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As a Southerner, I am usually the first to stand up and defend the region whenever someone from Cali or other places pokes fun of it or makes disparaging remarks. But when stupid things like this come up, that makes my job a lot more difficult. This is frankly embarrassing.

It would be a non issue, if this wasn't an issue.
CaptainShuddup says

The proposal would ban the teaching of gay issues to elementary and middle school students.

I think Bill Gates has the right idea, by paying teachers based on their merit. They can spend all day trying to indoctrinate future voters, or get the kids up to par on their grades, so they pass more tests, and make better grades.

The teachers of the hip middle schoolers, who know what the rainbow flag means, will make less than those who's students knows that the rainbow flag is the official flag of Cusco Peru, or how many inches of mercury in absolute vacuum.

c=929458#comment-929458">CaptainShuddup says

It would be a non issue, if this wasn't an issue.

Yes. Correct. At stake here is the issue of the representation of equal rights of US citizens in an education setting. That a proposal like this which goes backwards while the country moves forward that to me as a Southerner is embarrassing.

OK edvard suppose the shoe was on the other foot, and your kid at school was being taught all about Guns and types of ammo, and how to buy assault riffles off ebay, and being told how important their 2nd amendment was?

Something tells me you wouldn't like that at all.

I don't see anything wrong with demanding that a teacher sticks to their curriculum, and nothing else. They aren't Uncle Frank, they aren't there to teach the kids his view of the world and life lessons learned the hard way.

CaptainShuddup says

Something tells me you wouldn't like that at all.

That's an unrelated comparison and not really applicable in this case.

Unrelated?
I'm not a right for gunners, but trust me there is not difference in...

Skip Nelson some right wing lunatic drilling into his pupils every day the importance of the 2nd amendment, and to be careful for those Nany State numbskulls trying to take your gun rights from you.
Than
Benjamin Throughgood drilling his students every day about how his students should dress up in the color of the rainbow and march in the St Patrick day parade because it will piss off the religious right establishment. And imploring them to take one of his freshly silk screened "Legalize gay marriage" T-Shirts with them to take home to Mom and Dad.

Those two examples are also unrelated. We're talking about a piece of legislation that would effectively ban teaching about a demographic composition of the US's population. In other words, this measure would be exactly the same if say- some politician came up with legislation that banned teaching about the lives of various immigrant groups or ethnicities in the US.

edvard2 says

We're talking about a piece of legislation that would effectively ban teaching about a demographic composition of the US's

As opposed to teaching about the demographic of the US that still enjoys skeet shooting an hunting. I think Hollywood calls them dumb rednecks and ridicules them every chance they get. You know I took hunters saftey in Highschool it was the first and only time in my life I ever shot a long barrel 12 gauged shotgun. That would never happen to day, in a public school.

CaptainShuddup says

You know I took hunters saftey in Highschool it was the first and only time in my life I ever shot a long barrel 12 gauged shotgun. That would never happen to day, in a public school.

? I know this does not fit with your narrative, but...
Maybe you missed the fact that the US if full of High School shooting teams.

Here is one for example:
http://www.bhsdemonstrap.com/BHS_Demons_Shooting_Team/Home.html

Now see there you go blowing holes in my blind rants again.