I personally have no problem with homos and lesbos (I'm sure alot of guys don't mind it) so yeah I personally think it's appropriate, now male homo I'll be slightly uncomfortable if I saw it but still, I'm tolerant to it.

My sister is a homosexual, I'm a bisexual, it hasn't effected my family and I would say it should never actually affect how a family works.
Okay yes It may startle your parents a little coming out but in my life I've never actually seen a family break up because of it.

My thoughts of homosexuality is that its against the nature balance.
but still it happens all over world.. Even by animals.. So its nature error in my sights of opinion.
still I'm not bothered with 2 male humans loving each other and wanting to raise a kid..
Love is never a bad thing. Even if 2 human males love each other, i personally think that this is just the same as when a human female or human male love each other.. 2 males loves each other. Or a male and female love each other.. The important thing here is they care for each other and they want to live there lives with them. If there are either, homosexual, or straight.but I'm. Bothered with these people who are called *fags or gay.* these scene of humans who only think about pleasure.. 2 males who loves each other is okay.
but 2 males wanting sex only for pleasure purposes.. I hate it..
this goes although the same as straight people.. I hate it when people having sexual contact while they don't even know each other or don't feel any trace of love.. And I'm strict against this human activity.. And I'm in shame that they are of the same race as me.

So.. If 2 homosexuals want to raise a kid I personally think this is totally family friendly.
but if 2 homosexuals try to raise kids while constantly cheating on each other.. I think that is not family friendly
i don't think things like bisexual homosexual or any kind of opinion in interest for opposite sex or same sex should be seen as not family friendly.

this is just my opinion of this subject.. If you feel like I'm incorrect. Reply please.
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Of course it's family friendly... as long as it's part of a healthy relationship.. I mean if it's full of swearing and violence it's never going to be family friendly regardless of what it is in my opinion... 

plus personally I think it sets a good example.. That you should love who you want to love and not simply accept a person that you think other people will accept you for. If people can't accept that you truly love someone of the same sex.. Then they don't really understand what love is. 

as for 2 males trying to raise a child.. It may be confusing at first for the child when he realises that he doesn't have a mum but two dad's... but apart from that I don't really see a problem.. Plus most gay couples adopt children... of course the child gets to disagree about having two dad's or mums but if I was in that situation I'd just want to be loved.. Regardless of gender and sexuality.

so to summarize I don't see anything wrong with this at all.

servbot128 : I'm just going to say here, sexuality of any kind is not "family friendly" when it comes to children. I think there is a time to expose children to sexuality, but most certainly not before they hit puberty. I certainly don't think anybody should be making out in front of children. I mean, has our society degraded to the point where we cannot control our own desires in public? Who in the world wants to watch people make out, be it two guys, two girls, a guy and a girl or a guy and his pet grizzly bear? It's an absolutely preposterous notion that anyone should make out in front of anyone at all. That's meant to be a private affair.

That being said, as a Christian, I'm going to have a few thoughts that you might disagree with. I don't want them to offend you, but the fact of the matter is that I believe what I believe just as you believe what you believe, and since you've posed the question, I'm going to answer you honestly - without being judgmental. I hope you can do the same for me and my opinion.

I believe that homosexuality should not be taught as an "acceptable" lifestyle to children, partially because of my Christian beliefs, but partially because I do not believe it is conducive to the purpose of reproduction. We, as a society, place too much of an emphasis on the pleasure of sexual intercourse without reminding people that sexual intercourse can lead to other things. Sexually transmitted diseases are one of the biggest problems of sexual intercourse, especially in the homosexual community for whatever reason, and more people are not taking that into consideration before making the decision to engage in such an act. The purpose of sex is first and foremost, to procreate. But society does not think about that anymore, and you can tell because of the over-sexualized themes that present themselves in society.

