In California:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly;
"“My biggest fear in teaching this — which we’re going to do it because it’s the law — but you have kids who are extremely moldable at this stage, and if you start telling them that LGBT is OK and that it’s a way of life, well maybe you just swayed the kid to go that way,” Ashjian said. “It’s so important for parents to teach these Judeo-Christian philosophies.”
This guy literally believes that telling kids gay people exist is enough to turn them gay.
And then he kept talking."
Read more at [patheos.com]
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It is my understanding that people who are gay are born gay and know it. Why would they need to be swayed towards what they already know about themselves?
SamL
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Apr 12, 2018
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It's biological or genetics if you prefer. Why would anyone decide to be something that people and sometimes family fear and or hate?
Not really. I didn't know I was gay for quite some time. I suspected, but I didn't /know.com/. It's pretty common for folks to discover that they are gay or bixesual or asexual as they learn more about themselves.
Look at history. Look at the stories of people who lived miserable lives trying to be what they wer not because society said living that way was somehow wrong.
Because of that example, if we do go about teaching about LGBTQ using that same "hammer and nail" methodology, then yes, there will be people who think that this is the way they must be in our new society and they too will be miserable like their peers from back in time who were NOT acting according to their nature because of societies pressures.
I think that we are in a bubble of conscious societal change. I think that in this bubble of change there will be some few who make a decision to be one thing or another which is against their internal needs/nature. My hope is that we allow them to do this and experiment with who they are and thus LEARN who they are and live accordingly.
Meaning that there is no harm in trying on one lifestyle or another and realizing "nope" and moving on to another.
The harm comes when we try to force people to fit into one mold or another despite their cries of "NO, this is NOT ME!"
Gnarloc
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