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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I love about the responses here is that everyone assumes that how OP behaves toward her neighbor should be based on how the neighbor behaves toward OP and family.

If neighbor had been mean to the gay family, it would have been okay to have kids stop playing with them.

BUT BUT BUT since neighbor who sends kids to school who teaches that being gay is wrong is not openly horrible to the gay family, everyone here is saying OP should be tolerant and accept this family!

So the herero family gets to set up all the rules, even though [b]they support an organization that negates OP’s family life[/b], and OP should just accept them.

Like, if you’re a black family living next to a KKK family, and they have a noose out in their tree, but they are actually really quite nice to you personally, despite the ideas of the organization they belong to, you should definitely let your kids play together!  They are so NICE!  It’s YOU who are being intolerant, really!

What is the matter with you all?  When people show you who they are, believe them. [/quote]

The bold is where your whole idea falls apart. [b]OP does not know--and you certainly can't--that they "support an organization that negates OP's family life."[/b] The entire point some have made here is that the neighbors may have many reasons OP doesn't know about, for sending a child to a particular school. You and OP both are making assumptions too that the neighbors support every tenet of the church affiliated with the school. Black-and-white, either/or thinking. You don't want others making assumptions about you but you're both free and clear to assume all you like about others.

"When people show you who they are, believe them." Sure. These neighbors have shown OP and her family only neighborly attention so far. You and OP want knee-jerk condemnation of them based on a car magnet and OP's Google search. If OP is concerned she can ask the neighbors but she won't -- it's easier simply to assume they're terrible and put walls around herself. [/quote]

DP. They pay tuition to a school that is attached to a church that negates OP's family life. I mean, what more are you looking for? Read the statement for Trinity Christian School - they believe people are born a single gender and that's the end of the story. They believe marriage is between a man and a woman, period. There are a billion private schools in NoVA. That someone chooses to pay tuition to that particular school and not any of the others in the same area for the same price says something.[/quote]

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s why I married a man. My best friend married a woman and I support her and her wife 100%. Her choice is her choice. I don’t have to agree with it, but I sure as hell support her right to it. [/quote]

You make no sense whatsoever. How can you believe that marriage is between a man and a woman but also support a marriage that is between two women?

Also, you married a man because you're straight.  :roll: [/quote]

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