with a little girl in my class that he shoved her up against the wall and described in angry and graphic detail where he was going to shove his…. you get the idea. This, to his mind, an expression of love! I have picked up some very sexually explicit notes passed between fifth graders, and more between eighth graders. I have seen eighth graders bully and tease other eighth graders for being virgins. The kids in the court system where I taught were probably about 80% of them already parents, average age fifteen and a half. And yes, we had pregnant 11 and 12 year olds in there.
I wish I lived in your world, where 9th grade was plenty soon enough. For homeschoolers, it probably is. For some public schools, like those in housing project areas, they already know too much in Kindergarten.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:16amKids that young don’t need to be taught about sexual perversions in school. I mean what’s next? Classes on beastiality?
Report Post »younowknow
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:15amTrue, just be guy and live. Why promote it in our schools. Leave them alsone and just be guy. Enough!!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:09amThese affairs are between a parent and their child…not some foolish educator!
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:44amFrom what I read about NYC, you must feel very alone, God bless you sir!
Report Post »VLADTEPES
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:03amI’m glad mine have been away from the school system for awhile..
Report Post »doublezero12
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:56amAnd you wonder why homeschooling is so popular. People are sick of their children getting exposed to things they don’t approve of; they’re sick of not having control.
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:59amExactly!!!!
Report Post »satotbs
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:48amAre home schooled children eligible for reduced or free taxpayer provided meals and study materials and equipment? If not, shouldn’t home schooling families get a property and income tax rate reduction? Think of the public monies being saved by these home schooled children who are not using tax resources such as bussing fuels, school energy consumption, need for additional teachers and administration staff and facilities. Not to mention the lesser costs to society after they become adults who are not functionally illiterate, and morally confused societal burdens. Perhaps it’s time for all the home schooling families in this country to form a Union to promote and protect their rights as citizens performing a valuable service to our Republic. Someone come up a good acronym such as NEW PATRIOTS- National Educational Wing of Parents As Teachers Responsibly Instructing Our Treasured Successors.
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:52amDefund the dept. of education. Teachers should be teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. Leave parenting to the parents. What? My kid can’t read but he knows what a homosexual is. What is wrong with this country, have we become so complacent and morally depraved? We need to Take America Back, starting with school boards all the way to the White House.
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:05amExactly right. The DOE is the one pushing this. It is the government’s propaganda arm.
Report Post »BobParker2003
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:38amThank the Good Lord there are some politicians with common sense!! Go Tennessee go!! God Bless you all!
Report Post »RevDarwinEllis
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:15amWhy is it always anti-gay instead of pro-straight?!!!! The homosexuals are on the offense (no pun) The majority of Americans need to be on the offense not defense. This attack must and will be confronted! We all can live together but that doesn’t mean we must change the definition of words Marxism always attacks the language first just like satan. Marriage is marriage all other unions are what they are,period!
Report Post »reform
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:24amFunny we put people behind bars for having sex with minors, then when we turn 18 or whatever is legal in your state we now say it is ok? Oh them funny liberals huh.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:41amWhy is that funny, and what does it have to do with liberals? Are you for having sex with children, or against adults being allowed to have sex with whoever they want? Because either way I have to say I don’t agree with you!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:11am@ Chet Hempstead
Report Post »I think it was meant funny as in ironic – not funny like ha ha
Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:06pmOkay, I got that, but why is it ironic? Unless you would you have a normal expectation that children should be allowed to have sex or adults forbidden to do so, I don’t see the irony.
Report Post »justice
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:13amGood for hem. It’s up to Parents to have the talk with their children, when they feel it is the right time. This Nanny crap is going to stop. People are sick of it all!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:40amwe have all but lost our future to the idiot left, parents you should be ashamed and peeved off at yourselves, you have allowed your kids to be brain washed with propaganda by the unions and other left wing organizations. we must teach our kids,we must be held responsible for their lack of education,because we set back and let the government and the special interest groups,tell the schools what they must teach and not teach,we have gotten lazy with our children’s education and future. how many kids really care who is gay, most can not remember what they were taught 30
Report Post »minutes after they leave class, most k – 5 graders have the attention span of a bug, very short,it is either play videos or watch t v , now 6 – 8, they may have a little more interest, some may start learning about the effects of hormones, their attention can change in less than a blink of an eye, their brains move just as fast as their mouths, so why force them to learn something that they have no interest in.this subject should be taught by the parents,not some liberal agenda ,mind altering, left wing, anti America special interest group. wake up parents and grandparents, our future is being taken away from us everyday,and we lose more of our kids and our future with every graduating class. if you are going to teach kids that you are born gay, then you must also teach them that you are born stupid.
BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:10amDoes this mean they will remove the books,‘Heather has two Moms or Daddy’s room mate?”
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:34amIn Biology class they need to teach Heather can‘t have two Moms or Daddy’s.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:05amI still want to know which straight parent you inherit the GAY gene from?????
Report Post »RevDarwinEllis
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:20amHoly crap! Good point which straight parent did you inherit the gay gene from? Great question, that no person will ever answer.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:49amWild animals don’t get the gay gene, Why only humans do?
Report Post »quicker
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:13amWell I did have a stud horse that only went after my geldings and left the mares alone.The thing is that animals that act strange in the wild don`t live very long.Nature takes care of that.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:14amThat is not true, Gayness(?) does appear in animal, most studies link it to over population but that is just a theory not a fact.
Report Post »shimauma
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:16amThere is no gay gene. This is just an excuse by these deviants to justify their perverted behavior. They squawk about the “homosexual behavior” of animals, but animals only do that when there is something WRONG with them or their environment, and with the libturd influx of immorality I could clearly see there is something wrong with our current environment that is NOT natural.
Report Post »tersky
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:22amI had a gay parakeet once, Padget, kept trying to breed him, tried about 6 different females, but he only had eyes for Abner Periwinkle, who was straight, but let Padget think he might get somewhere.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:52amThey are children! Why talk about perversion to children.Just because our government legalized a perversion,FOR VOTES, does not make it RIGHT.
Report Post »i want the truth
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:43amOur country is in trouble when you know they have to pass a law to forbid **** talk to students. If we had a country that was following the Constitution and living with Morals. Then we wouldn’t need this law!!
Report Post »And really are we not suppose to be working on our countries BIGGEST DEBT problem. That Mr. OBAMA HAS CAUSED TO GO INSANE!! How about UNEMPLOYMENT! GAS PRICES! INFLATION! TERRORIST!! No we are worried about Israel and other countries and immoral people. Well Mr. Obama and the liberals we would not be in this situation if we had a Christian society and Conservatives that want to actually FIX the problems!!
Diane TX
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:24amWhy is it necessary to teach sexual variance at the elementary school level? If eight year old Sally has a play date with eight year old Heather at Heather’s house, why is it necessary for Sally to know that the two adult females that Heather lives with, have sex with other?
I’m sure that if Heather lived with a male and a female partner, married or not, there wouldn’t be any discussion at all, about their sexual relationship.
This is more about the homosexuals, that have some strange need to be accepted by Society as being “normal”. Frankly, I don’t care who or what someone wants to have sex with, as long as it’s not an adult preying on a child. Then I care.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:38amWell Diane, if eight year old Sally was born heterosexual, but is too young to be interested in boys yet, what Heather’s mom’s have might start to look pretty good to her. She might start thinking that she would want to live with Heather that way, not understanding that that would mean not marrying a boy and having his babies. If she tells Heather, who is also straight but understands the difference between straight people and gay people, that she wants to live with her the way Heather’s mommies do, she may scare her off. Poor Heather will think that Sally knows what she is talking about and is asking for something that Heather just can’t give her, and there goes a beautiful innocent friendship right down the drain, just because Sally’s mom – let’s call her Diane, is a cowardly prude who doesn’t know how to talk to her daughter about the different kinds of people in the world.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:09amRight on Diane, My thoughts are what two consenting adults do in private is their business,i don’t want to know,but when it comes to rape or child molestation then it should become everyones business
Report Post »Please-sir-I-want-some-more
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:42am@CHET HEMPSTEAD People like CHET HEMPSTEAD is what’s wrong with this country
Report Post »shimauma
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:11am@Chet Hempstead
Actually, Chet, If Sally’s mom is right minded, she won’t allow her little girl to be around grown women who have made a destructive choice in their lives, and are willing to expose little children to that destructive choice.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:01pmshimauma
Report Post »Leaving aside the ridiculous claim that Heather’s moms are lesbians by choice, what do you do when Sally asks “why can’t I play with Heather?” As I see it, you have only two choices – tell her the truth or lie to her. Either way the end result will be that she will quiet rightly regard you as a jerk.
