I am at a loss as to where you propose to go with this line of reasoning.
And I'm at a loss for how you come up with things like the contents of this post.
Tolerance is a question of ethics -- a subject matter that belongs in an institution of learning. But the study of ethics inadvertantly touches on subjects of religion, since the two inquiries overlap.
So rather than have a comprehensive discussion of ethics (and risk the mention of religion in a formal classroom setting), you would rather have gays talk about their personal experiences and feelings of how they were born that way.
I have no problem with an open, honest, factual discussion of religion in schools. As I've mentioned before, I myself took several classes on religion throughout school and found them highly enlightening.
I might be confused as to what you're saying. Are you suggesting that in order to teach tolerance to kids, we'd have to teach them adherence to a religion? We'd have to teach them religious values? What is it that you think I'd be so opposed to?
In the meantime, people who aren't gay, but are different nonetheless, continue to ge beat up since you found it necessary to be tolerant to gays only.
This offends me a little. I am not a homosexual myself, but I was still different in many ways, and as a result I had a less than stellar school experience. Luckily I was always bigger than the other kids so I didn't get "beaten up," but I probably would have been had I not been fortunate in the size category.
I believe and promote tolerance towards everyone. I believe in educating kids about homosexuality because promoting tolerance towards homosexuals tends to be more difficult - other people understand them less than they understand, say, Goths. Just about everyone gets depressed from time to time, so even the "mainstream" kids in school at least understand, on some level, why the "Goth" kids (and yes, I was more or less "goth" in high school, in case you were wondering) are so down all the time. Getting straight kids to understand homosexuality is more difficult because they don't experience the same things homosexuals do.
I'd be all for promotion of tolerance as virulently as possible. I don't want to see any kids getting beaten up, for any reason.