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NewUlm1976_2000
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Good for the students, sometimes silence speaks louder than words.
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rosebudsal
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I got a “lovely” reply from the Mission for America people when I wrote to them my thoughts all about it.
The way I see it, most of the schools are public schools, and if you have problems with that day, keep your kids out of school that day. However, I think teaching kids a little bit of tolerance is a good thing. I think parents can use it an opportunity to teach their children morality. You don’t have to condone the day, but at the same time you can tell your kids why.
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rpp
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I think we should have a loud party on April 25.
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Michael_Neal
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the problem is the new definition of tolerance is acceptance, I have no problem with tolerance but I am not going to accept homosexuality as anything other than gravely disordered.
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peduzzi89
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If you don’t like it, well you don’t have to send your children to a public school. Public schools do not cater to religious based view on what is right and wrong. So if you don’t agree, that’s your right and opinion, but the day should stay.
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ALLFORHIM
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Hi,
Thankfully my daughter’s high school is not participating.
I asked her about it and she there are only a few gay students and they are not the loud "look at me "type of people.I did take the opportunity to talk about loving the sinner but not the sin.
I think raising your kids with christian values is the best lesson you could ever teach them, but we (as parents)have to be careful we’re not raising judgemental little sinners
Once in a while I have to remind my daughter that she has to stop judging people. Im glad she is faithful to Christ but needs to balance it with love.
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fix
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Which “view” of right and wrong ought they cater to?
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peduzzi89
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Well you couldn’t really define it so cleanly that way - but they shouldn’t take away the day because of religious objections. The point of the day is to try to promote tolerance and acceptance in people who don’t know much about homosexuality and to create openmindedness - if that’s not gonna happen for you, oh well. Nobody’s gonna tell you what to believe or not to believe.
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Michael_Neal
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no, this is something the schools should not be involved in. If they spent as much times actually teaching maybe we would have better graduation rates.
Public schools should not be catering to any view whatsoever, they are there to teach not indoctrinate.
if they do cater to viewpoints then they have to cater to religious based ones as well. You can not have one sided arguments and then claim it is free thinking education.
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Maxply
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I think it’s pretty obvious that the word tolerance is being redefined.
It’s a part of the process of dumbing-down our moral sensibilities.
Just as we, per Moynihan’s famous article, have “defined deviancy down” by redefining our social standards. Pretty subtle, pretty sneaky, pretty effective: it’s easier to boil a frog to death by slowing changing the heat than by confronting the frog with a very openly different (“hot!”) environment.
It’s a part of the process of dumbing-down our moral sensibilities.
Just as we, per Moynihan’s famous article, have “defined deviancy down” by redefining our social standards. Pretty subtle, pretty sneaky, pretty effective: it’s easier to boil a frog to death by slowing changing the heat than by confronting the frog with a very openly different (“hot!”) environment.
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peduzzi89
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Well - here is my point - I am not necessarily advocating that schools should “teach” children any one particular view or lifestyle. I do believe, however that they should be promoting tolerance and equality in the environment - and we all know that gay students are not treated equally in a school environment.
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fix
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If public schools cannot “cleanly” define right and wrong then why are we to accept their understanding of “tolerance”?
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Michael_Neal
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what they are doing goes way beyond simply having guidelines for tolerance, it is advocacy.
when you move from simply having a tolerance policy to having a special day of observation it has turned into an advocacy movement.
when you move from simply having a tolerance policy to having a special day of observation it has turned into an advocacy movement.
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ALLFORHIM
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EXACTLY!!
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East_and_West
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I love it because more of my students have to refrain from speaking!!! LOL. In all seriousness, I think that the Gay straight Alliance is an insidious organization. It causes kids to identify themselves with something that they might otherwise have grown out of. How sad. How very sad that our schools allow organizations that glorify vice and mental disorder to meet on campus.
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peduzzi89
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To the last few posts - you are confusing advocating the gay lifestyle with advocating equal treatment of people who are different. The day of silence is not to say: hey you should think being gay is ok. It is to say: you shouldn’t treat people any differently because they are different - in the same way they promote tolerance for people who are minority races, mentally retarded, overweight, etc. Nobody is asking you to change your morals. And also, the Gay Straight Alliance doesn’t make people gay or say you should be gay if you’re not.
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buffalo
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People complained to our local high school and now they are off the list. Hooraaaaaay!!!
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East_and_West
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That’s not the message to confused teenagers. It gives them the idea that a moral disorder is normal, respectable, and healthy. It drills into their heads an ideology that is profoundly dangerous.
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