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Link to story about a Baptist minister upset over tolerance programs in Beaverton schools.
It's funny that the people who complain the loudest about people "forcing their agenda" on children are the ones who indoctrinate their children from birth with the One True Faith.
Watching the debate about homosexuality in today's society is like watching a rerun of the civil rights controversies of the 1950s and 1960s - the same rights and privileges of society are at stake, and the arguments of the opponents seem to be the same.
The arguments over same-sex couples with children echo the arguments over mixed-race couples, with conservatives worrying that same-sex couples may not be the best environment for children, and with no empirical proof of it. (Never mind the fact that the biggest problem those children - as well as mixed-race children - will face is the bigotry of people not willing to accept changes in social mores.)
Overt racism today is a hallmark of ignorance. Homophobia is quickly becoming one as well. Fear of the unfamiliar and institutional racism/homophobia will have to be worked out over the upcoming decades, but we're making progress, no thanks to people like the Baptist minister in the story above.
It's funny that the people who complain the loudest about people "forcing their agenda" on children are the ones who indoctrinate their children from birth with the One True Faith.
Watching the debate about homosexuality in today's society is like watching a rerun of the civil rights controversies of the 1950s and 1960s - the same rights and privileges of society are at stake, and the arguments of the opponents seem to be the same.
The arguments over same-sex couples with children echo the arguments over mixed-race couples, with conservatives worrying that same-sex couples may not be the best environment for children, and with no empirical proof of it. (Never mind the fact that the biggest problem those children - as well as mixed-race children - will face is the bigotry of people not willing to accept changes in social mores.)
Overt racism today is a hallmark of ignorance. Homophobia is quickly becoming one as well. Fear of the unfamiliar and institutional racism/homophobia will have to be worked out over the upcoming decades, but we're making progress, no thanks to people like the Baptist minister in the story above.
