TN,
Obviously, I agree about the double standards. However, I don't agree on the "Christian nation vs. Iran" argument, as we're technically supposed to be a nation of laws, not religions.
On the "****sexuality taught in schools" argument, I haven't seen any cases where it is being taught. Most of the cases were people upset that a ****sexual writer's works were included in a curriculum, and, IMO, if the writing is good, that should be what is included(when discussing literature).
As far as mother nature vs. man made, its a hard topic to really argue. For instance, if another human culture, somewhere else, developed technology and architecture and the other achievements of man independent of ours, then the case could be made that industrialization is an instinctual process particular to humans. Just talking out of my arse here, so don't take this too seriously, but we don't have the benefit of knowing several industrialized human cultures that rose up independantly of each other, so we don't really know if there is a logical progression that all humans follow.
And the reason that prayer can be kept out of school is that the school is part of the state, and church and state are to be separate, so that we don't become a christian Iran. Hom0sexuality is not a religious issue, it is a social issue, and social issues are important in the schooling process.
So, which school is actually teaching hom0sexuality?(links to articles would be nice, its not that I don't believe it could happen, its just that I've known more than a few far righters that argued that, but only had third hand info that turned out to be cr@p when looked at more closely)
I wouldn't say I'm far left. On certain issues, yes, but not most. And I recognize that the far right is by no means the majority, but a few of the arguments from each side originate in the extreme members, and get mistaken for valid concerns by all.
Although I am on the left, I strongly believe that both are very important to our way of culture. With just the right, I suspect that we'd have already become an empire even more like the roman one, with all the fatal pitfalls of that system, and with just the left, we'd have been too militarily weak to become the super power we are or defend ourselves against would-be aggressors.