homosexuality, is it really normal?

Question

Please do not take this the wrong way, I know there are a lot of homosexuals out there and that is their adult choice. My question is, should it be normalised and encouraged within schools at an early age? Being gay is still frowned on by many and many others would privately condemn it but say nothing or something different when being questioned in public. Why? We all know deep down it is wrong but our 'human rights' conditioning seems to come to the forefront every time and many people are scared to say what they really feel.
I will stick my neck out here and say while homosexuality is a choice for adults why condition youngsters with it making them even more confused in puberty? Why openly encourage it?
On a different point, I saw a gay black man on TV announcing that he was gay to his community of brothers. They seem to condemn it more than most other races. Why?
Oh, an one last point, how can churches condemn homosexuality when it is rife amongst their files?Are they hypocrites

Let me try to define my question a little more. Is it right to encourage homosexuality in the young especially at schools when the 'norm' should be of boy/girl, procreation and rasising a family as an ideal? What they do in adult life is their own choice and is made after exploring the 'norm'.
People who are genuinely not attracted to the opposit sex and are mature can do what they like but should it be encouraged in the young?

Just a quick pointer to a few people on here who think they know me...

KKK - that was a bit harsh

Madfairy - it is not prejudice it is a fair question

Becky - raises a valid point

JD - Now where to start with you. For a start you know nothing about me. Let me tell you I have had lesbian lovers as well as men, but I made that choice long after leaving school. As an adult I chose to have relations with whoever I fancy at the time. No one was chastising homosexual children, if you would have read my question it was about promoting it to innocent children at school as normal and encouraging it. As an adult you can make your own informed choice, as a child you are easily led. As for bigotry read your own guff. You know nothing.

The_one_and_only - Again someone who knows nothing about me but quick to judge. My sex life is fine with both women and men so why try to insult me? Did you also not understand the question? Also you think kids accept others who say they are gay? You obviously know nothing about the way children bully others. Kids will bully someone remorselessly if they know they are different. Ask any 'gay' that has been through it.

Green - Your kids? How??

Fsb - someone else who rants and has not understood the question.

xoprecious - a bit harsh hun

sexmunki - the curriculum is 'encouraging' it as they blindly follow political correctness. The same way as they ban conkers in the playground, ban tag games and so on. Wrapping them in cotton wool and saying homosexuality is normal. Then explaining tot hem in sex education how to do it.... I think it is discusting to do that to children. What ever happened to family values. You personally having a girlfriend at school age wasn't my question or business.

Just too - Your words are crazy... no exceptions you say, what about the paedophile group of a few years ago, there motto was "sex before 8 or it's too late". I hope to god your 'no exceptions' was an oversight.

JD - Do you think you can simply sit there and slag me off because you have a bee in your bonnet and expect no response?
It is not an issue of clever or smart or whatever. The raw nerve has hit with you my friend. You seem very bitter and twisted and if you think I am the problem then you need councelling. I am quite happy with who I am, I have been bullied by girls and boys but I overcome it. It is called life. Now, as I said, I feel it is wrong to push homosexuality at young schoolchildren as normal. As a secondary issue to this I do not promote sexual encounters by children of whatever gender before mid teens because they are immature and easily led. I'm sorry this question has bugged you but there you go...

Indyt - I'm glad you had a laugh, but I disagree with most of what you say. It is not right to push homosexuality as normal behaviour to young children who may be easily led. I am not advocating gay children denying their feelings but to insist every child has to learn about homosexuality at school pre teens isn't right. Neither is it right to encourage under-age sex. Our children need protecting.

JD - Crazy crazy man, please seek therapy, you are coming apart at the seams..

Answer 1

Gays seem to be everywhere these days and the camp ones especially. They are given TV shows and gayness is openly encouraged everywhere. If you are not gay it seems the world is going mad.
Homosexuality should not be encouraged at school as a 'norm'. It can be very damaging to a youngster as well as 'being a life saver' to the odd few who are truly gay.
Good old family values is what is required here. It should be encouraged in children from an early age and we should not 'bow' to pressure from the 'politically correct' brigade on the pretence that it might save one or two 'confused' teenager where they see it perfectly fine to promote gayness. What about the feelings of people who do not want to be gay or have homosexuality thrust at them from all directions. In an effort to appease gay people the heterosexual persons needs are simply ignored and it is wrong.
Schools should not be a breeding ground for homosexual recruitment.
Why do these people so readily reject normality and encourage unholy behaviour?

