Florida expands "Don't say gay" law to k-12

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have liked teachers promoting homosexuality to me in high school. I didn't even like it in college when the Shakespeare professor made a weak argument that Shakespeare was gay, and saying these are gay plays, at one point saying Greeks though the ideal relationship was between men and boys.

I don't know if Shakespeare was gay, but there is a stronger argument to be made for this if you go with Shakespeare didn't write the plays and it was instead the Earl of Oxford.


NO ONE IS "PROMOTING" HOMOSEXUALITY YOU IDIOT.


Do you prefer the word "celebrating?" It's basically the same thing.


First of all, no, those words don't mean the same thing.
Second of all, allowing people to be seen as human beings and worthy of dignity isn't celebrating or promoting anything. It's acknowledging that not everyone is the same, and you don't get to tell someone they are offensive at their core.
Third of all, think of this way. How much of this "celebrating gayness" would it take to turn you gay? How much? I'll wait...


I'm not an impressionable tween or teenager.


No one is changing their orientation based on pressure. Even when gay people were forced to marry they never changed their orientation, they just suppressed it.

What makes you feel so threatened by the idea that gay people exist and that they are gay from birth?


Pressure?? Are you kidding? It’s not “pressure.” It’s full celebration and reward of attention


Ok. What amount of full celebration and reward of attention would it take to turn you gay?


No amount would do it for me, but then I am a happily married, emotionally stable 46 YO with a lot of life experience, perspective and an understanding that life isn’t always going to go my way. I don’t crave attention or validation from others. I am secure in myself and have a loving support system around me.

I am not the target of the celebrating- insecure, immature, lonely kids with none of the above.


What does this have to do with the Florida law? Do you have concrete specific examples of teachers teaching that is putting kids in danger?


It has nothing to do with the Florida law that I can see. I was merely responding to the persistent poster who, for some odd reason, keeps asking what it would take to turn me gay. Why don’t you read back a few posts, join the conversation, and try to figure out what point this person is trying to make?


Because there is no way to turn anyone gay. Period. Full stop. Nothing could have turned you gay in middle or high school and nothing can turn you gay now. Same for kids today. You’re either gay or not. Nothing any teacher tells you, talks about, reads to you, etc would have ever turned you gay. You can’t be turned gay not because you’re “happily married” (spoiler alert- many gay people are happily married too), but because — wait for it — you’re not gay, never was, and never will be. Same for any kid in school today. They’re either gay or not. Period.


Oh, it’s the Full Stop gal again. Hi!
Of course what you’re saying is 100% incorrect. Just go to any high school or kids school for that matter, and talk to the girls. Virtually all of them will tell you that they know someone- or they themselves- are experimenting with their sexuality. This can mean anything at that age and of course the vast majority will turn out to be straight as adults. So there goes your theory


Oh hey, random pervert. Hi! Just how many random girls at any high school for that matter are you actually approaching to speak with them about their sexuality? You might want to check that.
But OK, I'll bite. Virtually all of them huh? That seems... slightly suspicious.
But you just said it yourself. According to your incredibly impressive but perverted scientific research of a creep, the vast majority will turn out straight. Which I assume is your desired goal.
So what's the f-ing problem. They experiment, they question, and -- much to your delight -- they wind up straight. No actual turning gay here to be seen.
What's the point of this legislation then?


I have kids in high school, which is how I know what I'm talking about. Do you? I would bet my bottom dollar that you do not, but you seem somehow obsessed with this issue anyway.

Kids this age should not be experimenting with gay sex, or with any sex for that matter. Why are people like you so intent on sexualizing children and teens that bills like the Florida law are necessary for their protection?

I am sincerely sorry for any trauma or pain in your life that causes you to think the way that you do. But trust me when I say that attempting to harm other people's children is not the answer to what you're dealing with.
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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have liked teachers promoting homosexuality to me in high school. I didn't even like it in college when the Shakespeare professor made a weak argument that Shakespeare was gay, and saying these are gay plays, at one point saying Greeks though the ideal relationship was between men and boys.

I don't know if Shakespeare was gay, but there is a stronger argument to be made for this if you go with Shakespeare didn't write the plays and it was instead the Earl of Oxford.


NO ONE IS "PROMOTING" HOMOSEXUALITY YOU IDIOT.


Do you prefer the word "celebrating?" It's basically the same thing.


