Because to them sexuality is a choice (despite the fact science blatantly disputes that), so anything that might sway the choices of children towards homosexuality are evil and vile things.
On a side topic to that thought, I’ve always found it funny how conservatives always seem to be so concerned with things that will make boys gay but not things that will make girls gay. It’s almost as if lesbians aren’t as bad. I mean sure, they’ll tell you we’ll still go to hell. But if something has little boys dancing around in frilly tutus it’s definitely gonna get a lot more attention than little girls playing army or football.
If you can pull yourself away from your alcoholism, rain dances, man hating, and promiscuous sex long enough to stop making broad generalizations about conservatives, that’d be awesome.
That said, while I do think that “The Common Core” is ultimately a good thing or, at least, a current improvement in the piss poor structure of most of America’s education, the current formatting of a lot of the questions in the materials I’ve seen really need to be revised to be clearer. It’s rather difficult to teach kids what they’re supposed to learn as it is and only becomes increasingly so when you add vague stuff like “number sentence” without explaining what the fuck a “number sentence” actually is.
It means you become a mythical creature that no one believes exists even when confronted with that.
Unfortunately you still can’t get away with murder, but you at least get these bitching sparkles when sun hits you just right; too bad those were kinda ruined by Twilight.
This isnt about common core, this is about AIR doing some bullshit.
Instead of mooks like AIR getting these exam contracts, why not just have a federal department under the purvey of secretary of education to control this in all states using common core (which is a cool thing!) and then old white guys dont need to look so terrified of the D on youtube.
So let’s take a step back to admire the dumbest sentence in the entire OP that was quoted
Isn’t @Dramatix our resident gay dude in GD? Or do I have my names wrong. If I am correct, what is the highest degree of being “as gay as you possibly can”? Do all your outfits have to include sequins? Do you have to try to answer every inquiry with lyrics from Queen?
I’ll concede that ‘not all conservatives are like that’. That’s a pretty big group of people and I’m sure there’s some exceptions in there. But anytime there’s a political or social movement against gays or gay rights it’s pretty much always coming from people who would identify as ‘conservatives’.
I’d rather not get into the semantics of what it means to be a conservative, but from my perspective that’s how I would define them. And if you wish to identify yourself with them that’s your prerogative.
Regardless however my point still stands: Something threatening male heterosexuality seems to be a much greater concern than something threatening female heterosexuality. And the males who define their sexuality outside of the heterosexual norm often suffer for it.