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KY teacher sshows BBM clips to students
Lynne:
I want to add my sentiments here that I want the children in my life to watch Brokeback Mountain.
These are the reasons that are in my heart:
It is vital to have open dialogue with your kids about sexuality. I want there to never be ANY question that they are loved no matter their sexual orientation. And I want them to understand that there is nothing 'wrong' with any sexual orientation differing from their own. If a movie can serve to easily open this sort of dialogue, then it's 100% appropriate in my book.
The rates of suicide for gay children and teenagers in the U.S. bear out that there must be better communication between children and their parents on this subject. Not one more kid EVER should need to call a suicide-prevention hotline, contemplating ending his/her own life because he/she cannot bear talking to their own parents about their sexuality.
JMO...Lynne
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: vkm91941 on May 26, 2006, 12:01:34 am ---My sons are blessed to have kindest most gentle man as their Godfather, He loves them unconditionally and they adore him, he is also gay. If a child is old enough to ask the questions then he is old enough to be told the truth. I want my son's to grow up understanding that there are all kinds of love in the world and it is not their place to judge another because of whom and how they love.
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Hey Vic & Lynne, I so want to applaud you both for these lovely sentiments. I totally agree with you. To have these issues explained in a loving and honest environment will always be the best way to go. When you think of all the "lessons in life" that we learn in the school yard, which puts most us into therapy for most of our adult lives, how much more love will they have in their lives if they don't have to un-learn the lesson of homophobia? Surely, this is the very reason why the school teacher got into trouble here: because the offended people in question arn't over their homophobia yet?
pinku:
Vic,
That's a cute mail! Thank You!
In no way BBM is fit to be shown at schools. It is erotic, disturbing and very very unnerving! Can you dispute these facts? More than eroticism, the subject matter is extremely shocking, as I said before the author gifts to you a sense of total hopelessness in those mere words of hers. Ennis' trailor scene - both in the movie/book - is like watching Dafour (Sudan) unfolding in front of you! An Olympian tradegy!
But as a mother you know the best and what you teach your children is only to be decided by you and nobody else. Thanks, pinku
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on May 25, 2006, 05:47:46 pm ---Jon Stewart said it best a while back. "The real cause of Homophobia is that to most straight guys, they are repulsed by the thought of two guys getting it on. Banning gay marriage is the only way they can fight back. Therefore, since the thought of our parents and grand parents having sex is also repulsive to most people, we should also ban heterosexuals from marrying if they are over 60!" :laugh:
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Good God, I love that man.
ednbarby:
--- Quote ---WKYT television reports that no sexual content was aired, but at least one parent was upset that any part of the movie would be shown in the classroom. School superintendent Howard K. Osborne would not say whether any action was being taken against the teacher, but he did confirm that Brokeback Mountain will not be shown again at the school.
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"... And then he and that parent and others like him/her ran out back and had a good, old-fashioned book-burning party. Among the titles being heaped onto the bonfire were Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and everything ever written by David Sedaris."
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