Thinking about gay marriage led me to studying how something becomes normal. Religious teachings were a primary focus and I understand why. Our diverse perspectives have though, in my opinion, clouded another issue. The proponents of state sanctioned gay marriage state that the issue is civil liberty. I agree.

It is through normalization, sanctioned by the state, that gay marriage is revealed as an issue between civil liberties and unalienable rights. Normalization is accomplished most effectively when promoted through an agenda of mass acceptance. Mass acceptance is reached through education, media and law utilizing marketing on a grand scale. One ingenious route is through compulsory education. Curriculum matter is delivered to our children using teachers who cannot conscientiously object without penalty, through school boards with state dictates accompanying threats of fund withholding if dictates are not implemented. Public school is an efficient marketing tool for social change. Many birds are hit with one stone.

Mass acceptance is also accomplished through the media. Applying a strategy of offense, opponents of gay marriage are portrayed as bigots motivated by fear. The media broadcasts pro-homosexuality presentations. TV shows depict homosexuality as normal from Bert and Ernie to Will and Grace. I know I can shut off my TV. The mainstream news networks, however, tend to journalism as opposed to reporting.

In the world I wish we lived, my labor would not be extorted to fund the Government Indoctrination Schools. You want to talk about rights? Let’s take a look at Parental Authority, an unalienable right. Let’s look at our schools and one example of normalization.

Sexual Ed’s goal was to reduce teenage pregnancy. If this was successful the number of abortions for teenagers would not have continued to rise, even giving time for reporting adjustments. Distributing condoms in school had the same objective including STD prevention. Why are we seeing an increase of sexually transmitted diseases? HPV, human papilloma virus prevalence in teens ages 14 – 19 is 24.5%. That is 1 in 4 kids walking through our high schools. Normalizing teen sex through education increased sexual promiscuity with failure in the specific objectives of the programs. Where are these reports? Sex Ed is normalized. Most people are not aware of these statistics. It’s accepted that Sex Ed is working or they’d be hearing otherwise. We are not hearing otherwise. You have to look for yourself. Sex Ed programs are funded with our tax dollars.

Funding the public schools is done through our property taxes. And we the tax payer, cannot actively object to funding this without confiscation of personal property. “You are allowed to keep your property if you pay us what we demand so that we can teach your children what we want.”  Hmmm.

 As long as unalienable rights are trampled upon through mandatory funding, as long as Parental Authority continues to be under assault, we cannot look at normalizing homosexuality as a divorced topic from the rest. Homosexuality must be re-presented for mass acceptance and it has begun in our classrooms.

The Public School curriculum criterion in Maine in our Maine Learning Results has a required area called Health with a sub-section “Healthy Communities” and another heading; “Mental and Emotional Health”. The School Board approves the actual curriculum. The content is under the discretion of the “Guidance Counselor” who now teaches Health. Do you know your School Board? Or your Guidance Councilor? Do you believe homosexuality should be presented to your child as young as 2^nd grade by a relative stranger? And if you do, what if I don’t? What makes your values more important than mine?

We who believe in the Word of G-d are connected to homosexuality and are made complicit in teaching it to the children. We cannot choose to disassociate ourselves, whether we have children or not, without confiscation of our property. It is bad form for proponents of civil liberties to support that which oppresses, regardless of who the oppressed are.

Furthermore, parents who choose to home-school, using their G-d given or nature given, Parental Authority, have an unfair burden. Home-schoolers do not receive their “per-pupil money” back. They must pay for the curriculum matter while paying their property taxes for the empty chair their child does not sit in. That we should support the education of our communities’ youth whether we have children in the schools or not, should be judged by the education they are receiving. People home-school for a variety of reasons.

The question is this: Can homosexuals have the same guaranteed protections to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property) without government mandates promoting mass acceptance that tramples upon the guarantee to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property) for others? Can homosexuals have the same rights as married couples without the shredding of our 1st Amendment? Or the confiscation of my personal property?  And without the usurpation of my unalienable rights?

Not as long as I am bound by law through property taxes to support public schooling that delivers curriculum matter decided by the State and Fed. Not as long as my property can be seized if I actively withdraw my extorted consent to social/value/moral teachings that are in direct confrontation with my religion.

Civil liberties, fairness and equality only apply to promote the agenda of removing G-d? As long as you agree with the promoted agenda, it’s perfectly ok to oppress those who don’t? This blatant hypocrisy cannot be ignored.