What is this world coming to?? The issues that we are facing today are enough to make anyone shake their head in confusion.
The other day my husband and I were flipping channels on TV. Our three daughters came and went from the room while they went about their evening activities... It was a lazy night for all. My husband stopped on a channel that was doing a study on whether they could tell a homosexual merely by the way they sat and spoke. At that point, my middle daughter (age 8) came into the room and plopped onto the couch to watch with us. The study showed a set of twin men, where one was gay but the other was straight. They talked about how genetics could be the source of homosexuality, but in the case of the twins, there was also environment issues that were the cause... They then showed twin boys (around the age of my daughter) in the same situation -- one was questioning his sexuality, saying he felt he was a girl in a boys body. The study put a test to the viewers by showing home videos of children doing various activities and challenged the viewers to pick which grew up straight and which grew up gay.
We changed the channel at that point.
Last night, my eight year old daughter comes up to me and asks, "Mom, do you think I'm gay, or do I just mumble too much?" My heart sank to my shoes. I told her that she is a beautiful and sweet little girl who I loved very much and, "no, I don't think you are gay."
Apparently, she had picked up from the study that a person who is gay tends to have a different manner of speech than those who are straight. I've often told my 8-year-old that she mumbles and she needs to learn to speak more clearly so everyone can understand her. In her young mind, she took that to mean that since she has a different manner of speaking, then she must be like the children in the TV program.
How many of the world's children have the same thought processes and come to the conclusion that they must be homosexual, thus acting on those thoughts?? How many parents, afraid to ostracise their kids, agree with their assumptions in the vein of "accepting them how they are"?
Why is it that homosexuality is taught in schools as being an "alternate lifestyle" but teaching about God is not welcome?
What is wrong with this world??
1 comment:
I found your website because of a visit from Lammy Ann.
I totally agree with this problem...
What is wrong with this picture? The messages that were sent through that TV program were designed to ilicit that kind of response. They want the kids to question their "orientation". It gives those who already practice such lifestyle choices relief from their guilt.
BTW...someone by the name of Angel (pseudonym) used to write to my husband while on his mission. He never knew who she was but she wrote regularly.
He saw your moniker and laughed about that.
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