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Parents should definitely lead the way in teaching children about homosexuality because it is a parent's role to determine the best time, place, and means of explaining a controversial subject to their children.

This is an extremely touchy subject and it isn't the role of the state to determine what specific information should be shared and when. Parents generally know what they believe about homosexuality and if they want to give their children a biblical basis for why they believe the things they believe, it's their right. Not a privilege, but an inalienable, unassailable right.

My wife and I happen to believe that homosexuality is morally, biblically, and spiritually repugnant, and we have the right to pass this belief on to our children. It's simply not the purview of the state to try to indoctrinate my children with the feel-good notion that homosexuality is nothing more or less than a choice, or a matter of orientation.

To me a choice is something reasonable and rational, like what to have for dinner, and orientation is a process new employees go through as they learn about the policies and procedures of their new employer. It has nothing whatsoever to do with two men or two women engaging in repugnant, filthy sexual activity.

The parents have absolute veto power over the state when it comes to teaching values and beliefs to children. I can decide that I don;t want my children to be told about homosexuality until they are old enough to understand a little bit better. Four and five year old children are simply not old enough to understand the concepts involved, and it's absolutely wrong for the state to undercut parental authority in an effort to teach my kids that I;m wrong, or not as "enlightened" as a teacher or school administrator.

Finally, schools should stay out of the business of controversial subjects until or unless they get truly proficient in fulfilling their first mission: providing a basic level of education to all children. If they can't teach children to write, why should they be trusted to teach them about what is right?

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