Part of the problem is that you’re viewing this through a strawman.
In other words, you don’t know what liberals are thinking and doing.
It’s been said for years by scientists and those on the left that homosexuality is biological while the right have argued it’s a product of pedophilia grooming.
The truth is; we don’t know. And it may be as complicated as several factors involving nature AND nurture. Recently, it’s been dismissed that there is no single gene that determines homosexuality; but there are several genes that, if shaped a certain way can make it more likely these individuals will be homosexual. But it’s not a guarantee that they will. For a long time, homosexuals had heterosexual marriages and had children. They conformed to societal norms because they thought that would make them happy. And do you know what? Some were; others were not.
The real purpose that liberals are trying to do is teach tolerance, and the right is calling this indoctrination. While it is fair to criticize the methods of the left teaching tolerance; given they’re far from as tolerant themselves, it doesn’t do us any good by trying to make it into something more than that.
The reason they think teaching tolerance to children is so that these homosexuals will not have to conform to the traditional societal norms and risk being unhappy. Naturally, there are fundamentalists who believe that homosexuality is a sin and any teaching of acceptance and tolerance is counter-productive to society. And there may be some truth to that simple mindset; if it isn’t broken then don’t fix it.
But perusing legislation to prevent these people from teaching tolerance is not the right way to go about it, in my opinion as it is counterintuitive to our core constitutional values even if it is for the benefit of traditional values. Which people too often confuse as one and the same. And that is simply not true.
So what the left sees the right doing is being discriminatory. But it would be unwise to simply dismiss anyone who wants to protect their children from indoctrination as bigotry. True, I do think bigots are controlling the narrative for this push to turn parents against teachers but it’s swallowing up moderates by turning this situation black or white.
The truth is; this with teachers isn’t as big an issue as some Republicans are making it out to be. Just like gay marriage isn’t as big an issue. It’s just a political talking point. And it’ll end the same way.
