Teaching about gay marriage has nothing to do with religion, really. Look, if you have a book about people eating pork, it isn't a slap to the Jews and the Muslims, it's just about people eating pork. While some religions have prohibitions about pork, eating pork is not primarily a religious activity, just as being gay has nothing to do with religion, per se. People of all religions have gay people in their congregations. Some religions choose to exclude gays or to make their behavior, or their very being "sinful"- but the larger set of gay behavior, or gay existence, has nothing to do with religion. That some people who are religious define it as a sin, does not make it one universally- just as we can serve pork hot dogs in the cafeteria without having the ACLU come down on us (as long as we offer Kosher alternatives).
Can you explain why you are mixing up a book about different sorts of families with religion? I mean some religions don't approve of divorce, but we still have a lot of children's books dealing with divorce, because the reality is many children come from broken homes, and divorce is not considered a religious act. It may be in some religions, but the large set is non-religious, just as it is with gayness. |
