That girl was the best, since it was apparently her first exposure to the concept. So you got to see what you would naturally think. She kept saying the obvious things that any of us say, just the way a kid would say them.
Too bad there’s that other little kid, who, while he says he doesn’t care, but keeps having a problem with it, although he can’t explain why. And they are in California–there would probably be more of that kid elsewhere.
But, lest I get anyone down, here’s the followup to that video, where, among other things,
These kids will eventually learn, at an academic level, why gays were historically reviled, but they’ll always lack the gut-level understanding of the hatred. That is why this is a turning point comparable to Loving vs Virginia. The culture is not going back to how it was.
Yours is a good summary and when my children asked me about it a couple of years ago (they’d be about 6 and 8, when the same-sex marriage bill in the UK was going through). Their first reaction was…a man can marry another *man *? in a wide-eyed expression of astonishment. Their second reaction after a few moments consideration was…oh, OK then. They must have searched their little heads for ways of processing this shocking information and realised that it was of absolutely no consequence to them. Good for them.
“I like girls though” said my little boy.
“fine, but not everyone does” Said I
“you don’t have to marry a boy” said my daughter
“exactly, as long as you love them, they love you, that’s all that matters” said I
And that was about the sum total of the family discussion on same-sex marriage.
It is that banal, mundane acceptance that will very soon overwhelm the anti-brigade. They already look out-of-touch to the point where even the video linked to by the OP, so desperately trying to be fair and even-handed, makes them look like frothing, glassy-eyed lunatics. How times have changed and unfortunately for them these people are finding themselves on the wrong side of the argument.
Just mulling it over, I don’t seem to have much in the way of gay friends. Though demographics suggest that I probably do, because they like, exist. I really gotta doubt that I don’t know about it because they were concerned that I might react badly to the news, so I’m going with yes, I do, but they never bothered to tell me.
It was a joke (or at least an attempt at a joke). I was pointing out the contradiction between the Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and its opposition to divorce.
To be fair, these were kids from California with names like Maxim and Samirah. One wonders what kid’s reactions would be if this was filmed using kids from Rural Oklahoma.
Apologies for that, I’m sure I’ve seen it done before and I specifically boldened it and said I’d changed it so hopefully no-one thinks I was trying to pass those off as original comment.
Is it just me or are CatholicVote . org particularly whiny among Religious Right groups? That whole Oh Woe Is Me “I’m gonna be called bad names, my children will be taught that they should not pay attention to what I teach them” vibe is just not as satisfying-sounding as foretelling that God will send plagues and cataclysms, like the Fundies do.
The average German-American and Irish-American Catholic forget that 100 years ago they were “what’s wrong with America” back when beer and whisky, not gay marriage, was the dread terror.
Yeah, but he also mentioned his parents waking him up and telling him it was okay. Makes me wonder if they saw the original video and realized that he was getting some bad information, and so were part of the reason he’s more informed. Heck, maybe they gave him a book.
