Im sorry did I miss something? I dont see anyone forcing a church or asking a church to create marrages. I see a group of people not being legal bound to each other in the same way man/wife marrages are. Its about being acknowledged.
THIS is the real fight. Why should lifemates be excluded because they are same sex? Their still lifemates no matter what.
Sаbine;775114 said:Personally, I don't care if some couple wants to get married. I also don't care if that couple is actually a male (or female) couple that wants to get married - it's none of my beeswax. But I do care when a married homosexual couple wants to adopt children to make the family complete. When "Mom" and "Dad" are of the same gender, a child would possibly accept it as a standard. I think in such situation homosexual parents will raise homosexually oriented children, that's what worries me. Well, I may be wrong though.
Agreed. Though when it comes to homosexual people, I could care less what they do as long as they are not around my family. We pulled one of my boys out of a soccer league once when it came out one of the coaches was a homosexual. We complained to the league, but it was to no avail.No way in hell we were leaving our young son in situations where he'd have contact with a homosexual male.
Somebody make me an honourary canuck so I can kick arse!
That makes sense. One should teach the curriculum when one is a teacher, not teach personal views or lifestyle. Much the same as religion being referenced in the classroom. Leave the religious studies to the religious studies class or the comparative religions class. Leave the physics studies in the physics classroom, not the arts history classroom.I do not really care if they are homosexuals, as long as they are quiet about it, especially in front of kids.
That makes sense. One should teach the curriculum when one is a teacher, not teach personal views or lifestyle. Much the same as religion being referenced in the classroom. Leave the religious studies to the religious studies class or the comparative religions class. Leave the physics studies in the physics classroom, not the arts history classroom.
Exactly. This woman, a grade five teacher, was quite open about her sexuality. I am not a religious bigot by the way, but kids are very easily influenced and I resent others trying to teach them morals. That job is up tomy husband and me, in my opinion. I told her, you teach her math, reading and arithmetic, we'll teach her our values on sexuality. She told us we were homophobes, so we went to the principal and had our daughter removed to the other class.We followed up with a complaint to the Board.
This teacher was pissed off because before she came to our school she taught in the Ontario Catholic School Board. when she came out in the open, the Catholic board fired her. she tok them to court and lost on the grounds that as a teacher in the Catholic system she had to respect their values as per the Education Act. In short, only a moron would think this would be acceptable in a Catholic grade school.
Anyway, whatever of the two school systems, I believe the teachers sexual preferences have no place in theclassroom.
Exactly. This woman, a grade five teacher, was quite open about her sexuality. I am not a religious bigot by the way, but kids are very easily influenced and I resent others trying to teach them morals. That job is up tomy husband and me, in my opinion. I told her, you teach her math, reading and arithmetic, we'll teach her our values on sexuality. She told us we were homophobes, so we went to the principal and had our daughter removed to the other class.We followed up with a complaint to the Board.
This teacher was pissed off because before she came to our school she taught in the Ontario Catholic School Board. when she came out in the open, the Catholic board fired her. she tok them to court and lost on the grounds that as a teacher in the Catholic system she had to respect their values as per the Education Act. In short, only a moron would think this would be acceptable in a Catholic grade school.
Anyway, whatever of the two school systems, I believe the teachers sexual preferences have no place in theclassroom.
What bothers me is when a teacher does NOT speak of it in class, yet parents pull their kids when they find out through gossip that a teacher is gay. My daughter's teacher is a lesbian. My daughter has no idea. And if she did, it would bother me only in the perspective that I would question how it had come up. If my daughter questions what a lesbian is, it's very simple to explain, and as long as a parent educates their child, then there's no reason to worry about it causing any problems for your child. I'd be more upset to realize ten years down the road, that my daughter had skewed ideas regarding homosexuals, because I failed to bring it up and educate her properly on the differences.
I had an English teacher in junior high.....we all KNEW she was gay.........just didnt care! She was a FAB teacher yanno one of those life changing type teachers. Taught us self respect and self worth. It was her tat got me to realise I was the only one that was going to get me out of the situation I was in. I started to challenge my abuser and it started to stop. Great person.
I'm glad you had that tam. It's a beautiful thing when someone can reach out and touch your life like that. I had one teacher, he was my physics teacher, who was incredible. His wife had been the victim of severe abuse as a child, and suffered multiple personality disorder. When I was showing problems with my mental health, he wa a huge support. He would pull me aside to discuss the importance of self worth and self esteem, and the harm created by letting simple little phrases slip into our life, such as "I can't believe I did that, I'm so stupid". He gave me a lot of insight into the ways to improve myself.
This is my point, not just in this thread but most of the threads Im passionate about......It only takes on second to reach out and be a light. Gay, straigh, pagan, christian, when you start demoralising people......keeping them seperate from the group, you dont only hurt them you hurt yourselves. Those people youve ridiculed, separated, are now wounded and that doesnt help society on the whole at all.
Im not saying this right but I hope you get the heart of it.
Has nothing to do with us anyway, since this is a Canadian forum. The American laws do not have any bearing on ours.
I agree with you. I am not comofrtable with children being raised by homosexuals.
Yeah, that is something I would be concerned about, as everything is about "freedom of choice",which is fine with me, but when that child grows to an age where they a very aware of "who" the parents are, in relationship to "sexual choice" , then, in respect to the child, who "never" was able
to have the "choice" to say if they "wanted" to be raised by a homosexual couple or not. That child has been put in a very vulnerable position.
What if that child, then, does not want to be there, is uncomfortable with the situation, has his/her
own "certain" beliefs/feelings about homosexuality, cannot conform to the lifestyle of the parents.
I don't think that would be "unusual" at all, and I'm sure it has happened from time to time.
Im sorry did I miss something? I dont see anyone forcing a church or asking a church to create marrages. I see a group of people not being legal bound to each other in the same way man/wife marrages are. Its about being acknowledged.