What will you do if your child is gay'
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What will you do if your child is gay'
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Hear! Hear!Lincolnshirelass wrote: ↑13 Dec 2017, 06:03 @jomaread - I respect your right to your opinion, but cannot agree with it. Being gay is neither an illness nor a lifestyle choice, it is how somebody is born, and a caring and life-affirming gay relationship should be celebrated as the beautiful thing it is. At long, long last we are coming to a realisation of this. so hopefully, in the future, the suffering endured by people like Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing will be no more. There is still a very long way to go. BTW, not that it matters, but I am straight and am a Christian.
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Thank you for eloquently saying what I was feeling after reading that comment. This fall I got to watch my cousin marry her wife. Watching our two families wholeheartedly embrace each other and them felt like the most natural thing to do. My cousin's wife's Episcopalian pastor traveled 1,000 miles to officiate the wedding. My 93 year old grandmother insisted that they share their first toast with the champagne glasses that everyone else in my family has used on their wedding day. My uncle was overjoyed to gain a second daughter. Love is love and we should all learn to embrace it in its many different forms.Lincolnshirelass wrote: ↑13 Dec 2017, 06:03 @jomaread - I respect your right to your opinion, but cannot agree with it. Being gay is neither an illness nor a lifestyle choice, it is how somebody is born, and a caring and life-affirming gay relationship should be celebrated as the beautiful thing it is. At long, long last we are coming to a realisation of this. so hopefully, in the future, the suffering endured by people like Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing will be no more. There is still a very long way to go. BTW, not that it matters, but I am straight and am a Christian.
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If it happened that in the future (I'm a bit young to have kids now) one of my kids would tell me that he was gay, I would wholeheartedly accept it, but I would need to be able to communicate with him in some way that would tell me more about his personality, since to me personally, mental well-being is the most important out of all health care and I wouldn't want to my kid to doubt his own persona.
Please note, I am not saying that I believe for gay people to have some kind of different mindset (although they might). I am saying that I would want the environment in which my child has built his persona to be optimal for his well-being and his growth, which means that, as a gay person, he would have to take care of his own perspectives on life in a manner that would not unnecessarily hurt him.
It's often seen how gay people try to claim their place on earth by shouting out loud how "proud" they are. That is what I would not like my child to feel like. If you were born gay, awesome, I'll support you all the way through, but don't make of it a statement, don't make of it a difference, don't make of it a sensation.
That is what I think about it
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