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Thinking about gay marriage led me to studying how something becomes normal. The religious part of this issue took primary focus and I understand why. Religion is a deeply personal choice. Our unique and diverse perspectives have though, in my opinion, clouded another issue. I don’t see the issue being a religious one. My religion says abomination. No issue here. The proponents of state sanctioned gay marriage continuously state that it is an issue of civil liberties. I agree. It is an issue of civil liberties; civil liberties vs. unalienable rights.
It is through normalization, supported and sanctioned by the state, that the issue of gay marriage is revealed as an issue between civil liberties and unalienable rights.
Normalization is accomplished most effectively when promoted through an agenda of mass acceptance. Mass acceptance is reached through education, media and law utilizing marketing on a grand scale. One ingenious route is through compulsory education with curriculum matter in our schools into our children using teachers who cannot conscientiously object without punishment, through our school boards with dictates from the state with punishments of fund withholding if dictates are not implemented. Public school is an efficient marketing tool for social change. Many birds are hit with one stone.
Mass acceptance is also accomplished through the media. The strategy of offense is applied as opponents of gay marriage are portrayed as bigots motivated by fear. The media uses one sided pro-homosexuality presentations and TV shows depict homosexuality as normal from Bert and Ernie to Will and Grace. I know I can shut off my TV. The mainstream news networks, however, tend to journalism as opposed to reporting.
In the world I wish we lived, that which I acquire through my labor would not be extorted to fund the Government Indoctrination Schools. You want to talk about rights? Let’s take a look at Parental Authority, an unalienable right. Let’s look at our schools. Let’s look at an example of normalization through an anecdote of historical evidence.
Sexual Education was supposed to reduce teenage pregnancy. If this was successful the number of abortions for teenagers (21 and younger) would not have continued to rise, even given time for adjustments in reporting. Handing out condoms in school had the same objective with an added accent on STD prevention. So why are we seeing an increase of sexually transmitted diseases? HPV, human papilloma virus prevalence in teens ages 14 – 19 is 24.5%. That is 1 in 4 kids walking through our high schools. Normalizing teen sex through education increased sexual promiscuity with failure in the specific objectives of the programs. Where are the reports informing the facts? Sex Ed has become normalized. Most people are not aware of these statistics because they accept that Sex Ed must be working or they’d be hearing otherwise. We are not hearing otherwise. You have to look for yourself. Sex Ed programs are funded both with Federal and State tax dollars; our dollars.
Funding the public schools is done through our property taxes. And we the tax payer, cannot actively object to funding this without confiscation of personal property. “You are allowed to keep your property if you pay us what we demand so that we can teach your children what we want.” Hmmm.
As long as unalienable rights are trampled upon through mandatory funding, as long as Parental Authority continues to be under assault, we cannot look at normalizing homosexuality as a divorced topic from the rest. Homosexuality must be re-presented for mass acceptance and it has begun in our classrooms.
The Public School curriculum criterion in Maine in our MLR (Maine Learning Results) has a required area called Health with a sub-section called “Healthy Communities” and another heading; “Mental and Emotional Health”. The School Board approves the actual curriculum. The content is up to the discretion of the “Guidance Counselor” who now delivers the Health Curriculum. Do you know your School Board? Or your Guidance Councilor? Do you believe homosexuality is a topic to be presented to your child as young as 2nd grade by a relative stranger? And if you do, what if I don’t? What makes your values more important than mine?
We who believe in the Word of G-d are connected to homosexuality against our free will. We are actually made complicit in teaching it to the children. And I say ‘against our free will’ because we cannot choose to disassociate ourselves from this whether we have children or not without the confiscation of our property. It is bad form for proponents of civil liberties to support that which oppresses, regardless of who the oppressed are.
Furthermore, parents who choose to home-school, using their G-d given or nature given, Parental Authority, have an unfair burden. Home-schoolers do not receive their “per-pupil money” back. Home-schoolers must figure out how to afford the curriculum matter on top of paying their property taxes that pay for the empty chair their child does not sit in. And the view that we should support our community and the education of its youth whether we have children in the schools or not, should be judged by the education they are receiving. People choose to home-school for a variety of reasons.
The question is this: Can homosexuals have the same guaranteed protections under law to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property) without the State/Fed issuing mandates to promote mass acceptance that tramples upon the guarantee to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property) for others? Can homosexuals have the same rights as married couples without the shredding of our 1st Amendment? Or the confiscation of my personal property? And without the usurpation of my unalienable rights?
Not as long as I am bound by law through property taxes to support public schooling that delivers curriculum matter that is decided by the State and Fed. Not as long as my property can be seized if I actively withdraw my extorted consent to social/value/moral teachings in the schools that are in direct confrontation with my religion.
Civil liberties, fairness and equality only apply to promote the agenda of removing G-d? As long as you agree with the promoted agenda, it’s perfectly ok to oppress those who don’t? There is blatant hypocrisy in this that cannot be ignored. I am disgusted. Bad form. |
