From: wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni)
Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:09:08 GMT

From porthos!walter!att-out!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!zeus.tamu.edu!rlc1028 Tue Dec 29 08:47:28 EST 1992

In article <1992Dec28.180753.664@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni) writes...
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>|What about children who get teased because their parents are drug addicts,
>|child molesters, or just enjoy a quite evening with a farm animal or two?

>	It depends.  Do enough people think that drug addicts and child
>molesters are persecuted unfairly or unnecesarily?  Probably not.

Who cares about whether or not the individuals in question are persecuted
unfairly?  The original post dealt with the children NOT the individuals!
Afterall, it is not the children who commited the offense. 

>	If the world could depend on you to teach your children to follow
>your example of tolerance, there would be no need for teaching it in 
>school.  

Shouldn't this read "if the world could depend on you to teach your children
to follow MY example of tolerance ...".  Besides, my understanding is that 
what is being taught is acceptance NOT tolerance.  If tolerence was the 
main objective then we need not mention homosexuality at all; just teach the
kids that all people deserve respect regardless of their differences!

>	If the government were interested in forcing a curriculum in your
>home, let me assure you that they would bring more firepower than you.

This is true!

>	As it is, the issue of religious freedom is contradictory to public
>education unless public education can accomodate all religious beliefs.  
>Public education usually fails at this.  This issue has been mulled over
>many times.  There's never a principled solution.  It's simply a matter
>of concessions.

Better yet, why not school choice?  If I am paying for my children's 
education, which I am, why should'nt I be given the choice of which school
I would like to send them to?  Isn't the purpose of the government to serve 
the people?  In a "free" society one would think so!

My guess is that what is being sought is acceptance, not tolerance.  The 
problem is that living a gay lifestyle is not OK (my values).  That is not
to say that homosexuals are inherently evil, but that God did not intend us 
to function this way.  Nor did he intend for us to be sexually active 
outside of marriage, indulge in "immoral" behavior, ....  

My children are a precious gift that God has given my wife and I.  We have 
been entrusted with the responsibility of raising our children in a manner
consistent with the teachings of our faith.  Jesus Christ is as real to us 
as the keyboard that I am using at this moment.  When the school teaches that
homosexuality as a valid lifestyle, it operates in direct conflict with the 
values I attempt to instill within my children.  

These are my beliefs.  I don't expect you to adopt them, nor do I expect you to
accept them.  All I ask in return is that you give me the same respect in
return.  In my view, teaching my children views which are in direct conflict
with our (my wife and I) values is a violation of this respect. 

Bill Buoni
my opinions are my own and do NOT represent those of my employer!

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