Its A Choice

I haven't been able to go to any of the GLBT events either, but I have been reading up on a lot of people posts especially about the documentary, "For The Bible Tells Me So". I wish i could have watched it because I am a Christian and I grew up learning to hate the sin not the sinner. I can be accepting of the person (or child that walks into my classroom) but not of the lifestyle. I don't believe that being gay is natural, but a choice. Everything in life is a choice when it comes to how you take things and develop. If someone says something mean to me it is my choice in how i respond. I can choose to ignore it and move on or i can choose to rest on the thought of someone saying something mean. When a little boy in elementary schools looks at another little boy and thinks that the other is attractive, that is a choice, the little boy can focus his mind on something else or divert his attention on another object so as not to be focused on the other boy, but if he decides to entertain this thought of being attractive to the little boy it will become "natural" or normal for this little boy to eventually think all boys are attractive. We develop and mold and change based off of our choices in life..and the things that we choose to pay attention to and not pay attention to. Homosexuality is not like race or eye color, it is very possible to change, but it is all in the choice that the individual makes. if everyone is telling you that you are 'born this way' then of course you wont think that you can change even if you come across a lot of hatred for being gay. but just like the southern racist or young lady with low self esteem, it is very possible to change...each day you make the decision of how you want things to play out in your life and what "you" you want to be.

Proposal 8

I am not certain what my stance is on this proposal, even though i am not favorable towards the homosexual life style it still seems harsh to take the rights of those gay couples who were already married. Its almost like giving a child a candy bar that they really want, but before the child is able to finish the candy the mom snatches it out of his/her hand. They should have kept it one way and not made a sudden change of mind, either don't recognize gay marriage or recognize it. Whether right or wrong i hope that whatever the final choice is, that it just stays final because you cant be double sided in decision making, a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. I dont want one day to not be able to go to church because people changed their mind and voted against free assembly.

Post Boy Meets Boy Discussion

After today's discussion on the book Boy Meets Boy my mind has definitely been enlightened. From my previous post you could see how I was facing a minor dilemma. I ended up not reading the book and not writing a paper about the book. Although I do not regret my decision I believe that I learned a lot during this classes discussion about GLBTs, especially during our book discussion and since I did not write a paper it gave me a chance to really just sit back and listen to what others had to say on the issue. During the discussion my great friend Ryan brought up a wonderful point that I never really noticed...the somewhat stereotypical rival between religion and gay people. Stereotypes are usually created when a few people in a certain group act a certain way, so if a few religious people disagree with gays because the Bible says so that all gays should burn and go to Hell, this belief then becomes the common stereotype for all people who are religious...they must hate gays...right?...not exactly true. The same can be said for gays since religious people dont like us...lets not like them...and it was brought up during the discussion that David L. almost pushed disliking towards one group (the close-minded, religious freak) while trying to focusing on accepting another group (gays). Instead of understanding and acceptance it turned into accept my group, but dislike that group because all of them dont like us. Hmm....

Boy Meets Boy

I love to read. I always loved to read since I was a little girl. You really can escape into the life of the character and go to a new place. I have enjoyed reading all of the books in TE 448 so far, most times I will read them weeks before hand. I have recently come to a road block. All TE 448 students have to read Boy Meets Boy by David Levinthan and I just cannot get into the story. There is one main reason for this, I do not agree with homosexuality. I won't waist time explaining why and i don't have to since its my blog lol, but I am dealing with an inner battle to figure out what I will do about this book. I can either suck it up read bits and pieces to get the jist of the story and do the QTT paper or I can not read the book. Its difficult because I know how I feel deep inside and the reasons behind what I feel. I know that I might encounter kids who are gay in my classroom or parents who are gay, will I treat them any different then the rest of my kids/parents?...No, but will I agree with their choice?...No.

Should I read this book to understand how some gay people may feel as they go through different situations...which i am sure that it would be similar to how any minority feels amongst the majority group. I dunno...but we will see come Tuesday what happens. It is what it is...