A resolution is being proposed at this year’s Southern Baptist national convention, demanding Southern Baptists investigate their local public school systems and withdraw their kids from any school that allows a gay/straight alliance to meet, discusses sexual orientation in class, or implements an anti-bullying program inclusive of sexual/gender minorities.
The resolution organizers imply, but do not explicitly state, that the measure enjoys support from these pundits of the exgay movement:
Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans for Truth and Executive Director of the Illinois Family Institute,
Linda Harvey, President, Mission America, Columbus, Ohio
Robert Knight, program director, Concerned Women for America
Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, M.S., M.D., Department of Politics, Princeton University
Dr. Warren Throckmorton, Associate Professor of Psychology, Grove City College
I don’t mean to be nasty, but it is interesting that the response of Southern Baptists to the presence of facts or arguments that are contrary to their religious beliefs is to withdraw their children from the public school. Is that because their religious beliefs are so weak they will crumble under any contrary argument?
I was raised Catholic and went to public school. We certainly knew kids who were Protestant and Jewish, who did not follow Catholic theology, but my parents figured our religious training was sufficient for us to be exposed to these children without “losing our religion.” Hell, my junior high even provided information on contraception.
The Southern Baptists seem to have a psychological need to find something gay to get fired up about every year. This is proof that you can’t please them. Nothing short of eradication of gays will, and then they will be lost because they only exist to hate us at this point.
Are they FOR bullying of gays?
Mike Airhart at May 18, 2005 04:22 AM
A resolution is being proposed at this year’s Southern Baptist national convention, demanding Southern Baptists investigate their local public school systems and withdraw their kids from any school that allows a gay/straight alliance to meet, discusses sexual orientation in class, or implements an anti-bullying program inclusive of sexual/gender minorities.
I’ve noted this on a number of science-oriented web sites. Be prepared. The “culture wars” will result in the demise of public education in the US. It isn’t just homosex. It’s also evilution (misspelling intentional) and modern physics (big bang theory).
Intelligent people (scientists, primarily, but also those who are interested in a liberal arts education) are going to have to face up to it. And the sooner they do, the better off they’ll be.
I have come to the conclusion that I don’t particularly care. We don’t have any children. And we’ll be residing primarily in Germany in a few years. It’s your kids who are going to suffer. (This is the universal “your,” like the royal “we.” I don’t know whether anyone here has children.) The Europeans and the Chinese are really going to clean up. Particularly the Chinese.
And, before I get a bunch of brick bats tossed my way, just to let you know, I’m being very sarcastic.
In the 1960s, my parents dragged me to a Baptist church of the Amerian Baptist Convention. It wasn’t a bad church. The pastor was actually very nice, as pasters are wont to be. Unfortunately, as the pastor and I were walking from the building in which they held sunday school to the church building (I really was a good lil’ boy) at one point during the 1960 presidential election campaign, he made a comment that I have never forgotten. I don’t recall the exact words of the comment. But the substance of the comment was an anti-Catholic slur.
We had Catholic kids in the neighborhood I grew up in. They were very nice. We had St. X high school at the head of the street (this was when I was growing up in a suburb of in Cincinnat). My HS biology teacher was a same-sex partner of a teacher at St. X. We kind of knew it. He was almost certainly gay. He and his St. X science teacher partner organized science club visits by my HS and St X to the wonderful science museums in Chicago. He was a very nice man, and, from subsequent reports, he adopted a number of kids who would not likely have been adopted by “normal” couples.
But the most upsetting thing about my childhood religious indoctrination was the anti-Catholic slur made by that Baptist preacher in 1960.
On religion and education: I ran into the tail end of a report about complaints about one of the military academy and it’s insistence on fundamentalist Christianity. Any one know anything about it?