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Supreme Court hears case on religious objections to LGBTQ storybooks in public school​

Apr 21, 2025 7:03 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prince lassos a dragon, saving a knight in shining armor from certain death. But the prince slips and as he falls, the knight and his steed race to return the favor.
Then the two men fall in love.
That story, “Prince and Knight,” is one of five children’s books featuring LGBTQ characters and aimed at kindergarten through the fifth grade that have roiled a diverse suburban Maryland school district and led to a Supreme Court case that the justices will hear on Tuesday.
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Five children's books featuring LGBTQ characters and aimed at kindergarten through the fifth grade have roiled a diverse suburban Maryland school district and led to a Supreme Court case that the justices will hear on Tuesday.
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The United States Constitution's First Amendment enumerates our citizens Constitutional right to exercise religion. BUT !
It also protects us from religion. BUT !
"No right is absolute. Conversely, no government authority is absolute." lawyer, law Professor and former ACLU head Nadine Strossen
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The purpose of school is education.

Are those opposed to these public school storybooks deliberate champions of ignorance? They want children to not even know? Setting them up for surprise / shock later in life?​

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." - Lynn Lavner
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Lynn !
 
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals ....
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And the majority of the "admonishments" to homosexuals (at least the ones the bible thumpers like to cite) are found in the Old Testament (Leviticus 18:22 for example).

First, why are those verses still valid if the rest of the laws (all 613 of them) laid down in the Old Testament are not. For that matter, Leviticus alone bans some 76 things calling many of them abominations.

Second, the original text referred to pedophilia, not to adult same sex relationships.

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Shiftless2 said:
And the majority of the "admonishments" to homosexuals (at least the ones the bible thumpers like to cite) are found in the Old Testament (Leviticus 18:22 for example).

First, why are those verses still valid if the rest of the laws (all 613 of them) laid down in the Old Testament are not. For that matter, Leviticus alone bans some 76 things calling many of them abominations.
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a·bom·i·na·tion (ə-bŏm′ə-nāshən)
n.
1. Abhorrence; disgust.
2. A cause of abhorrence or disgust.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

Yeah, the notion of fudge-packing a bloke seems abhorrent, disgusting to me. BUT !!
Perhaps the notion of a night (or a decade) of insuperable passion with an irresistible woman may seem equally abhorrent, disgusting to them. Your loss suckers!

Immaterial.
Stealing Bruce's Humvee is one of the 7 deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins are:
1.Gluttony
2.Anger
3.Envy
4.Greed
5.Lust
6.Pride
7.Sloth

That's entirely different from our God-given libido.
Blaming a gay guy for being gay is to the religious believer tantamount to blaming God for ostensible sin.
Was it Chris Hitchens that quipped: - Created sick, and commanded to be well - ?

Shiftless2 said:
"Second, the original text referred to pedophilia, not to adult same sex relationships." #682
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It was different millennia ago.
We know better now.
There are things holy scripture seems to endorse which our culture & laws oppose. Good.
There may be a 1st Amendment / free exercise argument to be made to the contrary. But it's a losing argument.
Our society has an obligation to protect minors. Up yours NAMBLA !
 
Shiftless2 said:
" - there is nothing that gays do that isn't common practice in the hetero community." S2 #684
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... must restrain hetero joke ...
S2,
I think I've failed here. OF COURSE you're right. BUT !
My (apparently unsuccessful) intention was to redirect:
whatever consenting adults do, no matter how revolting or enviable, isn't anyone else' bidness. [but I'll pay top $dollar for the video ...] kiddin'

I have the uneasy feeling we fall for their trap by even addressing it their way. By debating their point, even to refute it, we lend it the appearance of legitimacy.

Shiftless2 said:
"As for same sex porn there's plenty of lesbian porn out there ..." S2
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NO WHERE NEAR ENOUGH as far as I'm concerned !

No body appreciates a nice pair of tits more than wrinkly old sear.

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Lena was competing in the Sons of Norway swim meet, where she came in last in the 100 meter breast stroke. She went to the judges and said,
"Oh say, I don't mean to complain, but I think the other women were using their arms."

You're my kind of gal Lena. Stop by my house.
Bring pizza.
And pajamas.
 
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