What does this mean? Do you mean that no country should actually have a secular government, with separation of church and state?
Oh no I think church and state separation is fine. But the laws should ideally reflect the church of the country. Otherwise its a very hypocritical state. So the church is not the ruling body, it will be the faithful.
But yes, no atheist state should be allowed.
How can I misunderstand when you stated that gays would “tear a family apart”? How did I misunderstand that remark? It appears that you are revising your claim dramatically.
Well maybe because it hit close to home for you. I am not revising my claim at all. I still stand firm that practicing homosexuals tear the family apart as in “family” as a concept and in the sense of all families. I didn’t mean that it tears apart the family they are from. I admit there was ambiguity in the way I phrased it.
Is it permissible to teach literature by gay writers? I teach high school literature, and I teach literature by gay writers. My students ask me if they are gay. I answer accurately. Some of the writing is clearly sympathetic to the plight of demonized gays. Some is clearly sympathetic to the idea of love between gays (often in coded language, since it, too, is demonized). Do you “condemn” this? Can we teach art and music by gays? Can history examine the mis-treatment of gays?
You can teach art and music by even practicing gays lol. This is like asking me if you should use a book written by a Nazi author. Well of course. But the students should know the authors background. Most of the time, the author would try to enter his agenda to the creative material, especially in the case of books. I would certainly question whether the students you teach are capable of understanding that the author is wrong while being able to still read the book. So you do have to be very careful. Usually high-school students are of the nature that they believe what they read and are more emotional than they are logical. Psychologically speaking, a person’s frontal lobe which is responsible for logical understanding does not achieve full development till mid twenties. This is why teens are usually very susceptible to emotional arguments. But anyway, these are things to keep in mind. As a teacher, you should know what is right and wrong. From that step, you should judge whether you teaching the material could give the wrong impression to students. If it does, its better to teach it at a later grade. Simple as that.
Abstinence teaching, I said. As a policy promoted to young people, it has failed. The most recent study on this is common knowledge. Type it into google.
Well obviously genius. We have a society that’s trying to make everything about sex. I am talking about promoting what is right. You as a teacher seems to be more confused about right and wrong. A policy has to reflect what is true. Abstinence is the long term discipline that one should achieve. If students fail at it, then you have to start looking in to reducing these external influences. Work together with parents. Your notion that abstinence doesn’t work in general is a garbage claim because where I am from it works very very well.
Alright, with all due respect, have you done any academic work on this matter? Now you are trying to disprove research results in academia on this subject wrong? This is not a false claim. Unfortunately many students who enter University get to hear this very early as second year in class and they have the same reaction you do. But its true. Here is a reference for you and you can dig yourself around some of the research databases for papers on the subject
D.G Myers, S.J.Spencer, Social Psychology, Mcgrawhill, 2006, pg. 392- 393
I don’t want to tell students how to live their lives at all. What are you talking about? When a book simply reveals to children that gays exist, how is that an attempt “to teach children to live a certain way”? Are you for denying that gay couples exist?
Do you have children?
No. Once again, its not the existence of Gay people that’s the problem. Its the notion that “to practice homosexuality is OK” that’s the problem. And if you can’t tell students how to live their lives, then you are a failure as a teacher
What does my children have to do anything with this lol?
. That is false fearmongering.
Sigh. I am confused. You speak like you have authority on this subject over people who spend their lives researching them. As I understood, you are a teacher. Would you please put forth your academic credentials so that I can start believing you and not demographers, economists, and social psychologists.
I am honestly not fear mongering here. This is a well known issue in demographics. Russia for an example has one of the lowest birth rates and the government it-self is trying to correct this matter by having special programs to encourage children. You seem to be pretty ignorant to some of these real world issues and you try to shut me down that I am mongering false fears. The problem is that its not FALSE. Please visit the nearest library and start doing some self-research.
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