Rainbows everywhere, people kissing and laughing, music playing, love and friendliness ringing through the town…how could this corrupt a child? Yesterday, I took my daughter to a Gay Pride festival and when I got home, my mother told me, “If you keep taking her to those things, you’re going to confuse her. She’s going to think that’s how it’s supposed to be.” Does taking a child to see Sigfried and Roy often cause them to approach a tiger at the zoo and teach it tricks? Some people, obviously, do not see homosexuality as part of everyday life but I see nothing wrong with exposing my daughter to all types of love, even if society deems it abnormal. I saw someone at this festival, among the protestors, with his child. That man is teaching his child to hate what he believes is wrong and that kind of behavior is the one which should not be passed on!
More than likely, I will marry a woman. This means that my daughter will see two women together more often than she will see a woman and a man, the traditional family, but I do believe she should be taught the norms so I will have a male role model for her and she will know that most people do not live like her mommy does. I don’t believe that having my daughter around things that are different will confuse her if I explain them and they will not damage her because though children are impressionable, in the end they make their own decisions as to what they believe and what they do. I don’t think that I am saying anything you don’t already know but it seems that some people try to mutilate fact with opinion and it drives me crazy. Even if homosexuality is some kind of disease, we know it isn’t contagious so exposing a child to is not going to ruin them.