Like you say Debs, when they are older they can make their own mind up. It should not be preconditioned into them from children.

Graham

Answer 2

I knew I was different when I was born. Groing up I always wondered how I was going to have 2.5 children a lovely wife and a cute house with a picket fence. I grew up in a relatively small town. People yelled at me at called me a ****** even when I was perpetuating the lie by having a girlfriend on my arm. I am not proud to be gay but that is who I am it is not who I've become. I played doctor with both the boys and the girls when I was a toddler. The boys always seemed more appealing. The only choice I made was to accept the fact that I AM GAY. I didn't decide to be gay. Just because people you something is wrong doesn't mean that it is. Not knowing this screwed up my life for a long time. If children were conditioned at a young age that homosexuality is wrong they will come to believe that. homosexuals are the only group of people that are defined by what they do in the bedroom not by who they are inside. We are not sexual deviants and should not be percieved as such. While I don't think it is ok to flaunt the sexual aspects of homosexuality to children, but if they are showing tendencies chastising them for having those feelings will scar them for the rest of their lives. I am not proud to be gay....But I am proud to be who I am...and thats the best that I can do.

Answer 3

Yes homosexuality IS really normal.
It is not the choice of an adult to be homosexual any more than it is the choice of an adult to prefer strawberry ice cream over chocolate.
It should be encouraged in school from the same age and at the same age as heterosexual relationships are.
If we can educate those kids to see gay as normal then when they are adults they won't condemn it.
"We know deep down it is wrong". Could you define "we". And don't include me in it.
The only confusion kids have in puberty is where they see something natural criticised by people like you.

Answer 4

Well first of all I would like to say that I agree with you. However, I do tend to play the Devils advocate sometimes. We as a society have deemed homosexuality unconstitutional. While we cannot keep them from being together,but we will not let them marry. Now, I do believe it is wrong and I do not agree with it, it is their choice however. We all make choices about our life, sexuality, career, and many other things that can be considered questionable by many. Look at the porn industry, professional fighting, fetishes, etc.
Now as far as school goes, the school system is there to teach their students reading, writing, math, science and so on. We should not condone homosexuality or even allow that as a topic of conversation between a teacher and pupil. Just like the teacher does not converse with the student about dating or heterosexuality. That is the parents job. The parent needs to sit down and go through this with their child/children. It should not be the schools responsibility, they are there to teach our kids, not raise them.
As far as the blacks condemning it more than other races, I dont know. That seems like too much of a generalization to me. Maybe it was the community he was in also that played a role. Meaning, perhaps he was in a gang community or something like that, and it was because they were in gangs that they condemned it more, and not because they were black. That is hard to say.
As far as the churches go, yes, they are hypocrites. Now let the condemning ensue with religious freaks. They say we are all loved in the eyes of God, then they say if your gay, your going to suffer in Hell for eternity. They are the most confused of all and I usually don't pay attention to most organized religions, that should be a solitary practice if you ask me, but thats neither here nor there.
We are all different, and we all have a right to believe what we believe. We should not be encouraging homosexuality in our schools nor discouraging it. We should let our parents raise their children how they want to and let the kids make up their own mind about life.

Answer 5

Homosexuality is no longer contrary to public morals in the western world. The Bible, however, is specific about what to do with homosexuals: they must be executed, by duly constituted government authorities. The Almighty destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for their licentious sexual practices, Genesis 19:4-8, Jude 7, II Peter 2:6-7. Our national sins today are actually worse than those of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lamentations 4:6, Ezekiel 16:48-56. The Messiah prophesied that our time would be like Sodom, Luke 17:26-33.Leviticus 18:22-30, Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Answer 6

ROFLMAO!!
Having sex is an "adult choice" but what gender you are naturally interested in/drawn to isn't.
If some frown on homosexuality, that's their issue, if others don't want to speak up or will only do so privately or behind closed doors then they have no room to complain.
Homosexuality isn't "wrong" or "right". It simply is, just as being of a different race, or religion. Teaching someone that it is OK to hate others because of their differences(especially when those differences aren't hurting them) is and will always be wrong.

