It's time for people to stop hating on other groups and time for acceptance and change.
Not the subject of this warning, from SIECUS. You know what to do, kids.
ACTION ALERT
Tell Superintendent Ed Turlington: Teach Respect!
Reinstate Teacher Debra Taylor!
SIECUS and a number of other organizations have been monitoring a school controversy in Grandfield, OK where a teacher was recently suspended for teaching The Laramie Project, an award-wining play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young man in Wyoming who was killed because he was gay.
Debra Taylor, who teaches the Ethics and Street Law class, was using pieces of the play to help her students examine how hatred and intolerance can be justified by attitudes within a community, a church, or in the home. Midway through the unit, Superintendent Ed Turlington told her to stop teaching the material. She held a mock funeral for the play to give her students closure and was subsequently suspended. She has now accepted a resignation agreement, as she feared that she would otherwise be fired.
Her students are standing behind the play and their teacher. “She always taught us to speak our minds and have our voices heard,” said one student. We need to tell Superintendent Turlington that Debra Taylor is a dedicated teacher who is willing to confront issues of respect and acceptance for all people regardless of sexual orientation and that she deserves to be immediately reinstated.
Tell Superintendent Turlington: Teach Respect! Reinstate Teacher Debra Taylor!
Advocates in Oklahoma, Texas, and surrounding states are strongly encouraged to call or email in support.
TAKE ACTION NOW…call Superintendent Turlington at 580-479-5237 or send an email to eturlington@grandfield.k12.ok.us and tell him:
“Debra Taylor did not deserve this kind of treatment. Young people need dedicated teachers willing to confront issues of respect and acceptance for people of all sexual orientations. She should be commended for creating a safe space for all her students and should be reinstated immediately.”
In the words of Romaine Patterson, my personal favorite character from the Laramie Project, "Yeah, this twenty-one-year-old little lesbian is ready to walk the line with him." Only I'm not 21 and I'm not a (complete) lesbian.
<3 Althea
4 comments:
Matthew Shepard? How many straight children have been molested and murdered by homosexuals? A lot. How many Christians have been assaulted by homosexuals because they didn't like the way they voted? A lot. How many Christian churches have been burned down by homosexuals because you disagree with the Holy Bible? A lot.
Whatever you think, you will not be able to change God's Word and will one day have to pay the price for not believing what God has written.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:22-27
V22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, V23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
V24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
V25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen.
V26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
V27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life. http://www.armyofgod.com
With all due respect, Reverend, where in the Bible does it say drunken, vicious beatings and murder is acceptable? If you had read the Laramie Project, you would know that Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney did NOT murder Matt to prove a point or to carry out God's wishes or whatever, but because they were pissed off, drunk (red flag for the Bible), and bored. That is NO reason for murder of anyone, gay, straight, black, white, Christian, not, et cetera.
The Laramie Project does not encourage homosexuality. It just states that people are people, and they shouldn't be murdered like that, and that a murder of this nature can impact an entire community (yes, even people who are Christian and disagree with homosexuality were saddened by Matt's death).
If we're getting religious here, in my belief system, God does not promote hate and loves above all, yes, even what you call "sinners". This is not a question of homosexuality, it's a matter of human justice, something I will fight to the death for.
Oh, and by the way? The American Psychological Association says there is no correlation between homosexuality and child molestation. Possibly the most quoted study on the matter states that "a child's risk of being molested by his or her relative's heterosexual partner is over one hundred times greater than by someone who might be identifiable as being homosexual." Of the 269 offenders, only two were gay or lesbian. One in 134- that's less than the largely used statistic for the amount of gay people in the world - 1/10. You do the math.
<3 Althea
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:37-40 NIV).
People can have their own opinions as to whether or not homosexuality is a sin, however, from a religious point of view, loving your neighbour despite their sins is more important. You cannot justify one sin because of another, and murder is not justified because of someone being homosexual, nor justified by homosexuals having murdered Christians. Jesus taught love, and we need to remember that.
Personally I do not find homosexuality a problem, even in a religious sense. However, I will understand people feeling it is a sin as long as they still respect those people even the part where they are homosexual; to me, if they are not, they are not following the teachings of Jesus under the pretence of following God.
Thanks for sharing:-) I agree.
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