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Prince William: 'I'd support my child if they were gay'
BBC News ^ | 26th June 2019 | BBC News

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,

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexual; royalfamily; windsor
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To: Ennis85

“Child” and “they” does not compute. Why not “he” or “she” or is that not politically correct?


61 posted on 06/26/2019 3:49:23 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (God Bless America. Thank you, Kate Smith!)
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To: Ennis85
"If" they were gay? Given that he's a Brit and a member of the Royal Family, I'd say it's safe to assume that most of the children will be gay.

LOL!

62 posted on 06/26/2019 3:50:06 PM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: DesertRhino; nopardons
I guess DesertRhino doesn't know much about the Order of the Garter.

Honi soi, qui mal y pense
63 posted on 06/26/2019 3:54:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

People thought Rock Hudson & was a ‘heartthrob’ too.

Ricky Martin, Neil Patrick Harris, George Michael, Lance Bass and plenty of others.


64 posted on 06/26/2019 3:58:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well, come up with proof of the proclivities you seem to be suggesting regarding this particular man - or just stuff it.


65 posted on 06/26/2019 4:07:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: All

Somebody check out that kids pacifier to see if it’s shaped normal.


66 posted on 06/26/2019 4:15:03 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I heard a joke the other day that the CNN poll showed . . . No that was it. The CNN poll.)
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To: Not A Snowbird

“What parent wouldn’t?”

I wouldn’t “fully support” my kids if they announced they were gay. Not unless you count telling them they need to repent and turn to God as fully supporting them. I got my degree in Biology. I keep thinking about mammals, and find the idea of a male mammal sticking its penis into another male’s butt as “weird”. Even apart from what the Bible says God thinks of it.


67 posted on 06/26/2019 4:25:49 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Mr Rogers

I think that Konrad Lorenz, the ‘father of ethology’, stated that other than man, there are no homosexual animals.

However, there are animals which exhibit bisexual behavior when something has gone wrong in their social order or development.

Some animals other than man DO, sometimes, try to mate with others of their own sex.


68 posted on 06/26/2019 4:29:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

‘stuff it’

No thanks....


69 posted on 06/26/2019 4:36:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I can think of abnormal situations, where a lot of one sex are all that is available, where homosexual behavior happens. But as a rule, if a stallion has a choice between another stallion and a mare, he chooses the mare.

Of course, most mammals mate to create offspring. It isn’t a prudent lion who tries to take a lioness out of season. I had a mare bred to a stallion. He was an experienced sort and waited until the mare went, in a few days, from “Hell no!” to “Hi sailor! Looking for a good time?”


70 posted on 06/26/2019 4:43:09 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Jewbacca

Yep.

As I’ve said before, some of my oldest, still-living relatives are British, and every last one of them would *NEVER* utter the word “Israel” in the context of the modern nation unless absolutely forced to. Until the day they die, it will ALWAYS be “Palestine”, full-stop, end of story.


71 posted on 06/26/2019 4:43:38 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Mr Rogers

WRT humans, ‘abnormal situations’ are rife, these days.

There have been a couple of studies which have suggested that exposure to synthetics - like DES - appear to have caused a statistically significant rise in, at least, female bisexuality/homosexuality. Enough to have warranted further study.

And we’ve been exposed to MANY weird, unnatural substances in recent decades - not to mention poor parenting and dysfunctional families (which have been with us forever.)

I think there’s a lot more going on when it comes to homosexuality than simple, perverse will on the part of the person who ‘swings’ that way.

I can see why many people may think that they were ‘born this way’.


72 posted on 06/26/2019 4:53:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Ennis85

“Child” - singular.
“They” - plural.

Probably the writer’s fault, and not the Prince’s.


73 posted on 06/26/2019 4:59:38 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: Ennis85

But would he still speak to his son if he came out as a Trump supporter?


74 posted on 06/26/2019 5:02:09 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Ennis85
Smart as his father 👎
75 posted on 06/26/2019 5:20:20 PM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: DesertRhino
Oh, so you're telling me that the first Duke of Marborough, the ancestral progenitor of Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill, and Maggie Thatcher, to name but a few past members of the Order of The Garter, were ALL "inbreds? The "grocer's daughter", IRON LADY OF THE UK was an inbred? REALLY?

Do you also believe that those who belong to THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, The Masons, The Shriners, etc. are also "a bunch of inbreds dressed like buffoons" too?

You should stop posting about thing you neither know anything about nor understand. It would save you from massive humiliation and being laughed at.

Also, you really need to stop going off topic and just post about what a thread IS about.

76 posted on 06/26/2019 5:42:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Gargantua
That does NOT compute at all!

Why don't you only tal,k about topics you actually know something about?

77 posted on 06/26/2019 5:44:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Jamestown1630
You're most assuredly correct, vis-a-vis your supposition. :-)

And thanks for post the GARTER motto!

78 posted on 06/26/2019 5:45:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

There’s an obscure tradition which posits that the ‘garter’ was actually something very different from a mere ‘band’ that held up a stocking...


79 posted on 06/26/2019 5:51:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630
LOL...I've know that story since I was a kid and still love it! :-)

But lets keep that take to ourselves and keep the others in the dark about it.

80 posted on 06/26/2019 6:04:15 PM PDT by nopardons
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