Let me know when you can come up with sources that aren't just rightwing religious nutball sites and I'll take you seriously. Till then, it's nothing but chum from the trolls.

I know you won't believe it, Hank, but some teachers and educators are well infomed people with a committment to the welfare of children and they know that one of the most common causes of teen suicide is fear of homosexuality. Some compassionate people think this is not a good thing and they have tried to find ways to defuse the fear issue until the kids can get a better understanding of themselves.

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Fanaticism is redoubling your efforts after you have forgotten your goal.

You were reasonably rational up to this point, but then... Just because it triggers your "ick" response doesn't mean that everybody should be like you. Personally, I find the Christian practice of ritual cannibalism to be quite offensive too but I'm not here on the site saying that you shouldn't do it.

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Fanaticism is redoubling your efforts after you have forgotten your goal.

Your Wiccan friends must be Gardinarian, yes? That man had some issues. I'm from a mixed Gardinarian (via Alexandrian) and Welsh-Celtic tradition, and we dispensed with the whole mandatory boy-girl thing generations ago; which is more true to the roots of the faith, anyway. Homophobia isn't really inherent in the earth based religions, but it has been adapted in some cases. Generally due to influence from monotheist religions.

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please click and help the eggs hatch!

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love"
-Anias Nin

I bet the pamphlet lists all the wrong places to meet. Around here you meet gays at the home depot.

Perhaps they should also consider teaching proper wiping techniques at school, lest your children grow up suffering from poor hygiene.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

How are they supposed to know if a student is gay or not? Do you propose giving gay tests?

Anyway, fuck god if all it does is punish.

Thank god i'm agnostic.

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homo depot.
sorry, couldnt resist.

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Yep, we call it homo depot as well. Or homo dyke-po.

H,,,,,,,,. so thats probably where the saying "busy as a dyke in a hardware store" came from.

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Mr. Obama, please release the UFO files!

From dictionary.com

2.( Biology) Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies.

I belive gays fall into the latter part of that definition.

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Mr. Obama, please release the UFO files!

The problem with defining "normal" is that for people who can think and learn, normal changes over the years. Now we know that it's normal for some people to be left-handed, now we (most of us) know that slavery is not normal.

That raises the question: Can something that is generally recognized as being wrong ever be "normal"? Or does it just seem nomal because one perhaps grew up with it?

Or did I miss the point of your post altogether? Did you mean "latter" as in lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies. or were you actually meaning just the abnormalities or deficiencies part?

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The apocalypse is coming... we're gonna need more ammo.

yes, I also found that quite unclear.

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please click and help the eggs hatch!

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love"
-Anias Nin

Well sir,

How you "belive" is all very interesting and all, but pardon me if I don't allow what you "belive" to enter into my rational view of people.

BTW, what the Hell is "belive?"

The public school system is a terrible institution. The problem is multifaceted. Kids who are forced to attend public schools then also have many of their constitutional rights stripped away. And as if that wasn't enough schools, more and more, are taking many parenting rights/responsibilities away from parents. For instance. Not that long ago I heard a story where some kids from the same school got in a fight over the weekend. They were not at a school function, or on school property. The next monday the principal found out and disciplined both students. Also when I was in school I got off of the bus and went home. Later in the day I got in a fight with a friend of mine, who also attended the same school. Again we were disciplined for something that had nothing to do with the school. It is not the job of the public school system to raise our children. The job of the public school system is to provide our students with information.