I went to this past Thursday's LGBT meeting and I was there for about 45 minutes. When I got there we were discussing questions that were on the table and then we went on to watch the "Unconditional Love" segment of the movie.
I think it was a great way to show us the different ideas everyone has because we got multiple points of view from different families. Some families protested, while some families just accepted how their child was no matter what- unconditionally. It was REALLY sad that the one girl hung herself before she felt that she could open up to her family and hung herself. The pictures were really disturbing.
What I didn't really get out of it was the way that Christians can accept homosexuality but for me, I don't really need to know myself because I really think that it's not up to other people to decide who other people can and can't love.
My mom and I were talking about it and we kind of put ourselves in groups: My generation is much more open and accepting (more than other generations) of gay and lesbian people. My mom was taught from the Church not to accept it, but she is in the middle on it. She doesn't think it's right, but she doesn't think it's her right to tell other people what they should do. And then my grandparents are people who don't accept it AT ALL and think it is morally and physically wrong. I know there are still people that are the exact same as my grandparents, but a lot less then there used to be.
Gina made a great suggestion that it would be good to have a panel of people from different religions and they feel about homosexuality. I think it would be good of families from every religion who have children or relatives that are gay and lesbians and discuss their feelings and the reactions and changes they have had or had to make.
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