Posted on 01/16/2005 10:24:14 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell
There is a Lesbian couple in my town. Now, I like most Americans have no problem with Gay or Lesbian couples. I have a problem with Gays or Lesbians adopting children.
And this Lesbian couple has kids, four young girls.
Thankfully, I have no children.
Let's say you’re a parent and your child has come home from school telling you about his or her new friend. He or she wants to schedule a play date.
You find out that your Childs friend is the son or daughter of a same sex couple.
If the couple were two Lesbian women would you schedule a play date?
If the couple were two Gay men, would you schedule a play date?
How would you explain to Junior that you weren't going to schedule that playmate?
Keep in mind it is not the other child’s fault that their parents are gays who decided to adopt children. But you must also monitor the outside influences in your child’s life.
What the heck is a play date and why would it matter if the parents are gay?
A play date is when your child goes over to another child's house.
Why not schedule the play date at your house? Other than family, my son was never allowed in anyone else's home by himself when he was little.
Oh, I only let my kids go to houses of parents I know. So I would first meet and find out about the parents straight or gay before I felt comfortable letting them go over.
Plus you could always ask the child over to your house to play.
And this Lesbian couple has kids, four young girls.
Odd that they only have all girls. Are they sexist LessBeings(lesbians)?
What the heck is a play date and why would it matter if the parents are gay?
If you don't know what a play date is when the term is self explainatory you aren't too interested in the welfare of children anyway.
Why are the effects of lesbians on girl children any less dangerous than the effects of gay men on boy children?
I don't have kids, but as a Christian it seems to me that even at a young age we need to teach children the idea about loving the sinner and hating the sin. Of course you wouldn't let your kid play at their house unsupervised. What one might do is set up a play date at a park, where representatives of both "families" (what does one call a lesbian couple with children? Family just leaves a bad taste in my mouth) where you can watch exactly what happens with your kid. They try to indoctrinate him, take him home.
This is all less of a bother if one homeschools one's children, since you can then pick their friends when they're young.
I would not want to put the kids through ridicule or rejection because of their parents' choices. However, my concern would be what kind of propaganda might my kid pick up from that kid?
Uh, yeah, but lesbians can be pedophiles too, right? So if you're worried about gay men molesting boys, shouldn't you be worried about lesbians and girls?
You posee an interesting question. I think part of any answer would depend on if the pair in question were "radicl" lesbians, actively promoting their lifestyle,a nd the age of your kids. That's because kids are very impressionable at certain ages...Here's a true story. Years ago, my sister-in-law enrolled her 5 y.o. in the pre-school program at her temple. There neigborhood had a large population of Japanese families..diplomats, and businessmen, and over 60& of the kids in the pre-school program were japanese. My SIL was a little pretubed when after a few weeks, the daughter would come home speaking Japanese instead of Hebrew..
There's a whacked out family of Kerry loving commie lusting liberals with a son the same age as mine on our street. They don't invite my clean cut, miitary career pondering, Iraq war supporting self proclaimed conservative son to come over any more. And since their son used to sit through the news while we all yelled at the TV during the election, he hasn't come back over.
What if the gay parents embrace/kiss in front of your child what then?? How do you explain that to children at this age.
I would have a lot less concern if a Kid learned Japanese than quite a few other things involved here.
The Kids in this family are not taught to hate, but that there are many things never acceptable. Discriminative? I hope so!
Yep, definately at MY house, and extremely well supervised. My son also, never went to anyone elses house, except family and then it was rare.
I havw no problem when it comes tp the other parents wanting to have it their house, saying No thank you, I am not comfortable with that. No Problem AT ALL!
Only a moron would come to that conclusion simply because I didn't know what a play date was. We don't schedule playdates here dumba$$.
We never did either, or we did, but just called it having a friend over to play.
That is why I say well supervised. Once the child goes home, it certainly might require a talk with my own child, to tell him it is a sin. When he asks, or if the subject came up while with the other child. I would also tell him, the child is innocent. All child are, and need to be allowed that. IMO it's an inalienable right!
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