Is it child abuse to teach a child that being gay is ok when they never have the opportunity to see how the?

Question

heterosexual lifestyle is? Shouldn't they be old enough before being influenced by the gay lifestyle?

Lisa A, unnatural affection is mental abuse

The homosexuality lifestyle is a bondage from satan. The person who is gay doesn't even know the bondage or how to be free from it.

Photogrl2, Jesus was acused of being crazy just before His death.

The biggest lie of satan is "you can't help it".

I'm not afraid to take a stand for what is right in the sight of God.

Answer 1

Yes, it is. You should tell the child that what he does is against society, nature and God.

Answer 2

How is teaching a child that something is okay the same thing as influencing them?
Telling a child that something is okay is not the same as saying..you should really be like this when you're older. Have you ever noticed that children are completely honest...That's because they're open minded and haven't been taught to lie yet. So while you may think that teaching a child that gay is okay..they already know it's okay...it's our society that teaches them that it's not..or people like you I should say.
And how can anyone not see how the heterosexual lifestyle is? It's everywhere that you look!!

And what do you mean about unnatural affection. You mean affection by a loving parent that may be gay...is that unnatural? If that's you what you think then maybe you need some therapy.

And homosexuality is bondage from satan......you are just nuts!!

**I never said you were crazy...I said you were nuts!! And for you to even try and compare yourself with Jesus just proves my point!

Answer 3

It's not child abuse...just bad parenting in the same way that teaching a child that homosexuality is BAD when they have no opportunity to see other's opinions.

Yes, they should be old enough before being influenced by ANY sexual lifestyle.

Answer 4

It isn't child abuse to teach someone that being gay is okay. However, teaching a child to develop a hatred for another group of people is. I don't know if you're worried that your child will "turn" gay because you explain to them that being gay is alright. That is absurd. You just don't turn gay. Period. I hate the term "gay lifestyle." Homosexuality is nothing more than a sexual orientation. No orientation is better or worse than another. If any of your children did tell you that they are gay, I would hope that you would accept them and love them for who they are. That is what any loving and caring parent would do.

Answer 5

First of all, you aren't actually asking a serious question, this apparent from your additional details, and are only interesting in starting an argument and trying to make people think you are right. This is sad because it shows you really don't care and have decided to abuse Yahoo Answers in order to preach.

Second, is it any more damaging to a child than teaching them a "heterosexual" lifestyle, for whatever the words mean. Lifestyle is a poor way to talk about it and is a complete misnomer, but because that is the terminology you used and understand I will use it as well.

For that matter, is it any more damaging to teach them they will be going to hell to burn in a pit of fire and brimstone if they don't fulfill some arbitrary requirements set down by some incredibly self-serving and pitiful man 2000 years ago who decided to take Judaism and mythology to prop himself up as the son of god? I dunno, that was more damaging to me than realizing that I was gay and that "god" had decided, in his infinite knowledge and benevolence, to either bestow upon me "gayness" or to allow some demon to attach itself to my mind (not sure which, still letting religions battle it out for what happens) so that I could be persecuted by people like you who only want to make everyone like them. How Stepford.

Answer 6

UMMMM -- they cannot possibly avoid the heterosexual "lifestyle." It is everywhere. I remember crying when I was no older than 9 -- because even though all my friends thought I was fine, and so did my parents, I knew that the world I saw in what little tv I was allowed to watch, and on the street -- didn't seem to have any place for me. I didn't know the name for it yet at that time of course, but I knew I felt special about other males -- and that my views of things didn't seem to exist "out there."

Of course, you cannot imagine that, being from the majority how could you understand what it feels like to know that you AREN'T part of that horde? That you ARE different, and that what you are offends and upsets some people? I think no one who has never been a part of a minority can.

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Answer 7

That is far from abuse, it is teaching about the realities of today's family make-ups. What you could say is that families now aren't just made up of the traditional "mummy-daddy" but there can also be "mummy-mummy" relationships and "daddy daddy" relationships. That men can love each other and so can woman, just the same as mum and dad do.

The only influence this will have on your child would be that they will be more accepting of various people in society. Gay's do not choose to be gay. If your child turns out to be gay then what you say to them now will have no impact whatsoever on that fact.

Answer 8

No, it's child abuse to teach a kid that they HAVE to be a certain way. Teaching them it is OK to be themselves is not an abuse of any type. Trying to force a particular way of life on them that goes against what they feel inside IS a form of abuse.



But then again you don't want real answers, you want to believe the Lies the AFA spread.

Answer 9

I think it's important to teach all kids that relationships can exist between any two people. Two males, two females, a male and a female. It doesn't matter. Love is love.

They see the "heterosexual lifestyle" on television in cartoons at the age of two. Why would it be wrong to teach other "lifestyles" at that age? It's simply a different way to love. It's not like anyone goes into bedroom details with a youngster!

Answer 10

I believe that being introduced at a young age will help the 34% of bi/gay/les-curious teens become who they really are. I know from experience how difficult it is to accept yourself for who you really are, and I'd be willing to bed that if my schools would have told us it was OK that I would have handled it better.

People get killed because of their sexual orientation every day. Some kill themselves because of how people react. If school administrators aren't taking at least some kind of initiative, then what are we as humans doing with are spare time?

This question has motivated me to write local schools and attend PAC meetings to help raise awarness about this problem. I believe it should be addressed at a younger age to let them have time to accept the idea before actually finding out you or your best friend has a same-sex crush.

Answer 11

I'm really afraid that Satan was late for a hearing and is subsequently banned from the United States judiciary system. So, you'll have to find another forum for your self-declared martyrdom.