To me, teaching children that homosexuality is okay is actually saying that sexuality in an of itself is okay, which at a young age is most definitely not. However, I think that teaching that homosexuality is wrong leads to bullying or making people outcasts, and that isn't okay either. Rather, I would say nothing about the issue at all until it is time in their growing up to know about it. And what I would do in that stead would be to teach my children what I believe, that "romantic" love is the most fake and dangerous loves to chase at a young age, because they aren't who they're going to be, nor are other people who they are going to grow up to be. People change, their interests change, life happens. It's much more worth it to wait than to go after a partner now, when they're just as unstable as everyone else their age. Rather, I am going to teach them to love people regardless of their choices, to extend a hand to a person who's struggling to carry their books, regardless of sexual orientation, tattoos, favorite football team (even the Florida Gators, I know), because THAT matters much more than the title of "straight" or "homosexual." Because to be honest with you, none of that is family friendly at all because none of it is family and none of it is friendly. Sex at that age can destroy families (remember, their future is also involved when making these decisions) and cause major strife. Definitely not worth it to me, and that's what I will teach them.

Again, that's what I believe. I hope you aren't offended, and if you are, then it most certainly wasn't my intention at all. But sometimes the dissenting opinion has to be said because there are a variety of different schools of thought, and any well-informed thought is at least worth hearing, if nothing else but to broaden your own horizons.

NO homosexuality is a sin

servbot128 : Honestly, I don't think it really matters. Parents are parents and even though I dislike homosexuality and think it's wrong, the concept of raising children is to teach them to learn from their mistakes and make wise decisions.

JakandLufia : Oh, what a fun thing to say.

This is the debate forum, my records show me that it isn't opposite day, and you just did the opposite of debating.

We get it, the general consensus of religious people is that its a sin. That's just peachy, but in this forum you need to explain how and why you believe this. Now before you say that Levictus says that its an abomination, take into account all of the other things it says are abominations, and then wonder, what are the exceptions?

ender44 : READ THE BIBLE

I don't think anyone making out is family friendly. But I don't see why homosexuality is any less family friendly than heterosexuality. By the way, I am a Christian

JakandLufia : Love the sinner, hate the sin.

If you think about it, there is no correct or incorrect sexuality. Therefore, homosexuality is indeed family-friendly.
Why?
Think about it. Say one of your relatives (sister perhaps) is lesbian. Say your other sister is straight. Both of your sisters will be able to learn from each other. Learn what its like to be straight or gay. Or, if you're a girl yourself, you will also be able to do the same.

At the end of the day, since it's as popular as it is, I think it's just a think.
Therefore I think it's appropriate. It's a major decision for the single person or people to make, so the family should stay out of it.
In other ways, IMO, it's probably family friendly... Although strange. o.o

As many others have said already, I don't think anyone should be making out in front of children, gay or not. Being that said, I don't consider the homosexual lifestyle a family friendly lifestyle. I am Christian and I believe there are good reasons why living a homosexual life is dangerous. Every sin has its reason for it being called ''sin'', it's not just because God wanted to mess with us. Why is lying a sin? Why is murder a sin? Why is coveting a sin? We can easily identify the reasons, right?
This is a touchy topic but we have to be realistic. The fact is that living as a gay couple is harder than living as a heterosexual couple, and I'm not just talking about the opposition they will face by the ''bigots'' (I'm not saying there aren't real bigots, but now they use that word as a synonim for ''whoever disagrees with me'').  It is a fact that homosexuals are more prone to get STDS. It is a fact that most homosexual relationships aren't as monogamous as heterosexual relationships. Not to mention the obvious reality that they can't have children.
An observation. It's interesting that the same people who defend homosexual lifestyle also tend to defend Darwinian ideas. ''Even animals show homosexual tendencies'' . Did you know that even animals practice incest too? Yeah, I though you wouldn't use that argument. And here is the thing:  If you really believe Darwin's theories, then homosexuals shouldn't exist by now since they obviously can't reproduce, hence the whole survival of the fittest thing is not something you wanna rely on.  But we aren't animals. We are HUMANS. Humans infected by sin, but humans after all.
But let's remember this. 1. We are all born in sin. 2. We ALL have different weaknesses.
The truth is, we all struggle with something. I firmly believe there is no sin that God can't save you from, so there is hope. But to deny sin is sin, will ultimately do greater damage to society. And this is my opinion.

redeemedgirl :
If its harder living as a homosexual couple then why, statistically, do gay couples have lower seperation rates?
It is not a fact homosexual relationships are less monogamous. Gays tend to "go at it" more freely because guys are typical more loose. If women were the same hetrosexual couples would be just as bad. In commited relationships theres ever bit as much chance as a hetrosexual male cheating on their partner. Neither of these things are a cause for concern for any but the commiting parties.

