Nazi mama fights back

I absolutely agree with Rod. The parent-child bond is sacred, and I too, for that reason, would oppose the state taking children out of the custody of a parent simply because the parent is a homosexual.

I would argue, however, that the same natural law that instructs us in the sacredness of the parent-child bond is the same one that teaches us that marriage is a unique institution for the merging of difference--male and female--for the purpose of uniting families and generations. For that reason, my defense of the gay parent entails a denial of same-sex marriage. How ironic is that?

In my case, I can trace my roots back to both England and Italy. Families and marriages, and the generations that tie them together, transcend states, governments, and political parties. So, when our fellow citizens request, indeed demand, that the state eradicate that understanding by equating the only family that nature knows with a state-constructed one, the state is saying that there are no real mothers and fathers and no children that actually belong to them. In other words, whatever you have, the state gives you and defines it as such. Leviathian triumphs.

And this is why I believe that a homosexual parent should not be separated from the child he or she dearly loves.

Having waded through the whole newstory, I think Rod took off on a tangent.

It's one thing to support the right of parents to hold and teach beliefs many people find odious. It's another if those parents seek to cause disturbance in a public school:

"Four months ago, her daughter drew a swastika on her arm and went to school, where her teacher scrubbed it off. The mother helped her daughter draw it on her arm again, an act she regrets.

"It was one of the stupidest things I've done in my life but it's no reason to take my kids," the mother told CBC News."

So it wasn't all about beliefs. It was at least partly about disrupting class.

But as other posters have noted, there's plenty to put the Canadian authorities in a bad light. For instance,

"Another man Gerald Hannon who writes for Canada's national newspaper the Globe and Mail is a teacher at Ryerson, (a University in Canada) and regularly teaches his beliefs about pedophilia with his students. The CJC and the B'nai Brith have remained silent over this teacher who compares child-sex rings to children's hockey. Hannon said: 'I could never understand before how children's hockey differed from organized child-sex rings. Both involved children and adults. Both involved danger. Both involve pleasure. Yet we approve of children's hockey but deplore child-sex rings.'"

Obviously, Canada hasn't arrived at high level of fairness and balance we've achieved in the public schools in the US.