“I’m not saying that you said it’s OK to bully. I’m saying that bigots like you sometime turn to bullying and violence as a result of their bigotry, especially in a school where such behaviour is not discouraged. That you haven’t personally done this doesn’t excuse the next gay kid driven to suicide because of others who share the same prejudice, or the kids wasting half their lives trying to appear straight because of how their peers would react.”

Your argument is predicated on the false assumption that unless people accept homosexuals as being normal, they’ll inevitably bully them into suicide. Nevermind all of the other kids who get bullied or commit suicide, no. Let’s just exploit an emotional ploy by painting one group as the oppressed and another (in this case, mostly religious folks) demonized as the big bad bully. Screw that.

“No its doesn’t. It goes against the opinions of people like you, but the taxpayers who take the alternative viewpoint are having their taxes used in the way they wish. Many taxpayers fully support the education you find so offensive, and I’m yet to hear an objection not based in simple bigotry.”

What you label bigotry (wrongly, I might add) is parents who object to their children being taught something they’re opposed to for moral/religious reasons. Your belief that homosexuality is normal does NOT supercede other people’s Constitutional rights. Oh, and for the record, I’ve yet to read a story about a school promoting homosexuality that wasn’t met with opposition from parents.

“It’s obviously pointless talking to you, since you apparently don’t understand the role schools have in wider society, and seem to think that educating against bullying and discrimination is some form of agenda. But, like most bigots, I doubt that you can come up with a reason for your prejudice other than “I don’t like those people” or “because my book of fiction says so”, and that sort of person can rarely come up with something not equally applicable to heterosexuals. If you can, feel free to share and debate, but you’ve already shown that “I don’t like what they get up to in bed” is about the extent of your reasoning.”

All you seem to be able to do is posture from a faux-moral high ground while conjuring strawmen to knock down. I don’t even need to tell you the reasons why I oppose their lifestyle. Who are you, the moral authority?

“As for constitutional rights, gay people have those as well. If you don’t like your children being taught tolerance and how to see gay people as fellow human beings, you’re free to homeschool, or send your children to a private or religious institution where they can be taught all sorts of bullshit ranging from creationism to how there’s no problem with hating people if you don’t like something about them. If you send them to a public school, then the taxes of gays and other minorities are also paying those taxes, as well as people who support their cause for equality.”

Tolerance of gays and intolerance of religion go hand in hand, as your post proves. Let me ask you: were you around when the earth was created? No, so that ends that. By the way, you’re full of shit about homeschooling. In California a judge ruled that the parents didn’t have the right to homeschool their own children. There’s a blatant example of the “justice system” violating people’s rights, but of course that doesn’t matter to you. Just as long as they’re forcing your world view upon others, everything’s ok. Whenever someone dares to disagree, just label ’em an intolerant bigot. That’s basically your argument.

“Gay people exist, they always have and always will. Stripping away their rights because you don’t like that is not acceptable, and teaching kids that they – like women, blacks, jews, Irish and whatever other group has faced similar discrimination – deserve equal treatment is hardly wrong. When people say you’re on the losing side of history, this is what they mean. Get used to it.”

Last I checked, gays had Constitutional rights. But of course it’s ok to infringe upon other people’s 1st Amendment right to believe what they choose for the sake of protecting this manufactured “minority” group of special class citizens. Don’t even try to equate something like black slavery with the gay movement.