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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm 19:33 and also posted immediately before you and you couldn't be more wrong. At least in my case and line of reasoning. Sorry, but you are incorrect in presuming what's going on in my head on this one.[/quote]

8:27 here and I don't think I'm wrong. It is actually very common for people to hold beliefs or perceptions that they do not feel comfortable fully admitting. You were most likely raised with a belief system that people should not be gay and that this is wrong. Its likely that your parents and community around you when you were young were much more open and outspoken about this belief. Now you are in hard situation. You know that its important to teach your own kids about diversity, tolerance, freedom of choice, and equality for all people BUT you still carry those initial beliefs that homosexuals are wrong and shouldn't be that way. You temper them because the societal norms that you are under now characterize this as intolerance. You do not want to be seen as intolerant but that is what is going on. You will not be as outspoken about your beliefs as the generation that raised you but you will have a natural reaction to oppose anything that furthers legitimacy for this group.

Your children and there children will probably not carry these beliefs as they are not hearing the same level of outspoken intolerance as you did. As they grow up playing with kids who are from same sex parents, have friends in school who are gay and not tormented for it, and attend same sex marriages of friends and family, they will not see differences between hetero or homo couples. They will not have the nagging feeling that something is wrong here and grasp for rationalizations for these feelings. They will simply see their friends and family. [/quote]

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