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June 10, 2007, 11:52 pm PDT
11/24 Great School Debate
Quote From: omgwhocaresI could be a good role model in some ways to a lot of kids.
I'm sure that's true, but putting the shoe on the other foot... Would you want to give your child a role model of someone who calls homosexuals sinners, and makes racist remarks?
I think that homophobes could be role models in someways. And even if they had valid arguments for their anti-homosexual attitudes, I would say that would be positive. I really don't plan to tell my daughter anything but the fact of homosexuality has I have learned them. To be honest, I see raising kids as very different than some people do....(not saying YOU see it this way at all, I am just talking in generalities here.) I don't see it as my job to raise a little clone of me. I see it as my job to raise her to be open to new experiences, yet skeptical enough to not let anything into her mind. I will raise her to value facts, and evidence and to remember that at any minute she could learn something new that just might change her mind. That is how I am raising my daughter.
I see it this way:
It is not my job to give her MY values. It is my job to give her the tools to make informed decisions to make her OWN values.
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