Since we’ve been reading about homosexuality, I’d like to give you my opinion over the matter.
With the passing of the recent law, I’ve taken homosexuality seriously for the first time. It was a matter that I completely ignore back then probably because I haven’t met any gay person. But, since our society has taken such step to allow homosexual weddings, I think it’s time we all reflected on the issue.
Personally, I believe any human being, despite of their sexual condition, should be allowed to enjoy the same rights. By saying “I believe” I actually mean that I know it. Whenever I come across two gay people kissing each other in the streets, I feel something which is not precisely wholehearted acceptance. To tell you the truth, I don’t consider myself a discriminatory person, but there must be something of discrimination inside all of us. It’s sort of incoherent, isn’t it?
To my mind, it has become a trend to pretend we are an open-minded society which does not hold prejudices of any kind. However, it seems we need to mature as society a whole lot to accept deep differences among us.
There is another issue related to homosexuality which I’d like to comment on: adoption. This issue appears as the most controversial one. Throughout the last months, I’ve heard a lot of people favouring gay weddings but arguing against adoption by gay couples. In this case, I believe lack of acceptance is not a question of not being open-minded. I’d say it’s just the fear of not knowing the real effect on children after being raised up by same-sex parents. In my opinion, this fear is logical and it should be respected and understood in the same way gay activists wish to be for their sexual condition.
All in all, I believe our society is not ready to face the new law. But we’ll need to find the way to come to grips with today’s reality in the short term so that we can all live in social harmony.
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Hi, Martu!
ReplyDeleteI think you're totally right about society.
I have no problem with gay people. I have gay friends and I never feel anything weird when I see them making out.
However, as regards adoption I have certain doubts. This has nothing to do with gay marriage (since anybody can adopt as a single parent and raise the kid with his gay partner). It's something connected with, as you said, how would children be affected by homosexual parents. I believe there would be no problem in the up-bringing, because anybody, no matter their sexual preferences, can be a good or bad parent. What I think can be complicated is impact of the image of mom-and-mom or dad-and-dad on the child. I mean, for eg, the daughter of lesbian mothers can go to kindergarten and think she's in love with her best friend (another girl), simply because she's growing up considering the two options (or maybe the gay option more prominently). And I'm not saying that it would be wrong that girl ends up being a lesbian too, but that it would be very difficult for that little girl to make friends with children with heterosexual parents.
I don't know, there's definitely a lot to work on, as a society.