What is your opinion? Do you think the sexual orietation of the person teaching you matters? Does he have a valid arguement or just speaking gibberish?
Edit: I changed this to the Politics tag and changed the topic to keep it within rules of the Politics tag. Please take note of the rules regarding political conversations in the future. LOG fucked around with this message on 10-22-2004 at 11:40 AM.
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This one time, at JooJooFlop camp:
I can think of at least one thing wrong with this thread.
oh god what?
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Check out the big brain on JooJooFlop!
I can think of at least one thing wrong with this thread.
SILENCE YOU FOOL!
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frolicking imp had this to say about Tron:
lesbians and gay men should NOT be allowed to
teach in South Carolinas public schools. He says this is in line with
the GOP platform of South Carolina.
Its descrimination, and illegal.
It's nobody's business what someone's sexual preference is. I had lesbian and gay teachers, and I enjoyed their classes better than some of my straight teachers that were obviously not getting any sex. They were going through divorces and took their personal shit out on us kids.
The gay and lesbian teachers didn't talk to us about their orientation, we didn't ask either. It didn't matter. They were cool and we liked them.
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This one time, at Azizza camp:
Bullshit. That is the platform of one idiot.
He was probably doing it purely for popular support. SC is the most radical right-wing state in the country, hands down.
The capitol building flies the rebel flag - THE REBEL FUCKING FLAG - under the state flag. I know this because I live in the state capitol and I see it all the time Maradon! fucked around with this message on 10-22-2004 at 04:37 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
He kicked me in the shins once and called me a loser, but other than that, no negative side effects.
IMO, the issue of sexuality should never be even brought up or mentioned in a professional sense.
Saying: "Yeah, I'd do her proper like an English Bulldog" is fine around the water cooler, but saying it to your boss and getting fired/hired for it is silly.
You're silly.
Please, these people just have no time on their hands and nothing else to complain about. Besides it's discrimitory to take someone's sexuality into consideration when they are being interviewed for a job, just as a religion. Now in saying this it should also follow the same rules as religion (other wise it wouldn't fall into the same category)... you cant try to impose your beliefs on the children, your not allowed to display anything that is related to your beliefs, and it should not interfere with your co-workers or your students school day.
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Vorago spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Don't want their children to catch gay now do we?
oshi..
is that how I caught the Bi?? OMGZ time to sue! Nae fucked around with this message on 10-22-2004 at 07:14 PM.
Parents naturally want their kids to "be like us". That's the only real reason parents still get kids circumcised (deal with it; there have been "new" reasons every generation), it's the basic social reason parents want their kids exposed or not exposed to certain religious beliefs (Baptist vs Catholic, etc).
Secondly, a lot of parents aren't prepared to deal with the opposite side of what they consider to be a fundamental standpoint. That's why a lot of gay and bi people have problems with their parents...it comes as a shock to the parent. Why? because they never figured they'd have to deal with it.
Now I personally don't wouldn't want to be expected to talk to kids (outside a sex ed class) about my sexuality. I'm heterosexual, and I still think it would be inappropriate for me to have a discussion about my love life with my students. It would be just as inappropriate for me to discuss my love life if I was into men, or if I fancied boinking a dog every night. The subject matter is inappropriate outside of certain controlled situations.
As for singling gays out specifically, or establishing an anti-gay, anti-bi curriculum, the answer isn't to legislate. There are several generations out there at the top of the political food chain who did not grow up with accepting gays, and they're slow to grow old and die. Waiting it out and legislating is not the answer. The answer is to put your foot down, NOT legislate, and instead educate people.
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