One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch"
<delwynmarch at ...> wrote:
>
> Katie wrote:
> > Well, I did [think that homosexuality is less 
> > controversial than witchcraft]. Until recently. 
> 
> Del replies:

> 
> That's true of adults who don't have kids who read 
> HP and who have heard about the gay comments. As 
> much as parents might manage to "forget" about it, 
> they can't just tell their kids to forget about it 
> too: they have to deal with it, even if they don't 
> want to.
> 
> Del
>
This is exactly my point, I have three kids who EACH have a set of the
books and share a set of family movies, that's well over a thousand
dollars investment.  I have also been on the boards since 1997-98 and
have a very personal investment here too.  The actual interview is
censured here, but I gather from boards like muggle net, snitch
seekers Etc. I have 5 listed right from JKR official site in honored
web sites and fan clubs. that she did have a chapter edited out of the
last book. I wish someone would find the thing and tell me where to
get it. I understood that is where these thoughts, enlightenments,
statements are coming from.  I don't personally care what anyone's
orientations are.  I believe it is my right as a parent to introduce
this knowledge to my children as I see fit, 11 is too young, 8 is
ridiculous.  I will say this board moves fast, it took awhile to go
through the posts.  There was some verbal abuse about my secondary
choice of Slughorn or Lockheart, well you are an age bigot.  Believe
me you will all grow old and die, it is not exclusive to people you do
not agree with.  Really someone said Black and Lupin as a choice,
Black yes because in the memory Harry saw from Snape there was a girl
trying to get Black's attention and he was having none of it.  He had
his reasons; I think that Lupon will raise objections because of his
"hairy little problem."  I have to say to Del, that I thought some of
the stuff I was getting was because of my email of churchmouse.  Truth
be told we bought an account with 7 email and we are all mice of one
kind or another, computer mice, we thought it was cute the kids were
little.  I do receive abuse from people jumping to conclusions about
my religious faith.  Thank you Del you have taught me to be more proud
of whom I am. 
 This is me on the subject of sexual orientation; In the
1980's TIME magazine ran a story about gay men in San Francisco, one
interview stuck out, the interviewer asked how many partners over the
past year and one guy said 540.   There are only 365 days in a year. 
Moving forward by 1983 I was in class with a Gay man, we had more than
a few conversations, he was a female impersonator and brought in nude
photos of himself.  He made a very pretty girl, they were taken on a
door frame so you couldn't see that he wasn't female, then as he would
say his
hair began falling out and he had to change professions. At lunch one
day his father walked into the restrant and the seen was
heartbreaking.  Dad was there with his nearing home group and was
surprised too.  They had not been in contact for a long time. Time
passed I graduated and went to work and met the 2ed Gay man, Yes they
have names but let's respect their privacy.  This man was married (to a
woman) had a child and divorced, he then became gay, she broke his
heart.  More time passed AIDS was in full swing, a bunch of Gay men
fled to the Catholic Church, joined as priests because they were
dieing and knew they would receive care there.  Which they did and
that is why today you have to pass a physical to join a seminary, the
cost nearly bankrupted the diocese.  I was involved with the medical
profession, a lab Tec discussed a Gay man that moved on to stuffing
rodents up his rectum, the animals try to get away and crawl deeper
and then die, he came in to have them removed.  And was warned to stop
that because of the damage he was sustaining.  He didn't listen and
ended up wearing a bag (colostomy).  The only Gay woman I knowingly
met was in SAM"S Club 4 years ago, she tried to pick me up, I still
can't believe it, my husband's head was stuffed in the egg case and I
yelled "Vince you got those eggs yet?"  and he was angered for the
next two isles because I yelled at him.  She was a cute blond too, and
ran the other way thank God.  When my oldest was 12, she came home
from school one day and said "mom, I think I am Gay."  Why do you
think that?  She said" because on the bus all the girls have
boyfriends and most are having sex" I made sure she knew what sex is,
and told here that the reason she did not have a boy friend yet was
because she was 12, and 12 was still a child.  Also that in this state
and this country even if you wore a black nightgown and said come on
big boy, if you are under age it is statutory rape and is a crime and
somebody is going to jail.  This is a brief history of what shaped my
opinions, I have left lots out but you get the picture.  The
Catholic Church and the pope say that being Gay may be genetic, but
those that are should not act on it, and those that are not should
treat everyone fairly and without persecution.  I don't have to know
anything else.   I know they (scientists) just mapped the gene code. 
There was a great piece on PBS, it took years.  Assuming the data is
all correct, I don't think there has been enough time to understand
it.  There is a doctor that Ann Landers quotes on the subject, but
that man has an agenda being gay himself.  I don't depute the
research, but the conclusion needs conformation by an unbiased source.
 Good luck finding one.  So maybe the better question is what makes
someone gay?  Because being sensitive, creative, artistic are HUMAN
traits and are shared to some extent with everyone.  To me what makes
you Gay is having sex with the same gender; if you are not having sex
then you are abstinent.  So you can choose to be gay.
Constant2Chatter