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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: anthic p, moorphro who wrote (18392)	3/14/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 108807

anthic, Your answers to Michaels questions are almost identical to the ones I would give, the exception being the scout leader question. Scouting is a private organization with, I believe, some religious overtones, and forcing them to contradict their principles is wrong, IMO. I would have absolutely no problem with my kids being taught by homosexuals. Teaching kids how to think rather than what to think is much more important to me than the teachers private lifestyle. Agree with you that sexual orientation is something you are basically born with. I knew I was heterosexual before I was old enough to even know what sex was. It wasn't something I chose, it's just the way I am. I think with some honest introspection, most people would reach the same conclusion. Regards, JB

To: anthic p, moorphro who wrote (18392)	3/14/1998 7:22:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 108807

Hi anthic, it's nice to see someone has the courage to answer those questions straight up. By the way, you didn't answer all of them but that was pretty close. Yes if you had been reading this thread you would see my views have been clearly stated. It looks like we agree on most of these questions except the ones dealing with marriage and children's books. Thanks for your replies. Michael

To: anthic p, moorphro who wrote (18392)	3/15/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, anthic! Welcome to the Feelings thread, and thanks for sharing your enlightened views. I'd like to say something briefly about books like "Heather Has Two Mommies". The children of homosexual parents will feel very strange in school until there is a general societal acceptance that what children need foremost is a whole lot of love, and that homosexual parents can be good parents. These books do not cause young children in school who read them to become homosexual--it is not "catching". But they do teach children tolerance, and I think that is very important. Why should a child be stigmatized, and suffer rejection and humiliation, because of who her parents are? The jury is still out on whether there are any real pathologies in children who were reared by homosexual parents. The first large generation of them is still growing up. I have some concerns in a child developmental sense, in that young children get different things they need from their male and female parents. But that is an ideal--many children are reared in single family homes because of a variety of circumstances. Anyway, thanks for posting. Christine