Darwinianism-
So we are down to gay v incest are we?
Saying animals have gay occurences is a rebutel to the ridiculous claim homosexuality is unnatural, it is the opponents of gays that bring animals into it but if you want to use animals as a template for whats right and wrong then: animals dont build machines, pray to god, tell other animals how to live their life or concern themselves with what the other animals sexual preferences are.
Most gay animals are bisexual so they do reproduce, and genes can reappear all the time, if all gays were wiped out itd still re-emerge.
If we arent animals its a mighty coincidence we share 97% of the chimps dna. I guess they are only 3% animal?

redeemedgirl : hilarious that you say we have to be realistic when you just made a post sprouting complete nonsense and complete disregard for gay and lesbian people by saying they are sinners who need sot be saved by god (who by the way i'm pretty sure doesn't exist it is extremely unlikely and no one knows for sure least of all you). You are no better than everyone in that westboro baptist church cult and probably brainwashed by said people. Live and let live is clearly a metaphor you aren't familiar with or believe in.

thenumberone:
They have lower separation rates? I need to see those stats. What I said is fact:
 Here is a link:  http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02. 


Homosexual couples , for the most part, do not value monogamy the way a heterosexual couple does. They don't  have any strings attached to them, since the nature of a homosexual relationship many times is purely sexual, starts as non-commited and very casual. It's even admitted  in the gay community . Since the homosexual relationships are something new, there really aren't rules for them, so usually couples write their own rules of what is right or wrong within the relationship (and that's one of the reasons why I believe is detrimental for society). 

And more links:

  An article about monogamy in gay relationships : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-curry/how-do-gays-crack-the-monogamy-code_b_3478177.html

Dan Savage, popular gay activist, says monogamy is ''ridiculous'': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8SOQEitsJI

So excuse me for wanting to protect the little sense of commitment and love it remains on this world. I oppose the, and I'm gonna use the word Savage used, ridiculous notion that we can do whatever we want because it's fun and because we have urges. Suddenly, having values is not being realistic. Suddenly people cannot control their urges. Really? 

Oh and you misunderstood where I as going with the Darwinian thing. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear . I was actually trying to show how ridiculous  it was to set animal behavior as a standard for right and wrong, since we see incest in the animal kingdom too as well as moms eating their offspring and other things. I was going against the argument that '' since homosexuality is natural because we see it in the animal kingdom, then it is okay'', but as I said, we see a lot of behaviors in the animal kingdom that are not okay , so we cannot justify something just because animals do it too.

redeemedgirl : You should watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQjNJUSraY#t=1962

A presentation by a gay Christian man who has done extensive research on all the bible does and does not say about homosexuality. It's very good.

UFC : Did you even bother to read all I wrote? I said ALL os uf are born sinners, so even if you aren't gay, if you haven't accepted Jesuchrist as Lord, you aren't saved. Sorry if you don't like the message but that won't change my mind. It's funny that you say you believe in ''live and let live'' since your post shows the complete opposite . By the way...I don't believe in it either because it's impossible to live completely indifferent to your surroundings, but since you were preaching it, then I guess you should be the first one ''living and letting me live''. 

redeemedgirl : ahh but of course you don't get the real meaning of live and let live, live and let live is the basis for letting people who have done nothing wrong live. But to you and your wacky religion being gay and not accepting the lord makes you a sinner and your stupid little quip about urges makes you even more of a clueless bible thumper. Live by your fiction book and beliefs all you want, but don't try and convince everyone else what is and what isn't right based on your beliefs.