Tennessee Outlaws Gay

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vlad321 said:

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It's still not allowed, according to the bill.

"R-Shelbyville, who said current law already prohibits the teaching of any sex education not covered by the state Board of Education's "family life curriculum," the Knoxville News Sentinel reported Friday. However, Campfield contended homosexuality is being discussed in classrooms. "

Right from the linked article. I see no problem with what they are dong given no one talks about sexuality at all. Also, the bill implies homosexuality in class. If you go after class or whatever and ask a teacher it seems it is fine.

That's in theory, but in practice you can be sure that some conservaticve christian parent will have a cow if he hears a teacher talked about homosexuality in any context whatsoever.

According to this it seems like they just put homosezuality on even footing with actual sexuality. If the kid can go and ask a bout a girl after class, then the kid can also talk about homosexuality.

As I said, homosexuality doesn't necessarily have to be discussed in a sexual context. For example if you say Ferdinand married Isabelle, that's essentially discussing heterosexuality in a non-sexual context. And this is allowed. However discussing soemthing like Emperor Hadrian had a male concubine named Antonius whom he loved, is forbidden by this bill. Heck, saying that homosexuals were victims of the Holocaust is forbidden by this bill.

And I am saying that they will learn all that after 9th grade anyhow, because history education pre 9th grade is utterly shit and useless. In the end no knowledge is missed out on.

Well, I'd say that they don't learn enough though. I think most countries should copy/paste the Scandinavian system. I sol would've loved to know about puberty and sex before I actually went through these, and not after (and just the puberty part, as I had to learn about sex by myself). Would've saved me lots of trouble.