RB W wrote:
Why is it so hard for you to understand that in the context of private
education and what is taught in the home people are and will remain to
be free to teach contrary to those very things you seem to think
should be state enforced correctness thinking? Why is it so difficult
to understand that many people have a set of ideas about what is true
that obviously differ from yours AND they have the right to organize
and form educational associations to affect those ideas?
I don't have a good answer for this. I do *not* agree with your position.
Taken to the extreme, this kind of tolerance results in the
multicultural effects in England where they are now fighting against
things like forced marriages, genital mutilation, etc.
You are not free to indulge in any beliefs without limit, even in
private. We, as a society, do circumscribe certain behaviors even in
the privacy of your home--especially when society is likely to have to
pick up the tab later for the damage done now.
I'm a firm believer that what you do to yourself or another consenting
adult in the privacy of your own home should be very sacrosanct.
However, you may not beat or imprison your wife in this country
irrespective of what your religion says. We, as a society, decide that
is unacceptable even if your religion says otherwise--even if she is an
adult. Consent is a very tricky thing in this instance.
You will note that I specifically moved away from a "But think of the
children!" argument. I hate those types of arguments, and there are
situations involving adults that show the limits of sacrosanct
individual belief vs. societal imposed norm.
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