Sodomy to be taught in San Francissyco elementary schools!

Browsing around the blogsphere, I ran into this wonderful commentary concerning the newly proposed California law which would mandate that public school children be educated on the contributions that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders have made.

Throughout the article, Steve refers to homosexuals as deviants. This naturally raises the question, is homosexuality unnatural or deviant? This article from National Geographic clearly suggests that there is nothing unnatural about homosexuality. Birds, fuit bats, beetles, dolphins, orangutangs, sheep, ostriches, the list goes on and on, have been observed taking part in same sex activities.

The issues with deviance is a circular argument. Gays are deviant because homosexual activity is not socially accepted. Gays aren't socially accepted because homosexual activity is deviant. But does it have to be this way? Do we want a section of our society to be excluded, ridiculed, and treated as second class citizens for what is natural to them? No, of course not. Some might disagree, but I'm sure those people miss the fifties when segregation and racism was socially acceptable. There is a solution and it's quite simple. Expose children to the fact that some people naturally like the opposite sex, and other people naturally are attracted to the same sex. They grow up affirming the belief that homosexuals aren't deviant, and they should be treated just as anyone else should. After all, isn't fairness and equality what America stands for?

The idea that there is no such thing as a LGBT teens is a farce. Lots of middle school and high school students are gay or lesbian. It's not that they think they might be gay or something like that; they know. I knew I was gay starting in the seventh grade, and I didn't even know what LGBT lobby was back then. All I knew is that all my friends would joke about faggots and that if I ever came out of the closet, it would be nothing short of social suicide. It's a horrible experience, and I would hope that no other generations of teens ever have to go through that. Fortunatly, laws like this are working to change that very problem.