Should gay marriage be taught in school to children?
 

Should gay marriage be taught in school to children?

I didnt even realise marriage in general was taught at school :S

If this means should children be taught that sometimes 2 men or 2 women get married, then yeah...why not.

Taught in what sense? If it's just to tell people that it's acceptable then yes

this

how do you mean taught?

like in the video.

I can't watch the video right now :/

In the sense of saying that Two Men or two Women can love each other and be happy then yes, I say teach them =).

:S Don't see any harm in it tbh

Equality should be taught to children.

We didn't have to "teach children" when we made interracial marriage legal, so why would we have to teach gay marriage? Love comes naturally, no teaching required.

This history of the gay rights movement should be taught though. Just like children are taught about how interracial marriage was illegal, and about the civil rights movement, the same approach should be taken with gay rights.

Teach about the history and the struggle.

It should be taught in history class, not health/sex ed classes.

I think marriage is touched within RE/PSHE, so gay marriage can be mentioned along side.. its not really important espicially to children though.

RE at secondary school covers it, and Sociology even further if you take it.

In later years at school the various types of all marriages allowed in the UK should maybe be made known, in the sense that it is legal and is fully accepted, so yes.

do you feel the same way about interracial marriages?

Is it sick to inform the white students that they might possibly fall in love with *gasp* a BLACK person? *shock horror*

The Yanks can not handle gays
they a Bible Freaks.


Putting Piano music in that Video - so typical
of Bible Freaks


Roll on Nov.


There is No God

You're an idiot. Judging all "yanks" based on this video would be like Americans judging all "limeys" based on a video from the BNP.

We don't teach kids in school about heterosexual marriage so why in the world would we teach them about gay marriage? Gay marriage isn't even legal in the UK. You can have a civil partnership, but that's not the same thing. As far as I can see teachers have a difficult enough job teaching kids to be literate and numerate without wasting half the day talking about marriage, gay or otherwise.

ummm, creepy.

Just watched the video now, It's scary to think that people like them exist, I'm delighted they arrested him

Well as Jords mentioned marriage is indeed taught, or at the very least touched upon, at varying stages of the syllabus so it's not that unreasonable to think that this could be extended to include gay marriage. Noone's saying it should replace maths or english lessons, but a little bit of time spent in RE or PSHE would do no harm.

Can you explain how it's different? Taking away the religious aspect, legally it is the same.

I think a union between two people of both genders should be discussed/included in school as part of a sexuality/personal relationships education.

And I've just watched that video and it's such a shameless piece of propaganda by the Religious Right, it's actually pissed me off. It's so stereotypical Tea Party that it could have been satire, I mean listen to the music they're playing in the background and the way they show the happy heterosexual, religious family bouncing a ball and walking through the woods together, and then comes the crocodile tears from the mother :bored:

I've not read such breathtakingly bigoted and hateful comments like that in a long time. Congratulations.

Looked I have Lived/Worked
in America.


I know what I am talking about.



They called me the Working Limey.


Yanks take the Bible is such a way
they are as bad as Bin Laden,


Deal with it.

It could almost be a 'Little Britain USA' sketch.

I'm just reading through the comments on youtube :shocked:

here's one fine example :joker:

sounds like you just couldn't keep up with the banter, I thought you limey's were suppossed to be good about banter and have a sense of humour? obviously not.

and that bolded statement just proves you've got some serious issues dude. get a grip. srsly.

(and he wonders why his co-workers didn't take to him, ffs)

I've never heard the word limey before. Taking it its some form of slang for brit or something?

yup, just the american slang for brits, like yank is for americans.

Ah k :)

it goes back to colonial times, in order to avoid getting scurvy, the british sailors would often be seen sucking on limes, to get their vitamin C.

that's prolly where the stereotype about brits dental problems comes from too, obviously limes are very acidic so i'm sure it did a number on their teeth.

Well you learn something new everyday :shocked:

Yes it should. It'll help to stop children feeling its not right in future and possibly help to reduce the stigma around it. It'll help to normalise the whole concept of it with future generations so I'm all for it.

I'm all for equality being taught in schools, in this day and age it's shocking that a country that was supposedly built on freedom now has a fair proportion of it's citizens trying to demonize and take away the rights of a group of people. Sexual orientation either way isn't a choice, people don't choose to be straight or gay they just are what they are. I don't get why people oppose it, it doesn't affect them obviously so why should they take exception to it? Why try to oppose someone's rights when either way it won't affect you in the least? The only effect it would have is that it'd be beneficial towards the economy. Gay people should have as much of a right as anyone to be in an unhappy marriage :laugh:.

The Tea Party are a missing link that's nothing but an ugly relic these days.

Yes Yanks
shouted at me 'The Limey Worker',
as well.


They love the Word
goes back to ships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limey

You are a vile human being. A homophobic, arrogant, pig-ignorant cum squirting penis.

You disgust me to the core. People like you make me sick. :bored:

Ow please why doesn't most of the US just see that this is the 21st century, their are far much bigger "issues" to worry about, this isn't an issue at all and that post and this video did sicken me, being homophobic isn't right, who are they to judge a tax payers rights and feelings? Gawd!

No the Yanks have
with there Bible Freaks.