The Education Minister said it was not his intention, nor the intention of this bill, to limit what parents or teachers could teach with respect to religious morality. The same thing was said about section 13 of the human rights act and it became known as the “hurt feelings” law. The Education Act came scarily close to being law which would have become an issue in the long term. If the Education Act had passed, I could see parents getting sued by some liberal activist for teaching home schooled children intolerance or hate outside of school hours. It would be some innocuous thing like parents debating the daily news such as “Love has no gender” around the dinner table, and they end up in the Alberta Human Rights courts for indoctrinating children. It’s one of the many reasons I’m glad it didn’t make it through third reading.
In our new and interesting world, the trend has become disturbing. If something is changed in the name of diversity or tolerance, Christians, anyone with traditional values, or opposing views are told they are bigoted or phobic. Apparently only select diverse differences are tolerated; others are, well, wrong. Either one is tolerant of differing view and opinions, or they should man up and realize how truly intolerant they are. The hypocritical “if you disagree with me, you’re racist/homophobic/transphobic/bigoted” crap is as good an argument as “that’s offensive.”
Even strange changes like gender inclusive washrooms happen because of this so called “inclusive,” “tolerant” attitude. It happened at the University of Victoria. These washrooms were created for transgendered people who don’t know what washroom to use. Either gender can use these washrooms. If anyone speaks out against this, they’re simply told they’re missing the point. Forgive me but there are not so many “gender benders” out there that we need to start modifying public spaces for them. My personal thought is, if a person doesn’t know what washroom to use, they’ve got bigger problems.
What irritates me is that changes like this happen for such a tiny minority. People who fight for LGBT rights would like us to believe it's for a large percent of the population. Most reliable demographics models that I find show no more than 1%-4% of the population identify as homosexual or transgendered (two spirited?). So why do we bend over backwards for this group? It’s gotten bad enough that they want gender removed from our passports! Give me a break!
I don't think that these topics should be forced on children or anyone else for that matter. Why is this still an issue? Same sex couples have the same rights has male/female couples so what's the problem? Continuing this fight only causes resentment, which is exactly what's happened with me. I was for gay rights, I know a lot of gay people that are quite personable. None of them are “activists.” None of them make me feel like a second class citizen because I'm married to a man and none of them wear their sexuality on their sleeve for everyone to see.
Maybe the LGBT community and gay activists will regain my respect when they don’t expect tolerance from every corner of every household in the known universe. They need to give me a chance to forget they’re around and realize they’ve blended into society. Then the LGBT community has truly won. Right now, I find them to be a joke and bunch of self-righteous bullies.
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'Shared love is a basic human need. The fact is the desire to express such love through a committed monogamous relationship is not limited to the heterosexual world. A gay man may deeply desire the same love relationship with the same depth of companionship, adventure and desire to build a family together, but the way he finds himself wired means that he can only ever imagine that being fulfilled with another man.'
Not ranting, just saying.
Salvationist LGBT supporter
Moscow
To 'Not ranting, just saying.'
This article is spot-on. If you want to be gay, if you must be gay, if you can't be anything but gay, please just get on with it. It's actually hurtful to the heterosexual community to have these sob stories constantly spouted day in day out. No-one cares about the intolerance shown by the gay community to heterosexual people who are not wired that way, and are not even wired for sympathy of those who are. We cannot plead 'they've hurt my feelings by the nasty things they're saying about me' - we have to get on with it and take the hit. We all need to get real and have respect for each other. The writer is correct - legislation means that people cannot openly speak about their opposition to the gay rights movement. That is inequality in my book.
First of all.... No reliable source puts the percentage of the LGBT community at 1-4%. Every credible source puts it at around 20% of the population. The ONLY place the 1-4% has ever been researched has revealed that 1-4% of women in rural Bible Belt America admit to being in a same-sex monogamous relationship for more than 2 years.
Second.... You people really have no idea.... Yes, laws are being passed, and a few people have been sued using them. But that is but a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the continuing discrimination against the LGBT community. If it makes you feel uncomfortable, than put it in perspective and just try and think about how deep it goes in the LGBT community on a daily basis. Yes, there are laws in place, but almost all of them have so many loop-holes in them that they are useless in preventing people from being fired or refused employment for no other reason than they are gay.
We do not want everyone to be liberal. You can have your view, just don't refuse the rights to the LGBT community. Let them get married, let them adopt. Teach your children it is wrong to beat up the gay kid at school. Don't refuse services to people because they are gay. That's all we're asking. We don't refuse services because you're heterosexual, don't refuse us.
For you, all we are asking is just a modification of how you treat others. However, what the conservatives are asking of the LGBT community is forced depression, self-loathing, self-hatred. What you are asking ALWAYS results in violence against the LGBT community, death, and suicide. There is the difference. That has not changed. The fight will continue until that does change. That is not the fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the conservatives teaching proves it is not of God because God does not bring violence, depression, and death. God brings life, hope, and love.
Yours in Christ,
Graeme Randall
Former Australian East in London
There is so much I have to say about this blog, but for now I will address the prejudiced and discriminatory language used by the blogger.
'Gender benders' isn't a very loving or respectful way of describing a person who is LOVED and VALUED by God. I wonder how Jesus would treat the LGBT community? I'd imagine (given my reading of the NT) he would be coming alongside them and loving them for the people they are, which by the way is not restricted to their gender or sexuality, in the same way that I don't define myself as a heterosexual natal female and nothing else.
Transpeople are first and foremost people. So perhaps we should afford them a little more respect than Ms McCullough does.
Leah Hassett
Daughter of FSAOs, UK.
Thank you Leah! Leah's mother Tracey was a major influence, encourager and article contributor to the FSAOF and our early blog success. She is a certified social worker and graduate of Hull University.
Blessings.
I wish I'd notice it was here sooner, but I didn't. I'd like to mention, first and foremost, my entire entry was not posted here. That's a bit annoying.
As it's been over a year, I'm not going to get into to much. I'm rather happy that it's opened up a bit of a debate. I do still maintain my opinion that activism is overboard but it's interesting to see what people get from what I have written.
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