Teacher forces critical thinking

WorldNetDaily has a post about a teacher who had the nerve to make senior level English students think critically about the ways that the homesexual population is treated by society.  She had them fill out a questionnaire that was meant to aid discussion that included the following questions:

  • What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
  • When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual?
  • Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
  • Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
  • Do your parents know that you are straight? Do your friends and/or roommate(s) know? How did they react?
  • Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can’t you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
  • Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyles?
  • A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. So you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
  • With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
  • Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run the risk of disease and pregnancy?
  • Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?
  • Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that s/he would face?

Apparently one of the parents as well as the author of the WND post believe " this was outright indoctrination to the homosexual viewpoint." Even without reading anything from the teacher’s point of view, it’s blatantly obvious that the teacher was not trying to "make students question being straight" and that they were simply meant to make students think about how they would feel if they were asked these questions due to their sexual orientation. If anyone feels these questions are ludicrous , they should ask themselves why a segment of our population is asked them everyday, and not just in English class.

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