I know. There's idiots all around. One thing to keep in mind is that people can be basically good and still hold completely flawed opinions and beliefs. We can ignore those easier when they don't hit so close to home, like this one, but it is important to remember, at times. *snuggle*
FWIW, I also think it's not a very good idea to have a special school, but for exactly opposite reasons -- segregating the kids just reinforces to them, and more importantly to the straight kids, that there's something fundamentally wrong and different about being gay, and that it's ok to exclude them from mainstream society. I think it's more important to spend time and resources educating the mainstream that being gay is just like being blond or green eyed or left handed or what have you -- it's a characteristic, but it doesn't define a person or their worth.
And I think we're making very slow progress toward that goal, and I think that's WHY you're seeing so much more hysteria from the other side -- when things aren't changing, the opposition is quiet, because things are the way they'd like them to be.
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Date: 2003-07-31 07:07 am (UTC)FWIW, I also think it's not a very good idea to have a special school, but for exactly opposite reasons -- segregating the kids just reinforces to them, and more importantly to the straight kids, that there's something fundamentally wrong and different about being gay, and that it's ok to exclude them from mainstream society. I think it's more important to spend time and resources educating the mainstream that being gay is just like being blond or green eyed or left handed or what have you -- it's a characteristic, but it doesn't define a person or their worth.
And I think we're making very slow progress toward that goal, and I think that's WHY you're seeing so much more hysteria from the other side -- when things aren't changing, the opposition is quiet, because things are the way they'd like them to be.