While I agree with the dissenting opinion of Rep. Barton, I wish he would have focused on a more substantial reason to oppose the legislation. His concern would be easily remedied by introducing more legislation to "educate" children on the terminology of the gay political movement. C'mon. Man up. We don't want our children--or ourselves--to state to a stranger anything about our sexual life anymore than anyone else wants to state it to strangers. If you are a Christian it takes on a whole other meaning entirely, but I think you could stop this legislation with any American.
Yeah, I thought about that, too. After I had already posted. I thought that, as an adult, I'd be offended by that question. My answer, especially if I was, um, non-traditional, would probably be, "that's none of your business!"
Thats a really invasive question to ask anyone. I would have a problem with asking kids this not only do they not know what the terms mean but they may not have formed their own identity fully so it would throw the stat's off anyway.
Hmmm...my answer would be "none of your business". Boy am I glad my kids aren't on any government health care right now or in ps. Now, we just need to wait until it's mandatory for all healthcare plans to ask that question. :roll: As far as my kids are concerned....they don't fully understand gay, lesbian, bisexual etc. I don't think any of my kids would even be able to comprehend the questions if they were asked.
Assuming that a school child understands the term "gender" and the term "identity", I can envision a child answering "Do you know your gender identity?" with "I'm a girl." or "I'm a boy." Ask most 8 year old boys if they "like girls" (therefore heterosexual), I'm afraid your data will be skewed when they respond, "uh, no, girls have cooties, ewwww." OF ALL THE ASININE THINGS TO WASTE OUR TIME AND MONEY ON!!!!! To me, it's just another indicator of how deeply the federal government wants to get into the lives of our children, so they can TOTALLY control and ruin their and our lives!
Lindina, oncee again you and I are thinking the same. Ask a 4yo do you "like" boys or girls? And the answer will be BOTH!!! Ask an 8yo (especially boy) if he "likes" girls, and you'll get "YUCK!!!"
WOW! Really.... WJW..... I'm speechless..... I would be offended if I was asked and I'd refuse to answer...and I'm straight! If I was GLBTQ I would def refuse to answer.
This is seriously sick. We started HS this week. I can't believe I didn't start years ago. I've thought about it a lot, but the "s" word held me back. The "straw that broke the camel's back", was when my 11 year old son (6th grade) told me why he doesn't want to be friends with half the boys in his class. He said: "Mom, the boys like boys". It took me a couple days to get my pea-brain wrapped around this bit of information. Upon further discussion, I came to the realization that this is not only considered acceptable and normal, but it is also "cool" to be this way. We are in a little town in Maine! This isn't some huge inner-city school! It will be a long time before (if ever) I get over the sick feeling of having put him in such a situation. I don't know if this was the appropriate place to post this, but this article gave me that same sick feeling. I know that by homeschooling, I am doing something that God wanted me to do a long time ago.
Alittlepeace, I wish Homeschool Spot had a "like" button. Your post is alarming, but I am so glad you shared that. I don't think we can really grasp just what kids are subjected to at school. All we have is the memory of when we were there. We might know it is "worse", but we really don't know what it would be like to grow up in a setting where unnatural affection is celebrated.
You can see societies disease of making everything lurid acceptable. And I am not talking about homosexuals. I am referring to what alittlepeace is saying about her son in school and that it was 'cool' to be experimenting with people of the same sex. I think society is going to the dogs and thats giving dogs a bad name.
When will it stop? Is it going to take an honest to goodness moral revolution to put a stop to the disgusting trash that is going on in this country? Children have no clue (or shouldn't) what those things mean. How sad.
