Conservatives or Liberals...Is ANYONE happy that JK Rowling put a gay character in a children's book?

Question

Dumbledore is gay. That is SO WRONG. She got these kids hooked on a book series and added an adult situation that should not be there. I'm mad.
What do you think?

Answer 1

I'm not happy nor surprised. The push to mainstream aberrant behavior is strong and a sad commentary on our society........

Answer 2

A subject of important controversy among child psychologists in recent times has been the role in a child’s development of “nature,” that is, what the child has inherited, and “nurture,” the rearing and training it has received. Most researchers are convinced that a child’s development is influenced by a combination of these two factors.

Early life experiences can influence how a
child’s brain develops Child-development experts say "What we clinically now know is that what the child is exposed to in the early years of his life influence how that child’s brain develops.Advances in brain-imaging technology enable scientists to study brain development in greater detail than ever before.

So what they read or are read to does affect them. (As does television. ) We have more Children (yes very young children) Getting pregnant earlier, more getting sexual transmitted diseases, more needed help than "ever before" at a younger age (some very young). They are exposed to so much more at younger ages. It isn't necessary or good for their development--NO MATER how adults feel on issues. Why expose them to this? What are we doing to our children? It isn't getting better-its getting worst. Maybe we should rethink a lot of things about what we are exposing to our children.
Dick and Jane books (and old time TV) didn't have that affect or "results" in such """numbers""" at such an early age did they?


NO I AM NOT HAPPY----it's getting worst.

And to "some" who answered --well other books show this and that with straight couples (so there)----Two wrongs doesn't make a right does it?

Answer 3

No, I am not happy about gays pushing being accepted to kids. Kids shouldn't have politics or sex of any kind pushed on them. Who cares if they are gay, does everybody HAVE to know about it? Some want to push everything on kids way too soon. Yesterday I caught my granddaughter watching a show on TV about a girl who didn't have anywhere else to live that HAD to move in with some guys in a dorm. This is supposed to look really cool to a pre-teen.

When I was a kid, we barely knew what homosexuals were in high school and we all somehow managed to survive anyway. What idiot came up with the idea that they HAVE TO know about it. If you ask me, trying to make teenagers think they HAVE TO come out about being gay is too much to expect of them. I only remember one time in high school that someone said that they thought one of the boys was kind of "funny" but there wasn't a big deal about it.

Now days there are some gays that spend a good deal of their time trying to impress people about just how gay they are and pushing people to get a reaction so they can grandstand about it. I worked with a woman like that and one couldn't get through one conversation with her without up bringing it up one way or another. It is annoying when people constantly bring up sex into a conversation. It is even more annoying that one is supposed to act politically correct about it. At least with a heterosexual you can say what you think about it. But saying something negative to a gay is POLITICAL so you don't dare. And if you don't think so, just say something about "gay" on yahoo answers and watch the libs come out of the wood work.

Answer 4

I don't really get your problem.

There was no hot sweaty man sex or anything in the books and really there was no mention of Dumbledore being gay at all (though his relationship with Grindelwald was intense but seemingly chaste)

Rowling described the series as an extended argument for tolerance and she is planning on writing more of the backstories of her minor characters so we'll see where she takes it.

IMO the books are too scary for kids who are so little as to not understand that some people are gay anyways...

Answer 5

I really don't care. She didn't put explicit sexual content in the book. She never talked about him being gay in the book. She just imagines him being gay in her mind but left that detail out of the book. So what does it really matter? I really don't care if anybody is or isn't gay. I don't want to hear the details of their sex life and I get really grossed out by gay displays of affection. But what you choose to do and especially what you choose to imagine a fictional character doing are your business. Jesus said judge not lest ye be judged. Do not point out the mote in your neighbors eye while ignoring the plank in thine own. Deciding what is a sin and who goes to hell is God's job and no one else's. You focus on correcting your own problems and let other people worry about their's. This is the reason I'm an independent. Fiscally and militarilly I'm pretty conservative, but socially I think people ought to choose their own lives as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Answer 6

There's nothing wrong with it. It is only fitting as the books are all about acceptance and tolerance. True fans will appreciate it even more.

Answer 7

I'm still realing from Cinderella, which has probably done more harm to the expectations of women over the centuries than any gay character in a book could, for real.

Answer 8

Yes, I'm fine with it.

Sounds like you didn't read the books though. There is no "adult situation" in any of the books. She just declared him gay in a recent interview.

Personally I don't care if my kids know he's gay. Which is worse to teach your kids to hate those different from you and deny the reality of the world or to teach them to accept people as they are?

Answer 9

RLP

As a parent of children who are readers and myself being a conservative, I have to say you've obviously not read the Potter series. I've not detected one note of gender issues of any of the teachers, let alone any implied sexual preference issues. None exist.

If you don't understand the books you've not read them.

I know that some ultra-right wing nut jobs have tried to stifle the book because of the content of witch craft and it's distainful for some nutjob conservative christians.

Read the books before you make an *** of yourself.

Answer 10

What is SO WRONG is politicizing this issue. It is a human one, not a political one. Literature is the place for all things human, yes all things. Literature is full of evil people, bad people, liars, cheats. Even children's literature. What you are objecting to is not that a character is gay, but that the character you perceive as gay is portrayed as positive.

Answer 11

After the series seemed a bit worn out, smart move.
Now hundreds of artificially concerned conservatives
buy the book to let Scotty make a level three scan. :)