Letters to the Editor
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Freedom is a two way street
and when you force your views on someone else you aren't allowing them to be free. I'm not invading your privacy. So what do you think about old men mentoring young boys... you skipped over that one. Not catholic are you? Not that catholics are the only ones, just the most noticable. You still ignore the fact that this isn't about consenting adults. It's about subverting the innocent. Freedom of choice involves people who know enough to make informed choices, not entrapping nieve innocent children with subliminal doctorines of alternative beliefs. If you want to be out in the open, stop being so sneeky and leave the innocents alone.
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Hey bfree4me
I was a gay 8 year old once and I would have loved to have found out that one of my favorite characters whom I looked up to was gay. There are gay kids out there, its not like we decide at 40 you know. Think about the gay kids how about it.
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bfree
You make absolutely no sense. Gay people do not need to discuss their sex lives with children! Straight people do not need to discuss their sex lives with children. Just because you are a homophobic biogot does not mean the mere mention of homosexuality is tainting children. I grew up in fucking San Francisco, there are gay people EVERYWHERE. Amazingly though I had no idea what gay sex was until I got to high school because my mother didn't feel any need to explain to me all the ways gay people and straight people are different, I just got the hate them message, you aren't allowed to associate with them, no your gay friend cannot enter my home.
As for older men mentoring young boys, no I don't have a problem with it. I have male friends that are elementary school teachers, I have male friends that coach high school basketball. My church youth group was led by a 26 yr old guy. I don't for one second go around thinking all men are sexual predators and the Catholic priest thing is horrible, yet I find it interesting you mention nothing of the female victims. How about we keep all adult males away from all children, even their own huh. Bad shit happens, the only guard against molestation and abuse is frequent and clear communication with your children and locking up pervs when they are caught.
Gay people aren't any more likely to become sexual predators than straights.
Freedom means you don't have to associate with gay people beyond politeness at work, you don't have to allow them into your home, but no, you don't get to tell them they have to hide who they are so you feel comfortable. You don't get to say some author can't decide who her characters are because it would taint the children. That gay people have to hide who they are to protect the children. Yet you have stated nothing about how a child knowing about gay people harms them. How does knowledge harm people exactly?
That's it I'm done with you, I've had enough bigotry and hatred thrust upon me growing up in Protestant churches, being told I needed to hate human beings because of who they have sex with and that I was some more moral than others for something I had no choice about. I didn't choose to like guys, I didn't choose as a little girl that Superman was dreamy, he just was to me. I can't stand people who think freedom means those you don't like have to hide in shadows so you can pretend they don't exist. Or that being aware of gay people means they are recruiting your children into a lifestyle.
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Oh and I forgot
Your main point, it's stupid. Gay people aren't a belief system you idiot. Being gay isn't a religion.