And if
their child is gay, it may bring a whole new set of questions and concerns.
If
your child is gay,
your child is gay regardless of what you say or do about it.
With this in mind, Justin lists five things Christian parents often say upon learning that
their child is gay, and why they don't help:
I've questioned you about how you would handle it if a parent told you they thought
their child was gay - you claim it would never happen but yet you admit to believing that LGBT is a choice.
I understand that you may have also lost a child, and then wondered if your only remaining
child was gay or transsexual... and had no unmet expectations to vocalize.
How about if
a child was gay?
what would u do if
your child was gay?
Schaefer could have avoided the trial by agreeing to never again perform a same - sex wedding, he refused because three of
his children are gay.
Not exact matches
While their story of
being «accidental
gay parents» drew the attention of international media, they decided to expand their family by having their first biological
child together.
In 1999, Reverend Jerry Falwell accused the character Tinky Winky of
being «a
gay role model» for
children because he carried a handbag and had triangular antenna, which he suggested represented the
gay pride symbol.
Certainly, the fact that some politicians have discovered that their
children and others they know
are gay has helped to speed LGBT civil rights.
Since the late 1950s, there has a
been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights,
children's rights,
gay rights, and animal rights.»
Alex told me about a
gay friend who had
been booted from his position in Hillsong's
children's ministry after he came out and another who, after coming out to Hillsong leadership,
was relieved of his duties as an usher.
Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley)
was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning
gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban
was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the
children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»
B.C.'s Representative for
Children and Youth agrees that school district policies that specifically deal with sexual orientation and gender identity
are an important component of helping
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth feel safe in their schools.
I think you
are attempting to minimize the RCC's significance / guilt by linking it to a misunderstanding about se.xual orientation, i.e. look the clergy
is not any more dangerous to
children than average, just like
gays aren't.
They have
children... and... they
are «
gay».
Heterose -LSB--RSB- xual and
gay men
are equally likely to se -LSB--RSB- xually abuse
children.
To endorse
gay marriage, abortion and distruction of innocent human life, no matter what color of that
child is unnatural and evil.
But the next time you see a
gay or lesbian person and think to yourself, «They
are sinful, they
are lost, they
are wrong, or they
are an abomination...» understand that you may very well
be speaking about your own partner, your own
child, your own parent or brother or sister... and you don't even know it yet!
I
'm not even going to address how ridiculous that argument
is in light of the issues of overpopulation or the fact that
gay people can indeed have
children (my wife and I
are planning to have five), or how many orphans there
are in the world that could use a loving home.
I think that our
children's
children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it
was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous
gay men... but the result of religious and social persecution of
gay people that pushed them into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their sexuality.
He
's complaining that I referred to a
gay author, Jeff Miner who wrote THE
CHILDREN ARE FREE (trey... if you havn't read it, do).
A
gay man or woman
's love for their partner
is nothing like the rape of a
child... it
's disgusting that you would even insinuate that... you have believed a lie.
As Sullivan puts it, there
is «more likely to
be a greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of
children gives
gay couples greater freedom.»
Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of
gay marriage would
be an «unqualified social good» for homosexuals in providing role models for
children coming to terms with their sexuality.
Of course, for many who
are close to the issue, it
is about a loved one, often a
child, who
is gay.
To equivocate a
gay marriage to these Biblical references would
be the same as equivocating a straight marriage to prostitution, rape, orgies, or
child molestation.
But the preponderance of
child seex abuse in this country
is not perpetrated by
gays or clergy.
As
gay marriage «sank into the subtle background consciousness of a culture, its influence would
be felt quietly but deeply among
gay children.
Gays are equally repulsive as murderers and
child molesters.
On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for
children with
gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for
children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former
are as fit and capable as the latter and that their
children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as
children reared by heterose xual parents... mama k
She said she felt she had to get her son educated and protesting at a young age, because
gays «
are trying to get our
children from the time they
're in kindergarten... in the cradle even!»
Yeh, we saw how wonderful Christians
were, when they stood in long lines at Chick - Fil - A to punish the
gay parents of
children.
For example,
gay marriage should
be legal unless someone can provide proof of why it shouldn't
be, but a man marrying a
child should
be illegal because we have facts backing that up.
What logical, caring person can support slavery, discrimination against women, discrimination against
gays, discrimination against the handicapped, beating
children, beating elderly female slaves without punishment, supporting a god who would let the family of his greatest supporter
be killed to WIN A BET, etc..?
Study's have shown that
gay couples make excellent parents and I
'm sure the study's would show the same for polygamist family's as well (as long as they
are not forcing underage
children to participate).
What good
are morals if the one giving them supports morals that most people consider to
be awful like slavery and discrimination against women,
gays and the handicapped, as well as beating
children and slaves without punishment in some cases?
The website «Love One Another: A Discussion on Same - Sex Attraction» www.mormonsandgays.org, outlines the church's position on «same - sex attraction» and provides readers with a host of videos from «church members who
are attracted to people of the same sex, and conversations with the loved ones of
gay spouses,
children, or grandchildren who
are dealing with the effects of same - sex attraction in their own lives.»
Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would
be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would
be the uncontested law of the land, every school
child would
be indoctrinated in the joys of
gay sex, home schooling would
be prohibited, church schools would
be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool
children would
be mandatory, churches would not
be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would
be a criminal offense.
He
is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things
gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-
gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their
children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.
The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about
children of lesbian and
gay parents — concerns that
are generally grounded in prejudice against and stereotypes about
gay people —
are unfounded.
studies have to
be donwe using a respectful number... the number of
gays having
children is too low and too new to see whats going on..
To your daughter or your horse or maybe a underage
child your sister or maybe your first cousin also, I know your not
gay are you a ped o ph ile?
David Thorstad, a spokesman for the h0m0
s rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: «The ultimate goal of the
gay liberation movement
is the achievement of
s freedom for all — not just equal rights for «lesbians and
gay men, but also freedom of
s expression for young people and
children.»
Gay and lesbian couples should
be supported in their role as parents, whether their
children come from previous heterosexual relationships, adoption or artificial insemination.
It
is not fair, for example, to compel a
child being raised by a
gay couple to attend a school in which the teachers say homosexual practice
is sin.
I
am a straight person who has
been blessed with the presense of Abba's
gay children in the past.
The extension arguement to this than
is, do these same - sex parents not influence their
child towards «
being»
gay?
But there can
be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should
be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that
gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or
children (assuming
gay people
are more likely to
be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.