Pedz wrote:I'm not saying we shouldn't teach kids. I'm just saying you'd think with how the world has progressed and how things have changed over say the last 100 years that we should be getting to a point where it shouldn't be needed. Like, people should just understand that people are different and be ok with it, ya know?
Wasn't it only in the year 2000 that section 28 was eliminated which prevented kids from being taught about homosexuality at school. Until then, the only way they were exposed to it was through what they heard at home. So anyone up to the year 2000 who went through school, could have been entirely exposed only to anti gay views at home, and these people are now parents themselves.
We are a long way from true acceptance. It's going to take a generation or more for things to really change. You only have to look at racism, we have had laws against it, education around it for decades, but still racists are prevalent in society.
So you still have a generation of parents who were raised in a homophobic system, and largely an older generation in government who are even more bigoted.
The school protests to me just seem so stupid. All the kids are being taught is that gay people exist and are just completely normal. You have parents there that think the schools are turning their kids gay like some kind of Alex Jones conspiracy. I find it impossible to understand that kind of logic.
