Don't Say Gay?

[hollodero]

(03-28-2022, 09:37 PM)basballguy Wrote: For your first comment.  I can't imagine a parent out there right now that isn't trying to filter the information their kindergarten aged child is receiving.  They're watching Blues Clues, not CSI Miami.  (Or whatever shows are relevant today).  They have toy phones, not real phones.  

I don't really think that is true. Maybe for some children with very attentive parents. But even then not also for all their friends and schoolmates that will pass on what they saw and experienced. Not every child is thoroughly shielded from all things TV or internet. And this will only increase.

(03-28-2022, 09:37 PM)basballguy Wrote: It's one thing for them to ask "Why does Sarah have two dads?" to their parents (or even a teacher) and another thing for a teacher to have a lesson plan around sexual orientation or gender identity for kids in Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade.  

I don't understand why some people feel the need to debate this.  Yes, it's a stupid law....but trying to find ways to justify what it's protecting against is silly.

Well, I could totally understand if a society decides that there shouldn't be a lesson plan around sexual orientation. I don't know if that necessarily has to happen through a law, but fine. My issue with this law as written would be that it is not sharply focused on things like that, where I'd agree, some things are not for children of young age to learn about. You just, maybe with merit, read it as focused on these issues. But in theory, this law also can be seen as declaring it illegal to talk about Sarah's two daddies. Which always can - and will by some at least - be seen as talking about homosexuality, so sexual orientation.

And imho, that's what many on the the other side see in this law, and I can not really blame them for it.