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To: Rick Julian who wrote (31104)	2/17/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I feel GREAT about my child being taught that homosexuality is normal for a certain segment of the population. I want my child to grow up to be loving and compassionate and fair, and I would consider teaching her anything else to be meanspirited and despicable, really. I would feel like an utter failure as a parent if anything she was taught in our home caused her to be intolerant or bigoted. And even though she seems very interested in boys now, what if she turns out to be homosexual? I want my daughter to be happy and healthy, and this would be impossible if I had negative, homophobic feelings. I think where you go off the rails is in this statement--"I have a simple objection to teaching children that homosexuality is as normal and DESIRABLE as heterosexuality." No one I have ever known who supports the teaching in schools of diversity and understanding has ever had this agenda. Rather, the effort is so that children who are already homosexual, or have parents who are homosexual, don't end up being the targets of hate crimes. That, and nothing further. Desirable doesn't enter into the picture, although I do believe that homosexuals who somehow escape most of the societal prejudice against them in America can lead happy and healthy lives. You are essentially supporting the climate of hatred and bigotry which currently exists. I do believe that anyone who does that is personally responsible whenever a homosexual is beaten, tortured, or killed. Certainly, I would never want my child to participate in hate crimes, and so I would never, ever teach her any of this.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (31104)	2/17/1999 11:20:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I have a simple objection to teaching children that homosexuality is as normal and desirable as heterosexuality. It has traditionally been taught that homosexuality is abnormal and undesirable, and this has been traditionally interpreted as license to verbally and physically abuse those who are or are suspected of being homosexual. The current change in this teaching is an attempt to teach children that gay people are as human as the rest of us and should not be persecuted. I do not think that this will ever result in a child becoming gay that would not otherwise have been gay. It may hopefully cause a little less alienation and despair among those who are gay. I teach my children that gay people are just different, no better or worse than anyone else. I hope they listen to me, and not to their classmates. I am not the least bit worried that my son will become gay because I have not taught him a sufficient amount of fear and hatred.