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If you put a matter like this into the hands of parents it won't get done. Period. Parents who disagree with homosexuality will disparage it or not even discuss it at all. Leaving a matter like this in the hands of parents will encourage social discriminations that this country needs to try harder to get past. Parents are absolutely responsible for laying the ground work in topics such as sex and drugs, however denying the schools the right to present homosexuality in an unbiased, educational format will damage this and future generations.

The role of a parent is to pass on whatever morals and values they see fit to bestow upon their children. It goes without saying that if a parent has strong moral objections to homosexuality that regardless of what they are taught in school the child will have a natural tendency towards their parents beliefs. But given the opportunity to learn about it in a school setting, possibly before their parents have laid the groundwork in tearing apart a fact of our society, the next generation could come out more open to other lifestyles. Homosexuality is not something that is going to go away and it does no justice to this generation of youngsters not to educate them on the subject.

Parents will find out that more and more of their children's friends come from homes with same sex parents, and while it might be nice to think every parent out there would be fine with that the hard truth is there are too many that won't. Unless a child is armed with solid information from neutral educational source they will be forced into the misguided beliefs of their parents. The ones losing out in this case is the children involved. They lose out on what could have been a lifelong friendship and the child with the homosexual parents is shunned.

The plain and simple fact is if this matter is left in the hands of parents the country will end up strongly divided and all at the expense of our nation's children. The other option is the parents avoid the topic altogether and then we might as well be back in the age when nobody talked of sex at all. We need to move forward, not backwards. The schools should be armed with proper information and be allowed to provide it to this nation's youth.

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