Should Children Learn Gay History in Public Schools?

Gay is not a race, or a religion, or ethnic group. It's a sexual preference. Why do we need to know the sexual preference of anyone in history? Why are gay people so desperate for us to know they are gay? I don't care. There are probably some in history that preferred farm animals. I don't need to know that either. Maybe we should find out which Presidents preferred mission style. Really?! Gay people aren't discriminated against because they are gay; it's because they are so obnoxious and annoying about demanding that the world be aware of their sexual preference.

marga rita of TN 11:46PM March 26, 2012

So what if it goes against your religion, your little ideas of whats right and whats wrong. Religion is effed, and I'm probably going to get shiit for that, but its true. Even if you don't care what sexual orientation someone is, if you can sit there and say its wrong, and say someone is going to hell for it, you are bullying. You are teaching your children to bully. LGBTQ people don't like it when you say stuff like "Oh you're gay? I don't really care if you are, I just hope you know that its a sin and you're going to hell for it." In fact, if someone were to ever say that to me, i would punch them in the face. I wouldn't take such craap.

My own personal opinion on religion is that it's a load of bs. There is no proof of any of it. All you have is an effing book. A book so old and no one even knows who actually wrote it. Some effing old guy probably wrote it as a joke and people just took it way too seriously. It's that book, and all you little religious followers that have helped make our society a horrible place. We are becoming more advanced by the year. Our knowledge is growing, and we are learning things that were once hidden from us, things that we had little understanding of. Technology has advanced to the point where if you were to tell someone from 50 years ago what we had, they would think you were crazy. We have evolved so much, yet our morals and society views are still the same. People are unaware of just how badly what they say and what they do can impact somebody. It's sad to think that we live in a society where our morals are distorted, the people are so full of hostility and shrouded by their own ignorance, and we are still so discriminatory towards eachother. We, humankind, have made such cruel mistakes. I just hope the future generations will see these errors and fix them to what they are meant to be.

zeiiih of CA 7:01AM February 23, 2012

So what if it goes against your religion, your little ideas of whats right and whats wrong. Religion is effed, and I'm probably going to get shiit for that, but its true. Even if you don't care what sexual orientation someone is, if you can sit there and say its wrong, and say someone is going to hell for it, you are bullying. You are teaching your children to bully. LGBTQ people don't like it when you say stuff like "Oh you're gay? I don't really care if you are, I just hope you know that its a sin and you're going to hell for it." In fact, if someone were to ever say that to me, i would punch them in the face. I wouldn't take such craap.

My own personal opinion on religion is that it's a load of bs. There is no proof of any of it. All you have is an effing book. A book so old and no one even knows who actually wrote it. Some effing old guy probably wrote it as a joke and people just took it way too seriously. It's that book, and all you little religious followers that have helped make our society a horrible place. We are becoming more advanced by the year. Our knowledge is growing, and we are learning things that were once hidden from us, things that we had little understanding of. Technology has advanced to the point where if you were to tell someone from 50 years ago what we had, they would think you were crazy. We have evolved so much, yet our morals and society views are still the same. People are unaware of just how badly what they say and what they do can impact somebody. It's sad to think that we live in a society where our morals are distorted, the people are so full of hostility and shrouded by their own ignorance, and we are still so discriminatory towards eachother. We, humankind, have made such cruel mistakes. I just hope the future generations will see these errors and fix them to what they are meant to be.

zeeieihf of FL 6:51AM February 23, 2012

Teaching the younger generations about LGBTQ history while they're still in their early school years is a great idea. People need to know about this stuff, what kind of sufferings the LGBTQ community has gone through, and the kind of discrimination they still get in today's society. Most people don't even understand the extent of the type of discimination the LGBTQ community has had thrown at them.

This discrimination isn't something people should just toss over their shoulder and forget about. It is a serious issue that is still, to this day, expressed by many members of the general public. LGBTQ people still have to go through their lives having hateful comments and judgments shoved into their faces by those who do not have enough knowledge or will to even try to understand what its like. They have had what they deserve as being part of this society taken away from them based soley on their sexual orientation. They have been bashed, and have been the target of such ridicule for something thats a part of who they are. It's these type of people that we need to avoid in the future.

Things like homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, transgendered, queer, etc. are not something that can be chosen. It has been scientifically proven that there are a number of different factors in someone's life that can affect a person's sexuality; from a person's genetics to their enviromental influences. Sexuality is fluid, as some like to believe, meaning that it is capable of changing over time. Though this has not been validated, it has not been ruled out. Sexuality being a choice, however, has been scientifically proven to be false.

One of the major issues of homosexuality that has induced in the minds of many young people, especially those of religious backgrounds, is the whole concept of it being something that should be frowned upon, or more commonly, 'wrong'. Homosexuality isn't something to be frowned upon, its not 'wrong' or 'gross'. It's a perfectly normal part of life, just as heterosexuality. It has even been documented to be a part of the animal kingdom, so no, its not just humans that do it. In fact, this was never an issue until humans had the ability to speak. Even so, if you were to ask someone why they thought it was 'wrong', they'd probably say something about how it goes against God and the bible, or how humans were created as male and female so that we could reproduce, right? So that the human race would be able to survive, so society can greatly advance, and we can gain a comprehensive knowledge of what is and what isn't. That is the typical response. Survival of mankind.

zeiih 6:37AM February 23, 2012