Last week, at a Seattle Mariners game, two people engaged in a public display of affections. Like many other couples in ballparks across the country, they kissed. And another patron at the game complained that their action was inappropriate. Why? Because the couple was a same-sex lesbian couple and the woman complaining didn't want to have to explain two women kissing to her child.
Like the parent at the stadium, there are those who don't want their kids exposed to what they call perversion. They don't want tolerance taught in the schools because it is seen as pushing an agenda they don't agree with.
So how does this parent respond when her kid comes home talking about the new kid in class who has two mommies or two daddies? Should the new kid not be allowed to go to school in order to keep the other children from being exposed to the idea that not all families are alike?
You don't have to believe that homosexuality is moral, but you do have realize that your children are going to be confronted with the reality of homosexuality at young ages. I have several friends in same-sex relationships who have children. Their kids will be attending school. And if the other children are not taught tolerance, then my friends kids will become the victims of bullying or worse.
There are reasons to expose children to things you may disagree with. They exist in society. You cannot shelter your children. Teach them. And if you must believe that homosexuality is wrong, teach them to hate the sin and love the sinner so that they will not inflict harm on the children of same-sex relationships.
And maybe they will grow up to see that we are all the same.
