My daughter, husband and I were flipping through the channels last night. We stopped at a woman performing a song and playing the guitar. At first we could not figure if it was a man or a woman, but she sounded like a woman. Then I pointed out to my husband "no, it's a woman; she is a lesbian..." and I whispered the word "lesbian". My daughter, to my surprise, said "oh, she is?" and my husband said "Yes because she is wearing a rainbow shirt."
I do not know what it means that my homeschooled ten year old is not unfamiliar with the idea of homosexuals being on television, or in life in general. She knows our philosophy on the practice of homosexuality (it is wrong), yet it is something that is not surprising to her, and may even become "common."She does not understand the entire practice, by the way, except for a man choosing a boyfriend or a girl choosing a girlfriend. Truthfully, the concern is not so much for my children, but just for our society as a whole when any type of deviant behaviour becomes common. At what level to we stop lowering our standards for right behaviour or wrong behaviour?
My daughters refer to a certain genre of music as "lesbians with guitars".
One of the things I have to deal with is loving the sinner and hating the sin - because so many midwives are lesbian or bisexual. Maybe because of the radical feminist ideology of some powerful leaders in movement to reclaim midwifery - or maybe because they truly do love women and not just as sex objects?
It is also interesting that there are probably as many male gynecologists who are attracted sexually to men (rather than women) as there are interior decorators and other sterotypically 'gay' professions. But doctors are much more likely to be closeted.
It is truly incredibly to me just how quickly a perverted sexuality has become an acceptable 'alternative'.
Re. the numbers of gay male gynecologists, I think we find a similar phenomenon with gay priests and their preference for altar girls (and religious women in general).
Alicia,
re: hating the sin and not the sinner. I wondered if perhaps that my dd is aware of things that I was not as a child, maybe that will teach her more "tolerance" at least towards certain people. But frankly I do not think so, the lesson is people are created in the image and likeness of God, not that certain types of sin is OK because it is becoming more common.
Jeff,
Homosexual priests, I agree. This we have an abundance of. My parents had to go to a child abuse awareness program Monday evening and much energy was put into discrediting the fact that most abuse was men abusing little boys and then women abusing little girls.