YES BECAUSE IT MIGHT TURN THEM QUEERGAY.Immo wrote:The point was, I don't want my children being shown homo-sexuality in a fairy tale. Leave the sexual orientation issue for when children are less easily influenced and can think for themselves.GONNAFISTYA wrote:You posted this:
Immo wrote:I don't want my kids reading a book about two princes fucking eachother in the ass. I can understand why others don't want it either.Well then what is your point?Immo wrote:
Nope, it won't mention assfucking and it shouldn't. Thats besides the point. I was describing the fairy tale as I see it.
Yanks and Brits angry about gay fairytales
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one of my favorite stories "the mole that wanted to know who took a crap on his head"plained wrote:books are crap anyways
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Yes it does influence them. I really have no problem with gay people personally, but still, the thought of my children being gay frightens me. I am not 'right' on the political spectrum either.MKJ wrote:by witholding homosexuality from them, dont you think that influences them? especially if their dad refers to homosexuals as "shitpackers" ?
Werldhed, I don't think that is wrong, because it's promoting a healthy male-female relationship which God or evolution (whichever you believe) wished us to have.
It is probably harsh to have it banned, but I can't say I disagree with their argument.
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Colonel Frank Fitts: Where did you get that?stocktroll wrote:my dad taught me that fags are gay
its apparent that many here have been taught to be homo lovers
Ricky Fitts: From my job.
Colonel Frank Fitts: Don't lie to me. Now, I saw you with him.
Ricky Fitts: You were watching me?
Colonel Frank Fitts: What did he make you do?
Ricky Fitts: Oh, Dad, you don't really think that me and Mr. Burnham were...
Colonel Frank Fitts: Don't you laugh at me. Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son become a cock-sucker.
Ricky Fitts: Jesus, what is it with you?
Colonel Frank Fitts: I swear to God, I will throw you out of the house and never look at you again.
Ricky Fitts: You mean that?
Colonel Frank Fitts: You're damn straight I do. I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin' faggot.
Ricky Fitts: You're right. I suck dick for money.
Colonel Frank Fitts: Boy, don't start.
Ricky Fitts: Two thousand dollars - I'm that good.
Colonel Frank Fitts: Get out.
Ricky Fitts: And you should see me fuck. I'm the best piece of ass in three States.
Colonel Frank Fitts: Get out. I don't ever want to see you again.
Ricky Fitts: What a sad old man you are.
There's nothing wrong with a book like this being published and in circulation. However, I don't believe there would be any place for it in schools -- I mean, does it teach some kind of important lesson? What reason is there for it to be added to school curriculum? Just because it has homosexuals in it, and there isn't anything else about homosexuality in the school? That's not a reason.
Fairy tales like this are for the home -- if parents want to read them to their kids to entertain them, or teach them moral lessons, then they are out there for that purpose. A school's responsibility is not to teach morals (not directly), but for general education.
If this book weren't in schools, then we could honestly say that the only reason it is getting so much press (and therefore the only reason that their kids would ever even find out about it), is because of the religious zealots who are screaming about it -- and that would be a perfect world, because that's what they deserve.
Fairy tales like this are for the home -- if parents want to read them to their kids to entertain them, or teach them moral lessons, then they are out there for that purpose. A school's responsibility is not to teach morals (not directly), but for general education.
If this book weren't in schools, then we could honestly say that the only reason it is getting so much press (and therefore the only reason that their kids would ever even find out about it), is because of the religious zealots who are screaming about it -- and that would be a perfect world, because that's what they deserve.
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I disagree. There's nothing wrong with a book like this being in schools. It's about a simple fact of life. Some couples are of the same sex.R00k wrote:There's nothing wrong with a book like this being published and in circulation. However, I don't believe there would be any place for it in schools -- I mean, does it teach some kind of important lesson? What reason is there for it to be added to school curriculum? Just because it has homosexuals in it, and there isn't anything else about homosexuality in the school? That's not a reason.
Fairy tales like this are for the home -- if parents want to read them to their kids to entertain them, or teach them moral lessons, then they are out there for that purpose. A school's responsibility is not to teach morals (not directly), but for general education.
If this book weren't in schools, then we could honestly say that the only reason it is getting so much press (and therefore the only reason that their kids would ever even find out about it), is because of the religious zealots who are screaming about it -- and that would be a perfect world, because that's what they deserve.
What? Do schools currently make it a point of curriculum (and have a book) to describe heterosexual marriage to the kids with two dads?
Of course not.
I never read Snow White or Sleeping Beauty at school - I read those at home, because they were books my parents bought.
You don't read fairy tales in school, you learn the alphabet and grammar, and punctuation, and spelling and sentence structure.
Of course not.
I never read Snow White or Sleeping Beauty at school - I read those at home, because they were books my parents bought.
You don't read fairy tales in school, you learn the alphabet and grammar, and punctuation, and spelling and sentence structure.
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Before we go any farther here, at what grade level are they trying to introduce this into curriculum?
Because the comparisons of to a fairy tale led me to believe it is a young child's book.
Of course schools touch on issues of morality and such - but you're not analyzing Shakespeare in pre-school now are you? That material comes later, when you've developed your own sense of morality enough to understand it.
Because the comparisons of to a fairy tale led me to believe it is a young child's book.
Of course schools touch on issues of morality and such - but you're not analyzing Shakespeare in pre-school now are you? That material comes later, when you've developed your own sense of morality enough to understand it.