JKR messed up........ no.

[Emily]

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Del wrote:
 
> Ah, but there is a line between "not supporting homosexuality" and
> "encouraging the discrimination against homosexuals". While it's
> obvious that JKR doesn't encourage discriminating against 
homosexuals,
> I'm not so sure that she actually supports homosexuality as a normal
> alternative sexuality. She doesn't DO so in her books, at least.
 
> I disagree with the implied assertion you seem to be making. I don't
> see "acceptance of homosexuality" as something normal and neither
> "good" nor "bad" in itself" to be inherently within the "scope of
> tolerance of a typical modern, liberal, educated and cosmopolitan
> person". And I'm from Europe.
>

Emily:
I would also agree with you Del; there is a huge distinction between 
being discriminatory toward practicing homosexuals and supporting 
homosexuality as "normal".  The church I belong to teaches that you 
are not a bad person if you have homosexual tendencies, but that it 
is immoral to act on them.  
One thing that I have noticed is that JKR did not say, either in book 
canon or her interview, if DD had acted on his homosexual impulses 
with GG.  Maybe, maybe not.  Either way, being gay is not all that DD 
was.  I really don't think it has that great a bearing on the story.

Take care,
Emily