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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Kid Rock who wrote (22568)6/7/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Tom,
Your question has nothing at all to do with normalization of homosexuality but with the appropriateness of information to children at differing ages, which is what X points out in her wonderfully exaggerated response.
I frankly don't agree with the term "normalization"; homosexuality is not really "normal" , which to me implies falling within some bell curve of standardized behavior. How many of us are really normal in all areas? Is a priest who chooses celibacy normal? The person with an IQ over 200? The individual who spends his life pursuing a fixed goal against all odds? I would rather give my children the ability to see that behavior doesn't have to fall within some arbitrary normal range (as defined by some limited behavioral box)to feel a person is valuable or worthy of respect and acceptance.
When your children ask you about homosexuality ---and they will,if only by indirectly referring to it through a joke they hear at school, or a disbelieving reference when they first hear of it--- they will wait to see what your reaction is. That is when you will make the choice about what to teach them. You are the one who will set the tone for acceptance of diversity or one of ridicule and disgust for anything that is different from you. It will be your choice whether to perpetrate an attitude of tolerance or of prejudice. Will you teach them that there is room for respect and love for all of the world's wonderful variety or will you teach them to be afraid of and hate that which is "different"?
I hope that my children will judge people based on something more important than their sexual preferences.
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