This news item infuriated me:
Pete Buttigieg counseled a nine-year old boy who wanted advice on coming out as gay to everyone.
"Would you help me tell the world I'm gay, too? I want to be brave like you," Zachary Ro asked Buttigieg at a campaign rally in Colorado.
"I don't think you need a lot of advice from me on bravery, you seem pretty strong," Buttigieg responded.
Then the former mayor lauded the nine-year-old and said others would benefit from his courage to come out.
Then the former mayor offered advice to Ro.
"Let me tell you a couple things that might be useful. The first thing is that it won't always be easy, but that's okay because you know who you are.," Buttigieg said. " And that's really important because when you know who you are you have a center of gravity that can hold you together when all kinds of chaos is happening around you."
Buttigieg also told Ro that others would benefit from his courage.
"The second thing I want you to know is that you will never know who's taking their lead from you, who's watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have been brave."
He is NINE YEARS OLD!! Do we expect little boys to be attracted to girls? When I was a kid it wasn't "cool" to like girls [although I must admit that I did but hid it]. Children are just that. Children. With an underdeveloped sense of self and whose sexual identity is likely not yet established. This doesn't mean that Zachary is NOT a homosexual but the fact that he is attracted to boys is not an indication that he IS. Encouraging him as Buttegieg did is almost criminal. The lives of people who identify as homosexual are wrought with difficulty and pain. They can never have [biological] children and are viewed by others as "queer" which means "weird" which is actually what they call themselves. Being homosexual also involves serious health risks, as is well known.
From [the very liberal] "Psychology Today":
It’s well known to the point of stereotype that gay men experience higher rates of HIV, substance abuse, and suicide. But it’s less known, and hardly talked about, that we also have much higher rates of depression, especially those living with HIV, despite the causal relationship of depression and self-medicating and self-harming behavior.
I don't like calling such people "gay" because "gay" is synonymous with happiness and homosexuals are generally very unhappy people. So why encourage this little boy to continue in his path and be "courageous", when it will cause him a life of misery and MIGHT WELL CHANGE. Plenty of HAPPILY HETEROSEXUAL MEN were attracted to other boys when they were younger and today harbor ZERO same sex attraction. That is a FACT.
Boys Under Attack, an advice website for teenage boys, stated in a 2004 column posted on its website, that:
“Every boy will experience a ‘gay’ phase in his life, especially during early puberty. Another name for this phase is ‘hero worship.’ It occurs because the boy’s developing mind subconsciously seeks other males to demonstrate the type of man the boy is going to develop into. The boy will have an intense interest in other males and will be captivated by aspects of the male he sees as valuable qualities to have. He will set the course for his life on the qualities he admires in his ‘heroes’.
‘Stuff’ is going to happen to every boy as you go through puberty which will make you wonder if you are gay.
You need to know that this is a normal development phase which every boy passes through. If you don’t have a clear understanding of this fact you could wrongly convince yourself that you are gay.
This is a time you should choose not to act on these impulses, because things can change a lot over a few years…. Nearly all boys will be able to make a list of unwanted private gay stuff that has happened in their life by the time they are an adult! This doesn’t mean you are gay.”
David van Gend, MBBS, Queensland Secretary of the World Federation of Doctors who Respect Human Life, said the following during an Aug. 4, 2004 speech addressing the National Marriage Forum, hosted at the Australian Federal Parliament Complex:
“The origins of homosexuality are likely to be a very complex interaction of nature and nurture, genetic vulnerabilities and cultural influences… But whatever its origins, the outcome of homosexuality is best understood as a very complex state of confusion over sexual identity…
The National Health and Social Life survey across the USA in 1994, the biggest and best study available, found that eight percent of 16-year-olds thought they were gay – but, significantly, that by age 18 only four percent still thought they were gay, and by age 25, only two percent still thought they were gay.
What that means is that most sexual confusion in school children clears away if left to itself. It doesn’t need therapy or counseling. It is a passing phase.”
Dale O’Leary, freelance writer and lecturer, Richard Fitzgibbons, MD, Director of the Institute for Marital Healing, and Peter Kleponis, MA, Assistant Director of Comprehensive Counseling Services, wrote the following information in their Nov. 10, 2008 article titled “Same-sex Attraction in Adolescents,” published on the Mercatornet website:
“Encouraging adolescents with same-sex attractions to identify as gay has no scientific or ethical justification. On the contrary, it exposes them unnecessarily to a lifestyle with high and unacceptable health risks and a history they may regret as they mature and realize that their youthful attraction to the same sex was a passing phase…
Once a young man has exposed himself on the internet, whatever he has put up becomes part of the public record forever. The 15-year-old boy who realizes at 20 that his SSA [same-sex attraction] was just a phase of his life related to weaknesses in male confidence will have those pictures follow him for the rest of his life…
Given the substantial, well-documented risks involved in engaging in homosexual activity as an adolescent and since a certain percentage of males who experience SSA in adolescence find that these feelings disappear in time, schools should not encourage adolescent males to ‘come out,’ but, instead, offer positive support for addressing the serious emotional problems in these teenagers.”
Pete: Just because you are homosexual doesn't mean that this 9 year old is and validating his feelings and encouraging him to "come out" is a TERRIBLE thing to do.
