Alarmed by an exgay partial victory in Montgomery County, Md., public schools, Boston Bay Windows political cartoonist Mikhaela Reid illustrates perceived similarities between exgay educational themes, and hate groups’ efforts to recruit children into sexism, racism and anti-Semitism.
Click here to view the complete cartoon strip.
That all makes perfect senseChildren do deserve to hear all views, and it’s important that the values kept at home are supported in any discussion at schoolAlso, it’s important so that the youngsters can make up their own minds on controversial issues — like should women be able to vote, and whether one day the coloured folk of this World will one day be as good as us.regards, Kay and Wesley
Children do deserve to hear all views, and it’s important that the values kept at home are supported in any discussion at school
I suppose. But the idea that the view that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east should be seriously denigrated.
I’m sure you understand the analogy.
I’d do the same thing with alchemy, but I’ll refrain.
‘Hear all views’?
S’cuse me….there is such a thing as stupid, prejudiced and WRONG views!
So no, not all views are valid. Teaching views in CONTEXT is what gives them their due value and weight.
Especially if the human beings spoken of are invalidated and historically and traditionally have been. That doesn’t mean that the historical and traditional hostility against them is valid or should be maintained.
I’ve encountered well meaning and kindly racists. Who are still insufferably and unjustifiably wrong.
Just because I don’t get lynched on sight these days, doesn’t mean they aren’t still a danger to those of a different color.
Same for religious people who try to enact enduring laws based on their personal religious choices which can be abandoned at will.
By the way….I was reading that interview with LIA’S John Smid.
Here’s a guy who was talking about convincing a person a wall is a certain color-in spite of it being the opposite color.
In other words, he’s certain he can convince someone that they are looking at a duck, when it’s really a ladder.
If I was talking to a person who wanted me to be that deceived and second guess what I know is true…
Smid would have to be a liar, crazy and incapable of handling reality.
His fantasy is sustained by fear and coercion, and motivated by a perceived reality, rather than an actual one.
He gets PAID to be such a numbskull?!
RUN, children…..RUN!
S’cuse me….there is such a thing as stupid, prejudiced and WRONG views!
I agree with you, but I’d put it a bit differently. I’d but it, in the case of homosex, “views for which there is no evidence.”
read grantdale’s whole post
IRONY, people, IRONY
Some things are so obvious that they don’t need to be labeled /tic or anything else. The phrase “whether one day the coloured folk of this World will one day be as good as us” should have clued you in.
Sigh. Thanks Timothy.One of the problems — for you lot, that is — with the very Irish speech patterns in Aussie English is heavy use of sarcasm, bitter irony, double negatives and phrase reversal. I’ll forgive you Americans on this occasion. Once more.See, I just did it again. Thrice.But, heck, didn’t anyone check those attractive links? OK, so we talk funny but those two absolute nutters are all YOURS!I know he’s being very serious — but I screamed on the floor in tears after finding Wesley’s plea for a “quality dedicated christian white lady with secretarial skills” (under 18 you’ll need your Ma and Pa’s permission). The way he wrote sounds so desperately sordid that no self-respecting lady racist would go near him with a barge-pole. Or just maybe she would…
I would never present all views–and I have been teaching for 9 years. There is a time and place for all views in the public square, but the classroom is not the public square.
I would not allow racist viewpoints to be presented in my class, for example. I would not allow mentally deranged people to expand upon thier views in class (and we sometimes get them). Not all views are equal.
I love Mikhaela.
IN THIS VERY COUNTY, TOO?! We’re known for being super-liberal, being home to the People’s Republic of Takoma Park and Silver Spring. Even our Republicans, whom we have many, don’t stoop this low!
Hi Peoples!
I just read Chad Thompson’s book. Then I read it again. And took some notes.
He’s got a link on this site if you want more information.
My instincts are telling me, that after all his entreatment to me to read his book to get perspective on him, he won’t engage.
I am fairly certain this is the end of me and Chad’s dialogue.
If he really wants to talk…great.
But he’s already treated me to the ‘I’m a busy man and you’re lucky I’ve emailed and had this much time for you’ round of access.
DL Foster hasn’t said much else either.
Stay tuned.
DL Foster is busy celebrating the executions of two gay teenagers in Iran.
Yes, DL Foster shall not live down this.When ever he speaks, or writes, or appears — direct people to his words at this time.Is this what they mean by “It’s not about hate, it’s about hope”???
https://ww.witnessministries.homestead.com/cm14.html
He seems spot on, imho.
Hello DL, I mean WilYou mean DL knows — certainly — what bisexual and loopy Anne will do next. My, he must be happy to be so mighty sure of hisself.By the way, if you’ve read her book — and I doubt that — what is your opinion about “heterosexual married people”? She did have some as parents, don’t you know?
I’ve met only a few hetero spouses of gay people and that was in PFLAG.
There is a woman who started an advocacy for people whose spouses come out of the closet during their marriage.
She approaches the issue from the perspective of inappropriate pressure put on gay people to marry heteros, rather than gay people being altogether deceptive.
Gay people are also led to believe they will change by simply marrying heterosexually.
That everyone is betrayed by a homophobic and arrogant culture.
I have the info around here somewhere.
She’s not bitter or confused, just pragmatic.
Refreshing.
RE: Regan DuCasse
The interesting thing is meeting the number who, being married to a ‘closet gay’, always felt like there was something wrong in the marriage – like a sixth sense; not the ‘womens intuition’, but that gut feeling that something isn’t quite right with the picture.
Unfortunately, however, society has a pretty warped perspective on gay people, and what we go through from an early age; I am sure if there was a way for a straight person to go through and experience all the emotions that us ‘gay folk’ felt during adolesence and later on in life, I’m sure you’d have alot more straight people feeling alot more sympathetic to how we feel and the crap we have to put up with every day of our lives.