Texas School Punishes Boy for Opposing Homosexuality

[Sbane]

In the words of either my uncle's or my Dad's coach from back in the day "Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit!" I'm glad they don't have this sh**t at my school, or I would have been shut up long ago for expressing my views.

I see nothing wrong with this. School is not the place for children to be spouting hate speech.

Jesus Christ. Seriously. My belief that something is wrong qualifies me as hating a certain class of people? Ah yes, I think that two men kissing each other in a sexual way is wrong, that means I hate all homosexuals and think they'll all go to Hell and in fact want them burned at the stake. Yes, that's what it means. "Doing drugs is wrong!" yes, that means I hate every last drug user including my stoner friends. This is bullsh**t.

But doing drugs, like the highly dangerous drug Alcohol, is a choice. On the other hand being gay is not.

It is most certainly a choice to act on it.

So they should just repress their feelings and live a depressing life? Why?

2000 year old book about magic and fairies says so.

People can be born with certain tendencies. Just because I'm born with some pre-disposition to steal sh**t doesn't mean that it suddenly becomes right.

When you steal something, you hurt someone. Who are gays hurting by not repressing their feelings?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

There are no faries in The Bible. And it's not 2000 years old.

[afleitch]

This is the kind of debate where the winning party is the one who doesn't participate.

What's telling is that I guessed which posters would be complaining about this

[ZuWo]

The teacher's reaction is an example how freedom of speech can be suppressed in the name of "tolerance", how the ideology of "tolerance" can turn into intolerance. The student in question didn't spread any sort of hate speech. He merely stated that, based on his Christian faith, homosexuality ("being a homosexual") is wrong. This is a point of view which is backed up by the Bible, which is the fundament of a Christian's belief. If some people think such a comment is inflammatory and should be punished, they should join a movement with the aim to ban parts of the Bible or the Bible as a whole, as it's this book which is the reason for the student's opinion.

There is no problem with such a type of comment. People should be allowed to say things like "being a homosexual/heterosexual/Jew/Muslim/Christian/American/European/white/black etc. is wrong". As long as they don't call for the persecution of a group of people, they are, in my opinion, entitled to express their opinion wherevery they want - no matter how stupid or insightful these opinions appear to others.

[John Dibble]

In the words of either my uncle's or my Dad's coach from back in the day "Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit Dammit!" I'm glad they don't have this sh**t at my school, or I would have been shut up long ago for expressing my views.

I see nothing wrong with this. School is not the place for children to be spouting hate speech.

Jesus Christ. Seriously. My belief that something is wrong qualifies me as hating a certain class of people? Ah yes, I think that two men kissing each other in a sexual way is wrong, that means I hate all homosexuals and think they'll all go to Hell and in fact want them burned at the stake. Yes, that's what it means. "Doing drugs is wrong!" yes, that means I hate every last drug user including my stoner friends. This is bullsh**t.

But doing drugs, like the highly dangerous drug Alcohol, is a choice. On the other hand being gay is not.

It is most certainly a choice to act on it.

So they should just repress their feelings and live a depressing life? Why?

2000 year old book about magic and fairies says so.

People can be born with certain tendencies. Just because I'm born with some pre-disposition to steal sh**t doesn't mean that it suddenly becomes right.

And just because an old book says something is wrong doesn't make it wrong.

But people do still have a right to believe it's wrong.

I never said they couldn't. What's your point?

[Iosif]

Bible thumpers would be a lot more palatable if they gave up their ridiculous crusade against men bumming each other.

Give it a rest.

[minionofmidas]

Oh those persecuted Christians! 

I saw a picture of a sign that was really cute.

"Religion is like a penis.  It's nice to have one.  It's alright to be proud of it.  But please don't whip it out in public and show it to everybody and please, by all means, do not try to shove it down my childrens' throats."

I agree. That is cute.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

This is the kind of debate where the winning party is the one who doesn't participate.

that's only because we have Nazis as moderators  

Would you prefer a nice game of chess?

[bullmoose88]

Would you prefer a nice game of chess?

Tic-Tac-Toe

Number of players: 0

Get to it WOPR...err...Josh...Jmfcst

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

This is the kind of debate where the winning party is the one who doesn't participate.

that's only because we have Nazis as moderators  

Would you prefer a nice game of chess?

sieg heil good buddy