by not being shocked by this?

[Boobalina]

(warning - from the Daily mail)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349816/School-children-taught-homosexuality-celebrate-gay-community.html

Both my kids (6 and 3) are aware that you can marry anyone you fancy - man or lady and its totally fine. I did point out it was a bit more tricky to have babies in a same sex marriage, but it can work out and they are still parents.

Its just typical of the DM to hint that the mention of same sex relationships means some lefty teacher tell little Jonny all about he intricasies of bumsex or the like?!

I am sorry, I can't see the point you are making.
Our DD does know everything she needs to know about gay relationships. She was bridesmaid for a couple of friends at a civil partnership.
The couple come to stay with us regularly, so she doesn't see anything inherently wrong in it unlike a blinkered Nazi mother at her school who told me she was shocked at me.

why do you have to be blinkered to have a different view - surely its not illegal yet to have an alternative opinion

and you have invoked Godwins Law so i claim my £5

If that's aimed at me, she had decided that my lax morals and sheltering of homo bents (Dutch word) would cause my DD to bring gay literature to school. She is clearly a loon.

I'm not shocked by the article, I'm delighted by it. Anything that makes kids stop using the term "gay" as a playground insult has to be a good thing.

It's a good job I read before hitting 'post message' because I had just typed "I'm not getting the bum sex, OP"

What I mean is, I don't get that part of your post?

oh my god... the comments

The number of negative ratings given to people who've posted quite sane and reasonable comments is gobsmacking.

Lol @ mutznutz.

I don't get the bum sex comment either.

I read this and to be fair, it reads to me that OP has taught her children all about this subject and is criticising the Daily Mail for making out that if this is allowed the teachers will start going into the more personal side of homosexual relationships (hence the bum sex comment - sarcasm I suspect)
She is commenting on the DM coverage of the subject not the subject itself.
Or have I read that wrong?

Who knows proper, I am just another person who doesn't really understand the point of the OP.

Hassled - that's what I meant, it's like they've got the up and down arrows confused or something

Is it possible to vote more than once on the comments? Could it be a few homophobes clicking red over and over again.

"They will also mean youngsters are exposed to images of same-sex couples and books such as And Tango Makes Three, which tells the story of two male penguins raising a chick, which was inspired by events at New York?s Central Park Zoo."

Exposed?!! Oh my goodness I hope my precious dd is never EXPOSED to such filth?not just penguins but homosexual penguins!

Yuk I wish I hadn't been exposed to the Daily Mail.

Proper crimbo got it - sorry! I posted this in a hurry with one eye on Lark rise.

I meant to say that its ridiculous of the DM to be so scandalised that children will be educated about same sex relationships. With the bumsex comment - I meant that when children are educated about same sex relationships, the teachers wont go into the finer details of how same sex couples 'do it'.

The article was written by the Mail as a SHOCK HORROR type piece, yet I was NOT shocked by it.

Sorry, lame thread!

I think it's brilliant that children will be taught that homosexuality exists and is OK.

I find it a bit weird that maths lessons are being co-opted for social education though. Whatever happened to mental arithmetic, multiplication tables and the like?