Discussion: Teacher Resigns After Reading Story About Gay Couple To Class Sparks Uproar

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Oh my GOD!!! Teh GAY! Teh GAY IS COMING!!! Two men in love? Think of the CHILDRED!!! —white knuckled grip on my pearls—

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Texas. North Carolina. Louisiana. Florida. Et al. A revision of Lincoln’s legacy is due.

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What a shame the teacher and assistant principal resigned. We need more educators willing to stand up to the fundamentalists who would rather see LGBT kids bullied and beaten on school playgrounds.

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Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “Bad enough we gots a n----r teaching the childrenz…but then he’s gotta go and learn ‘em about teh gayz? What’s next, showin’ them how to smokes teh crack?”

I’ve always sort of likened it to Seward and Alaska: The South is “Lincoln’s Folly.”

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To them, if we don’t teach kids about gay people and the issues related to being gay, they won’t be gay. It (the gay) will simply go away. To these people, being gay is a CHOICE. A bad, immoral choice and if you don’t teach kids about it they won’t choose to be it.

Just teach kids about “normal” people and that’s what they’ll be. Normal.

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FauXians take on homosexuality reminds me of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

“Kill the gay
Slash his throat
Kill the gay
Bash him in”

In the Xian way.

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Piggy and Matthew Shepard commiserate in the great beyond.

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I remember when people used to resign for doing something wrong.

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Yes because the South is the only place where gays face discrimination. In the rest of the country it’s a love filled paradise filled with understanding and support.

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If we are not going to have stories in our school about relationships, then I suggest we clear the library shelves of all the happily ever after fairy tales like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty – basically anything that’s been turned into a Disney movie. Those stories have done more harm to children’s (especially little girls) views of what a relationship should be than I imagine King & King could do.

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Public opinion in the United States shows majority support for the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. This support has remained above 50% consistently in opinion polls since 2010 after having increased steadily for more than a decade. An August 2010 CNN poll became the first national poll to show majority support for same-sex marriage, with nearly all subsequent polls showing majority support. Support for same-sex marriage generally correlates with younger age (younger than 50), higher education, and residence in the Northeast, West Coast and some parts of the Midwest. Women are also more likely to be in support than men.
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The bottom 16 states favoring legal same sex marriage, aggregate polling, Courtesy Wikipedia:

Georgia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Louisiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Wyoming, North Dakota, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Idaho, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi.


Not much of a Northern flavor to that bunch, is there?
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Well, by comparison, yes—northern states are far more inclusive and appreciative of their demographic diversity, including gays, African Americans, and immigrants. Don’t think Southerners should be tarred as ignorant, snake-handling rubes? Stop enabling the fundamentalists and racists among you, recruit better elected officials, and bring Southern state policies regarding LGBT civil rights, minority voting rights, and reproductive choice up to code with 21st century, civilized America already.

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A blah man teaching tolerance of gays? In North Carolina? Too bad it wasn’t a gay sex-ed lesson, he could have 'sploded all the heads.

I hope he finds another, better teaching position immediately. And I feel sorry for the kids, who lost likely a good educator. They’ll get their Bible-thumping white man or woman, AS GOD INTENDED. <rolleyes>

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Texas didn’t make the list!

(Maybe the polling wasn’t state-wide? I’d expect the Houston-San Antonio-Austin-Dallas corridor to poll reasonably well, but not Lubbock-Midland-Odessa.)

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FIFY

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The American Architecture Society found that Texas has the highest number of closets per capita.

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