Gayby Baby

[icyfroth]

Burwood Girls High School: Anger over gay parenting documentary ‘Gayby Baby’

PARENTS are angry that a prominent government high school had organised for its 1200 students to watch a documentary on gay parenting instead of normal classes.

Burwood Girls High School sent a flyer to parents last week saying all students would attend a special screening of the documentary Gayby Baby during periods two and three on Friday. Students were instructed to wear purple, with purple cupcakes served after the movie.

But after a backlash from parents, including outrage at the flyer which depicted a young, shirtless boy with a tattoo on his chest, principal Mia Kumar yesterday offered parents the option to exclude their daughters from the screening if they notified the school in writing.

NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has now directed the Department of Education to ensure the film is not shown in school hours, telling  2GB Radio on Wednesday while the schools accepted diversity, “schools are not places for political issues to be aired”.

“During school hours we expect them to be doing maths and English and curriculum matters.

This movie is not part of the curriculum and that’s why I’ve made that direction,” Mr Piccoli said.

He also admitted that he hadn’t seen the film, which follows the lives of several children with same-sex parents.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/burwood-girls-high-school-anger-over-gay-parenting-documen...

"principal Mia Kumar yesterday offered parents the option to exclude their daughters from the screening if they notified the school in writing." 

How dare they?

Who is pushing this relentless homosexual agenda, and why?

[the_great_she_elephant]

I think it would be really helpful if those who regard homosexuality as abnormal would clarify for us exactly  what their definition of normal/ abnormal is. 

[fustermcluster]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

charming bunch, aren't they

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/08/30/protesters-target-daily-telegraph-newspaper-after-gayb...

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I see the F*ck Tony Abbott shirt is being worn again. What has Mr Abbott to do with this farce?

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It's a t-shirt. You'd do better to ask the person wearing it why he chose to wear it that day. It could be the day before wash day or he could have a dozen F T A t-shirts so he can wear one every day.  Was he a passer by or involved in the protest? 

How does acceptance of the children of gay parents hurt you?

[k0llectable5]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

I think it would be really helpful if those who regard homosexuality as abnormal would clarify for us exactly  what their definition of normal/ abnormal is. 

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You know as well as everyone here that it really is different for every individual. If you're a hetrosexual man normal to you is being with a woman, if you are homosexual man your normal is being with another man.

Societal norms are changing in the West and we do acknowledge same sex relationships now. The day will come when ssm is legalised. Which is all great and progressive, but impo, taking the current political climate into account, theres really no need to over expose kids to the concepts of ssm etc.  

Sure teach them about it in sex ed alongside the "usual" curicculum.  It just seems like schools are continually highlighting the issue. So in the bigger picture of a childs education, how important really is learning about sexual orientation, SSM, same sex families, transgender people, lesbianism, etc,etc? Kids are going to discover all of these things for themselves as they go along anyway. They dont need to be swayed into thinking one way or another about sexuality.  They need time to discover their own sexuality.  (away from school) 

[the_great_she_elephant]

I was actually wanting to know more how Icy and Eebatt define "normal" when they say homosexuality is abnormal. 

Eebatt suggested  The fact remains that homosexuality is NOT the normal human condition, therefore if it is not normal it is abnormal. 

So what exactly is the 'normal human condition'? One could argue that it is female." Jost's experiment indicated that the sex differentiation of a gonad is determined by its sex chromosomes, and that the sexual characteristics of other tissue are determined by the gonads, not by the chromosomes in the tissues themselves. Jost also showed that in the absence of either gonad, the fetus develops as a female. Female development, then, is apparently a "default" pathway that can be overridden to produce a male".
Read more: Sex Determination - Mammalian Mechanisms, Nonmammalian Mechanisms - Developmental, Chromosome, Genet... http://medicine.jrank.org/pages/2842/Sex-Determination.html#ixzz3kN7aA6c9

Does it therefore follow that being male is abnormal? 

[icyfroth]

What absolute rot!

[the_great_she_elephant]

Why?

[lloydslights]

So many interpretations of what "makes" some of these same sex couples.  I thought maybe they could be haters of the opposite sex and find consolation with partners of the same sex.  But I find it a disturbing thought that they want to raise children, having that "hate" in the background.

Just thoughtful ramblings.........

DEB

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

Im not sure I understand what you posted...

One Q I have is why cant people imagine or believe that some people simply fall in love and the other person happens to be the same gender? 

Maybe thats a construct thats too simple..

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Why?

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Because being male is not abnormal if you're male. and seeing roughly 50% of the population is male there's nothing abnormal about being male to at least half the population.

abnormal, defined as not the norm, would be for instance hermaphroditism or "intersexism", of which there are only about 1.7 of the world population, although opinions vary on that.

Hermaphrodites. or intersex ppl don't see themselves as "abnormal", and they're not. It's just that they're not the norm.

Same as homosexual couples aren't the norm when they only make up about 1% of Australia's population. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

Same as homosexual couples aren't the norm when they only make up about 1% of Australia's population. 

So being 'normal depends on what percentage of the Australian population shares your particular makeup. How high would the percentage have to be before you stopped being abnormal (or not the norm as you now like to put it)