Encouraging others to learn about diversity and encouraging our youth to be who they are inside would go much farther in easing the issues of puberty, not increasing them. being able to be yourself without fear of ridicule and being attacked would HELP, not hurt.

Sorry, it simply sounds as though you really have no idea what you are talking about. Because you have bisexual tendencies and actively choose the gender of your sexual partners to suit your mood doesn't man it is the same for all people. Could I sleep with a woman? yes. Will I do that? No, because I'm not attracted to them in the least. You don't choose which gender you are attracted to, you simply act upon your attractions.

Answer 7

Tolerance and understanding most definitely SHOULD be encouraged and the younger the better...for everyone!!

Many young teens attempt and sadly some succede at suicide because of hostility and ignorance towards gays/lesbians/bisexuals and transgendered. The ONLY way to counter this is to teach them very young that there are people who are different and that those differences are indeed NORMAL and ACCEPTABLE!

Yes, I say TEACH YOUR CHILDREN YOUNG TO LOVE EVERYONE!
No exceptions
No excuses

A child's family may have differing opinions, but if the child is enrolled in PUBLIC schools, there should be a ZERO tolerance for bullying, bigotry, harassment, threats or abuse of any sort stemming from hate and ignorance!
EVERYCHILD DESERVES the right to attend public schools with a SAFE ENVIRONMENT!

Answer 8

I think it should not be encouraged or even addressed to children. I think children should be allowed to be children. I know when I was young I didn't know about sex not saying kids don't today. So people are uptight and uncomfortable with people that are different from the norm. It is hard to break someone tolerance when they are older and set in their way of thinking. I think society is different people like to address their sexuality more. I think its up to parents to speak to their kids about sex. So people openly encourage gays to come out because they feel that they shouldn't hide who they are and how they feel. In the Black community it is condemned for black men to be gay because some feel that gay men are not real men. No they bible speaks against homosexuality. I think some church can be hypocritical when they speak on some sins more than others because no sin is greater than the other.

Answer 9

First of all i didn't make a decision to be a lesbian, I have always liked women, just like you probably didn't make a decision to like men, it just is, right? As far as it being normal, if all you have to back you up is a bible then there is nothing I can tell you will want to hear, you are already stuck on your ways. Why ask a question if you are not expecting to be influenced by the answers that will be given to you? Its pointless. Besides, are you so unhappy with your sex life that you have to go condemn what other people do their bedrooms? Get a life. On the children issue, kids will learn what you teach them, wether it is empathy or nastiness. They don't get confussed, they are accepting, because it doesnt hurt them. Its funny how children can be emotionally smarter than adults sometimes.

Answer 10

Firstly,who on earth is 'encouraging' homosexuality in schools??!.Secondly homosexuality is NOT an 'adult choice',we are born that way & if you understood the first thing about us you would understand that we wouldn't 'choose' to go through the homophobic sh*t we do in our lives.Thirdly,you seem to be confusing homosexuality with sex-that isn't what our lives are solely about,just as with heterosexuals.I am a lesbian & I didn't want to have sex with women when I was a child of course but I did want a girlfriend not a boyfriend-I couldn't have 'chosen' that as a kid,it's just who I was & who I am-talking about homosexuality in schools is NOT going to make children turn into something they're not,it will simply educate them about the differences between us all.
Yes I'm perfectly aware that's not your business-my point was that sex ed did not make me want to have sex (gay or straight) I already knew who I was by then as do heterosexual kids! 'Wrapping them in cotton wool' is what's been done for years,trying to 'Protect' them from things like homosexuality-very patronising!Do you know what 'encourage' means? You're not very bright are you Dearie?

Answer 11

Homosexuality is completely normal [ie occurring naturally] it is part of the spectrum of sexual interaction in all animals. It is no more a choice than those who choose to be heterosexual or bisexual.

The reason it needs to be talked about around children is so that gay children will understand that they are normal. The suicide rate among gay teens is very high. Teaching tolerance will relive confusion in puberty not create it.

Sadly, the black community is less supportive of gays than some other races. Churchs condemn homosexuality because they don't understand that it is normal and because they fear that which is unknown. Religion has some pretty intolerant attitudes, unfortunately, which pretty much makes many religions hypocritical.