I generally don't
follow the news. I probably should, but typically it upsets me so I
avoid it. I think the media tends to over play things and it takes
the humanity out of what is actually happening. Today I picked up
the paper and it made my blood boil. It's the local Oshawa this week
and it's been a while since I've had to walk away from an article 3
times just to calm down. It's a simple article about sex education
in our public school systems. It's always been a hot bed topic for
public school. I understand that. What really set me off was the
very first paragraph of the entire article. It is this:
“When
Christine Moyer’s six-year-old daughter came home from school in
November and said her class had learned that “a family can have
two mommies,” the Whitby mother was shocked. As self-described
“observant Christians,” the local woman says she and her
husband have concerns about “sensitive” issues such as sex,
same-sex relationships and gender identity being taught in the
elementary grades. “
Wait what? What has this
got to do with sex? There are lots of different families in this
world, single moms and dads, split families, blended families, birth
families, adopted families, interracial families, families of every
colour and religion, there is a plethora of shapes and sizes that
families come in. No one discusses sex when it comes to them, but
all of a sudden we are having to have sit down conversations about
sex with a 6 year old when it's two women or two men? What does sex
have to do with it? Here is the thing, your religion may say (or you
might think it might say) that it's against god's law, but here in
the real world things exist if you don't like it or not. Take
anchovies for example, I don't like them, but they exist I just
choose not to eat them. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean
I can tell my child that they don't exist, it would be asinine. Mrs.
Moyer, I exist. I really do. So does my child. We are a family. We
go to school, are involved in extra curricular activities and we are
a part of this great country Canada. You can not approve of us all
you want, but we do do exist. So do ethnocentric, ignorant, and
hateful people and unfortunately I have to explain YOUR existence to
my child and it has nothing to do with bedrooms that have doors. It
has nothing to do with acts by consenting adults and NOTHING to do
with anything but people wanting to remain ignorant and think that
they have a right to negate something they know NOTHING about. How
dare you think that your family is exclusive to the world that there
isn't anything other than your family. How dare you make MY child
feel insignificant because you just devalued HER entire world.
Really if you feel it necessary to explain to a 6 year old the
concept of sex just because a family looks different than you do, I
seriously question YOUR ability to parent. I grew up in a Christian
home, went to church with out fail when I was a child, was active in
the church and the community and guess what, I still ended up gay.
If you are so worried about the immorality of the public education
school system there are options, you can choose to home school your
children so that they won't be exposed to my child or myself. But
I'm not going to go away nor am I going to deprive my child of the
best education that I can offer her because of truly ignorant people
such as yourself.
Here is the link to the news
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