12:33 AM
Friday, November 16, 2007
You know... If you ask any of my friends my stand on homosexuality they will probably tell you that I'm very liberal about it. I have gay and lesbian friends and they are perfectly fine people. I have blogged about this topic on several occasion in my previous blogs. With the recent furor about amending or doing away with the penal code that criminalise homosexual sexual activities, I am revisiting this issue again. Perhaps no one reads but it's ok. I just want it to be said out loud that's all.
I told some of my friends before that if i'm not married by the age of 33, I would consider adopting OR IVF (In-vitro Fertilisations) and I told my gay and lesbian friends that they would then have to help me take care of the baby. My lesbian friend asked me, "But he/she would be growing up in a homosexual environment. What if he/she turns gay?" My immediate reply was, "At least he/she would be making a informed choice."
See, my point in raising this now is that, the more you protect someone from a situation, the more he will lose the ability to judge for himself what is good for her" And I see more of this happening, even when it comes to perfectly heterosexual/ non-gender-bias issues or persons involved. For example, the course that a student choose to take. "I do triple science because my mum says i should do so." Probably one of those statements i hear and i can't hear being irritated with it because i have learnt the hard way when you do not do something that you are interested in, it will be detrimental to the goal you set out to achieve. By the by, what happens would be that these people will be set on a path they might not like but it was just convenient. So I would rather teach my kid(s) to make informed decisions instead of telling them what are the correct ones. Yes we don't want our children to make mistakes and suffer. But honestly, that's how some people learn, in fact that's how most people learn. The other important thing that they learn would be to be responsible for the decision made. Whether it's good or bad, they will have to learn to deal with the consequences of their decisions.
Sigh.