tifosa
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:13amCONGRATS! It’s over-reaches like this, legislating personal behavior, limiting choices, that is absolutely FIRING UP the dems. :^)
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:06amHey “genius” have you by chance looked at what exactly IS being taught in the schools? The unions, marxists and other leftists have hijacked the educational system. We in Tennesse are just trying to wrestle control back at the local level where such decisions belong – you do remember the 9th and 10th amendment !?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:43amCONGRATS! It’s over-reaches like this, legislating personal behavior, limiting choices, that is absolutely FIRING UP the dems. :^)
——————– We are going to really fire them up in 2012——————–
Report Post »————————- I can hear the screams now.—————————
Steelhead
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:06amgood lord, you can’t become gay by talking about it, what are you afraid of
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:48amI‘m sure glad I didn’t have that stuff discussed by my teachers when I was growing up.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:12amIt just isn’t healthy or good for little kids to have to think about such things.We didn’t have sex education in our schools where I grew up…I was naive and happy….lol
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:50amDo you want your kid hearing about oral and anol sex from his teacher?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:29am@Steelhead
“…. you can’t become gay by talking about it, what are you afraid of”
Yes you can!
Report Post »Can people’s couriosity and acceptance of other vices and immoral behaviour be increased by the constant bombardment in our media? Just browse the internet for a while. That’s how the porn sites thrive. Infact, that’s how Democrates reproduce if you think about it for a moment. Mental conditioning and pursuasion over generations is what has enabled our current moral decay in what used to be the moral christian western world. Yes you can become a qweer by exposure to it!
Captain Crunch
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:34amIt just came to mind what Obama said, “Yes we can.” lol
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:37amThe gay agenda is to normalize the behavior as much as possible, as early in the childs lif as possible. That scares me…
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:12amany kind of sexualization is not needed, let them form there own opinions about this. not that 1 + 1 =3 as fact.
Report Post »caitthegreat
Posted on May 23, 2011 at 9:28amyou can SO become gay just by talking about it! and gay people are absolutely terrifying. if children know gay people exist, then they will DEFINITELY want to become gay. just look at the way kids glorify it to one another, calling each other “gay” when they do something super cool. gay kids are like kings in their schools.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:00amIf anything it should be taught as what it is: a perverted sexual fetish which nature itself–much less God–expresses as detestable by not allowing those suffering with the self-imposed mental retardation to breed.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 1:54pmOf course homosexuals can breed, and they do it all the time! Just not with one another. If God had not meant for them to do so, He would not have allowed us to invent the turkey baster.
Report Post »Amren
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:50pm@ Lloyd Drako
Report Post »Oh, no, you didn’t just say that…!!!
Yup! You did! LMAO!
bobodu
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:24pmIt’s a shame some are too ignorant to understand that butt humpers have been around longer than Bible humpers.
Report Post »Dont-hate-on-me-2
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:23amWell im proud that you have gone this far, Just four more grades would have been nicer, if you thought the young kids were bad what do you think the older kids are gonna do as far as harrasment, Its not natural and frowned upon in all society. So why does it need to be taught at all or do the teachers take it upon them selves to teach our kids what they see fit and not what the neeed to be succesful. I mean just look at what the teachers in WI did to try to get there way, used the kids, taught them what the teacher thinks need to be taught,taking them to protest omg lol, and we wonder why our schools fail. the teachers just take a big fat checks big fat pension big fat healthcare and teach whatever the hell they want while they cut music art and sports and whatever else they cut so that they dont take a pay cut.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:13amIt really is a shame to need a law to be passed when good old common sense should work. Guess the Tennessee legislature is now parenting, huh? Doesn’t anyone do any teaching, parenting, or guiding at home?
