According to a story I read, a second grade teacher read her class a story about two princes falling in love. How do you feel about this? I feel it is wrong to teach children that something unnatural is okay. Homosexuality just isn't natural because it doesn't produce offspring. I would want to have grandchildren and if my kids ever turned out to be gay I would be very upset. I think more kids might grow up to be pro-gay if they were read stories like this when they are young. By teaching kids it is unnatural we lessen the chance that they might grow up to be gay. I imagine there is even a lot of gay people that do not like being gay. Screwing around with children's minds is wrong. How do you all feel?
2007-03-21 16:13:29 · 27 answers · asked by J.P. 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I think it's okay.
2007-03-21 16:16:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 11⤋
I think it is terrible.
1. A lot of children are teased (as in a bad thing) that they are gay. so when they enter adolescence they actually wonder if they might be.
2. The number of children who have thought about liking someone of the same sex is huge. The thing is that they are just confused during this time period. They aren't sure what feeling are for even liking someone in that way. Hormones are racing, ect....Think about it. If you never had a crush on someone and never really admired a friend, how would you know the difference. Then we throw in this gay thing and immediately they think they are gay! It is an extremely hard time for children. Most come out of it just fine, but I'm not sure how many will now when they are told that these feelings coming to them are gay feelings. They will be totally confused for a life time!!!!
2007-03-21 17:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Peggy Pirate 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I personally think it is wrong, it is up to the parents to raise and
teach their own children on certain topics like that, and what
purpose does it do but confuse a child!!
Teachers like that we can do without " so called open minded liberals, the schools are wanting to take over the kids and the
lazy parents that don't mind if a teacher reads a book of
two princes falling in love!!! because they don't have the time
to teach them!! or won't make the time.
2007-03-21 16:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by bo_dela 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are children attending school right now that have gay parents.What that second grade teacher did is reality.It is happening right now and it's a way of life for people out there.Straight and gay people both adopt children when they're not able to conceive,or to give a child a home.You can teach kids to be anti-gay or pro-gay and that's not going to affect their sexual preference.I think you are wrong.I am not gay, but if my children were to be born gay I would support them and not be upset that they were GAY.That's how I feel.
2007-03-21 16:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by Ms Lety 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First of all, you can not teach someone to be gay! It is not a learned behavior. It's just a part of who someone is.
Second, It should be discussed in schools. If it were discussed more openly in schools, then people who are gay could feel more comfortable about being open about. Kids are cruel and tease what they don't understand. If they had a better knowledge, then prejudice toward gay people would begin to subside, and it needs to subside!!!!
Third, attitudes like yours are the reason prejudice exists! I really hope for your kids sake, that one of them aren't gay, because with your attitude, you are deffinately messing them up emotionally. I love my children unconditionally; gay, straight, grandchildren or no grandchildren!
2007-03-21 16:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by anncinn 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Kids are not going to grow up gay because someone read them a fable staring two princes.
Also, kids will not necessarily turn out straight because they grew up hearing homosexuality is wrong. More likely they'll just either turn out to be bigoted straight people or self-loathing gay people (and does the world really need any more hypocritical evangelicals?)
2007-03-21 16:42:18 · answer #6 · answered by K 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'm going to take some heat for this one, but am a firm believe in what the Bible teaches about homosexuality. I do not believe people "born" gay, it is a lifestyle choice. I believe it is wrong and I don't want it to be taught to my child as "normal" in any way.
2007-03-21 16:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by Carl 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
since people are born gay, an not taught. then i thenk the only thing that wud teach them is that everee one is important, an equaly special, an deserving of love an respect. it also well help kids who are gay to be more comfortable with themselves, and kno that it is normal, an okay to be who they are ♥
2007-03-21 16:23:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is really simple and something I have actually fought with my sister-in-law about when she found out that my two youngest have a gay Aunt....she flipped out and made the comment that she hopes that she isn't in their life that much. (My s-i-l is someone that says shes a *Christian*, goes to church three times a week and still can't figure out why shes a miserable human being)
To me, that is more wrong than being gay.
If you were born without a limb.....would you still want to be accepted? I know I would.......Kids know more than adults ever give them credit for.....they'll figure this kinda thing out themselves, or they can be told the Gods honest truth and learn to be accepting of different people.....No one...not even Jesus was perfect......I believe that if you live your life as a good person, helpful to others, being non-judgemental, being kind, decent and loving........that everything will be alright....
The thing that really gets under my skin, is people, who commit crimes such as murder or rape....and then claim to have *found God*.......and voila! They are forgiven and all is right.........thats a bunch of hoooey and I don't suscribe to that line of thinking!
2007-03-21 16:23:14 · answer #9 · answered by L ♥ L ♥ 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
This is an interesting question! I think whatever consenting adults decide to do is OK, and I don't have a problem with same-sex adult partnerships. But I do think we need to be very careful about what our impressionable kids hear in school. They shouldn't be taught to hate; but at the age where teachers are reading them stories, I don't like the idea of them hearing stories about "princes falling in love".
2007-03-21 16:27:00 · answer #10 · answered by Husker41 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
I don't think that homosexuality is the problem. The problem is the age exposure. Seriously, the kids are what, six or seven? They are in the age where the opposite sex has cooties. They are just starting to comprehend their lives, so I think that they should get exposed to it later, when they are more aware of the world around them.
2007-03-21 16:25:04 · answer #11 · answered by lori 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