Conservative Christian parents fight for right to discriminate against LGBT students

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114. So much fail my head wants to explode.

I'd be willing to put support behind initiatives to lessen the increasing pressure our society uses to promote sexuality among children. There is an awful lot put on kids' plates before they're really ready to handle it. Gay, straight, doesn't matter. As a matter of fact I have seen people who eventually out themselves as gay really put through a grinder during adolescence and young adulthood. It just doesn't do kids any good to have any extra pressure to identify themselves in terms of sexual activity when their own bodies do a more than adequate job of that on their own.

We, as a society, turn our young women into sexual objects well before they're at the age of consent. The way some parents dress their children really makes me wonder. We've come really far as a society in a lot of ways but the value we place on women being sexually desirable and available just blows me away. Do we really need a ten year old to try to show "cleavage"?

And our young men? We teach them a whole lot about the mechanics of having sex but nothing about the great responsibility being an adult requires. They are taught to judge females as sexual objects first and foremost. Then we can't understand why marriages and relationships go up in smoke as often as not.

And the poor kids who just don't fit in with either group? Oh yeah, lets go ahead and demand that they be bold and declare their orientation in the face of the highly charged sexual atmosphere of most public schools. That's a great idea. Instead of letting them grow comfortably into their own skins we make them political footballs before their time. I've seen it done to friends and their kids. And that damage doesn't go away, ever.

If the "Parents League" were really interested in helping the kids at that school they'd be discussing ways to turn down that volume knob just a bit on the sexual message our society drums into kids' heads.