Kenyata Thomas
“Gay Society”
In today’s society I believe that people are misjudged constantly. The diverse country we live in is made up of many different backgrounds, lifestyles, and beliefs. Most religious people were raised to believe that you are supposed to live life based upon God, Allah, or some other supernatural being. Who ever this mysterious person is he or she believes that you should save yourself until you’re married to someone of the opposite sex.
Some people may not always find the desire to be with the opposite sex appealing. According to Time writer John Cloud, in the article entitled “The Battle Over Gay Teens”, teen homosexuality is growing at a rapid rates. I have witnessed this rapid rate of homosexuality growth in the urban community schools and neighborhood in which I live. (1) In addition, Howard University published a book entitled The New Teenager which was published last summer acknowledged that the average homosexual comes out right after or before graduating from high school. I believe that this statement is very true many of my sister’s closet friends all converted to homosexuality during the junior year in high school. The book quotes a Penn State study of 350 adolescents which discovered that the mean age for a lesbian to have their first homosexual experience was at the age of 16 while boys on the other hand had theirs at the age of 14.
Even though the lord teaches us that homosexuality is sinful, many people who are homosexual still believe his word, but choose to make their own decision when it comes to who they want spend their life with. In my eyes, homosexuality is neither sinful nor spiteful. I am not homosexual, and I cannot imagine the things that they may go through. I have experienced growing up with a homosexual sibling and have seen her struggles.
During the time when my sister first was discovering her desire to be a lesbian, it was not very shocking to my family at all. We witnessed all the changes that she had to undergo to her path of lesbianism: from the change in attitude, to the way she dressed, to the things she did to the people she hung around. We learned to accept the fact that one day that it would come to this point. Maybe you may not want to believe that homosexuality exists in society, but it does. It is all around us at times you may not see it because your eyes can be deceiving you but they are there. No matter what a bible, book, article, or any other type of reference says, there are always people in the world who find happiness with the same sex. Those people are called homosexuals!
(1)Cloud, John. “The Battle Over Gay Teens”. Time Oct. 2005: 1-12pgs
“Gay Society”
In today’s society I believe that people are misjudged constantly. The diverse country we live in is made up of many different backgrounds, lifestyles, and beliefs. Most religious people were raised to believe that you are supposed to live life based upon God, Allah, or some other supernatural being. Who ever this mysterious person is he or she believes that you should save yourself until you’re married to someone of the opposite sex.
Some people may not always find the desire to be with the opposite sex appealing. According to Time writer John Cloud, in the article entitled “The Battle Over Gay Teens”, teen homosexuality is growing at a rapid rates. I have witnessed this rapid rate of homosexuality growth in the urban community schools and neighborhood in which I live. (1) In addition, Howard University published a book entitled The New Teenager which was published last summer acknowledged that the average homosexual comes out right after or before graduating from high school. I believe that this statement is very true many of my sister’s closet friends all converted to homosexuality during the junior year in high school. The book quotes a Penn State study of 350 adolescents which discovered that the mean age for a lesbian to have their first homosexual experience was at the age of 16 while boys on the other hand had theirs at the age of 14.
Even though the lord teaches us that homosexuality is sinful, many people who are homosexual still believe his word, but choose to make their own decision when it comes to who they want spend their life with. In my eyes, homosexuality is neither sinful nor spiteful. I am not homosexual, and I cannot imagine the things that they may go through. I have experienced growing up with a homosexual sibling and have seen her struggles.
During the time when my sister first was discovering her desire to be a lesbian, it was not very shocking to my family at all. We witnessed all the changes that she had to undergo to her path of lesbianism: from the change in attitude, to the way she dressed, to the things she did to the people she hung around. We learned to accept the fact that one day that it would come to this point. Maybe you may not want to believe that homosexuality exists in society, but it does. It is all around us at times you may not see it because your eyes can be deceiving you but they are there. No matter what a bible, book, article, or any other type of reference says, there are always people in the world who find happiness with the same sex. Those people are called homosexuals!
(1)Cloud, John. “The Battle Over Gay Teens”. Time Oct. 2005: 1-12pgs
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