Rowling says Dumbledore is gay

[jlnbtr]

I would like to add this to my previous post:


I am terribly sorry if I have offended anyone. I didn't want to reply 
to the whole Dumbledore-is-gay threat because I knew I would end up 
offending someone. I think homesexuality is a "hot" topic. I don't 
mean that it's in or anything. I just mean that it's just like 
politics and religion, subjects people will never agree on. Like I 
say, I am NOT homophobic, in fact my best friend is gay. We have 
known each other since we were in elementary school, and slowly over 
the years I started to fall in love with him. I idealized the idea 
that one day we would marry and have children together. Then, when we 
were 20, he came out of the closet. Yes, I was very disapointed. Yes, 
I thought he had let me down. After a short time, I got over myself. 
I realized it wasn't about me. It was about him. He was dealing with 
bigger issues and I wasn't there for him. Coming out was difficult 
for him, and I was to focused on myself to let him know that I was 
still there for him. Now, we are even better friends than we were, 
and I love him dearly. I have come to accept him just the way he is, 
and not only accept him, I love him for being gay. The thing is you 
have to understand that I also had a crush on Dumbledore, and a bit 
of me, that part that lives in books, thought of him as a good 
husband candidate. I may sound ridiculous, but I tend to fall in love 
with characters. It's just the way I am. What I am trying to get to 
(unsuccessfully) is that the reason I felt disapointed in Dumbledore 
being gay is that I thought of him as the kind of man I would like to 
get marry to someday. And it hit me that once again, the ideal of a 
man I want is gay.

Gay parents are as good parents as heterosexual parents. There are 
some good, some not so good. In fact, I think homosexual parents try 
harder to be better parents because they had to overcome so much just 
to become parents. I don't have any friends born of a gay marriage, 
so I can't talk to them and see what's different from their upraising 
than mine. But I do have a couple of cousins that are in a long term 
relationship with their partners. I am pretty sure they would make as 
good parents as my other non-gay cousins.

And I don't think homosexual people are "less" than heterosexual. I 
believe all humans have an equal status, their action, not who they 
are, dictate how good they are. I believe homosexuals are just like 
the rest of us, there are doctors, lawyers, construction workers, 
politicians, and even criminals. Does being gay determine who you 
are? absolutely not. Your actions do. If you are a gay killer you are 
just as bad as a straight killer. Period. If you are a good person it 
doesn't matter to me your sexual orientation.

I have said that my catholic upraising has predisposed me. Yes that 
is true, but I am intellingent enough to question many church 
doctrines. I also question the church's fute against birth control, 
pre-marital sex, and many other things. I do believe God loves us 
all, white or black, male or female, homosexual or heterosexual. To 
his eyes, we are all alike. It seems to me that only in the past 
millenium or so homosexuality became an issue. When studying the 
greeks, the romans, and the egyptians, many of them were homosexual, 
and it wasn't a problem. Homosexuality was embrassed. I believe that 
for homosexuality to stop being an issue, we may still have to wait 
some more time. But a lot of progress has been made: Marriage is now 
legal in many countries, same sex couples are aloud to adopt 
children... It is a long way, but a lot has been achived.


Juli - regretting to have replied to this topic at all