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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5942)	11/13/2000 11:07:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

And what kind of sex ed do I "desire"? I wasn't advocating the type of material in this conference be taught at public schools. Are you insinuating I was? 'Cause that would be you lying again. America is becoming more tolerant. When Gays hid in closets and didn't- as you so elegantly put it "suck face in public" like the heterosexuals- who could know who to beat up? Now Gay people feel free to express themselves publicly- bravo- and they do not face the repercussions they would have faced only a decade or two ago. Sure some people still want to beat up gays- but these people are a very small minority and getting smaller all the time. People can be openly gay at work- they can mention their life partners in conversation- as heterosexuals have always been able to do- without fear of losing their jobs. So yes, I think society is more tolerant. I do not know of any schools that encourage teens to have sex, much less have homosexual sex. This conference was for teens who ALREADY knew they were homosexual or bisexual- they and their parents made a choice to cart them off to Tufts- this didn't happen on the school campus- however much you would like to confuse that issue. The fact that government employees (paid by the CDC, on salary and not per diem, I might add) were there talking to teens- who made a choice to attend a Gay Lesbian sponsored seminar, bothers me not a bit. I favor sex education that is honest about disease and honest about what is already going on. One of the biggest reasons teens want to have sex is that they are treated to graphic sex scenes in almost every movie they go to. Even television shows juice our poor kids up for sex. To load them up with all the sexual imagery of our society, and to show them all their idols on the big screen screwing constantly, and then to offer only abstinence? Well, good luck there. It was bad when I was in highschool- it is much worse now. Sexual desire in teens has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with sex ed and everything to do with entertainment and popular culture. If you prefer the adage live and let live then let parents who WANT to send their teens to gay conferences send their teens to gay conferences. You need not send your children- if you have any, do you even have any? Did you know none of the parents of the actual teens IN the seminar complained?