From: "Lisa Miller" <lmiller12@c...>
From: "Lisa Miller" <lmiller12@c...>
"When I'm talking about children, I mean young children who wouldn't
understand why to men or women might by holding hands or kissing.
/---/ I just don't see
what benefit their is to having a 4-5-6 year old knowing what being
gay is
about."
My own experience is quite the contrary. For a young child, s/he could
not care less who kisses whom! S/he hasn't been taught yet that in our
society, some things are not so all right for everybody... The subject
of homosexuality was brought up for the first time in our family when
our eldest child was perhaps 4 years old. He had heard somebody call
someone a homo, and he asked us what it meant. He seemed to be a
little disappointed when we explained, as it wasn't very interesting
to him ("Sometimes two men or two women love each other and want to be
together like mother and father in our family.").
I've followed some people's way "out", and what I really want is that
my children will never have to suffer that way in front of their
family. Being gay is not a choice -- come on, who would choose all the
prejudice and bad reactions from family, society etc.? I don't think
that I'm "endangering" my children's (possible) heterosexuality by
telling them that some people are not heterosexual or letting them see
gay people holding hands or visiting gay people living together. But
in the case that my children would be homosexual, I hope they would
have an easier way to knowing themselves and accepting that side of
themselves.
Hanna G from Finland
hanna.graeffe@h...
hanna.graeffe@h...
www.lumenvalo.fi ----> in the middle of recording our 5th cd -- this
should be fun -- English romantic stuff, sung by us! Weird :)
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