Take a look around. Is there a gay man on your street corner, asking you, "Hey... wanna turn gay? All the cool kids are doing it!"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is EXACTLY what is happening.
I'm a mom of three teens, 2 (boy and girl) still in HS. They've told me, and I've heard from other parents whose kids have said the same, that some kids (mostly girls, but some boys too) act like homosexuals and brag about being "bi". The straight guys get a kick out of watching or imagining what may or may not be going on with the girls. Granted, some of this may just be "talk", but I don't remember anyone (when I was in HS, early 70s) claiming to be or acting in an overtly homosexual way...it wasn't cool like it seems to be now.
Who's put this idea into our kids' heads?
In fairness, I highly doubt that there are a lot of teenaged boys acting gay to get respect.
Well, I have to tell you. Two pretty girls making out with eachother appealing to boys. Two boys is appealing to no one. I bet it's all girls, and the girls are doing it for attention.
Exactly..you know you have lost the battle when it become cool. The only thing to look forward to is the fact that when too many people think something cool then its not anymore.
Our American culture. Every sitcom that has an obligatory gay character. Movies like Brokeback Mountain, The Crying Game, Torch Song Trilogy, etc., a Media that mentions the gay-bashing of Matthew Sheppard ad infinitum but will rarely ever report the story of the woman in Chicago who was murdered by a gay man or the fourteen year old boy who was raped by two gay men. The fact that political terms like homophobia can hide behind a scientific, rationalist veneer of psychology and enters the national vocabulary, and a political debate that has spent decades attacking religion in general and Christianity in particular and finds itself on purely secular grounds trying to explain why homosexuality is or is not acceptable. If we have a purely secular government, then the gays win this one. And really why not? I will personally thank every oxymoronic secular "conservative" in the country when it happens.
Who's put this into kids' heads?
GLSEN, that's who.
That, and the entertainment "industry".
THE MEDIA, that's who. Take a look at a good deal of content on Pay-per-view, HBO, Showtime, STARZ, even the network as to sitcoms. You can tell that a lot of homosexuals work in entertainment because the average household in the country would never chose to view this type of content beyond an odd quirk here and there for some but generally for a huge laugh by most if they even viewed or knew about the content. So what we have is a concentration of homosexual agendists in entertainment creating and fueling the type of content we now see and the latest generation now at highschool ages knows nothing but this type of fare.
I think the best thing most families could ever do is make sure they know what their children watch on t.v. and then limit their t.v. viewing hours to only a very few on any day, if even that.