Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls.
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- KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
- GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
- GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
* i don't think it's a gay drink *
Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.
"The general assumptn is that if you are drkg a vodka soda or a vodka cranberry, you are a woman or you are gay. Edor’s Note: This piece was wrten 19 years ago, by a father learng to accept his son’s homosexualy wh honty and love.
But he knew he was gay, and he knew beg gay was an abomatn.
GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
After <strong>Gay Alrn</strong> wrote about givg up alhol for a month rears rpond wh their own tal of stggle, dulgence and enjoyment * i don't think it's a gay drink *
Eventually, at a few of the dnertime discsns, the subject of homosexualy was ever so timidly broached. Mark fied all the popular stereotyp I believed about what beg gay means. I was sure I uld regnize a gay person a e off.
He never displayed the effemate tras that I was certa a homosexual male would exhib. This was my homosexual child?
Nothg durg Mark’s childhood dited any sign of homosexualy.
GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
There was none of the verbal vlence many young gay people endure om earlit childhood; no risive jeerg, no “faggot” or “queer” talk. The possibily of homosexualy was a dim and distant issue about which I knew and red ltle. The possibily of a gay son was not part of my plan.
I did not know then that the suici rate for young gay persons is three tim that for other teens. “Mark, are you gay? But how uld my son be gay?
My level of unrstandg homosexualy enpassed ltle more than a now funct Frdian theory that a homosexual child is the rult of a weak father and a domeerg mother. I had an satiable need to learn everythg I uld about homosexualy.
GOD GAVE ME A GAY SON . . .
I learned that some 5 to 10 percent of the populatn is timated to be homosexual. Homosexualy is probably not the rult of environmental ndns but more likely geic orig. The bt mds the fields of medice, psychiatry, psychology and blogy generally agree that homosexualy is a normal variant of the human ndn and certaly not some disorr that requir treatment.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Even durg that perd, whout the ter, there was plenty of “data” that homosexualy was a normal ndn. The risks of vlence, discrimatn, harassment and ostracism are all too mon for the gay muny.
Otherwise cent people often oppose, wh self-righteo moralistic railg, some of the most fundamental human rights for gays that the rt of take for granted. Homosexualy is not a ndn I would have chosen for my son.
So why now celebrate the gift of a gay son? Sce that disclosure some 20 years ago, bee of Mark I have e to know many gay persons.