School Clams Up on 'Gay' Pledge Cards Given to Kindergartners

Is this just thoughts on the subject or did Jeff Davis give these cards out?

No, this is in response to the California school...not local.

I'm with you hazlehurst...though my reasons aren't biblical. Homosexuality clearly isn't natural. If it were, 2 guys or 2 women could have children. Show me a guy that impregnates another guy and I'll change my opinion of gays. Until then...nope.

I'm fed up with trying to be politically correct. Whether the liberals want to believe it or not, ALL Americans have the right to the 1st Ammendment...whether they agree with my position or not. So regardless of whether it offends people or not, I don't agree with gay folks. I think they're going against nature.

And I'll be damned if my kids will be taught that it's okay. In my house, it's not okay. They are still my children and no school or anyone else has the right to demand that they or I accept something. Until the schools start paying for the pregnancy bills, paying for all the immunizations, paying for all the costs of raising my children and so forth, they won't teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is acceptable.

Rant over.

During a celebration of National Ally Week, Tara Miller, a teacher at the Faith Ringgold School of Arts and Science in Hayward, Calif., passed out cards produced by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to her class of kindergartners.

Doesn't matter if you accept or approve it. All that matters is that kids are aware that there is more than one kind of family. And that they are taught to be respectful of other people and their beliefs. In other words, no fighting or teasing.

Well if someone chooses to live that way, it is their choice, but my child is not gonna be taught that it is right, cause it goes against what the Bible says. If they want to disipline children that they see picking on someone like that or calling names, that is fine with me, but don't teach my child something that goes against our beliefs, thats the whole point of a free country we all have the right to our beliefs.

Have any of you attended school beyond the 12th grade in the 60s? This is 2008 NOT 1960! Being gay is NOT a choice; it's who they are! Why would anyone choose a lifestyle where people bash them? Are you idiots? Please educate yourself before spouting off at the mouth! Besides it's nobody's business how someone else lives their life. How many people would approve of your life? Do you really care? No, and gays don't either. Get over it! I'm sure no one intends to lick or bite you! Quit showing your stupidity and hyprocrisy! Quit judging others! You should ask yourself: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? They're his children too! Before you ask...NO I'M NOT GAY...NOT THAT IT WOULD MATTER IF I WAS but you people need to educate yourselves. They are someone's child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, neice, nephew or they could be your SPOUSE! You'd be surprised what happens when the sun goes down! One day you'll pay the price for being a hater and a hypocrite! Jesus don't like ugly!

I agree. There is a lot more to worry about than what someone does in the privacy of their homes and how they live their lives. I have some gay friends and they have to deal with so much descrimination and hypocrisy that they have moved several times. Nobody should have to live like that. What I do in my bedroom is my business and what you do in yours is your business and I don't want to know about it nor do I fault you for it. Get a life people! Take a vacation and see how other people outside of Hazlehurst live. It might open your eyes and make you a little more tolerant.

Yep...graduated high school in 1997. Gay couples still can't impregnate each other so it still isn't natural!

No they can't. You are right about that. However, they are human beings just like you and I--- with feelings, needs, and the whole shebang. When I have talked to them about it, they say it is hard being gay. They are very tolerant of others. I just think we need to be tolerant also.

riverrunner wrote:

Yep...graduated high school in 1997. Gay couples still can't impregnate each other so it still isn't natural!

How sad.
So you consider yourself to be nothing more than a babymaker?
What about life-long virgins?
What about hermaphrodites?
What about women who had to have a hysterectomy?
What about men who have vasectomies?
What about couples who use condoms because they don't want to have children?
What about the myriad other things that people have to deal with because they can't get pregnant?
We as humans are more than reproductive machines. And not every person in nature was meant to recreate.

hazlehurst wrote:

Well if someone chooses to live that way, it is their choice, but my child is not gonna be taught that it is right, cause it goes against what the Bible says. If they want to disipline children that they see picking on someone like that or calling names, that is fine with me, but don't teach my child something that goes against our beliefs, thats the whole point of a free country we all have the right to our beliefs.

