Name of God!
Jan. 27th, 2005 01:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Some people...
"Gay students aren't the only kids targeted -- this isn't about special rights for them," Howe said. "But the fact is that 'faggot' is probably the most common insult at schools."
Yup. Not even at actual gay people.
Incidentally, have you ever noticed that the people who shout "special rights" the loudest are inevitably the recipients of special rights?
"No Name-calling Week" takes aim at insults of all kinds -- whether based on a child's appearance, background or behavior. But a handful of conservative critics have zeroed in on the references to harassment based on sexual orientation.
Oh dear....
"I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.
Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of ANYTHING, should really think carefully before speaking. And possibly change... her? name.
"Schools should be steering kids away from identifying as gay," Knight said. "You can teach civility to kids and tell them every child is valued without conveying the message that failure to accept homosexuality as normal is a sign of bigotry."
Why should schools be doing this?
Aside from the fact that it is NOT the school's place to "instill moral values" (and the fact that her? morals clearly aren't mine)... strangely, I don't think that saying "don't harass people, period" is the same as saying "if you think gay people aren't normal, you're a bigot". When it comes to that, I think that it *is* the same (unless you take a very literal view of the word normal, in which case I commend you), but that's beside the point.
In Colorado, lawmakers last year rejected a proposal to declare a statewide "No-Name Calling Week" in conjunction with the inaugural GLSEN-backed event. House Majority Leader Keith King said he was concerned about fostering a "victim's mentality" and argued that children should be taught to ignore taunts.
They should be taught to ignore taunts, but not taught not to harass others? WTF?
"There's no question middle school can be a difficult place -- I'm not advocating that any group gets mistreated," Throckmorton said in a telephone interview.
"But it will definitely make traditionally oriented teachers and parents and kids feel very uncomfortable, if they happen to object to homosexuality on moral grounds," he said of GLSEN's program. "If you disagree, you're hateful, you're bigoted, you're a homophobe. They're using name-calling to combat name-calling."
Whine, whine, whine. Nobody is saying you can't believe what you want. They're saying that you can't use your beliefs as justification for harassment. I would really have thought that was obvious.
"Gay students aren't the only kids targeted -- this isn't about special rights for them," Howe said. "But the fact is that 'faggot' is probably the most common insult at schools."
Yup. Not even at actual gay people.
Incidentally, have you ever noticed that the people who shout "special rights" the loudest are inevitably the recipients of special rights?
"No Name-calling Week" takes aim at insults of all kinds -- whether based on a child's appearance, background or behavior. But a handful of conservative critics have zeroed in on the references to harassment based on sexual orientation.
Oh dear....
"I hope schools will realize it's less an exercise in tolerance than a platform for liberal groups to promote their pan-sexual agenda," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.
Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of ANYTHING, should really think carefully before speaking. And possibly change... her? name.
"Schools should be steering kids away from identifying as gay," Knight said. "You can teach civility to kids and tell them every child is valued without conveying the message that failure to accept homosexuality as normal is a sign of bigotry."
Why should schools be doing this?
Aside from the fact that it is NOT the school's place to "instill moral values" (and the fact that her? morals clearly aren't mine)... strangely, I don't think that saying "don't harass people, period" is the same as saying "if you think gay people aren't normal, you're a bigot". When it comes to that, I think that it *is* the same (unless you take a very literal view of the word normal, in which case I commend you), but that's beside the point.
In Colorado, lawmakers last year rejected a proposal to declare a statewide "No-Name Calling Week" in conjunction with the inaugural GLSEN-backed event. House Majority Leader Keith King said he was concerned about fostering a "victim's mentality" and argued that children should be taught to ignore taunts.
They should be taught to ignore taunts, but not taught not to harass others? WTF?
"There's no question middle school can be a difficult place -- I'm not advocating that any group gets mistreated," Throckmorton said in a telephone interview.
"But it will definitely make traditionally oriented teachers and parents and kids feel very uncomfortable, if they happen to object to homosexuality on moral grounds," he said of GLSEN's program. "If you disagree, you're hateful, you're bigoted, you're a homophobe. They're using name-calling to combat name-calling."
Whine, whine, whine. Nobody is saying you can't believe what you want. They're saying that you can't use your beliefs as justification for harassment. I would really have thought that was obvious.
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