They KNOW that most people don’t read past the title. It’s a secret weapon that we hand right over when we don’t read past titles and headlines. It’s how we end up being complicit in our own demise… how we build the prison wall around us. And it’s an easy fix.
I think you've over-simplified the issues in the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill. It sounds wonderful to call it the "let parents parent" bill, but this assumes we live in a world where all parents love their children, and want to do the best for them. We don't. Any gay person will tell you they know many, many people (maybe the majority of the gay people I know) whose parents were deeply abusive and harmful. If a gay child is raised by anti-gay parents, they are probably being raised to believe that they are an evil piece of garbage. Schools need to be able to deal, in some fashion, with kids who need protection from their parents, and there is a big gray area between obviously violent parents who need to have their kids taken away and parents who simply make their kids believe that they are worthless. It helps kids if some other trusted adult, like a teacher, assures them that there is nothing evil about them.
Another example: the magnificent sounding Prison Rape Elimination Act. Passed 2003. Was rape eliminated in US prisons in consequence of that legislation? Are they rape free zones? Hmm.
I think you've over-simplified the issues in the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill. It sounds wonderful to call it the "let parents parent" bill, but this assumes we live in a world where all parents love their children, and want to do the best for them. We don't. Any gay person will tell you they know many, many people (maybe the majority of the gay people I know) whose parents were deeply abusive and harmful. If a gay child is raised by anti-gay parents, they are probably being raised to believe that they are an evil piece of garbage. Schools need to be able to deal, in some fashion, with kids who need protection from their parents, and there is a big gray area between obviously violent parents who need to have their kids taken away and parents who simply make their kids believe that they are worthless. It helps kids if some other trusted adult, like a teacher, assures them that there is nothing evil about them.
Another example: the magnificent sounding Prison Rape Elimination Act. Passed 2003. Was rape eliminated in US prisons in consequence of that legislation? Are they rape free zones? Hmm.