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To be sure, a state law mandating the placement of these posters in every classroom would also be wrong. It would not be quite as wrong as placing Ten Commandments posters, because religion is specifically recognized as a fundamental right in special need of protection.Exactly what I said. That a lot of people view the Gay/Trans posters that plaster public schools down to kindergarten as "satanic."
Parents have a right to see gay/trans posters as satanic if they want to. They have a right to disagree. What they should not have a right to do is to completely censor all mention of gay/trans from the school, because the school needs to have harmonious order to function, and harmonious order requires that kids who understand they are gay or straight or whatever can work and play beside one another without conflict. It also requires that kids should be able to express their various beliefs without conflict, except the permissible conflict of intellectual argument that should pervade a free society.
We must look deep into ourselves and one another to find a way to not merely uphold the rights of all people, but to respect them. Each single person must be able, at the same time, to understand:
- that anti-gay discrimination (or worse) is deeply hurtful, fundamentally useless, has broken families apart and snuffed out many good lives entirely, and stains the honor of the faith they may be seeking to uphold.
- that HIV was in the United States population before Stonewall, and that half a million people died because of attitudes that pleasure is simply good and doesn't require any prudent moral consideration.