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My mom is stuck in the 1950s's on some of her beliefs. I thought I would start this thread to see if anybody knows anyone with antiquated beliefs like these and others.
We were on the subject of homosexuality recently. I told her that she makes homosexuals out to sound more morally degenerate than people who have sex with animals. She said that homosexuality is worse because, according to her:"You only have sex with another human being if you love that person, and if a man has sex with a man, that must mean that they love each other, and that is immoral, having sex with an animal is just getting your jollies off."
Whaaaa....? Wow...I just don't know what to say to that. People have sex all the time just for fun these days and they never see each other again. Her reply:"Well they must love each other in some way...." My father totally disagrees with her as he had some raunchy sexual relationships before he met her (some of which she doesen't even know about, he told me because I understand it better than she does). She said she only had sex when she was in love with someone...but what does that have to do with other people. Her logic eats itself. And telling her that being gay is okay and acceptable ushers a slew of denials and talk about birth defects, mental illness, and second-class citizenship. She said they don't have the right to raise children because they will be raised gay.
And I'm not trying to make her sound like a bad person, but she is not a very progressive thinker and I can only conclude that she was raised to feel the way she does. She even brought race into it, saying that there are probably more gay black people than white people.
My wife's parents are pretty bad about it too. Her mother has a blacklist of tv shows she does not watch because she saw references to gay relationships in them. I was at their house once when she angrily turned off the tv and said..."I'm never watching this stupid show again! Children should not be exposed to this immoral garbage!" I rarely have spats with this woman, but I told her that kids are all going to learn it from somewhere, probably better here than the kids at school, or better yet have parents educate their kids about gay relationships. And if a child decides they like the same sex better when they reach sexual maturity, then that is their business and nobody has the right to tell them to "don't be gay". She ran out of steam then, but seemed taken aback that I would condone this "immoral behavior" and went off mumbling about some gay agenda.
My wife's dad is a gun toting member of the NRA. I walk up to the door and he is standing behind the door with a hand on his holster when he opens it. He's got a police scanner, a large custom antenna sticking out the back of his car. Nothing wrong with this I guess, but a little paranoid and extreme. And when he hears of suspicious persons on the scanner, he'll tell me to be careful on the way home because there's some suspicious black or Mexican guys wandering around in the area.
God I have strange relatives.
We were on the subject of homosexuality recently. I told her that she makes homosexuals out to sound more morally degenerate than people who have sex with animals. She said that homosexuality is worse because, according to her:"You only have sex with another human being if you love that person, and if a man has sex with a man, that must mean that they love each other, and that is immoral, having sex with an animal is just getting your jollies off."
Whaaaa....? Wow...I just don't know what to say to that. People have sex all the time just for fun these days and they never see each other again. Her reply:"Well they must love each other in some way...." My father totally disagrees with her as he had some raunchy sexual relationships before he met her (some of which she doesen't even know about, he told me because I understand it better than she does). She said she only had sex when she was in love with someone...but what does that have to do with other people. Her logic eats itself. And telling her that being gay is okay and acceptable ushers a slew of denials and talk about birth defects, mental illness, and second-class citizenship. She said they don't have the right to raise children because they will be raised gay.And I'm not trying to make her sound like a bad person, but she is not a very progressive thinker and I can only conclude that she was raised to feel the way she does. She even brought race into it, saying that there are probably more gay black people than white people.
My wife's parents are pretty bad about it too. Her mother has a blacklist of tv shows she does not watch because she saw references to gay relationships in them. I was at their house once when she angrily turned off the tv and said..."I'm never watching this stupid show again! Children should not be exposed to this immoral garbage!" I rarely have spats with this woman, but I told her that kids are all going to learn it from somewhere, probably better here than the kids at school, or better yet have parents educate their kids about gay relationships. And if a child decides they like the same sex better when they reach sexual maturity, then that is their business and nobody has the right to tell them to "don't be gay". She ran out of steam then, but seemed taken aback that I would condone this "immoral behavior" and went off mumbling about some gay agenda.
My wife's dad is a gun toting member of the NRA. I walk up to the door and he is standing behind the door with a hand on his holster when he opens it. He's got a police scanner, a large custom antenna sticking out the back of his car. Nothing wrong with this I guess, but a little paranoid and extreme. And when he hears of suspicious persons on the scanner, he'll tell me to be careful on the way home because there's some suspicious black or Mexican guys wandering around in the area.
God I have strange relatives.
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