From what it sounds like, she wants her child to be well informed. Not just know one point of view.

yes...me too....except that celibate part..

As a mother of four amazing kids, all I want for them in their romantic relationships, is to be respected,admired, and loved for the Who of them....irrespective of the gender of their partner.


I suspect if most people laid aside their prejudices, it is what they would want for their children too.

I have no problem being a non practicing lesbian

gay marriage is an abomination to god, although im no diffrent than the next sinner... i dont agree with it and i defo wouldnt recommend it but i would treat those kinds of people with the same humanly respect that i would anyone else.... but i wouldnt hang out with someone whos gay it just goese against what i believe, just like i wouldnt hang out with a drug addict, i dont agree with the lifestyle at all nor do i trust em....lol

You wouldn't hang out with someone who is gay, just like you wouldn't hang out with a drug user? Wow.

Are you a virgin?

guess what dude, you could be sitting next to someone that is gay in church, you could be served at a restaurant by someone who is bi-sexual, you could be purchasing products by a 'gay' owned company.... get over it! They are people.... would you not hang out with someone that was asian because you don't agree with their family traditions?

are you naked from the waist down?

What a gay picture, righ?

C'mon... give the homophobic kid a break... he still plays with red crayons for gawd's sake.

hey hey now! no personal attacks guys! keep it clean regardless of how much someone makes us upset!

My feeling is that marriage is both a religious and social institution that if it fits into the choices that two consenting adults want to promise to each other and the greater society it should be their bussiness and nobody elses.

Nobody made that choice for me when I picked my partner and I clearly do not see how I have that right to discriminate against anywone else wheather it be race, creed, nationality, mental ability, physical condition, or gender identification.

I believe thoughtful formal commitment to another is in the best interest of society in most relationships. It clearly defines the relationship; it's rights, responsibilities, and boundries. That it clearly honors, protects, and bonds families is my major reason to support it whole heartedly regardless if it "fits" my exact definition of the institution. I can think of nothing worse than telling someone who my child loves and loves them that I would not allow them the same privileges that I or their siblings enjoy. I don't believe in specific or second class definitions just because they don't exactly fit my own.

I think trying to put a gender identification on a term so that marriage means supposedly straight people and union means homosexual is trying to segregate and is definitely not ever going to be equal in anyones mind. I think reserving the marriage term for hetero sexual relationships is eleitest even if that isn't the intention. I also think there is a little bit of homophobia that straight married couples do not want to be associated in something that Gay people do. That few people strictly have a defined example of marriage makes all of this fuss interesting to me. Are we suddenly going to require all heterosexual couples to declare their sexual patterns as a subset of the definition of marriage. Will licenses say traditional, temporary, swinger ect.? I can remember a time when inter-racial couples were not thought to be capeable of the "traditional" definition of marriage and people have come to think differently. I see every day when people question wheather people with disabilities have a traditional marriage?

If Christian marriage is suppose to be the reflection of Christ's love in a partnership I don't remember it being specificlly defind by God or his appointed emmasaries as being gender specific; one man one woman. It is not addressed in the commandments or any words attributed to Christ to my knowlege but then I can not retain the entirity of the Bible as we know it. I will add I don't see the King James version interpretation as the absolute facts. Given that era's definition of marriage I am surprised the term survives at all today.

As far as what will be taught in schools I hate to break it too you but homosexual relationships have been being taught in schools for as long as recorded history. Just because something is taught in school does not mean it is fact or believed. Teaching your child your beliefs will always be the parents job. Teachers teach the common mores of society and their own views and nothing more or nothing less.

Churches or clergy can not be forced to perform marriages they do not endorse. Churches are private communities of voluntary memberships structured under the greater community of the faith. Some faiths preclude certain practices but they have not been forced to endorse marriages that do not support their definition of faith. Example; If I am divorced I can not marry in the Catholic Church without permition of the Pope not the State and I can't sue anyone for that. Makeing something a constituional right does not make it a practice of faith. When you are married by a minister you are not married in the eyes of the state unless you get a license.

It will be interesting to see how the election here in California turns out. There is a great deal of out of state money being spent to push forward view points that I don't necessarily believe are Californian's view points. There are a lot of people here who are not registered voters who still influence the electorate if not the judiciary.

that was so wrong it actually made me laugh. Good luck to ya sinner

But there's nothing wrong with being gay! So, technically, it wasn't really an attack at all.

hella funny, i love getting this kind of re-action and it goese to show you how socially acceptable things are these days... and for some of your comments i already answered them... i wouldnt care if a gay person served me at a resturaunt, i would say hi to a gauy person, i give hugs all the time to people at NA meetings who are gay... you guys took me all wrong... and you guys dont know my situation. and im not getting into it. all i can tell you is i dont hang out with them... is that so hard to understand... its funny that it makes you all so mad it makes me smile and sit back and realize how immature this world really is... hate me if you will i just think im misunderstood, you guys heard me wrong

I was talking about those that jumped on red crayon or whatever his name is.

no one hates you... well I certainly don't. If you don't wanna hang out with someone, that's cool. I give you props for at least agreeings that they deserve the same human rights as everyone else.