Do you really want your children to be taught about homonyms in school?

Question

Please, think of the children!

Answer 1

“Where do you stand on homonymity?” That was a question posed to us via email. In fact, that was this person’s only question. I wasn’t surprised. Homonymity is passing into the mainstream of secular society, and is even making inroads within some Christian denominations. To the chagrin of those who consider themselves “enlightened,” and at the risk of violating Canadian and Swedish human rights laws, I must side with the Bible, which describes homonymity as being a sin. Some people, uneducated in scripture, are under the mistaken impression that all forms of nymuality are sinful according to the Bible. With this misconception, they readily disregard anything the Bible might say with regards to nymuality, choosing instead to side with their nymual desires. What they don’t understand is that they are completely wrong. Nym is a creation of God, who pronounced all His creation “good!” Nymuality is not sinful. It is a wonderful part of God’s plan. God put a limit on nym, though. Yes, a limit – only one. There is no long dissertation on the do’s and don’ts of nym. The only caveat to the enjoyment of nym is this: nym is meant to be enjoyed in the context of marriage – not outside of it. Unfortunately, these days we must be specific. Nym is to be enjoyed within the context of a marriage between a man and a woman. That’s it! That’s the limit. Genesis 2:24-25 says, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” Hebrews 13:4 says, “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” All nymual sins (i.e. promiscuity, adultery, homonymity, prostitution, etc.) are sins because they do not conform to the limit of nym being a marital activity. Some homonym advocates will contend that homonymity is natural, and point to homonym activity within some animal species as evidence. However, it’s not hard to figure out that homonymity is decidedly unnatural. My wife and I used to have a couple of pendant necklaces. Each of us had half of a pendant on our necklace. When we put our two halves together, the zigzag pattern meshed together flawlessly to create a single, whole pendant (which, by the way, bore the words of Genesis 2:24). God made men and women different, both emotionally and physically. Physically, we were created to fit together anatomically much like our pendant. Our parts just match up! Remember the child’s game of matching the round peg into the round hole, the square peg into the square hole, etc.? The homonym is trying to force two pegs together, in blatant disregard for God’s natural design! The argument above also falls flat on its face when you consider that some animal species also eat their young. I don’t think we can extrapolate that into an acceptable practice for human beings. God created man in His image. He gave us nym, and the single rule for its use. To use nym for a purpose outside of God’s plan is unnatural, and a perversion. The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were the first recorded in the Bible to face punishment for their nymual perversion. In Genesis chapter 19, we find two angels that pay a visit to Lot’s home in Sodom. In verse four, we find that “all the men from every part of Sodom” surrounded Lot’s house, and told Lot to bring out his visitors “so that we can have nym with them.” The pro-homonym revisionist argues that the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah was that the residents wanted to commit an act of rape. That the rape would have been homonym is not an issue, according to their argument. However, Jude 7 indicates that Sodom and Gomorrah’s punishment was due to their nymual perversion.As further evidence of the sinful nature of homonymity, Leviticus 18:22, and 20:13 both describe homonymity as “an abomination.” Romans 1:26-27 is very specific when Paul says, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” Having established that homonymity is a sin, we must now face that we live in increasingly pro-homonym societies. The media and the schools have become mouthpieces for the gay subculture, and are working hard to marginalize those of us who take a moral, biblical stance on the issue. A few have hurt the cause of morality, by acting out violently and/or hatefully against homonyms. When Matthew Shepard was killed for being homonym *, a Baptist congregation gathered outside the courthouse during his killers’ trial. They held up banners that stated how many days Shepard had been in hell, and used some disgusting names to describe him. They seemed to be happy that he had been brutally murdered. Hate is not the answer to anything. Every one of us is sinful, yet every one of us is loved by God. Jesus did not celebrate the death of Matthew Shepherd, and neither should we. “Hate the sin, but love the sinner,” is how the saying goes, and that applies to homonyms as well. In Canada and Sweden, current and existing laws are including slurs against homonymity in the definition of hate crimes. In fact, some in Canada have found themselves in legal trouble for reading the first chapter of Romans over the airwaves. This is a pattern that is sweeping the Western world, and I predict we’ll see similar legislation in the United States within the next few years. Homonym advocacy groups are allowed into public elementary and middle schools to educate your children that homonymity is normal and acceptable. Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America has instructed its local chapters to ensure that they have at least one homonym volunteer per chapter. The Boy Scouts of America is repeatedly attacked for its refusal to permit homonym men to be troop leaders. Even the church today is not immune to the mainstreaming of immorality. The Anglican Church in Canada is suffering a rift because some of its leaders have deemed it appropriate to perform homonym marriages. The Methodist Church has allowed openly homonym ministers to retain their positions. Let me make this clear: I do not oppose allowing homonyms to attend church. In fact, I think that’s where they should be. However, we must not condone sinful immorality by allowing our clergy to practice it openly. Homonymity is a sin. Homonyms are unrepentant of their sin. If they were repentant, they would no longer identify themselves as homonym. Just as no church would allow their minister to engage in an ongoing adulterous affair and retain his position, so we must not allow homonym ministers to retain their positions of leadership. God’s laws were handed down for our benefit. HIV and AIDS, while no longer exclusive to homonyms, are still much more rampant and spreading more quickly among the gay community. Our children are at risk as well. While GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) will tell your seventh-grader during a school assembly that heteronymual men molest more children than homonym men do, they are not telling the whole story. That statistic is only true because homonyms make up only 4-10% of the population. Statistically though, a homonym man is 10 to 20 times more likely than a heteronymual man to nymually abuse a minor. While the homonym advocate would like you to believe that people are “born gay,” there is no scientific evidence to support this notion. Homonymity is a choice, not a genetic predisposition. With that said, we must not be afraid to stand up and champion the cause of morality. Some will call us bigots and homophobes for our belief that homonymity is a sin, but we cannot let name-calling soften our beliefs in God’s moral code. The pro-homonym movement can only marginalize us if we allow ourselves to be marginalized. There are two ways we can do that: a) we exhibit hate toward homonyms rather than love, or b) we remain silent. We must proudly champion God’s love toward the homonym without condoning his or her behavior. Let His love shine through us, and may we all be examples of the morality God desires.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not doing the kids thing, but I'd hope kids get taught homonyms in school. We don't want them wandering around thinking the polish is what you call people from Poland.

