So, You’re Thirteen…

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Going on thirty-one.  Or maybe you’re twelve, with teenage-hood in sight…

This post is potentially for my own children, but largely I write this for any/all pre-teens and young teens who might unusually come across my site.  This particular musing isn’t going to delve much at all into morality, faith and such.  No, this is about looking forward to your education and eventual entrance into the working world.  Parents, teachers, your elders, what do they know, eh?  If you’re not going to listen to them, then maybe listen to me.

“Love Letter to a Lesbian” by Jackie Hill

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The debate continues over nature vs. nurture, environment or genetics, choice or none in the discussion about homosexual feelings and lifestyles.  It’s possible/ probable that what’s going on is often a mixture of the two factors.

In the debate over homosexuality, there are some who have been derisively charged with a scam, “praying the gay away”.  Both sides of the argument say they can prove it does or doesn’t work.  Likely it’s a mixed bag because as with most things, it’s about what you put into it, where you’re coming from and how you’re looking at the world.

Homosexuality is a sin just as much as murder or envy is, just as much as lying, sloth or gluttony are.  Sin is sin, period.  Both sides of the argument have a hard time wrapping their minds around that, much less accepting it, for different reasons.

Hiding In Plain Site

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This is one person, and to be sure, there will be many who will discount the comment for that reason.  None-the-less, the individual states that which conservatives, most Christians and many others have been saying all along; that the debate/struggle to legalize homosexual marriage was never about equality.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/homosexual-activist-says-gay-marriage-isnt-about-equality-its-about-destroy?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=010e24dc3a-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_04_30_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0caba610ac-010e24dc3a-326220862

It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.

The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago.

From Masha Gessen

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