Watching this video, I didn’t take the time to read who posted it- so intially I of course thought it was a mockery of the anti-equal rights movement. A picture of two men very benignly cooking pancakes for their daughter? The message that no matter what your sexual identity is when you grow up, you will be accepted and loved for who you are, not which parts of your identity you choose to accept of reject based on the beliefs of others. What strikes me must about the parents featured is just how detattched they are from the struggles of the Gay Rights movement and with their kids at 7 and 8 years of age, they think that by telling their kids ‘gay is bad’ the will magically cure the urge to follow their natural instincts.
It would be a much easier world if our children followed to the letter everything we try to teach them, drugs wouldnt be a problem, teen pregnancy rates would be nonexistant and most likely, Homosexuality would be unheard of. Parents have different reasons for not wanting their child to be gay. No matter how understanding, loving and accepting the parent, they all know that living a homosexual life is hard because of the perpetuated hatred by the Conservative right. It cannot be argued, in any way, that gay children come from parents who promote and support their childs choice to be homosexual. This would mean that there would be no gay conservatives, no gays in religious settings and no gays of conservative religious parents. Not only would the parent not do it, ask any heterosexual man whether he would be gay if his mother had supported it in him at a young age. Majority of them will tell you that being straight is part of them, nothing would or could make them gay, including how they where raised. It can only be assumed that just like raising a staright child to be gay would not work, neither would raising a gay child to be straight work.
If your at all interested, check out the case of David Reimer. Born a boy, but raised a girl due to a botched circumcision (which he was never told of) recently commited suicide. Though his story is not identicle to the struggle of the gay and lesbian community, it speaks clearly for the consequences of attempting to raise a child to be something it isnt.
