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14 Responses to “Gay children”

1. Mister says:

   April 16, 2009 at 8:10 pm

   I would prefer if the site admin would post headlines of the top stories published daily on the gleaner and star websites, so we the readers can discuss these, rather than randomly chosen topics, such as this one. For eg. I would prefer to discuss stories like “BEAST ATTACKS GIRL, FARMER – Cops launch hunt for creature” http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20090414/news/news1.html

   If this story is real, then there should be a major manhunt for this bush monster. Even if it’s only a hoax, whoever is going around in a costume scaring people and killing a farmer’s dog should be arrested.

   As for gay children, I think the gay this and that is a bit tired now. Out with the gay pride and in with the heterosexual pride.
2. Neutral Justice says:

   April 17, 2009 at 8:56 pm

   Gay children!! Rubbish!! total garbage. This is a environmental behavior influenced by the punctuation of twisted and sick individuals that perform their sexual sins of lewd gratification. These actions within themselves are cruelly geared for the expressive end results, to harm our children’s healthy sexual growth and, to create a colony or clone of themselves. These devious sexual acts are done by many Catholic Priests that ripped away the total innocence of alter boys and girls. These nasty and dirty acts are done to stagnate the developmental growth to crush the innocence of many of our gifted children. So people, there is no such thing as gay children, there is absolutely NO scientific proof that it’s in the human genome. Tek wey u self.
3. Ommugabe says:

   April 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm

   If the child has the birth defect of homosexuality, then he should be ‘straightened’ out, and ‘straightened’ out early, before he commits to feeding and acting upon the deviant tendency.

   Even though the brain can be defective and gives rise to unwanted tendencies, no one was born acting homosexually with another! This BEHAVIOR has to be learned. But every parent should seek to prevent the learning of this societally-destructive behavior.

   There are only two normal and natural and legitimate choices — celibacy and male-female mating.
4. CHARLI says:

   April 19, 2009 at 5:26 pm

   Love him or her, just like a mother should.
5. Kevin Forge says:

   April 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm

   A few people are “born gay”. This is about as rare as people being born hermaphrodite, and happens for exactly the same reason. A mutation.

   So while you are explaining how to deal with a gay child, explain how to deal with a child who has both a penis and a vagina.

   For those others who become gay latter on, the goal of the parent should be prevention. Raise your child right and it won’t happen.

   #1. preventive measure is to avoid sexual abuse. The vast majority of gays in Jamaica were raped or otherwise molested as children. And not necessarily in a homosexual way. Often a girl is raped by a man and stops being attracted to men as a result.

   #2. preventive measure is to avoid gay role models. Most children go throgh a phase (usually mid to late teens) where they are unsure of their own identity. Eventually they find someone who seems to have it all together and try to become like that person in every way.

   This affects career aspirations, religion, political affiliation and sexuality. If the brightest, best looking and most organized teacher at school is openly homosexual, that school will graduate more gays than any other school. He doesn’t even have to “push” his lifestyle on the kids. He just has to look like an example of what they want to be.
6. Child Of God says:

   April 21, 2009 at 9:01 am

   As a parent with young ones, it would be very unfortunate. But I would have no choice than to love my child/children. I would spend all I have to get them cured, and curing is possible as long has they do not their first encounter. I pray that such a sin don’t befall my children.

   On a different note I would sure like it better to comment on relevant articles in the Gleaner, than on some ungodly sinful homosexual acts.
7. Ommugabe says:

   April 22, 2009 at 11:43 am

   Kevin

   A healthy child is either born male or female; child can’t be both.

   So if a girl is born with something looking like a ‘penis’, then It should be removed. Fortunately surgery is at a very sophisticated level these days.

   And the child should be taught, from as early as possible, to act as the female she is.
   A new brain is very very malleable.

   ALL children are born with one defect or another, some defects are worse than others.
   In every case, the child will have to ‘make do’ to be as normal as is possible.
   Trying to live both genders simultaneously is untenable; it leads to much mental strain.

   Totally agree that children should be protected from perverts; because most individuals with homosexual tendencies WERE ‘TRAINED’ as children, by adults who sodomize and traumatize them.
8. Bob says:

   April 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   I HAVE 3 SONS AND 1 DAUGHTER. AND IF ANY DAY ANY OF THEN SAY DADDY ,I AM GAY. ” I WOULD HUG THEM AND SHOWER THEM WITH LOVE… THEY ARE ALREADY MINE, AND NO MATTER WHAT I WILL STILL LOVE THEM. ANY PARENT DISOWN THEIR KIDS BECAUSE THEY ARE GAY.”DIDN’T LOVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
9. Bob says:

   April 23, 2009 at 7:26 am

   I GUESS ALL OF YOU WHO ARE AFRAID OF HOMOSEXUALS. SHOULD GO BACK TO THE BIBLE . THE SAME BOOK THAT SOME OF YOU USE TO JUSTIFIED DESCRIMINATION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS. DID ANY OF YOU KNOW WHT WOMAN IS CALLED “WOMAN”? IN FACT WOMAN ARE HALF MEN AND HALF WOMAN. I KNOW THAT A LOT OF YOU WILL BE LAUGHING AT WHAT I HAVE TO SAY .

