Teaching Kids About Gay Marriage - The False Bogey Man

One of the goals of public schools ought to be teaching children about the real world and how to cope with a rapidly changing society. That's not to say instruction shouldn't be age appropriate, but pretending that things and entire classes of people do not exist is not going to help children as they mature. Yet erasing LGBT people from view is precisely what the National Organization for marriage ("NOM") and other similar anti-gay organizations want to do. Like it or not, more and more gays are living out and proud and many more of us are parenting children of all ages. Children WILL learn about gays and gay relationships via the Internet, watching the local news or even glancing through newspapers and magazines. Or by way of knowing other children with same sex parents. This is simple real world reality. Nonetheless, the false bogey man used time and time again by NOM and its hate merchant allies is that allowing gays to legally marry will lead to five year olds learning about gay sex. Of course, such is story lines are lie - as is most of the filth self-enriching professional Christians disseminate. Queerty looks at this disingenuous phenomenon and here are some highlights:
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Continuing its strategy of scaring families into thinking same-sex marriage will lead to the recruitment of their children into the homosexual lifestyle, the National Organization for Marriage has been mailing out brochures to Rhode Island voters claiming "Imposing same-sex marriage has consequences," consequences that allegedly include, "Massachusetts’ public schools teach kids as young as kindergartners about gay marriage. Parents have no legal right to object!"
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So what if schools are telling children about gay marriages? And that they're legal in some states, and illegal and others. And that they're the unions of two loving people. Teachers are not telling students AND THEN THE TWO MEN FUCK EACH OTHER IN THE ASSHOLE, the same way they aren't teaching "kids as young as kindergartners" that mommy spreads her legs for daddy's third leg.
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[W]e could only hope NOM is right: that teachers and administrators feel comfortable enough about same-sex marriage to relay to kids that, hey, yeah, this is something that's happening out there, and it's perfectly okay. It's not enough to say NOM's claims are unfounded. It's time to say the only reasonable way to move forward is to normalize same-sex marriage in the eyes of kids, at least as much as they see opposite-sex marriage as de rigueur.
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We'll be a lot further along when we show that kids really don't have a problem with gay couples, even married ones, and there is nothing to be scared of.