Same-sex relationships and marriages are real. They are happening. They should be taught in schools and talked about at home in terms that demonstrate respect and acceptance.

If young children are taught about fictional characters like Santa Claus, why can’t they hear that 2 people who happen to be the same gender love each other? It’s not difficult. The only reason to censor information about same-sex couples is homophobia. Period. Same-sex relationships should be celebrated in exactly the same ways heterosexual relationships are. Anything less is homophobia.

They need to deal with it.

Just like any other group that doesn’t like the subject matter, or methods, taught in public school, they are free to homeschool their kids, or pay for them to go to private school. It’s pretty simple.

By protesting, the parents are doing more to publicize same sex relationships than if they ignored the issue. The claim is that only .5% of the curriculum deals with the issue. That seems perfectly reasonable.

Same thing I’d say to those intolerant, hateful Christian parents who would whine about the same thing: Homeschool them or cough up the tuition for a private school.

As stated they are free to enroll their children elsewhere.

In earlier times in the UK, Christian religion was taught in state run schools. Jewish or other children were allowed to not participate. This was taken out of the curriculum at some point; I don’t know which year. One possible compromise in this issue would be that Muslim children’s parents be allowed to opt them out of the sex ed classes although I think this solution, like the prior one for other minority religions, could make a child feel stigmatized. But it is a possible compromise.

I do think it is a natural part of the curriculum and should be taught. When my grandson Jake was six, he asked his Dad about two men who were married and my son told him, “Just like men and women sometimes love each other and want to get married, two men or two women can love each other and want to live together or get married.” Then we went back to eating pizza.

In my area, parents are able to opt-out on several things and classes like Sex Ed, gym class/ dressing out, etc… Sounds like the best option to me.

It’s once again a classic case of parents underestimating their children. Forcing their questionable moral code onto them & their right to a diverse, modern education.
It’s a sad state of affairs which at best displays snowflake levels of uncalled for protection & at worst, an ugly culture of intolerance & homophobic tendencies.

@ucme Many muslims in your area? I read that the culture is very anti-LGBTQ and they often do hetero marriages like some Christian sects do.

We all “force” our moral codes on our kids @ucme. Including you. Sometimes for the positive, sometimes for the negative.

@KNOWITALL I live in a very small town but there are plenty of Muslim families in the surrounding area. Their culture is very much hetero orientated it’s true.