Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at high school. Here is another story, this one from Wisconsin, that ought to serve as a wake-up call for society at large. At a Wisconsin high school, a student organization designed a "heterosexual questionnaire", approved by two teachers. Students were asked such questions as: "If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?" and "Considering the battering, abuse, and divorce rate associated with heterosexual coupling, why would you want to enter into that type of relationship?"
Hundreds of students at the school were told to submit written answers, and a full class period was used to discuss the survey. Here is an article:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=424003
From the article:
Parent Lisa Krier on Monday called for the two teachers to be disciplined, saying the survey was a form of sexual harassment by teachers against students.
"If somebody doesn't call them on it, it will continue," she said.
Both Principal Duane Woelfel and Patty Ruth, president of the Port Washington-Saukville School Board, said the survey was inappropriate and that proper authorization was not given before it was brought into classrooms.
"The message that really needs to go out at this point is that this administration will ensure that this type of survey will never go out again," Ruth said.
Woelfel said he has received complaints from about two dozen parents and community members regarding the survey. The principal said he was not aware of the survey until a parent gave him a copy a day after it was distributed.
"We were extremely concerned when we found out about it, and we're going to make sure that it doesn't happen again," Woelfel said.
The teachers who Woelfel said are responsible for the survey - social studies teacher Sarah Olson and communications teacher Julie Grudzinski - could not be reached for comment.
Woelfel estimated that the survey was given to about 400 of the school's 930 students on April 25, the day before the national Day of Silence, an annual event co-sponsored by the New York City-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
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Students in the group presenting the survey were trying to convey that "students who have an alternative lifestyle get asked these questions every day, so please be considerate. It was an exercise in compassion and understanding that did not work out real well," Woelfel said.
Woelfel said the survey violated school policy because parents were not notified in advance and given the opportunity to decide whether their children should participate.
Supposedly, the survey was part of an effort to reduce harassment against "non-heterosexuals". How? By harassing heterosexuals?
One question reads: "Is it likely that you have (sic) just haven't met the right same gender partner yet?". Questions such as that and the two I mentioned earlier suggest that the designers of the survey want to encourage experimentation with homosexuality. But wait -- I thought that people didn't choose it! The prevailing conventional wisdom is that being gay is not a matter of choice. Why, people say, would anyone choose such a life full of torment?
Whether or not people choose to have feelings of homosexuality is debatable. But people definitely do choose to engage in homosexual behavior. That is a matter of free will, just as heterosexual activity is. Liberals spin it a different way, insinuating (if not saying outright) that it is impossible not to act on sexual feelings.
Nonsense. Liberals might do whatever they please, but not all people do. Contrary to popular belief, there are still people with morals. The aim of gay activists is to remove all social taboos on homosexual behavior, so that the activity in which they choose (yes, choose) to engage will be considered right and natural. But it is not.
The survey actually did contain one good question. The final question was "Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?".
The answer is: because of liberalism. Ever since the sexual revolution of the '60's and '70's, liberals have placed an emphasis on sex as if it is the most important thing about our lives and our identities. The effects have been, to say the least, destructive. Sexual imagery now dominates our popular culture. Society now projects the idea that anyone who does not engage in casual sex is not normal.
I can tell you from past (and present) experience that it is not impossible to avoid sexual encounters. I am heterosexual, and I am celibate. I am not married, and I do not fool around. I am exposed to the same images and temptations that many others are. I have experienced peer pressure, in youth and in adulthood. Abstinence from sex is not always easy in the short run, but in the long run it makes life much easier. In the city of Philadelphia where I live, the consequences of sexual immorality are on display everywhere, and they are ugly.
What is the best way to counteract society's constant endorsement of casual sex?
Religion.
Hundreds of students at the school were told to submit written answers, and a full class period was used to discuss the survey. Here is an article:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=424003
From the article:
Parent Lisa Krier on Monday called for the two teachers to be disciplined, saying the survey was a form of sexual harassment by teachers against students.
"If somebody doesn't call them on it, it will continue," she said.
Both Principal Duane Woelfel and Patty Ruth, president of the Port Washington-Saukville School Board, said the survey was inappropriate and that proper authorization was not given before it was brought into classrooms.
"The message that really needs to go out at this point is that this administration will ensure that this type of survey will never go out again," Ruth said.
Woelfel said he has received complaints from about two dozen parents and community members regarding the survey. The principal said he was not aware of the survey until a parent gave him a copy a day after it was distributed.
"We were extremely concerned when we found out about it, and we're going to make sure that it doesn't happen again," Woelfel said.
The teachers who Woelfel said are responsible for the survey - social studies teacher Sarah Olson and communications teacher Julie Grudzinski - could not be reached for comment.
Woelfel estimated that the survey was given to about 400 of the school's 930 students on April 25, the day before the national Day of Silence, an annual event co-sponsored by the New York City-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
More:
Students in the group presenting the survey were trying to convey that "students who have an alternative lifestyle get asked these questions every day, so please be considerate. It was an exercise in compassion and understanding that did not work out real well," Woelfel said.
Woelfel said the survey violated school policy because parents were not notified in advance and given the opportunity to decide whether their children should participate.
Supposedly, the survey was part of an effort to reduce harassment against "non-heterosexuals". How? By harassing heterosexuals?
One question reads: "Is it likely that you have (sic) just haven't met the right same gender partner yet?". Questions such as that and the two I mentioned earlier suggest that the designers of the survey want to encourage experimentation with homosexuality. But wait -- I thought that people didn't choose it! The prevailing conventional wisdom is that being gay is not a matter of choice. Why, people say, would anyone choose such a life full of torment?
Whether or not people choose to have feelings of homosexuality is debatable. But people definitely do choose to engage in homosexual behavior. That is a matter of free will, just as heterosexual activity is. Liberals spin it a different way, insinuating (if not saying outright) that it is impossible not to act on sexual feelings.
Nonsense. Liberals might do whatever they please, but not all people do. Contrary to popular belief, there are still people with morals. The aim of gay activists is to remove all social taboos on homosexual behavior, so that the activity in which they choose (yes, choose) to engage will be considered right and natural. But it is not.
The survey actually did contain one good question. The final question was "Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?".
The answer is: because of liberalism. Ever since the sexual revolution of the '60's and '70's, liberals have placed an emphasis on sex as if it is the most important thing about our lives and our identities. The effects have been, to say the least, destructive. Sexual imagery now dominates our popular culture. Society now projects the idea that anyone who does not engage in casual sex is not normal.
I can tell you from past (and present) experience that it is not impossible to avoid sexual encounters. I am heterosexual, and I am celibate. I am not married, and I do not fool around. I am exposed to the same images and temptations that many others are. I have experienced peer pressure, in youth and in adulthood. Abstinence from sex is not always easy in the short run, but in the long run it makes life much easier. In the city of Philadelphia where I live, the consequences of sexual immorality are on display everywhere, and they are ugly.
What is the best way to counteract society's constant endorsement of casual sex?
Religion.
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