I ran into a piece over on Joe.My.God about a couple of Xtian wingnut groups coming up with a counter to GLSEN's "Day of Silence," scheduled for next Friday in many of our nation's schools. They're asking Christian parents to keep their kids home that day to protest the protest.
According to Joe, the Illinois Family Institute and Mission America have distributed a message to parents, to wit:
Explain to your children why you’re taking a stand:
a. Homosexual behavior is not an innate identity.
b. No matter what factors may influence homosexual feelings, freely chosen homosexual behavior is immoral and should be resisted.
c. Homosexuality is not equivalent to race.
d. Disapproval of homosexuality is not equivalent to racism; nor is it hatred; nor is it bullying; nor does it constitute an incitement to violence. It is permissible and ethical to express disapproval of homosexuality. Just because someone may feel bad when hearing that someone disapproves of homosexuality does not mean that disapproval is cruel or wrong.
e. No school should support a view of homosexuality that is unproven and controversial, and that is physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive to individuals and society.
f. No school should allow instructional time to be politicized.
However, by doing a simple "search and replace" on it, I came up with the following:
Explain to your children why you’re taking a stand:
a. Religious behavior is not an innate identity.
b. No matter what factors may influence religious feelings, freely chosen religious behavior is immoral and should be resisted.
c. Religiosity is not equivalent to race.
d. Disapproval of religiosity is not equivalent to racism; nor is it hatred; nor is it bullying; nor does it constitute an incitement to violence. It is permissible and ethical to express disapproval of religiosity. Just because someone may feel bad when hearing that someone disapproves of religiosity does not mean that disapproval is cruel or wrong.
e. No school should support a view of religiosity that is unproven and controversial, and that is physically, emotionally, and spiritually destructive to individuals and society.
f. No school should allow instructional time to be politicized.
Why do they always pretend that they are right?
2 comments:
You are SO RIGHT on the Money, Ron!!! That revised statement should be posted in every classroom in the nation! There is absolutely no need for people to get so huffy.
The only thing is that religosity is a freely-chosen behavior, not an inborn drive. So the Xtians are again missing the point.
Hugs, ~ Sil
P.S. How was the reunion? ;-)
:-) The reunion, as you may have read by now, was ... sweet. I'm very glad I went. A few more foolish "resentments" disappeared that night!
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