Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: We Are All Different

Monday, September 11, 2017

We Are All Different

It’s that difference that makes the world go round, can you imagine if everyone looked the same, thought the same we would be like ants.

In England one family rejects those that are different.

Boy removed from school in transgender rights row
BBC News
September 11, 2017

Nigel and Sally Rowe said their son became confused as to why the child dressed as both a boy and a girl.

The Diocese of Portsmouth, which runs the Church of England school on the Isle of Wight, said it was required to "respect diversity of all kinds".

The couple believe the school should have consulted all parents.
[…]
Two years ago they removed their eldest son from the same school in a separate row about a different transgender child.

The Rowes say the suggestion that gender is fluid conflicts with their Christian beliefs as a family and they are seeking a legal challenge against the school's actions.

The Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Mr and Mrs Rowe, said the couple were being accused of "transphobic behaviour" because of their "refusal to acknowledge a transgender person's true gender".
[…]
Jeff Williams, director of education for the Diocese of Portsmouth, said: "Church of England schools are inclusive environments where pupils learn to respect diversity of all kinds.

So these parents say it is against their religious beliefs but sent their children to a religious school that believes in diversity and now they are suing.

This is what an Australian newspaper had to say abut this,

Christian parents want to sue school that allowed boy to wear dress
Nine Online
By Jo Abi
September 11, 2017
A Christian couple from the UK are considering taking legal action against their son's former school because it allowed a male student to wear a dress.

Nigel Rowe, 44, and Sally, 42, pulled their six-year-old son out of a Church of England primary school when a fellow student began dressing as a girl.

"A child aged six would sometimes come to school as a girl or sometimes come to school as a boy," Nigel explained in a Christian Concerns video.

Sally said her son became "quite ill and stressed" over the situation.

"Our concerns were raised when our son came back home from school saying he was confused as to why and how a boy was now a girl."

Well maybe, just possible maybe you son is reacting to the way you react to the gender fluid student?

Saturday was Hartford Pride and I was tabling at the LGBT Aging Advocacy coalition and also stopping by the CT TransAdvocacy Coalition table to see how it was going.

Photo by Deja

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Monday, September 11, 2017

We Are All Different

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