Abdullah,
First of all, whether a teacher is gay or straight has no relevance to his
or her function as a teacher. The teacher is teaching according to a
carriculum. He is helping the child learn. What his personal sexual
preferences are, isn't involved. In a true democracy, we do not discriminate
against a person because of his religious beliefs, his sexual preferences,
or his race, when we hire him to do a job.
Second: Teaching students about birth control and about sex doesn't cause
them to engage in sexual behavior. It gives them information and facts so
that if they do engage in sexual behavior, they can do so in a safe and
responsible manner. Keeping sexual facts secret from youngsters, has never
prevented them from experimenting with sex. Giving them information, may
limit the experimentation and if it doesn't, they will at least stay safe
and healthy.
That is what we do in public schools when the schools are run in a secular
and rational manner. If Americans have very strong religious beliefs which
cause them to be uncomfortable with a public, secular education, then they
can send their children to religious schools. They choose the schools whose
carricula are guided by their specific religions.
It's important to keep religion separate from government so that one
religion doesn't take precedence over another.
Miriam
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Hi
I want to bee honest here,
if they are start to gays and lesbians teaching in public schools
I would not let my child go in that school..
Second I don't agree with public school to tich child how to use condom,
what is brf control and how to use.
Looks like school thich child from
orly age to have sex,
no to have sex, on other hands give them advice to have sex from orly age.
This country say this is religion freedom, if is like they are say religion
freedom,
why they are destroy some body freedom?
why fours some body child to learn in school about lesbian and gays?
I had school in secular country, but I didn't have to know about this staff.
Now in democracy we have all thinks, but all under democrats' system.
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To: Blind Democracy <mailto:blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] uncertain future of Log Cabin Republicans
The Log Cabin Republicans' Uncertain Future
The Log Cabin Republicans strive for legitimacy within a party that worked
tirelessly against marriage equality. Can they replicate past successes
battling "religious freedom" in red states?
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A mention of Log Cabin Republicans in some queer quarters will elicit a
response similar to the invocation of Jews for Jesus or Uncle Tom: a
derisive snort. Or worse.
LCR celebrated nationwide marriage equality with the rest of the LGBT
community, after having worked hard to bring it about. But the party to
which it pledges allegiance has pitched a rearguard action against marriage
for years, surrendering no ditch without a skirmish.
The GOP and the greater conservative movement sometimes seem to want little
to do with LCR. To wit: While some GOP presidential contenders have met with
LCR, they all condemned the United States Supreme Court's marriage equality
decision in June, some in floridly apocalyptic terms; most immediately
seized the banner of the next battle, "religious freedom." LCR finally
attended the GOP national convention as a recognized group in 2012, yet
anti-LGBT rhetoric peppered the party's platform, and LCR was still denied
full inclusion at the influential Conservative Political Action Conference,
settling this year for participation in a single panel with no booth on the
floor. LCR was disinvited from June's Western Conservative Summit, its $250
deposit returned. And last year, the Texas GOP denied LCR's chapter a booth
at the annual convention, citing an obscure rule that Texas LCR chairman
Jeff Davis says is routinely overlooked for others.
Yet LCR soldiers on for both LGBT rights and Republicanism, seemingly immune
to the humiliation of such rejection. With marriage equality legally
settled, and with the ban on transgender participation in the military on a
path similar to that of "don't ask, don't tell," one main issue confronting
LGBT political campaigners, including LCR, is whether they can successfully
head off or defeat "religious freedom restoration acts" (RFRAs) coming out
of red-state legislatures and statehouses.
LCR has scored victories in the past. The group was founded in California to
combat the ultimately unsuccessful 1978 Briggs Initiative, which would have
barred gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools. The organization
helped quash the Federal Marriage Amendment, introduced in Congress in 2004
and endorsed by President George W. Bush. And in 2010, a California federal
judge ruled DADT unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed by LCR; many political
watchers credit that victory with paving a path to DADT's repeal.
But can LCR replicate its political successes against RFRAs? And does it
want to?
The establishment of such RFRA policies is unlikely at the federal level, or
in blue states like California. The assault will come from the South and the
Midwest - and what LCR can do there is unclear. One problem is the absence
of chapters in critical GOP-leaning states, including Mississippi, Arkansas,
Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Idaho, Montana, North
and South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. LCR's Alabama chapter shut
down sometime after 2010, the year of the last entry on its Facebook page.
Nevertheless non-Republican advocates in conservative states with LCR
chapters view the organization as a valuable ally.
"Within the Texas legislature, they are an incredibly effective voice," says
Equality Texas's Daniel Williams. He credits LCR with helping head off
certain anti-LGBT bills in the latest legislative session.
Equality Utah executive director Troy Williams (no relation) says that "LCR
have been instrumental in establishing relationships with both Governor Gary
Herbert and his predecessor Jon Huntsman."
LCR is "going to be important to move the needle," says Equality North
Carolina executive director Chris Sgro. But the extent to which local
chapters depend on the national organization's health is uncertain.
Jimmy LaSalvia founded the now-defunct Kentucky LCR chapter in 2004, later
served at the national level, and ultimately left LCR to found GOProud, a
since-disbanded Republican LGBT group. LaSalvia quit the GOP last year. His
book, No Hope: Why I Left the GOP (and You Should Too), comes out in
October.
LaSalvia claims LCR is "hanging by a thread," that the national office once
had seven employees but is now down to executive director Gregory T. Angelo
and an intern, and that membership has fallen since around 2004, which he
calls the group's "heyday."
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