First of all, no, those words don't mean the same thing.
Second of all, allowing people to be seen as human beings and worthy of dignity isn't celebrating or promoting anything. It's acknowledging that not everyone is the same, and you don't get to tell someone they are offensive at their core.
Third of all, think of this way. How much of this "celebrating gayness" would it take to turn you gay? How much? I'll wait...


I'm not an impressionable tween or teenager.


No one is changing their orientation based on pressure. Even when gay people were forced to marry they never changed their orientation, they just suppressed it.

What makes you feel so threatened by the idea that gay people exist and that they are gay from birth?


Pressure?? Are you kidding? It’s not “pressure.” It’s full celebration and reward of attention


Good gracious. How much celebration and reward of attention would turn you gay? I mean seriously. How much celebration and reward of attention have turned gay people straight?

Guess what. Zero.

You people are pathetic with your fears and hysteria that acceptance of people's differences mean all the people like you are going to go over to what you consider the "dark" side. Oh ye of little faith.
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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have liked teachers promoting homosexuality to me in high school. I didn't even like it in college when the Shakespeare professor made a weak argument that Shakespeare was gay, and saying these are gay plays, at one point saying Greeks though the ideal relationship was between men and boys.

I don't know if Shakespeare was gay, but there is a stronger argument to be made for this if you go with Shakespeare didn't write the plays and it was instead the Earl of Oxford.


NO ONE IS "PROMOTING" HOMOSEXUALITY YOU IDIOT.


Do you prefer the word "celebrating?" It's basically the same thing.


First of all, no, those words don't mean the same thing.
Second of all, allowing people to be seen as human beings and worthy of dignity isn't celebrating or promoting anything. It's acknowledging that not everyone is the same, and you don't get to tell someone they are offensive at their core.
Third of all, think of this way. How much of this "celebrating gayness" would it take to turn you gay? How much? I'll wait...


I'm not an impressionable tween or teenager.


No one is changing their orientation based on pressure. Even when gay people were forced to marry they never changed their orientation, they just suppressed it.

What makes you feel so threatened by the idea that gay people exist and that they are gay from birth?


Pressure?? Are you kidding? It’s not “pressure.” It’s full celebration and reward of attention


Ok. What amount of full celebration and reward of attention would it take to turn you gay?


No amount would do it for me, but then I am a happily married, emotionally stable 46 YO with a lot of life experience, perspective and an understanding that life isn’t always going to go my way. I don’t crave attention or validation from others. I am secure in myself and have a loving support system around me.

I am not the target of the celebrating- insecure, immature, lonely kids with none of the above.


What does this have to do with the Florida law? Do you have concrete specific examples of teachers teaching that is putting kids in danger?


It has nothing to do with the Florida law that I can see. I was merely responding to the persistent poster who, for some odd reason, keeps asking what it would take to turn me gay. Why don’t you read back a few posts, join the conversation, and try to figure out what point this person is trying to make?


Because there is no way to turn anyone gay. Period. Full stop. Nothing could have turned you gay in middle or high school and nothing can turn you gay now. Same for kids today. You’re either gay or not. Nothing any teacher tells you, talks about, reads to you, etc would have ever turned you gay. You can’t be turned gay not because you’re “happily married” (spoiler alert- many gay people are happily married too), but because — wait for it — you’re not gay, never was, and never will be. Same for any kid in school today. They’re either gay or not. Period.



Oh, it’s the Full Stop gal again. Hi!
Of course what you’re saying is 100% incorrect. Just go to any high school or kids school for that matter, and talk to the girls. Virtually all of them will tell you that they know someone- or they themselves- are experimenting with their sexuality. This can mean anything at that age and of course the vast majority will turn out to be straight as adults. So there goes your theory


Oh no, experimenting with sexuality!! The horror! The question is, does this experimentation actually change a person's ingrained orientation and sexual attraction? Does a gay person experimenting with being straight ever become truly straight?
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Now Florida is passing a bill to take away trans kids from their families - even if the kids aren't in the state.

https://newrepublic.com/post/172063/florida-house-bill-allowing-trans-kids-removed-families

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have liked teachers promoting homosexuality to me in high school. I didn't even like it in college when the Shakespeare professor made a weak argument that Shakespeare was gay, and saying these are gay plays, at one point saying Greeks though the ideal relationship was between men and boys.

I don't know if Shakespeare was gay, but there is a stronger argument to be made for this if you go with Shakespeare didn't write the plays and it was instead the Earl of Oxford.


NO ONE IS "PROMOTING" HOMOSEXUALITY YOU IDIOT.


Do you prefer the word "celebrating?" It's basically the same thing.