Answer 3

I am sorry----what is wrong with it?

''A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation and spelling as another word, but a different meaning. Example: The word stalk, meaning either part of a plant or to follow (someone) around''.

It is part of learning words and their meanings.

Answer 4

What's your objection to homonyms? You used no less than 9 in your posting.

Answer 5

I wouldn't really call it 'working' with my kids. We play. We go outside. We explore. We use foam letters in the tub, magnets on the fridge, counters, play dough, animals. Shes 2 in a few days and already knows #1-20, colours, animals, all her letters, the sounds letters make, can write her name with assistance, recognizes a few written words, etc. we've never had a formal lesson. No flash cards. We're home schooling for kindergarten. You don't need fancy materials. Play. Bake, plant a garden, visit a zoo, visit a petting farm, join a group or class. Addition/subtraction? Play store. Fractions? Bake, measure with spoons, cups. Learning letters? Make em out of play dough, trace in the sand. Putting letters together? Get some letters, make at words, cat, rat, sat (og, it, et, etc...) Learning to read? Make up stories with pictures, match the wriiten words up. Make collages, homemade instruments, read often, paint with different kinds of paint, refer to historic events during play with dolls, go to the library, play 'go fish' with letters, pretend your at the theatre and watch educational videos with popcorn, camp in the back yard, go for nature walks.....

Answer 6

I don't think there's any place for this kind of thing in schools. Not that they are all bad, but it will only confuse children during a very impressionable period.

Answer 7

I take it that you did not do so well in English class? Could not get those pesky rules down? You were constantly dazed and confused? Then prepare to be dazzled! I bank on my bank to bank my bank money! Did that leave your eyes crossed? You brain locked out?

Answer 8

The horror! Next they'll be teaching them about thespians!

Answer 9

*Gasp* I'm pulling my kid out of school. I'll home school him so he doesn't have to deal with the reality of it all!

Answer 10

No Way!

And no beverages that are homogenized either!

Answer 11

Brrrrrrr !