11-07-2008, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by J. T. Toad
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I looked at the bill initially when it was being put forward and didn't remember anything about the "religion of homosexuality" and will read it again. But, I think it is pretty funny how the Yes on 8 people made this huge deal about wanting to keep the idea of gay marriage away from their kids and then put Yes on 8 ads at ALL hours of the day on every channel - so we ended up having to explain it to our kids anyway. So the idea of shielding them from gayness is kind of pointless. The other thing that I find strange is how some people think that a state law banning sodomy or gay marriage somehow prevents people from "turning" gay. This is unfathomable to me. Think back to when you were a teenager and imagine that there was no stigma attached to being gay . . . would you really have suddenly gotten a boner in the shower at gym class or suddenly NOT gotten a boner when flipping through the SI swimsuit issue? Just because of a LAW? Mother nature is waaaaay more powerful than our stupid laws. We don't suddenly crave hairy-man-love because there is no law against it. And none of my hetero classmates would have suddenly forgotten how smoking-hot our MILF 10th grade English teacher was because of a court decision.
I personally believe that there is a small minority of people are born with it. They had different, (what I would call "aberrated") wiring regarding sex. Some people are born with a pre-disposition to all kinds of things that religions teach as wrong. I can't imagine it is a matter of choice. Gay men are just simply not turned on by women. They don't choose it to be that way. It just is. At least that is my opinon. So I don't see that even if kids eventually learned that gay marriage is legal we would see any sort of increase in the "gayness" of our population.
I agree with Jamo's take on the education aspect. I don't really think it is appropriate at all to teach about any kind of sexuality in school to elementary aged kids. But whatever they teach in school, the burden is on me as a father to raise my kids in a manner that they are able to think logically and make decisions for themselves. Not be sheep who will follow their teachers, their preachers, their friends or even their parents without bothering to research and critically think for themselves.
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