Let me start with this....I'm more than slightly offended that you're comparing the rights of pedophiles (criminals....and the BOTTOM of the barrel as far as prisoners are concerned) with the rights of homosexuals (not criminals, but still the bottom of the barrel as far as society is concerned).  Do you really think that the Folsum Street Fair is that different from Mardi Gras?  There are outlandish costumes, obscene amounts of drinking, nudity, and debauchery at BOTH.  The Folsum Street Fair has 2 things against it (media-wise).  1. - It's newer. (Hey, it's only 25 years old!)  and 2. - It's a Gay fair.  OMFG (sarcasm).  If there's open sex, it's not the problem of the organizers...it's the people themselves who are doing wrong.  It's like saying that the organizers of the Woodstock '98 are to blame for having a festivale where it was possible for women to be raped.  And, as for "gay rights" in curriculum....IF it's brought up, there should be no mention of actual sex (as in fornication, the act of sex) by the teacher.  There is something to be said for schools who teach tolerance as opposed to completely ignoring the situation.  There has always been gay families, it's just that a lot of them feel safe to be vocal now.  And blaming ANYTHING to do with homosexuality with parents having a hard time is not only wrong, but completely and totally missing the point.

Parents have a harder time because they create a harder time for themselves.  They start in early childhood, plopping the tot in front of some t.v. show designed for infants.  Then they move up to the toddler shows.  and so on, and so on.  Electricity bills are astronomical because people have the t.v. on all damn day.  Why?  Entertain the kidlets.  Keep them out of my hair so I can read a book/clean the house/garden/play online all day.  No one includes their children anymore in their daily activities.  Kids have PLAYDATES.  Are you freaking kidding me?  When I was a kid, you went outside.  If no one was outside, you knocked on doors.  And now, playdates are supervised.  WTF??  Every parent I've talked to about why THEY go to playdates?  They want to keep their kids safe from pedophiles.  You know...your child has less of a chance of being molestedy by a pedophile YOU DON'T KNOW than they do by your sibling or parent.  And, you'd practically have to make your kid pedophile bait these days for someone YOU DON'T KNOW to take them and molest them.  Not to say that it doesn't happen, but I'm talking probability, here.  I WAS molested as a child.  I'm not trying to minimize this in ANY way.  But, come on, folks.  The kids I went to school with were WAY more screwed up than I was as far as sex goes, and, statistically, I should have been the class whore!  You know WHY I was a good kid?  I had PARENTS WHO CARED (sometimes too much, lol).  I got grounded.  I got my mouth slapped once in a while.  I got the things I really loved taken away from me.  Hell, I spent 6 weeks with nothing in my room but a bed, dressers and 3 books (not including schoolbooks) for getting a 2-day suspension at school.  Do I look back and shudder and cry at that?  No, I look back, and laugh, because, frankly, the things that were taken from me...trivial physical property, and nothing more.  So, what if I didn't get to annoy my sisters with Green Jelly's "3 Little Pigs" at 3am?  That's why they call it a punishment.  It's making you do something you don't want to do, to make you think of what NOT to do.

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