   BUT THINK DEEP . THAT THE BIBLE SAID WHEN GOD MAKE MAN HER REALISE THAT THE MAN DID NEED A COMPANION. SO ‘WHAT DID GOD DID? HE TOOK A RIB FROM ADAM AND USE IT TO CREATE WOMAN AS HIS COMPANION. NOW THERE IS WHERE THE MAN PART COME FROM IN WOMAN. SO HOMOSEXUALITY IS SOME THING MOST HOMOSEXUALS ARE BORN WITH.

   AND I AM NOT TALKING THESE WHO DO IT FOR JUST MONEY AND FANCY THIS AND THAT. TRUE HOMOSEXUALS DON’T AND NEVER MIX THEIR SEXUAL INTIMACY WITH WOMEN. THEY ARE JUST HOMO. THOSE ARE BORN THAT WAY.

   BUT WHO CARES, WE SHOULD LOVE EVERY BODY, WE ALL LOOK THE SAME, AND WE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME MAKER WE ARE ALL BEEN BORN OF A WOMAN/FEMALE WHETHER ITS AN ANIMAL OR HUMAN.

   OMMUGABE:

   THAT STATEMENT DESTINE FOR KEV WAS NOT GOOD. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ? THAT ANY CHILD BORN WITH 6 TOES, 2 LEFT HANDS, OR 2 LEFT FEET AND FUNCTION NORMALLY ARE NOT NORMAL? THERE ARE HERMAPHRODITES. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT ORGAN TO CUT OFF ANS WHEN.? IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR STATEMENT , NO WONDER SOCIETY IS LIKE THIS. “IF YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE ME WE DON’T WANT YOU”. I GUESS ALL OF YOU SHOULD MAKE SUSAN BOYLE AN EXAMPLE TO YOU ALL WHO LIVE WITH BIASES IN YOUR HEART TOWARD WHO ARE DIFFERENT .
10. Sasha says:

    May 1, 2009 at 11:20 am

    i would definitely seek counselling for him. cause it is about what they do at school. while children are at school they do what they are pressured to do and so the feel like its ‘so cool’ because Dick, Tom and John are doing it.probably a little counselling could help.
11. Linda says:

    May 1, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    WOW! Do any of you really think that people “choose” to be gay.
    It’s a very hard life, rejected by society, friends disappear, families turn their backs. It is something that they are born with! I have counseled many abused children and very few turn out to be gay. It has nothing to do with it; read the research; educate yourselves.
    I live for a day when all people, gay, disabled, black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, christian, Atheist, are truly accepted by all. That’s what your God wants; not distain and rejection. Love Thy Neighbour Folks!
12. Barbi says:

    May 7, 2009 at 7:50 am

    Love them, let them know you are there for them. I think when we say we can “straighten them out” we force our children to be secretive and what we want for all our our children straight or gay is to be in a loving, committed moral relationship.
13. bobbyjones says:

    May 27, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    I REMEMBER A STAGE IN MY LIFE WHEN I WOULD BE QUICK TO SAY “BOOM BYE BYE” AND STUFF LIKE THAT, IN REFERENCE TO GAY PEOPLE.(no offence to BUJU , still think he is a great artiste) THEN STARTED TAKING A LOOK INTO MY SELF AS I GOT MORE MATURE AND START THINKING SERIOUSLY “what if one day one of my sons was to turn to me and say DAD THINK I MIGHT BE GAY”. FIRST OF ALL I LOVE MY KIDS (boys and girls) TO DEATH AND WOULD NOT LIKE TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE SCORNING AND RIDICULING ANY OF MY KIDS. SO WHY DO THIS TO OTHER PEOPLE. ACTUALLY I HAD GAY FRIENDS WHO WERE COOL PEOPLE TO DEAL WITH, SOME OF WHOM WERE MORE LEVEL HEADED MORE THAN A LOT OF SO_CALL STRAIGHT PEOPLE. THIS SUBJECT WILL TAKE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF MATURITY AND DEEP THOUGHT. SMOKING WEED IS VERY OFFENSIVE TO SOME PEOPLE, BUT WE DON’T HAVE ANYBODY GOING OUT AND RIDICULING WEED SMOKERS. THERE ARE A LIST THINGS THAT SOME PEOPLE FIND REALLY OFFENSIVE AND DISTURBING, WE JUST DON’T GO AROUND AND HURT PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU.
14. SomethingtoConsider says:

    June 4, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    For all of you that are trying to pin the cause of homosexuality on one issue or event, I believe you are all mistaken.

    Recently, some scientists have begun to think that homosexuality is not a result of genes or environmental factors alone, but rather a combination of the two. They believe that some people are born with a genetic disposition toward homosexuality. When combined with an environmental factor such as over-exposure to testosterone in the womb, homosexuality is a result.

    To date, I have not come across any evidence that homosexuality is “chosen” as many of you believe. Also, those of you that are saying that you would take your child to ‘counseling’ would only be setting him/her up for years of emotional and psychological problems that generally end up in either clinical depression or suicide.

    Just some background on me: I am a 17 year old guy that happens to be homosexual. I have NEVER been abused, I was taught that being ‘gay’ is wrong, and I believe that anal sex is wrong(I don’t plan on doing that…ever!). I did NOT choose to be this way and have tried multiple times to be straight…so far, no luck!

    Also, for those who have the very narrow stereotype that all gay people dress like fairies, talk with a lisp, dance around half-naked at their local pride parade, and have anal sex with the entire gay population within 100 miles, I have yet to meet a gay person like that. Every other gay person I’ve met acts the same as ‘normal’ people, with the exception that they are attracted to the same sex.

    Please direct any mail to talk_to_reed@hotmail.com.

    Thanks