Re: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Not OT to Me :) was:OT? HSDLA and Gay Marriage
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It's surely not off-topic to me. :)
Unschooling to me is about support and encouragement of unique
individuals, rather than defining, delimiting or dictating what's best for others, or
manipulating others to one's own ends. So how could unschooling be compatible
with political pronouncements about the private lives and choices of others?
Whether the issue is marriage and family, religion and spirituality,
or learning and education, how can any unschooler support political intrusion
of any sort into what an individual thinks and feels, and how one expresses it
in one's own private life? JJ
In a message dated 10/11/2003 8:34:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
KathrynJB@... writes:
Unschooling to me is about support and encouragement of unique
individuals, rather than defining, delimiting or dictating what's best for others, or
manipulating others to one's own ends. So how could unschooling be compatible
with political pronouncements about the private lives and choices of others?
Whether the issue is marriage and family, religion and spirituality,
or learning and education, how can any unschooler support political intrusion
of any sort into what an individual thinks and feels, and how one expresses it
in one's own private life? JJ
In a message dated 10/11/2003 8:34:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
KathrynJB@... writes:
> This may be off-topic...in a lot of ways, it SHOULD be off-topic, except[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> that
> HSDLA has endorsed it, and it's not off-topic for MY homeschooling family's
> life...so I want to share.
>
> Beginning tomorrow, October 12th, the anniversary of Matthew Shephard's
> death, National Marriage Protection Week, signed by President Bush, begins.
> One
> person described this as "National Discriminate Against Committed Gay
> Couples
> Week."
>
> I don't even know what to say...I am just overcome with sadness and
> anger....
>
> Kathryn, partner to Beth for thirteen years
>
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In a message dated 10/11/03 8:37:51 AM, jrossedd@... writes:
<< Whether the issue is marriage and family, religion and spirituality,
or learning and education, how can any unschooler support political intrusion
of any sort into what an individual thinks and feels, and how one expresses
it
in one's own private life? >>
That was an artsy rhetorical question, right?
Because I am not comfortable with separatist, white-supremist gun-toting
homeschoolers who teach their children that liberals are the army of Satan come to
prepare the earth for the anti-Christ. That bothers me some.
And I'm nervous when I think about the Christian Homeschoolers who campaigned
so hard for Bush because they want God's kingdom to come on earth, in the
congress especially, and the Supreme Court. I worry about my kids growing up and
having to deal with their kids who will say "Hey we were homeschooled too!
So I guess you're also conservative, 'pro-life' Nazi-ready; let's go shoot some
Jewish health care providers."
I can't control those other people, and they can't control me.
But they would sure like to.
Sandra
<< Whether the issue is marriage and family, religion and spirituality,
or learning and education, how can any unschooler support political intrusion
of any sort into what an individual thinks and feels, and how one expresses
it
in one's own private life? >>
That was an artsy rhetorical question, right?
Because I am not comfortable with separatist, white-supremist gun-toting
homeschoolers who teach their children that liberals are the army of Satan come to
prepare the earth for the anti-Christ. That bothers me some.
And I'm nervous when I think about the Christian Homeschoolers who campaigned
so hard for Bush because they want God's kingdom to come on earth, in the
congress especially, and the Supreme Court. I worry about my kids growing up and
having to deal with their kids who will say "Hey we were homeschooled too!
So I guess you're also conservative, 'pro-life' Nazi-ready; let's go shoot some
Jewish health care providers."
I can't control those other people, and they can't control me.
But they would sure like to.
Sandra
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In a message dated 10/11/2003 11:27:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:
I very much agree it's uncomfortably true we cannot control others.
It's most especially and most unfortunately true imo that we cannot control the
ones who would like to control us. JJ
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SandraDodd@... writes:
> In a message dated 10/11/03 8:37:51 AM, jrossedd@... writes:Rhetorical though not meant to be artsy <g> .
>
> << Whether the issue is marriage and family, religion and spirituality,
> or learning and education, how can any unschooler support political
> intrusion
> of any sort into what an individual thinks and feels, and how one expresses
> it
> in one's own private life? >>
>
> That was an artsy rhetorical question, right?
>
I very much agree it's uncomfortably true we cannot control others.
It's most especially and most unfortunately true imo that we cannot control the
ones who would like to control us. JJ
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In a message dated 10/11/03 11:25:30 AM, jrossedd@... writes:
<< > That was an artsy rhetorical question, right?
It was pretty lyrical and poetic. That's not a bad thing. <g>
Sandra
<< > That was an artsy rhetorical question, right?
>Rhetorical though not meant to be artsy <g> >>
It was pretty lyrical and poetic. That's not a bad thing. <g>
Sandra