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The Family Research Council has launched a website aimed at removing Kevin Jennings from his appointment as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the Department of Education. I don’t have to tell you, it’s pretty vicious. The Family Research Council’s beef with Jennings has a little something to do with (wait for it…) his homosexuality. Jennings is the founder of GLSEN – The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an organization for students, parents and teachers that works to make school environments safer for LGBT students. (GSLEN started the Day of Silence, which has been embraced by schools across the country.) Here’s FRC’s Pete Sprigg on why Jennings should be ousted: “Jennings and the organization he founded have been the leaders in promoting a pro-homosexual agenda in America’s schools, beginning in kindergarten. His positions are extreme and narrow-minded, his rhetoric harsh and hate-filled, and his qualifications and ethical standards questionable at best.” Their campaign goes on to pull out-of-context quotes from Jennings’ memoir, “Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son,” to paint him as a drug-using, God-hating, radical queer aiming to turn everyone on the planet gay before Labor Day. If there’s one line of attack in anti-gay rhetoric that I hate the most, it’s the line that paints gay men and women as a threat to children – in the classroom, in the home, on the street, wherever the homophobes imagine we will be. It’s the line that gets hauled anytime the opposition wants to land a particularly low blow, one that reaches past logic and factual record into a purely emotional, purely personal place.

[RalphB]

Children are routinely used as an argument for or against a multitude of people and ideas. Whenever anyone wants a tax increase or a divorce or even a new stoplight, they all use the welfare of children as an argument. It is getting to the point where I just totally ignore anyone using children in their arguments anymore. Let's face it, if the people of this country gave a damn about the children, all children, not just their own, there wouldn't be any children on the street or homeless shelters, or orphanages. The people who yell the loudest about the welfare of the children are usually interested only in their own welfare, and how they can use children for their own good.

[Mona Lott]

You are assuming that these are reasonable people.
They are not. They believe in magic underwear, a 3-in-1 MAN sitting in a throne up in the sky (I guess they don't need to breathe in heaven)the "holiness" of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of their Savior, virgin births, and a very confused timeline of when Christianity actually began. Jesus was a Jew. There were no Christians or churches during or shortly after his life.
How do you try to convince people who believe this magical nonsense to see things "our" way?
They NEVER will....they need to die off. It will be a very long time before homophobia is a thing of the past.
In the mean time, it is my opinion that we need to focus on the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, or America is doomed.
Has anyone ever read "Stranger in a Strange Land?"

[RalphB]

Mona Lott wrote:

You are assuming that these are reasonable people.
They are not. They believe in magic underwear, a 3-in-1 MAN sitting in a throne up in the sky (I guess they don't need to breathe in heaven)the "holiness" of eating the flesh and drinking the blood of their Savior, virgin births, and a very confused timeline of when Christianity actually began. Jesus was a Jew. There were no Christians or churches during or shortly after his life.
How do you try to convince people who believe this magical nonsense to see things "our" way?
They NEVER will....they need to die off. It will be a very long time before homophobia is a thing of the past.
In the mean time, it is my opinion that we need to focus on the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, or America is doomed.
Has anyone ever read "Stranger in a Strange Land?"

Heinlein, right? Or was it Bradbury? I haven't read many sci-fi books in the last few years. Mostly mysteries.