Oral Arguments in "Opt-out" Case

[elektra]

Any homosexual will tell you they always felt that way

You have always known you are gay. That is your position.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What a jackass statement

It was intended for you so of course it was a jackass statement.

 

[Hellokitty]

 

[Seymour Flops]

Teaching about homosexuality in schools should be forbidden, IMO. Kids are supposed to learn the basics which does not include homosexuality. Schools teaching this shit should be avoided by good parents.

Yes, there is no health reason to teach homosexuality, other than to warn of the danger of AIDS, which I imagine is the last thing the left wants to talk about.

One of the books in question is called "Almost Perfect," which plot you can probably guess: A high school boys who had never had a girlfriend develops a crush and finally works up the nerve for a kiss. Afterward, his crush announces that he is a "transgirl." The boy gets very angry, but then has remorse and tries to win his crush back.

Most high school boys would laugh at the absurdity. But what is not so funny is that if you write a "young adult" novel like that, it would almost certainly go one very liberal list of book recommendations. Meanwhile, if a writer with high knowledge of teaching reading wrote a novel that was an uplifting view of the United States and carefully designed it to develp advanced reading skills and critical thinking, it would not have a snowballs chance.

Liberals are not nice people. They are crybullies interested only in gaining power by tearing down what is good in this country.

 

[Leo123]

Well, that was insane....

 

[SweetSue92]

This is Sotomayor questioning an advocate of parents' right have their child "opt-out" of a lesson covering a book about a same-sex wedding:



This is Alito questioning I believe the same advocate about the same book:



Like to see some mature opinions about this. I have mixed feelings. I get that public school cannot be tailored to each and every child and their parents. Fifty years ago, it would not have been such an issue. But now, given some of the things that are being taught, I have to be suspecious of school boards being so adament that the parents have no say.

What say you?

Yeah, this one is tricky. But I think much of this would be quelled if the teachers would defer to parents. Not on everything, of course, but like this: student says, "My parents think gay marriage is wrong".

"Your parents have the right to think that, certainly" or "I understand different families have different beliefs"--pretty much ANYTHING that upholds the parents' right to make decisions for their children's morals.

In most cases, defer to the parents. As a teacher, I mean.

 

[SweetSue92]

Some people think interracial marriage is sinful
Some think atheists are sinful
Some think divorce is sinful

Schools should not have to pander to your views of sin

Is it exhausting for you, living like it's 1950 all the time?

"gay people exist", etc. No kidding WOW

 

[SweetSue92]

If it is legal, then schools can cover it

Just because a parent has limited views of morality, a school should not have to pander to it.

Gays get married
Parents need to accept it

parents NEED to accept it.

Pound sand. How 'bout that?

 

[rightwinger]

parents NEED to accept it.

Pound sand. How 'bout that?

Same sex marriages happen
They are legal

Your children will find out whether you hide the fact or not

 

[rightwinger]

Is it exhausting for you, living like it's 1950 all the time?

"gay people exist", etc. No kidding WOW

You are the one trying to protect children from an obvious fact

 

[debbiedowner]

I can remember my kids and the two oldest grandkids bringing home permission opt in/outs for field trips and once for some movie presented at school. I think my grandson that's 17 had one a couple years ago. They don't do this anymore?

So what's the big deal of opting in or out in something parents may not want?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

2nd amendment rights?
I grew up in the 60s with westerns and cop shows
I saw people getting shot several times a day
I saw Bambi’s mom getting shot by hunters

PETA Movement Based on Talking-Animal Cartoons

What about Thumper, and Thumper's Mommy? Did those potential school-shooters murder those cute little bunnies, too? When will David Hogg get that movie banned?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The LGBTQ 'community' is collectively mentally ill.

Preceding Gayist Incest and Pedosexual Incest

Maybe the Algae Bees will be finally be outlawed again once they add an I—for Incest. That movement has already been started, in the best-seller The Hotel New Hampshire. Sibling-Attracted Persons will be a typical euphemism.