Montgomery County schools in Maryland have developed a sex-ed program that on the face of it seems pretty reasonable. It teaches how to put on a condom and abstinence and allows teachers to tell students about homosexuality. Parents must opt-in their kids, and those who want to opt-out are offered a course that focuses on abstinence, or I suppose, a study hall. Parents can sit in on the classes.
Two groups are protesting the new curriculum.
But both groups contend that the opt-out provision discriminates against these children because it forcibly segregates them. They also maintain that the system’s program is discriminatory because it does not allow ex-gays to present their viewpoints.
I’d have no problem with “ex-gays” talking to the class, as long as someone who thinks that sexuality is not a choice can counter.
But this idea of segregation being discrimination made me laugh. How much you want to bet that regressives in these groups are the same ones who support religious classes in public schools, and then say that if the parents don’t like it, their kids can opt out. Do you suppose those kids might feel “segregated”?
Tough, this is God’s word!