As a mom, I think a little uncertainty is a good quality for kids to have. I encourage my kids to question and reflect and examine and get caught up in existential quandaries: Welcome to the human experience, guys.
So when I come across a kid like 14-year-old Caiden Cowger, who has suspiciously strong and narrow-minded opinions about something he has no experience with, I assume he picked up those ideas from some influential adults in his life. Like, maybe his parents ... not that I'm pointing fingers.
Who apparently encourage him to go on the radio and blast those opinions far and wide. See, Cowger is a talk show host of sorts, and his favorite thing to do on the air is to slam gay teens for ... being gay. And, of course, to blame President Obama for turning those teens gay in the first place.
Oh yes. I am not making this up.
Says Cowger:
I knew these kids. Some of ‘em I was friends with. I knew these teenagers when they were in elementary school. I knew them when they were in the beginning of middle school. And you know what? They were not homosexuals. They just decided all the sudden "You know what? I think I'm going to be gay."
Why they are becoming homosexuals, why they are becoming gay is because they're being encouraged by it. President Obama: "It's alright, it's okay, you were born that way!"
Caiden, Caiden, Caiden ... if only I could lock you in a room with the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche for a month or so ... sigh. I can't, of course, because you're not my kid.
Anyway, that's besides the point. The point is ... I can't imagine raising my kids this way, and it really sucks that some parents insist on brainwashing their kids with the same hateful crap they believe.
Do you think this kid really believes Obama makes teens gay, or is he just repeating what he's heard his parents say?
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The KKK's views are protected by the first amendment, too, but look how dumb they look....
People with hateful and intolerant views may be allowed to share thier opinions.. but damn do they look RIDICULOUS!! Get a clue people!
To you and the judgemental kid: what does someone else's personal sex life have ANYTHING to do with you? Ooohhhhhhh it doesn't?? Okay. Then drop it.
Sorry for the long rant. He can dislike gay people as much as he wants but I'd like to see middle school and highschool kids learn logic.
Wait. Isn't there some movie star...Stir did a thing on her marriage just a few weeks ago... Dang, I wish I could remember who it was. Anyway, she came out and publicly said that she "chose" to be a lesbian, and that she "chose" to marry that woman. Not that she was born that way. That she *chose* the lifestyle.
I'm not saying that is the case for everyone, but I do know teens, and I know that a lot of them will go with the flow. If they think it's cool to be gay, they're going to try it. Doesn't mean they're actually gay, maybe some of them are. But maybe some of them aren't, and this kid is just calling them out on it.
We don't know the whole situation. It could be that this kid is telling the truth, that he has known these kids to be straig, and if that's the case, how on earth is that "hateful"? Because it doesn't agree with a certain worldview?
Yeah, the whole "it's sickening" thing is a little off, but these are his personal views. People are demanding that he be tolerant of homosexuality, but nobody thinks it's wrong to call him hateful for believing that homosexuality is wrong, according to his Christian beliefs.
He has a point, you know. His overarching point, if you chose to listen to the entire video, is that HE cannot state his personal Christian beliefs that Homosexuality is wrong, but if he doesn't accept homosexuality, then he's a hateful bigot.
double standard... again
Christians are getting a bad rap these days. Are some of them crazy? Oh yeah, but so are members of peta but not all animal rights activists are crazy.
As far as tolerance I go by something my mom said to me "I don't care if you're gay or straight. I just don't want to see you doing it on my front lawn"
It's about not shoving anything in anyone's face.