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They seem to have some really anti-gay friends. 

Sources: http://upwr.me/KonyFacts

Are parents who teach their children that ‘being gay is wrong’ at fault if their child bullies gay kids in school, even if they teach their children bullying is wrong?

In Loving Vs. Virginia, the precedent that got the interracial marriage case to start moving up the ladder came from a Virginia judge who said this about interracial marriage in a court ruling:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

The Lovings were sentenced to jail time.

Which begat this:

That insane law was overruled. I’m not sure how that child turned out in the photo above, but my guess is he still has some awful ideas about how the world works.

Today gay kids are subject to hearing things like this:

 ”When people of the same sex marry, they cannot possibly have any progeny,” wrote an appeals judge in a Missouri case. “And such a fact sufficiently justifies those laws which forbid their marriages.”

or

“I believe that the tendency to classify all persons who oppose gay marriage as ‘prejudiced’ is in itself a prejudice,” grumped a noted psychologist. “Nothing of any significance is gained by such a marriage.”

or 

A U.S. representative from Georgia declared that allowing gay marriages “necessarily involves (the) degradation” of conventional marriage, an institution that “deserves admiration rather than execration.”

Those quotes are actually altered from the original segregational quotes persecuting people of different races in this article but could easily be quotes from today.

Today, this adorable family:

begets this:

which begets this:

which begat this:
Two boys commit suicide after enduring homophobic bullying at school

and this:
Fifth Gay Teen Suicide in Three Weeks Sparks Debate 

These are all kids who are dead due to bullying and anti-gay rhetoric, the kids whose actions inspired the creation of the http://itgetsbetter.org project.
http://equalitync.blogspot.com/2010/10/teenage-suicide-dont-do-it.html

If you teach your children that being gay is wrong, regardless of what you teaching them about bullying, you are putting at risk gay children who often will end up committing suicide, some of whom are barely 11 years old. 

Weigh whether those kids lives are worth teaching something to your children that will have little or no effect on their lives.

Your children are no more or less likely to be gay based on what you tell them. They either will be, and be OK with it, or they will be and be judged for it (with often life threatening results.)  Or they won’t be. 

Gay kids who are bullied 5 TIMES more likely to commit suicide than straight kids who are bullied. This usually happens because while the nerdy kid has parents who support them after they get beat up, many gay kids go home to families who bully them as well. 

You can’t play god, you can only help teach your children right from wrong, and how to teach them to respect their peers. If you teach them that some of their peers are less than equal, there will be repercussions far beyond your own family. 

Do you want that responsibility?

(Source: quora.com)

Quora: Who are some people who have successfully addressed unwanted same sex attraction?

Sometimes stupid questions require answers. So here’s mine.

Me.

I was at a party. There was this guy whom I was friends with who kept flirting with me. I told him I was flattered, but I wasn’t gay. He said cool. I passed him another beer.

Then we continued being friends.

(Source: quora.com)