Do want your children exposed to homosexuality at an early age?

Question

I read an article in the UK. They are testing teaching children about homosexuality through storybooks.

Do you agree that this is a good idea or not? Do you think this experiment will encourage children to practice the homosexual lifestyle or to accept it as moral? What do you think?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441542&in_page_id=1770

True Super Ruper, but you would agree that a "Christian homosexual" is an oxymoron.

I see this experiment as teaching children that homosexuality is moral.

Homosexuality is a free choice. It is not something one is born with...that is an absurd claim.

Answer 1

HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't want my children exposed to it at all. If they are gay they will come to find out themselves when the time comes. I don't want them to think is a normal thing cause it's not normal. If it were normal, there's be more gays than just 15%.

Answer 2

The desire for sex has been expressed in a great many different ways, but children do not either need or desire to consider such things. People are not born with this sexual desire (puberty usu. hits around 12 years old); love and lust are completely separate and unrelated issues. I say that this behavior is incomprehensible and inappropriate for the consideration of children.

I return a question to you: Should we expose your children to forensics or autopsises at an early age? We could tell them stories from CSI, Law and Order, etc. They are not interested in, and do not understand the motivations behind these topics.

And I should emphasize that relationships, marriages, and families based on sex alone are very short-lived. We do not need to be indoctrinating children that sex is a viable foundation of a secure and stable relationship, let alone marriage.

And don't tell me that homosexuality is about more than just sex, because without it these relationships fall apart in days to weeks and with it they can have a hard time lasting a year or two at best. Furthermore, genetic propagation is virtually dead and strong parental child-bonding is non-existent within this lifestyle.

Answer 3

This is difficult, because although I don't have a problem with homosexuality I don't think I'd want my children exposed to it at an early age. It's hard enough explaining sex between a man and woman, then to throw in man and man or woman and woman. I don't think it would encourage children to practice the homosexual lifestyle just cause they see it, but it would probably make it easier to accept because it is familiar.

Answer 4

Teaching a child about homosexuality isn't going to encourage them to experiment. It's just going to make them more open minded about all the difference in people.

If you teach a child at an early age that even people might like different things and live differently, deep down inside we're all the same.

I think that's a good thing. I'm definitely going to teach my kids this. It's better to do is sooner rather then trying to teach them later.

Answer 5

Well I certainly dont advocate creating a fantasy land for children where homosexuality does not exist.

I believe if children are exposed at an early age to anything inasmuch as their maturity level allows - and given a truthful account of the situation - this can lead to a greater appreciation for differences between people - and possibly to less hate and violence.

Answer 6

Homosexuality is a fact of life. Not just in humans, but in many (if not most) mammal species.

So, personally, I have no problem with children being exposed to reality. It's then up to the parents to decide whether they want to indoctrinate their children into hating people for being different, or whether to teach their children to be tolerant of others who are different.

Answer 7

What they are doing is encouraging tolerance in society...something the US could do with more. And FYI...homosexuality is something one is born with...it is not an 'aquired taste'. And all the reading about it in the world is not going to convert anyone. But if it allows them to understand and accept all the people in the world, then it is moral and very Christian...if you think about it...

Answer 8

If the topic comes up, then we will expose our (now 2 year old) to it. (for example, if she asks why 2 men or 2 women are holding hands or kissing)

Same with religions, race, etc. I think it's good that children are exposed to different lifestyles than just our own "straight, white, middle class" lifestyle that she's growing up in now.

If she isn't exposed to other realities of human life, she will more than likely grow up to believe that she is "better" than others, and that is *disgusting* to my husband and I. We are all HUMANS having a life experience, first and foremost, and just because someone is having a DIFFERENT life experience than we are doesn't make them wrong.

Answer 9

I don't think it's a good idea. Here's my thoughts. If homosexuals still talked and acted (publicly) like straights, I think it might not be bad. But it seems like the majority of men, especially, talk and move their bodies like women, and that's where I find the problem. I think this would be very confusing for the children, and wouldn't expect them to grasp the whole concept.

Answer 10

It sounds to me like a lot of people equate teaching children about homosexuality with teaching them about gay sex. Calm down, it's not going to be anymore risque than the storybooks about mommy and daddy.