[farming pharmer]

Reminds me of an encounter my wife once had with a lesbian supervisor: the supervisor recommended "Queer As Folk" when it was on television. When she asked how my wife liked it, wife said she did NOT approve of the show. Of course, the supervisor got on her high horse and asked "WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT?" To which my wife replied: "they seem to think nothing of having 17 year olds hanging out in the bar to be 'approached.'"

My work partner's brother pretty my went the same way. Was a homosexual experimenting with child porn (young boy mastrubation videos) until the FBI caught him. Now he's doing a solid 5 - 7 years in the federal pen, thankfully before he molested some kid.

If only someone had cared enough (earlier in his life) to tell him homosexuality was a mental illness and wrong, maybe he would have sought treatment and been spared prison.

[papertyger]

One of the things my wife and I had to get worked out before we had children was the family demeanor toward the potentiality of a homosexual child.

My wife, as a typical Gen Xer, would acknowledge that homosexuality is wrong, but that acknowledgement came with so many caveats I finally had to ask her “how do you intend to teach them there is anything wrong with it?”

Needless to say, she had no answer because her opinion was formed by indoctrination rather than thought, reflection, and study.

I’m proud to say, while she obviously still feels the pull of social acceptance, she has come to see some of the concomitant traits that go along with homosexuality as corrosive to the human psyche, regardless of the religious taboos.