New Tolerance on parade.

World Net Daily reported today of a questionnaire given to students at Pecatonica High School in tiny Blanchardville, Wis., population 806.

In this English class, students were ostensibly being taught about tolerance, but obviously it wasn't traditional tolerance.

  • What do you think caused your heterosexuality?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuality is not something that is caused. (Political Push #1.)

  • When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuality is not a choice. (Political Push #2.)

  • Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuality cannot be changed. (Political Push #3. Then what about ex-gays?)

  • Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuality is not a psychological problem. (Political Push #4.)

  • Do your parents know that you are straight? Do your friends and/or roommate(s) know? How did they react?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuality is just as normal as heterosexuality. (Political Push #5.)

  • Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?

SUBTLE POINT: Public displays of homosexual affection are normal, and you should not be shocked or repulsed by them. (Political Push #6.)

  • Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyles?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuals aren’t seducing anyone into homosexuality; that’s a myth from the “anti-gay lobby.” (Political Push #7.)

  • A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. So you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuals are not more prone to other sexual perversions like child molestation. (But they are, in proportion to the general population.)

  • With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?

SUBTLE POINT: Homosexuals have better “marriages,” and they could teach the heterosexuals a thing or two. (Political Push #8.)

  • Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run the risk of disease and pregnancy?

SUBTLE POINT: Heterosexuality (and pregnancy) is the more dangerous lifestyle. (I would challenge the statistics on their face. Lesbians still die much sooner than heterosexual women, so how come?)

  • Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?

SUBTLE POINT: Increased homosexuality is a good thing, because it will decrease the surplus population. (Political Push #9 and #10, in one question. Actually, it crashes against the point from four questions back, because how do you get more homosexuals? You certainly can’t breed them.)

  • Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that s/he would face?

SUBTLE POINT: Traditional attitudes about homosexuality are just as wrong as this question is. (Political Push #11.)


Instead of teaching the students to put up with someone or something not especially liked (the traditional form of tolerance), this lesson was training students in what Josh McDowell called the New Tolerance -- the idea that all values are equal and there is no way to discern (discriminate?) between them.

This is political correctness run amok. While politicizing morality, this teacher is screwing up the minds of dozens of students.
 

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  • 12/26/2008 1:59 PM me wrote:
    What is "traditional tolerance"?
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    1. 12/27/2008 8:01 PM Carrie - PI wrote:
      Traditional tolerance is putting up with someone or something not especially liked.

      The new tolerance adds the word "praise." In other words, "I don't just want you to put up with my lifestyle, believes, etc., but I demand your praise. And if you don't praise my beliefs, values, lifestyle and claims to truth as equal to your own, then you are a bigot and intolerant."

      This definition comes from Josh McDowell, and I think it pierces the point perfectly.

      Carrie     

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  • 12/27/2008 11:01 PM me wrote:
    Never heard that definition. Thanks.
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