It asid nothing onthe pledge card that you had to accept homosexuality. It was about maintaining a harassment-free zone.
While I think that this idea was half-baked, it is only because of the age involved. They don't understand what they're signing or how to uphold their pledge.
What you don't seem to understand is that it actually promotes Christian beliefs in that you are loving your neighbor and standing up for them when you see a problem.
It said nothing of going against your religious beliefs, unless your beliefs are to harass gays or at least to turn a blind eye to hate directed towards them.

hazlehurst wrote:

Why do homosexuals try to make us accept their sin? I can't stop them from living that way, but I sure don't agree with it, and just because I teach my child that its wrong because it is a sin against God, that doesn't mean I am teaching my child to hate them.

Why do you try to make homosexuals accept your belief that they are sinning?

Well I am aware it is 2008, but the date doesn't change my beliefs, and that is exactley what all the homosexuals would like, for everyone to just go along with what they think is right, they think they were born like that? They were born to a mother and a father, if everyone starts deciding they were born homosexual, well were not gonna have a population anymore.

hazlehurst wrote:

Well I am aware it is 2008, but the date doesn't change my beliefs, and that is exactley what all the homosexuals would like, for everyone to just go along with what they think is right, they think they were born like that? They were born to a mother and a father, if everyone starts deciding they were born homosexual, well were not gonna have a population anymore.

Is that really your fear?
That the world will end due to a population downsizing because people are going to start choosing to be gay?
Homosexuality has been around since before Christianity. It's been found on every land on Earth, in every religion, from people of every color. It is inherently a part of this planet and the animals on it.
Wether God meant for it to happen or not is irrelevant. The fact is that it's been seen and recorded in human societies since the ancient Egyptians and even through millenia of persecution it still exists.
There is no extra perks or discounts that homosexuals get. You don't get a prize for converting anyone and there is no agenda at any meeting that is being discussed.
Homosexuals are simply tired of being your children, parents and siblings, of protecting this nation by serving in the military and police forces, working as an EMT or fireman, seeing you as your doctor or lawyer and presiding over you as a judge or elected official and NOT getting the same respect and benefits as everyone else.
Enough is enough and your way of thinking is coming to an end.
This new generation realizes that to be a true Christian you must not have a heart filled with hate and fear but that you must lead by example.
You must "Love Thy Neighbor" and that "He who is without sin should cast the first stone". Or do you only follow the parts of the Bible that fit into your fascist view?

Well according to the Bible it is a sin, and that is what I believe, but what do you think would happen if I went to the school and handed out pamplets about God? Children can't even say a prayer in school anymore, but yet we should let our children be taught homosexuality is normal, when it goes against our beliefs. If you really think being a homosexual is so right and normal why does it bother you so much that we call it a sin?

If they kept it in the bedroom...I'd have no problem with it. Problem is they don't. They insist on having parades celebrating their "gayness". Do you see people having parades to celebrate their being straight? Nope. We don't have straight festivals so why the need for gay festivals?

You don't practice what you preach. Keep it in the bedroom.

Anthony...
Your options for life-long virgins and others is still natural. It doesn't mean that they have to actually have children...just that they have the means to do so. If 2 virgins WANTED to have a child, they could. 2 men or 2 women can NOT. Compare apples to apples.

I don't agree with Gay Marriage simply because the health care system is already in shambles and not affordable to regular people. Same sex marriage would constitute the same principles as a married couple where the husband carries insurance for his wife and kids. There would also be the possibility of a whole battery of new unforeseen health risks that go with gay relations and insurance companies raising costs even more as a direct result of it.

I am aware of how long they have been around, and no I don't hate them, actually I have a homosexual family member, alot of people do I'm sure, but I love them just the same, but I don't accept their choice, and they know that. Now I am being hated because I am a Christain, and I am raising my child as a Christain, that is my choice and by trying to teach my child something I believe is a sin, is taking my freedom.