Society Imposed Heterosexuality
By Andy Heath
Sometimes I cringe at the thought of young children that conservative religions teach to hate gays. From the moment they are born, fundamentalist Christians begin programming them and brainwashing them to accept without question their "truths." Such truths include, Jesus is coming back someday, Christianity is the only good religion, and gays and lesbians are going to rot in hell. No wonder so many of these gay teenagers commit suicide when they grow old enough to realize who they are.
We put little blue suits on baby boys and little pink suits on baby girls. That's the moment children truly begin understanding what society will expect of them when they become a man or a woman. Boys play sports and girls play with dolls because that is what society teaches them to do. Heaven forbid a girl should be athletic or a boy should not be. I remember when I was in elementary school that the coaches would sometimes tell the boys they were playing basketball like a "bunch of girls" to insult their playing. What does this tell girls and boys about their differences?
Even now when teenagers find something that they think is stupid or moronic, they will say, "That's so gay!" Basically they separate homosexuality from intelligent behavior. And they learn to do so from their parents and their spiritual guides.
When high school students beat up a "fag," their peers praise them. They would taunt them if those same students were to take up for someone who is gay.
Perhaps this pavlovian conditioning is why so few people are actually gay. Perhaps something in our psyche prevents the cowardly from being who they truly are and imposes heterosexuality on those that God meant to be homosexual.
So what? You might ask. You ask what the problem with this imposition of heterosexuality on children is. The fact is that this imposition is just as damaging or perhaps even more so than imposing religion or other opinions on children. It yields that many of these children grow up unable to give critical thought to anything, and that they become reprehensible people like their parents (no offense, of course). The truth is, as I see it, that the world will be a better place when we are able to stop imposing out beliefs on children and let them discover what the truth really is. They are the only untainted population in society and we should value their findings, not impose our social agendas on them.
