I could not believe this when I saw this! This video brought up two HUGE issues for me.
1)Marriage is and should remain a sacred covenant between a man and a woman. It scares me to even think about what our nation would become if this sacredness is removed. For those of us that belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, what would become of our sacred and special temple sealings. It makes me sick to even have to think of it . . .
2)The second issue that this video brought to mind was the indoctrination of our children in schools. Now granted this isn't something that is being taught in our school district, but if it was passed they would probably incorporate it into the curriculum. I also thought that if issues like this are being taught in schools in other states what are they teaching in the schools in my state that I am not even aware of? What kind of things are they indoctrinating in the minds of kids in our area? And maybe a third issue is what gives the state the right to take away my rights as a parent. I should be the one to determine if something is right or wrong for my child. As Dr. Heath Cliff Huxtable said on the Cosby Show, "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out!" J/K! But you get my point, right? After watching this video I again became very grateful for my decision to homeschool.
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That is one of my biggest reasons behind homeschooling. I want to control what is taught, what age it is taught, and if it is being taught as right or wrong.
Wow! That is incredibly scary.
Sad and Scary! It's one of those things where things in the world are getting more black and white as far as good and bad!
Wow, that video is haunting. This is a hard issue, since the world is making what was black and white into grey. I totally disagree with the belief that parents don't have a right to opt out. Having sex is legal in Washington state, and they allow parents to opt out of that education! I do think that we need to be courageously informing our children about other family definitions, but I think that should be left to the family to decide when, how and to what degree. Regardless of marriage definitions, families exist outside of marriage when parents are taken from children by accident or illness or irresponsibility. Certainly, we can recognize that the ideal family unit of father and mother and children isn't always an option, while it is recognizably ideal. I have a gay friend who with her partner has adopted two meth addicted siblings that no blood relative or otherwise wanted to adopt. The boys are thriving and it is hard to think that foster care or other insitutional care would have been better for them. Ruby has a friend with two moms, one is mom and the other is grandma...dad hit the road. I don't want to see the issues skewed anymore, and I don't want to see children with traditional Christian values taught by a governmental institution about an issue of ethics and morality and an issue that is black and white to God...but I do think that our heterosexual society sure has managed to turn out a fair percentage of homosexuals, and we owe it to our kids to inform then as we deem fit. (I know you weren't saying that they should be ignorant, I'm just thinking as I type.)
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