“We have a lot of problems with the “religious freedom” argument when fighting LGBTQ propaganda in the schools.”
Right, right, you want your own propaganda, not anything that disagrees with it.
"What about people who don’t have “sincere religious beliefs” on the LGBTQ issue but still don’t want their children exposed to it?”
Okay, now imagine it’s about a hundred years ago. Six or seven years after women got the vote.
And you say you don’t have a religious objection, but you’re against your kids getting suffragette propaganda in the schools? Or blacks got the vote? Or after the American Disabilities Act?
Or resisting any change that’s now a fact of life but makes you uncomfortable. Your objections still sound like bigoted nonsense, right?
So what about those racist, sexist, or whateverist concerns?
"Most parents we talk to simply find it to be disgusting perversion that harms children.”
So, idiots.
“It perpetuates behaviors that cause disease and mental health problems.”
So, fucking idiots.
“This is the real argument – which parents for hundreds of years would have immediately made.”
Ah! An argument from popularity from a hundred years ago! When everyone on the list was in the closet, so no one knew if they knew a transgendered person, or a bisexual.
"But unfortunately, too many conservatives today are too cowardly to use it”
Well, they’re NOT using it. Feel free to prove they WANT to but are scared.
“And finally, we’re tired of this “opt-out” nonsense.”
Typical. You don’t do anything to get involved in the education process that develops the requirements, the standards, or the lesson plans, until you act surprised at the result and THEN act like you’re interested in your child’s education.
"In particular, pornography (and most certainly LGBT pornography) is destructive to everyone, especially children.”
Is there a non-bigoted citation for this claim?
Of course, as a long-time consumer of actual porn, I recognize that what’s in the textbook may give YOU the willies, but it’s not porn. Just your bugbear.
And time after time, people discover their interests, their fears, and themselves when introduced to a new topic that no one at home EVER spoke about. Far better to see it in a clinical, detached textbook than in porn at the bachelor party. “Wait, wait, wait! That’s an OPTION?”