Why is it necessary for a counselor or teacher to report a child they suspect to be gay or was confided in that they were gay? To what end would you require this disclosure to the parents? What purpose would it serve? If a child does not want to tell his/her parents, why would you? They aren't doing anything.
For a majority of conservatives it’s necessary for them to compel others to conform; conservatives, for the most part, disdain dissent and diversity. We’ve seen evidence of that in this very thread with references to ‘perversion’ and the like.
If gay students know their sexual orientation can be reported to their parents, the hateful ‘reasoning’ goes, then it will force LGBT students to ‘stop being gay’ and conform. The proposed legislation is as moronic as it is heinous.
Codifying the requirement of teachers to report ‘the gay’ to parents is the state’s way of making its anti-gay policy official, it reinforces the false notion that homosexuality is ‘abnormal,’ and some affliction that must be ‘dealt with.’
This law is clearly un-Constitutional, and should be challenged in court if passed, as the state can demonstrate no compelling governmental interest to single out a particular class of persons for this reporting requirement, the law is predicated solely on animus towards homosexuals, and its goal is to only demean and humiliate.