Thank goodness somebody checked on what is or isn’t being taught in TN schools!
Report Post »Vet with Vendetta
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:16amThis is precisely why my wife is home-schooling our children.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:24amThank GOD they solved our deficit .
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 2:31amIf they only ban Banjo’s now. Squeeellllll.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:01amThat’s good, Vet
Report Post »coladude
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 4:41amIt is purely common sense.
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Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:14amTennessee kids can’t add or subtract much less divide and multiply numbers but now they will be able to “procreate” as gays do.
Report Post »TeaParty2012
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:42amPolwatcher… I grew up in Tennessee and even I can tell you that you’ve got math skill problems if you think two gays can procreate.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:40amThe only way homosexuals can prpogate is to educate…They kinda cut off their weenies didnt they?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:01amI and others in Davidson & Williamson county TN are reviewing our text books. The liberal, progressive bent is subtle in most cases and none the less provides just the “nudge” to indoctrinate. It is quite an eye opening experience. There are many great and bold things happening in our State Legislature
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:15amThere is no place for qweer agenda in schools. Home schooling works. My 4 hetro children would testify to that. Plus they are brilliant when compared to the ***** heads our public schools are graduating these days.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:34amIsn‘t state’s rights grand?
Wouldn’t it be weird if we have potential candidates who promoted states rights….
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:49amMore Liberty taken away in the name of “Conservatism”. While I am not in favor of teaching “Homosexual History” and other such rot, the word “ban” is unsettling.
Report Post »six6six
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:04amThis law creates how many jobs?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:37am@Tripple Sick – Saves man kind. There’s more to life than blow jobs.
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:53amyes because if you do not talk about gays they’ll disappear. all this does is legalise bigotry
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:54aml’d teach how perverted it is!! again lets call a spade a spade.
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:34amWake up people this is a social issue!!! We pay Taxes to have our children learn real History like the constitution, reading, math, writing etc.not about social issues involving abnormal sex or any sex for that matter.I don’t pay taxes to educate my or any children in abnormal sexual behavior.If you want to cornhaul your buddy, go to the closet and enjoy it, don’t push your ****** belifs on me or my children. Live and let live. If you don’t like the country our founding fathers suffered and died for then remember they made it free enough for you to get out.
Report Post »Galvanized
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:14am@BOBODU
Report Post »Yes, the word “ban” is unsettling, but so is coercion. Some feel an obligation to children and their parents to avoid forced compliance that violates their liberty and beliefs. In a system that has already been manipulated by the liberal/gay community to force compliance of their views on unsuspecting children a ban is no longer a unsettling idea, in fact a ban actually restores liberty.
workinghard
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:23amMy daughter’s 5th grade teacher would read stories out of the news every day. The material was obviously not part of any approved curriculum, but rather just keeping kids “up to date on world happenings”.
Report Post »She took it upon herself to explain to 5th graders “that using embryos for stemcell research was not killing a baby like Republicans say, it’s just science”. Don’t tell me these card carrying liberals in our schools teach stricly out of text books and school board approved material.
jhaydeng
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:18amReally, what’s next, teaching pedophelia is o.k. because it is caused by adolescent trauma! Teaching what it is I can see, but picking a side, nope! Seek medical consult or how about parental advice!!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:32amSchool systems shouldn’t be teaching about sex at all.How many generations have figured it out without state intervention .All any of it is, is social engineering .Get back to the basics math,proper history,english ,science, etc.. We are spending way too much money for nonsense while we fall further and further behind other industrialized countries in education.
Report Post »GRANNYMOO
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:15pmThanks Tenn, may u be the first of many!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 21, 2011 at 12:29pmHuman beings, no more than animals, need to be taught how to procreate. As they say, it comes naturally. The purpose of sex ed it to teach people the consequences of unprotected sex.
Not too sure what this bill is supposed to accomplish, except get people elected.
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