I was appalled by Rabbi Benjamin David’s false statements (“Assault on LGBTQ Rights Must be Countered,” May 25) about Florida’s laws that have been passed concerning sexual education taught in schools and other sexual practices such as drag shows.
The “Don’t Say Gay” bill never mentioned gay or even implied gay sex. It spelled out that sex cannot be taught in school to third graders or younger — nothing at all about heterosexual sex being right or vice versa. Total distorted misinformation. As for public drag shows, the laws are pertaining to minors attending the shows.
Please don’t refer to me as homophobic as I support all individual rights. I am just tired of lies used to make a point or support causes.
Morris Zelikovsky, Aventura, Florida
Rabbi David’s article was replete with false statements. It was written to shape opinion to the belief that right-wing fanatics are attacking our freedoms. The truth is nobody is “banning books”, nobody is attacking gays, nobody is attacking our freedoms, but rather the Florida law is trying to protect young children from being propagandized by the hard-left. Sexuality belongs in the home, taught by parents who have every right to decide what to, when to, and how to teach it to their children. It’s their decisions on pronouns, filth contained in some books and how homosexuality is taught and is determined by faith, family values and the personality of the child, not by the latest leftist fad.The schools have gotten way over their ski’s and cannot be allowed to insert themselves into the family. Calling you homophobic is an admission that they have no arguments that are persuasive.
As I have read the Florida law and the admendments and on lines 22 and 98 it states “gender identiy and sexual orientation” as being prohibited from discussion by teachers and is the primary target of the law. So the misrepresentaion is in the response and not Rabbi David’s original opinion piece. As to schools inserting themselves into the family, wow, you have not talked to your childs teahcer lately, because 1/2 of a teachers job in the best public schools is spent dealing with the social problems caused by a family’s homelife with their students so they can be receptive to learning. Maybe address the issues at home first, then see how the schools can help and not further tie the hands of educators with yet another impossible mandate, Facts do matter.