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Do children have the intellectual capacity to reconcile the gay marriage issue, or homosexuality, if taught in the public schools as perfectly "normal"?
Tim-
Again, you are using a slippery slope fallacy here.
Something being legal does not equate to something being normal.
It is legal to dye ones hair pitch black, put spikes through ones ears, get surgically implanted horns in ones forehead, wear blood stained black garb, while hissing to show your surgically created fangs.
That does not mean its legal.
The argument that "Marriage between two people of the same sex should be legal" and "Marriage between two people of the same sex should be taught and socially forced to be viewed as 'normal'" are two entirely different things. While they do relate, and even if we assume the second statement is "wrong", the wrongness of the second statement doesn't in and of itself negate the first statement if the first statement is right.
Whether or not homosexuality, or even gay marriage, is taught as "normal" or "correct" or is presented as such societally is a seperate issue. One does not necessarily mean the other MUST happen, nor does supporting one necessarily mean one must support the other.