First of all, no, those words don't mean the same thing.
Second of all, allowing people to be seen as human beings and worthy of dignity isn't celebrating or promoting anything. It's acknowledging that not everyone is the same, and you don't get to tell someone they are offensive at their core.
Third of all, think of this way. How much of this "celebrating gayness" would it take to turn you gay? How much? I'll wait...


I'm not an impressionable tween or teenager.


No one is changing their orientation based on pressure. Even when gay people were forced to marry they never changed their orientation, they just suppressed it.

What makes you feel so threatened by the idea that gay people exist and that they are gay from birth?


Pressure?? Are you kidding? It’s not “pressure.” It’s full celebration and reward of attention


Ok. What amount of full celebration and reward of attention would it take to turn you gay?


No amount would do it for me, but then I am a happily married, emotionally stable 46 YO with a lot of life experience, perspective and an understanding that life isn’t always going to go my way. I don’t crave attention or validation from others. I am secure in myself and have a loving support system around me.

I am not the target of the celebrating- insecure, immature, lonely kids with none of the above.


What does this have to do with the Florida law? Do you have concrete specific examples of teachers teaching that is putting kids in danger?


It has nothing to do with the Florida law that I can see. I was merely responding to the persistent poster who, for some odd reason, keeps asking what it would take to turn me gay. Why don’t you read back a few posts, join the conversation, and try to figure out what point this person is trying to make?


Because there is no way to turn anyone gay. Period. Full stop. Nothing could have turned you gay in middle or high school and nothing can turn you gay now. Same for kids today. You’re either gay or not. Nothing any teacher tells you, talks about, reads to you, etc would have ever turned you gay. You can’t be turned gay not because you’re “happily married” (spoiler alert- many gay people are happily married too), but because — wait for it — you’re not gay, never was, and never will be. Same for any kid in school today. They’re either gay or not. Period.



Oh, it’s the Full Stop gal again. Hi!
Of course what you’re saying is 100% incorrect. Just go to any high school or kids school for that matter, and talk to the girls. Virtually all of them will tell you that they know someone- or they themselves- are experimenting with their sexuality. This can mean anything at that age and of course the vast majority will turn out to be straight as adults. So there goes your theory


Oh no, experimenting with sexuality!! The horror! The question is, does this experimentation actually change a person's ingrained orientation and sexual attraction? Does a gay person experimenting with being straight ever become truly straight?


Don’t you know that no teenager ever experimented with sexuality without getting the idea directly from a teacher or a school library book? It’s a fundamentalist truth. /s
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I can't wait for the ocean to take FL away.......
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Ok....
So 10 year old rape victims are old enough to become parents
12 year olds are old enough to marry
14 year olds can work overnight in meat processing plants

BUT none are old enough to have bodily autonomy or read books or hear that there are some men with husbands and some won't with wives?

WTF twisted thinking is this?
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I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult
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You know how Republicans are always afraid ANY gun law will lead to no guns..... It's not the Democrats starting with small laws and then moving to crazy ones.... Each and every time we are told by Republicans that oh this is just a small little law.... Women and morphs into an all encompassing take over
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Anonymous wrote:Ok....
So 10 year old rape victims are old enough to become parents
12 year olds are old enough to marry
14 year olds can work overnight in meat processing plants

BUT none are old enough to have bodily autonomy or read books or hear that there are some men with husbands and some won't with wives?

WTF twisted thinking is this?


Not just that but they extended it through 12th grade so they don’t think a 17 or 18 year old is old enough to learn about gay and trans people.
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Anonymous wrote:I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult


They’re protecting kids from abuse. Gender affirming care is abuse.
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Anonymous wrote:I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult


They’re protecting kids from abuse. Gender affirming care is abuse.


I could say the same about allowing kids to go on church retreats
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Anonymous wrote:I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult


They’re protecting kids from abuse. Gender affirming care is abuse.


I could say the same about allowing kids to go on church retreats


+1000
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Anonymous wrote:I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult


They’re protecting kids from abuse. Gender affirming care is abuse.


I think religious fundamentalism & homeschooling 99.9% of the time are abuse.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought FL was all for a parents rights.... but now they are taking the kids???

FL is becoming. Cult


They’re protecting kids from abuse. Gender affirming care is abuse.


I could say the same about allowing kids to go on church retreats


Trans rights activists like you are always trying to oppress people of faith. We want what is best for children. You want to leave kids to be groomed by abusive parents. You need to find God. Have a BLESSED day!
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