I read a story on http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445865,00.html Foxnews.com about a kindergarten class being required to sign “Gay Pledge Cards” in support of gay advocacy. I was pleased the article stated that kindergarten students are likely not aware of what it means to be gay and that such items should be age appropriate. I was also pleased that the administration was taking some sort of action, unlike the students who went on a field trip to the gay wedding ceremony.
I can understand the “gay” side of the issue. They don’t want like kids calling each other “gay” or “queer” or anything of the sort because it hurts someone’s feelings. Come on, they are kids. At that age, they don’t even understand what they are saying. Tell them it is a word they shouldn’t use, but don’t indoctrinate them into determining their sexuality at that age. I would think anyone who is gay had thick enough skin to not worry about what a kindergartener calls them or someone else.
Now, should people call gay people names? No, that isn’t right either. Should it be tolerated, that depends on what degree of not tolerated you mean. Punishable by death for calling someone name? No. Incarcerated? No. Told that is something they shouldn’t do? Yes.
But again, where do you draw the line between this is right and this is wrong? Where do you draw the line between you have a right to be what you want to be and I have a right to learn about what I want to learn about? Or think and say the things I want to think and say? Where do you draw the line between what my rights are as a human being, my rights as an American, and my rights established by the Bill of Rights and constitution of the United States of America?
The major problem with gay advocacy is that it takes away the rights of others. People should be sympathetic of all people and their rights to believe the way they do, but in the name of tolerance and fairness the rights of others are being trampled upon. We the people are being forced to accept something many of us have no desire to accept. We are being forced to hear and learn about something we have no desire to hear or learn about. And where is the line going to be drawn?
Parents have the right to decide whether or not their child is exposed to anything related to being gay and even more so, have the right to control whether their children are indoctrinated by the gay agenda.
To some people being “gay” is fundamentally wrong. It does not make sense in any way shape or form. It is fundamentally contrary to the design and nature human beings. This platform has a MAJOR moral contradiction to it. Why should people who see and understand the moral and natural contradiction be forced to accept it.
With that said, a kindergartener is in no position to know or understand this issue. At that age it should be determined by the parents what is appropriate to be taught and what is not… especially in issues that have the potential to be so fundamentally and morally wrong to people.