Monday, July 02, 2007

Homophobe

I don't know why it's a big deal in my mind, but I've been thinking off and on what's the big deal with me and my homophobia. It's not as bad as my fear of being so desperate that I'd take a job dressed as a mascot on the street (which can't be overcome by being rich and then doing it on a lark, the key here is truly having bottomed out, but that's another discussion). I really enjoy Blondie, especially their early stuff, not that I was remotely aware of her, or the whole 'scene' when I was young, this is me catching up.
Anyway, I was reading stuff and eventually wound up on debbieharry.com, and there was reference to an article about her tour, here, where she says:

"I don't care what kind of sexuality people have, as long as they're decent human beings and they treat each other with respect."
and I thought, I hope I can get to that point, in today's world. But honestly I really don't want my son to be gay, nor would I want any of his teachers to be gay, nor would I want him to be accepting of homosexuality as though it were natural and normal. That's one of my biggest gripes, is that is still feel that there's huge dishonesty about whether it's in-born. If they were just honest about it and admitted that it was a lifestyle that appealed to someone who was essentially choosing to be gay, then I think I could at least feel there wasn't pretense at work, pretense to make a lifestyle legitimate.

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