Homosexuality has been on the public stage many times in the past - think of Ancient Greece - what makes it more public now is the media, not education. I don't know of a curriculum (and I am familiar with numerous curricula) that suggests homosexuality as preferred over heterosexuality. I think the argument is a straw dog. I am aware that research has shown that children who are raised by gay couples are NOT more likely to grow up gay than those raised by straight couples. In fact, of all the gay people I've known, they were all raised by straight couples, most of whom were traditional nuclear families with stay at home moms (I'm showing my age here). And my bachelors was in performance theater - I knew a LOT of gay men, and a few gay women. My masters was in social work, and there I knew more gay women than men. (and I'm straight, if you're wondering)
The nuclear family is only one of many lifestyles (even though it may be a preferred one for some) - including extended families, embedded families, single head of household families, blended families, kinship networks, multifamily households, and yes, homosexual families, and on and on. Some are emotionally based, and some are financially based. And some nuclear families (like the one I was raised in) SHOULD have had the parents divorced, because the damage to the children in a bad marriage is much worse than the damage to the children in a divorce.
I'm willing to bet that if civil unions truly had all the rights and responsibilities of "marriage" you'd find fewer gays on courthouse steps. If homosexuality as a lifestyle and a commitment style were really accepted, you'd find fewer gays "demanding rights." And believe me, there's not a single gay marriage that will somehow lessen me or any marriage that I'm in. For one thing, there's no competition for partners
I truly do not understand your statement:
"we are all loosing our God given
un-a-LIEN-able rights as men, and they are being replaced with in-a-LIEN-able "rights" which are not
rights at all but priveleges which can be removed at a whim by a bureaucrat."
I have no point of reference for it.
I guess that in my book, there is only one inalienable right - the right to create - (not procreate, just create) - any other "rights" are culturally determined.
Not picking a fight with you, Baggy, just coming from a very different place, I imagine. You certainly have the right to create your reality in any fashion you see fit (as you do, and as we all do, every day).
alys