Posted on 06/26/2019 2:27:19 PM PDT by Ennis85
Prince William has said he would "fully support" his children if they were gay, but admitted he would "worry" about the added pressures they would face.
It was something he had thought about since becoming a parent, he said.
"I wish we lived in a world where it's really normal and cool, but particularly for my family, and the position that we are in, that's the bit I am nervous about," he said.
The duke was speaking to young people at a LGBT youth charity in London.
The Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) supports LGBT young people who are at risk of homelessness.
The duke said he backed "whatever decisions" his children made, but added: "It does worry me from a parent point of view.
"How many barriers you know, hateful words, persecution, all that and discrimination that might come, that's the bit that really troubles me.
"But that's for all of us to try and help correct and make sure we can put that to the past and not come back to that sort of stuff."
Analysis
By Ben Hunte, BBC News LGBT Correspondent
This is a huge moment for LGBT people around the world.
For a member of the British Royal Family to give such an endorsement to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, and their fight for equality, is a big deal, especially in a time when the visibility of LGBT people is being continually questioned.
However, with the Duke of Cambridge being a figurehead for the Royal Family as well as the Commonwealth, it is also worth remembering that homosexual activity is still a criminal offence in 35 of the 53 Commonwealth nations - and it is only legal in 18.
Many will now be wondering whether Prince William's words could have a positive impact on these places,
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I don’t know too many parents who wouldn’t. The love of a parent for a child will overcome a lot of things.
One more reason to be against artificial reproductive technologies.
“Love” and “Sodomy” are contradictory concepts.
A Brit aristocrat, supporting faggotry. Better put this into breaking news.
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Virtue signalling from the Brit aristocracy. Now that’s really rich.
Newsworthy — in a comical way.
Yeah, I like so wish it was like really normal and cool like that, too, Wills.
The Modern Royal Family...Idiocracy-style. When the Queen goes, they need to do away with that archaic institution and inbred lot. Overdue, really.
LOL!!!! Simply fabulous.
Who?
There's a big difference between being supportive and enabling deviant, self-destructive behavior. If the child were an alcoholic, would buying him a case of beer be, "supportive"?
Would he be proud of his queer son?
I wouldn’t support my kid if he said he wanted to do it up the azz. Or if my daughter told me she wouldn’t have kids because she wants to act like a man.
the peasants are revolting.
Sorry Mrs. Don-o. I try to be more polite when you are on a thread. :)
Sorry, ‘female HOMOsexuality’.
"What's the official line on sodomy?--- from The Lion In Winter, Act 1 Scene 6How stands the Crown on boys who do with boys?"
Can these people just stfu?
A Captain Obvious moment to me. I have 5 children and fortunately, none of them are gay, BUT of course, virtually all parents would (though many would not be happy campers)but flesh and blood, yo....blood is thicker than water.
It’s his duty as a British leader to force his child to be gay!
Failure to do so should lead to his arrest!
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