[quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='alonzomourning23'][quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='alonzomourning23'][quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='alonzomourning23'][quote name='Duo_Maxwell']Wait I'm confused...There is or is not a sexual identity video for elementry schools? Either way the group is stupid. Yet I don't totally know if the idea of sexual identity should really be introduced to kids that young, at least not in schools, I just don't totally see a 1st or 2nd grader totally grasping the concept. And I dunno if cartoon characters should bring home the message either.[/quote]
It sounds like they were teaching tolerance. We teach 1st graders to accept blacks, asians etc., this shouldn't be any different. The point is to stop people from becoming bigots, if you wait until jr high or high school it's likely too late.[/quote]
High scool maybe, but not jr. high. And how exactly can you teach tolerence of sexual idenity without throughly making sure the kids understand something? It doesn't seem that much different to you or me but we aren't 7 years old. It's kind of an issue talking to kids about sex, or at least somewhere along the same lines in the eyes of a parent. How does one explain the concept of homosexuality without telling them about an attraction to the same gender? Race tolerence is a bit easier to understand, and when kids don't understand what they are being told it usually makes things worse. If I had a 6 year old, as a parent I dunno that would be an apporiate time to introduce the conept of sexuality in any form to him or her. IMHO it's kind of a similar arguement about when to teach kids sex education, but that is never really taught to 1st and 2nd graders.[/quote]
They understand that men and women marry and live together without understanding sexuality, therefore they can understand two men living together as well. You don't attach sex to the first one, you don't have to attach it to the second scenario. If I were to write a childrens book and instead of putting a husband and wife as parents I put two men, there would (and usually is) a backlash. Even if I don't mention anything else, there's just two guys as parents, I would get attacked for it.
This isn't a debate about sex education, it's about acceptance. We don't concern ourselves with the reaction of racist parents when teaching children, we shouldn't concern ourselves with homophobic parents either.[/quote]
You think that kid is going to sit there and not ask a teacher or parent why two men are living together instead of a man or a woman. A book like you suggest stops short and leaves the explanation up to someone else, the book teaches little tolerence whatsoever.[/quote]
Yes, because they love each other. The same reason we give for why a man and a women live together. If you are to treat homosexuality and heterosexuality as equal, and not one as inherently dirty, then what is the difference? Also, that book I suggested was just an example of how people overact. It wasn't an example of teaching tolerance, just an example of how just including gays causes a reaction, even if you say nothing about it.
Also, why do we bother teaching children religion? They can't fully comprehend it, yet we feel its important to teach them young so they develop faith and good morals.[/quote]
Last I checked religion was only taught in relgious and bible schools, it's not a universal thing in the least, Public elementry schools go out of the way to keep religion away. Teaching relgion is left up to the home. Maybe tolerence should be taught at a young age, but I don't think it's entirely right for schools to decide when that is, I'm sure some parents agree with that view.[/quote]
One of the reason you said we shouldn't teach tolerance for homosexuality at a young age was because they wouldn't understand it, religion was an example where parents teach something that the child does not fully understand, because, even lacking full understanding, it is viewed as beneficial and increases the chance they will believe it later on in life. But as far as I'm concerned teaching tolerance for homosexuality is just as important as teaching tolerance for other races. No sexual education is needed, the children do not know about or understand heterosexual sex, they need not know about homosexual sex.