The Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland has made a breakthrough of earth-shattering magnitude. Somehow they've proven what hundreds of scientists and millions of dollars have, to date, been unable to confirm: homosexuality is present at birth and is unchangeable.

Oh wait. I guess there's different definitions of "prove." In this case, they've just decided the above fact is true and have instituted it into their curriculum.

Unit 8:2 of the new 8th grade textbook includes a definition of innate from the 2006 edition of the Merriam Webster's Dictionary as meaning "determined by factors present in an individual from birth." The curriculum then instructs teachers to "Say to students, 'Sexual orientation is innate and a complex part of one's personality."

I have a question for you. Suppose a Board of Education decided to institute a curriculum that threw the theory of evolution out the window and only taught creationism. I wonder if they'd get away with it? Or, sticking with the sex ed theme, suppose they decided to teach abstinence as the best and only way to prevent teen pregnancy, STD's and etc. Oops -- that one's actually empirically provable as true.

Homosexuality is not the same as math, it's a controversial issue with vehement feelings on both sides. Exposing children to curriculum that includes homosexuality is bad enough, but teaching them unproven theory as fact is unconscionable. (Thanks to Hal for mentioning the article)