Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Parenting 101

Want to really screw up your child?

Have them hold a picket sign declaring that homosexuality is the work of the devil. Teach them that protesting diversity by holding up said picket sign is the right way to spread a message.

Young children, maybe 5 or 6 years old. Looking bored out of their mind while standing outside a church with their hands outstretched, holding these signs. Probably not knowing what it means, just believing that it's wrong because mom and dad said so.

Some parents just suck.

8 comments:

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Parents and the monsters they breed...

Quycksilver said...

but maybe this is in fact a good thing as the kids might actually resent the parent and their stupid signs and end up with a more tolerant perspective. It's the long-way round, but whatever. Or maybe I'm too idealist. It's a possibility

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

not too idealist, it sometimes works out that way but just wish the kids didn't get brutalised first.

Jodi said...

I think it'd be too easy to think they'd grow out of it. Maybe have a college roommate who was gay, or maybe a school teacher to make them reevaluate their hatred. Wishful thinking.

Mad Housewife said...

You actually saw this? Is there some way that could be seen as child abuse? Seriously! They don't know what it means, and yet they are subject to the public's reaction by holding these signs. Doing something like this, and the wrong person seeing it, could get a person hurt. Seriously!

Jodi said...

It was on the news. It was Diversity Week in some communities around here and a group from Kentucky came to protest. They were picketing outside churches and a local school. The school had an essay contest and the winner was a girl who wrote about Ellen Degeneres. Apparently that promotes lesbianism. Who knew?

Anyway, the news reporter was interviewing a young boy who was picketing and he was saying how wrong that lifestyle was. Then the camera cut to another girl who was holding a picket sign looking bored and looking around, like she wasn't "in the moment."

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Most ignorance is more subtly indoctrinated into children from birth.

It's hard if your parents are racist to challenge that viewpoint, luckily my mum was pretty cool so she balanced me out.

Unknown said...

oh great..teaching them to hate at such a young age? I HATE ignorance.