What should be taught in schools to children about nature or nurture in regards to homosexuality?
The Chicago Tribune article titled, in same-sex attraction, no 1 gene seen as responsible, reports: “We have found that it is effectively impossible to predict a person’s sexual behavior from their genome.
Another article reports the new law in Illinois to mandate teaching LGBTQ history.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate this study to who should decide what to teach their children sex education, a parent based on religious family values or government based on secular values.
King Solomon
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. (Proverb 1:8)
What’s My Point?
Frankly, I surmise most people including myself do not care what an adult chooses to do behind closed doors with a partner of their choosing.
However, they as parents object to their child being taught sex education that influences or indoctrinates their children to read a book in school in second grade about a prince marrying another prince and living happily ever after.
The study appears to raise doubts to the claim that homosexuality is exclusively a result of nature instead of nurture. So, what should be taught to school children about sex education is now even more controversial a subject.
Are children being influenced to believe in sex education classes contrary to parent religious values or fears that their children are being indoctrinated to engage in premarital sex?
In My Opinion
After reading numerous articles about the pros and cons of sex education in public secular schools I believe that school vouchers are the wisest way to solve this controversy.
In a previous post I explained why along with comments to answer why.
I also believe that children are being indoctrinated by romantic Hollywood movies and peers who may lead them to pornography depictions of sexual intercourse absent the religious Spiritual values of sex and marriage.
I agree that schools should teach appropriate age sex-education.
For anyone who believes that homosexuality and sex education is none of anyone’s business, it does become in part a valid concern because 60 million Americans now have contracted a sexual transmitted disease in the USA according to the CDC, Center of Disease Control of the USA.
While it may not affect a person physically, it does affect them economically because they have to pay higher taxes and insurance premiums to treat other people who contract sexual transmitted diseases.
As for school children who are highly impressionable until they mature, parents and not government should decide what is appropriate to teach their children about sex education.
If Interested
Read the Source Links Below
You Decide
If after reading the article and/or Links, do you believe nature or nurture can influence sexual behavior.
Should parents decide if school vouchers are the best choice for their children rather than government school boards?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Chicago Tribune
King Solomon, Robert Frost’s ‘Rhetorical’ Path Choice?
https://rudymartinka.com/2019/08/31/king-solomon-robert-frosts-rhetorical-path-choice/
LBGC Need Inclusive Sex Education
Religious Parents Complain
“This Is the Way God Made Me”
A Scientific Examination of
Homosexuality
and the “Gay Gene”
Rudy u Martinka 
The notion that there is a weak genetic link to homosexuality is an odd proposition. If there is a genetic link, researchers could make predictions based upon genetic information. Not very accurate, perhaps, but it would still be somewhat predictive.
The problem is separating nurture from nature. We tend to blame parents for the behavior of children. Are those parents more responsible for their children’s genes or instruction?
Even if parents leave most of the instruction of their children to the public school system, that choice is part of their responsibility. Are children whose parents leave their instruction almost altogether to the public school system more likely to have problems related to sexual perversion? Has there been a good study on that question? Can you imagine what an uproar the result of that study might produce?
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Tom,
The link on my post substantiates your opinion about genes and homosexuality.
A Scientific Examination of Homosexuality
and the “Gay Gene”
https://www.trueorigin.org/gaygene01.php
Regards and goodwill blogging
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@Scatterwisdom
Good read!
I suppose some will blow off the article just because the publication exists to expose the myth of evolution, and evolution is “science”. However, ignoring the logic behind an argument is foolish. What matters is logic and testable facts, not whether we like the source.
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Rudy.. one of the core values, if not the only one, for the concept of public education is the idea of standardized universal public curriculum rather than some haphazard design where one region’s kids have more education than another. The idea that the days are long gone when the parents teach their own young about the skills for typical daily survival in the wild… hunting, making clothing, etc. Contemporary man doesn’t require those skills anymore to the impetus for teaching kids the basics in reading, math, writing, etc. is not a skill set common at all with all parents. Just because you can spawn kids doesn’t mean you know how to teach them a thing.
Your concern (and others) is all about the teaching of religious morality… which again, many parents just cannot do effectively anyway. Religion in itself is far too complex for most adults (many say they understand.. but..). Personally I think LGBQ could be included in classes regarding racism in America.. (and exploring the reasons certain groups fall into this category) which I don’t think there are any. Again.. we need classes on critical thinking/problem solving skills and racism, in the younger ages.
Sex education is the exact same issue… even Hollywood depicts the clumsy antics of a parent trying to discuss with their kids about sex and it gets glossed over.. and the kid usually knows more than the parent. Parents cannot be relied upon IN GENERAL to teach the mechanics properly much less the morality of sex practices to fit into a religious or cultural style. Honestly.. most parents need classes on parenting.
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Doug.
Standardized testing of schools sturdents is an easy task to regulate.
However, it will vary in communities comprised of single parents, poverty, or limited parental authority over their own children to engage study.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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