Stone Bridge High School Play Sparks Objections

People don't choose their race.

 

You're right, why would some choose to be part of a group that is vilified, spat upon, treated as an underclass, beat and killed for being who they are, not granted the same rights to live with someone they love.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

I could say that people don't choose their sexuality either, but that will open a debate that will never end. I am a strong believer that you can't really choose who you fall in love with and I would rather someone live a happy gay lifestyle that a miserable heterosexual one and ruin other's lives as well. I could see homosexuality as being a threat to society if we were in danger of being extinct, but in actually, we have the opposite problem.

Gregg

 

You work as a volunteer at the school ... and you take it upon yourself to discourage people that call about plays from going. Wonder if the school knows that.

The kids in the drama department are edgy? ALL TEENAGERS ARE EDGY. It is part of being a teenager. When I was a teenager, I was edgy. I was wearing plateaushoes and huge pants in orange and lime green. Mr. Hochkeppel is an awesome drama instructor, who cares for his kids and understands that drama does not mean political correctness.

This is high school. Not elementary school, not middle school, and most of all not church. School is supposed to teach children about many things, most of all it will help them on their way to being functional adults. That includes learning and being able to talk about sexuality and about different sexuality.

But the play was not about sexuality at all. It was about tolerance for people that are different. I think that some of the intolerant people that are now screaming about the play would be more tolerant as adults if they had grown up with it to begin with.

And before I hear about tolerance for christians ... I tolerate christians and christianity. Religion is a personal choice, like many things in life are personal choices. Would I write a horrified letter to the editor if I went to a schoolplay and it espoused christian values? Absolutely not. To me there is no one sided tolerance ... we either tolerate others lifestyle choices or we don't.

Marianne

 

Well I agree. Total no brainer, that would be Black.

 

People don't chose their sexuality either. That is such an offensive comment, makes me ill to read stuff like this from people who claim to be educated.

Marianne

 

Why is that an offensive statement? Is it insulting to think that some might choose to be gay?

lyo

 

To rephrase what I said previously in this thread...

You're right, why wouldn't some choose to be part of a group that is vilified, spat upon, treated as an underclass, beat and killed for being who they are, not granted the same rights to live with someone they love.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Of you ask anyone who is gay (and I have had several gay friends) they will tell you without hesitation or any confusion, they did NOT choose their sexuality. In fact, until they learned to accept themselves, they lived in a constant state of inner termoil and delt with depression. Does that sound like anything anyone would "choose" to go through? How Fun!

 

I personally don't think you choose to be gay, but I also don't think it is offensive to think you might. We need to be tolerant of people who believe differently than we do ...right?

lyo

 

There is one thing I am not tolerant of ... and that is intolerance. People have the right to spout their intolerance, that is freedom of speech. I have the right to tell them that I think they are intolerant hicks and to refuse to let their ignorant statements stand without challenge.

Marianne

 

Marianne, you are intolerant of others religious beliefs. Are you calling all Christians ignorant hicks?

lyo

 

I think she's calling anyone who is intolerant ... Christians, Jews, Muslims ... ignorant.

Its just that you mostly hear this stuff from self-styled Christian fundamentalists.



Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

I am absolutely not intolerant of religious beliefs. I only call christians that use the bible to spout their anti gay propaganda ignorant hicks, just like I do the non-christians that spout the same crap. There are many many enlightened christians that understand that human sexuality is natural.

People should stop using religion to justify their personal biases.

Marianne

 

It's always amusing to hear liberals spew about intolerance. Anyone who is anti-abortion and believes homosexual behavior is wrong is some kind of hateful intolerant "hick." Can't just disagree with our point of view. I guess that's what counts for "tolerance" in the (thankfully) ever-shrinking blue pockets of America.

 

I'm sorry that my tolerance is not far reaching enough to tolerate intolerance. Btw, anti-abortion issues have nothing to do with tolerance. I may not like your viewpoint, but unless you blow up a clinic you have your right to that viewpoint. But spouting untruths and hate against one group of citizens is called intolerance. YOUR intolerance.

You use the word liberal like an insult, so O'Reilly. But that is just another aspect of the intolerance we see. I don't use the workd conservative as an insult, I call myself proudly a conservative ... just not a conservative in alignment with the new republican party.

But this is not about politics, it is about intolerance. And the kids that showed the play did reach their goal ... they did clearly show the intolerance of a small part of Loudoun county.

 

See what I mean?

 

Yeah.... you and Hilary Clinton. All the liberals are calling themselves conservatives latley.

 

And the "conservatives" spend money like there is no tomorrow ... just not on the things that are important, like education.

 

I'm sorry but I'm extremely offended of the notion that just because I'm Christian means I'm intolerant. If anything Christianity teaches us tolerance. Christ died for all of our sins. Not just white, black, or heterosexual. I had a gay friend in high school. Openly and stereotypically gay. I never, never, looked at him any differently than any other person I know. To me he was a very good friend....a very good and feminine friendbut a friend none the less. Your children are not going to gay up overnight after watching a play of that stature. Why don't those of you that are *****ing about what you and your families saw at that play use it as a teaching aide for your children to explain about not only homo/heterosexuality but tolerance as well....because if you don't, they're just going to learn about it from someone else. And yes, you are born with your sexuality. No one chooses to be gay. No one chooses to be straight. God sets out the path(s) which you follow throughout your life. Who knows who's path you'll cross throughout your life?