LOL - bible thumping? I haven't even brought that into this. I have gay friends. I don't hate anyone for being gay. Nice attempt to derail the topic. The old "you religious bigit" red herring just won't cut it. The posts I made earlier were taken from another board and I did not read all the links yet. So what if there was a religious spin on many of them. That does not change the fact of what is happening accross our country - to our schools and in our government.

Sex education is good. I have no issue with it. But it needs to be done by trained experts and at age appropriate levels, and in a way that parents are comfortable with. That is my issue here. I'm not gay bashing or afraid that they may flirt with me or try to recruit me. That is just twisted attempts to avoid the subject matter...

As far as the religious\Christian aspect of it. You are pretty close. But if you look closer, 'tolerance' is not always the same as love and acceptance. For example, I love my kids. But if and when they do something very wrong, I don't just tolerate it, I correct them or even disipline them.

Again, my stance is that it is fine for people to be gay. I'm not trying to change them, and I don't want them trying to change me. I have no issue with what they do as long as they don't try to force it on me, my family, my community, my country.