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November 25, 2003
more on gay marriage
In my earlier post, I said that I was raised completely unaware of homosexuality. I don't want you all to think I had prejudiced parents or anything, you just didn't think much about homosexuality back in the 50s and 60s. I'm 50 years old. Most gay people were well hidden in their closets back then.
It ended up I had several gay cousins (one died of AIDs back in the 80s) and a gay and unfortunately pedophile uncle.
My mom, sister to said uncle, was totally shocked when he came out of the closet - she never had an inkling that Uncle Bud was gay.
Jack of Random Fate seems to think this means that I believe something along the lines of: "I don't think the federal government should be involved, I don't care as long as they don't do it on the street and frighten the horses and children."
I think that is a rather unfair statement, sex is something that people should be doing behind closed doors, no matter what your sexual preference is.
It was not until I went to college, way back in 1971, that I became aware of different sexual preferences.
Just thought I should point this out - I'm older than a lot of you folks, and my upbringing was much more sheltered than kids are today.
Posted by Beth at November 25, 2003 6:16 AM
Comments
I hope you don't think I was trying to put words in your mouth. When I wrote it I was attempting to point out a trend that several bloggers (you and Donnie got picked for links because you both write well) seem to think that sexuality isn't something that the government should be involved in. I fully agree that sex is something private, not public. I'm sorry if you felt my rhetoric portrayed what you wrote unfairly, that wasn't my intention.
Posted by: Jack at November 25, 2003 8:11 AM
All the world needs is more emoticons!
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at November 25, 2003 9:34 AM
I totally understand where you're coming from! There are lots of people who don't know any gay people, or much about them, not thru hated or maliciousness, but it's just not a part of their part of the world - whether it's because of age, location, or culture.
That's just another reason I think the internet and blogs are so wonderful - it gives us all a chance to get see how "the other side" lives. One of my hopes with my site is to get across that my life is just like everybody else's.
Posted by: Beth at November 25, 2003 11:39 AM
My experience regarding gay folk is oddly like yours, Beth, even though I'm somewhat younger. (nice fellow that I am, I won't say how much younger) I didn't have any real experience of homosexuality until I moved to the big city for University. The first week I was there, I saw two ladies kissing each other rather amorously on the front steps of an apartment building. It wasn't particularly upsetting nor salacious, just a bit of a bump to my world view, I guess. You grow up different in a smaller town.
Posted by: Dr_Funk at November 30, 2003 12:02 AM
A past Prime Minister of Canada once said something like " Gov't has no business in the bedrooms of the nation". That was Pierre Trudeau
Posted by: denis at December 2, 2003 10:36 PM