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Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of potentially offensive shirts, posters etc which can be worn in front of children, those which use vague analogies or double entendre. If they ask it can be dismissed as a silly joke if the parent doesn't think they should know its exact meaning. When it is blatantly offensive, I personally would prefer that you reconsider when and where you wear it.
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i never lie to children. EVER. if i get asked about a subject that is inappropriate for someone other then the the parent i say " thats something only your parents can answer". i would not dismiss it and lie even if i was the parent. i had enough of that growning up and resent it so much i can feel it in my bones. as a parent its your job to be honest. brutally honest. your at the top of the food chain of honesty. they WILL find out the truth and WILL know you lied. there's no going back from that.
as for being offensive, yes i may be inappropriate, and yes i may wrong, but i will not be a prisioner of my own life. i am who i am and i can be no less.
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Both of our children know enough about human anatomy, without necessarily knowing exact details, that I don't see any major problems coming their way.
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its not just about sex. its the whole picture. you may want to ignore these things on the news but they wont go away. children live in the same world.
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Certainly not here in the UK, I wouldn't know about elsewhere in the world
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southern baptist christian = extremest
i hate these guys. tyrants. they influence laws. they try to make peoples life hell. they dont mean well. they mean to harm.
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However, while you may not have liked it they were only using that same freedom of speech and lack of censorship that you are endorsing yourself. If you are against their protest, thats fine, but remember your counterprotest will not take away whatever damage and offense they cause to those at the clinic.
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the damage cannot be taken away by anything. atleast i had the satisfaction that they know those people are not alone. i will fight for them. many wars have been fought in this country on those terms.(martin luther king, abe lincon, malcom x, to name a few) all of those ended in bloodshed, murder, and massive bloodshed. dont think i wont shed blood for a rape victim getting an abortion. i will go to war.
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Seems to me that while you want freedom of speech for yourself, it annoys you when others express their opposite yet in their view equally legitimate opinions and beliefs. Basically you are bringing it down to 'who can shout louder' and again, bystanders are stuck in the middle taking flak from both sides whether they like it or not.
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people know what they believe. it may be different from both sides. nothing would happen if no one took a stand. im not saying censor those people im against. but dont censor my side.
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Basically you are assuming yourself to be more important? In your own house, sure. In your local bar or club where there is a consensus about suitable dress etc, and anyone going there should accept this or shut up, sure. In public, no - you should all be equal, and give each other due respect and space. You have no more right to make others feel uncomfortable in a public place, effectively forcing them to leave, than they do to limit your freedom of expression. You have to compromise sometimes - not everyone is against you, even if it sometimes feels like it. That's life.
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pretty wise words. if someone is saying , or doing, or wearing something offensive to me i simply ignore them. or i may say their shirt sucks. i would never tuck tail and run. if i do then i have lost. here, we all have the right to make people feel unconfortable. we do have to compromise sometimes - but sometime you cant and then its war. thats life.
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im big enough to put my personal problems aside for work.
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My point was, you had better hope they are. It would really suck to work somewhere for a while, start getting somewhere and enjoying the job, then have some new boss with a massive grudge move in above you and make your life misery. It happens.
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Maybe that's worth taking the risk if you really believe strongly enough, in fact it probably is.
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trust me i do see your point. and its a good one. and i follow that last quote pretty closely.
i know im not always right. i know i do things that may inch over that line between expression and offensive. i dont have all the answers.
but i will fight for the truth and for freedom.
i know they have the right to voice their opinion. i know sometimes they may know whats whats best for everyone. sometime they do not. they do not have all the answers.
i will still fight to preserve our rights.
"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will win a hundred times in a hundred battles. If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you win one and lose the next. If you do not know yourself or your enemy, you will always lose"
Sun Tzu