I am an avid reader. I love to read books and I often times go to the "YA" (young adult) section to find easy, light reading. A while back I went to the library and got a book that seemed interesting and decided to check it out. With school, work and being sick (yet again) I did not get around to reading it until today while I was at work. Yes, I read the whole thing at work and yes, it was over 500 pages long.
From the first chapter the whole book felt wrong. I felt dirty and ashamed to be reading it. I felt as though I wanted to push the book away from me and wash my eyes out with bleach but for some reason I kept reading until the end of the book. Now that may seem like an odd statement to say about a book, I mean, it is just a book and there are a lot of books that are not written very well, or that have bad story lines or various other things but the thing about this book that had my soul shouting out in pain was that it was about a 16 year old boy who was gay.
Now normally I say live and let live. I try to not jump to conclusions or judgement about people and if they want to practice something like that then fine, just keep it away from me. I think the major reason I was horrified by the book was not only was the main character gay but they had explicit scenes in the book where it went into a little detail about the boy and his "boyfriend" having sex. Oh My Goodness!! This book is intended for YOUNG ADULTS (teenagers).
I think that for the most part someone chooses to be "gay". I think it is a lifestyle choice made by them for whatever reason. I think that introducing stuff like that into a young mind makes it seem like it is OK. I am sorry if this offends anyone but in my opinion it is NOT OK. I am so bothered by the fact that books like this are written for the youth today. I spoke to David about it today after work and informed him that I did not agree with letting children read things like that and if we were to have kids I would want to home-school them. Perhaps that is an extreme thing to say in regards to a book but I would want to know that my children have a strong upbringing and enough moral values that when it comes time for high school they would know that sort of thing is wrong. (at least in my opinion it is)
1 comment:
i agree with you! it's very scary what is put out there to young impressionable minds!! :( i beleive that being gay is born into someone just as any other weakness is. it's the same as a family that is prone to alcoholism, abusive behavior, sexual addictions, or any other weakness. it's wrong to act on same sex attraction, just as it's wrong to sleep with 300 people, beat a child or spouse, or to drink yourself into a stupor. each person has their own god given weaknesses to work on and overcome in this life. that's my take on it anyway. :)
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