Teaching of homosexuality!

[Aish]

Teachers are NOT surrogate parents, this is true -- and neither is TV, despite this attempt to have Bert and Ernie get married. This isn't political correctness, it's forcing adult issues onto preschoolers.

It was bad enough that they fucked around with Noddy. What weird games did these loony civil libertarians play with THEIR dolls?

I honestly have kept my kids away from television as much as possible - not complete exclusion, but I have never parked them in front of it and left them there. Teletubbies creeped me the fuck out, and so did Barney. I have never watched Noddy? I guess I'm old school - my kids have chores, cook, and play outside. We make cookies, scream at each other, have water balloon fights, see concerts, etc. It's a personal opinion, but I think if people don't want to teach their kids and interact with them, then they shouldn't have them.
"This isn't political correctness, it's forcing adult issues onto preschoolers. " I agree with this 100%.
"What weird games did these loony civil libertarians play with THEIR dolls?" I am a little confused - and it may be a continent difference - I'm a Libertarian. Here that equals small federal government, maximum personal liberties, and no income taxes. It gets confused with liberalism a lot - which I'm not. I'm basically socially liberal - ok with legalized pot, salt, gay marriage, etc - b/c as a Libertarian I believe these are all personal choices and freedoms and should not be regulated by the federal government. Liberal/Progressivism is wholly different.

I don't think heterosexuality vs homosexuality should be 'taught' in a school - and even though parents come in all shades and some won't want to talk to their kids about it well, that's their hangup and they have the right to teach (or neglect to teach) their kid as they see fit. Playground talk is horrendous - we all survived it (Jack might not have). In any program teaching sex ed alternative lifestyles shouldn't be ignored - but even then there are some mighty big leaps - the gay lifestyle has some extreme niches. So does the heterosexual lifestyle. Where is the line drawn? As an adult I have no qualms with swingers, BDSM, cross dressers, medical fetishes, etc - but what's next? Is some group going to come out yelling that fisting isn't being taught to 12 year olds?
Sex education to me is in a completely different orbit from anatomy, psychology, physics...it ushers in matters of morality and religion, personal standards, etc. In any classroom, at any age, teachers use their own bias.

I am seriously considering home schooling my two youngest. Not because of sex education, btw.