it's just another indoctrination tactic for our youth. nothing to see here.
burn it? no. move it to the adult section? probably.
#14 | Posted by nanc
The reason pompous statements like this are made is because those who believe it engage in their own indoctrination tactics on the other side. The religious pontificators use their own publications to persuade and cajole others into "seeing the light", so they make the unwarranted and non sequitur assumption that all other written material must be for the same purpose. They think that because a book has a gay theme, that it must be to convince the reader to "become gay".
After all, they proselytize with THEIR books to convince people to become, and to stay, religious. (Note that I do not say "Christian" here. There are many religions and denominations thereof that do this, and also indulge in this sort of incorrectly commutative thinking.)
There are, however, SOME faiths that do not proselytize, that write their books to inform others about their faith with no demand that they embrace it, or simply to celebrate their faith. These religions also seem to be the same ones that don't automatically condemn others for being who and what they are. Funny how that works.
I find it interesting that these highly-religious persons, belonging to a faith that finds homosexually-themed literature to be not only abhorrent, but of an indoctrinary nature, subjected themselves to the contents to a sufficient degree to be "damaged" by them. One would think that reading the synopsis on Amazon, or the blurb on the back of the book in the library -- or even the first few pages -- would be sufficient to ascertain that this was a book that was not within their "comfort zone".
A book is an interesting device. It has this odd little function. It stops imparting information when one closes the covers and places it back on the shelf. I have yet to find a book that continued to pour it's information into my brain after I ceased to read it. If I had this ability, studying algebra would have been much easier in high school.
As for whether GLBT-themed books "indoctrinate" anyone...I never read a gay themed ANYTHING until I was 16, and saw a reference to it in a magazine. My parents had very carefully kept it all from me with a studious vengeance. I thought a "faggot" was a bundle of sticks. But I was queer as a lemonade sandwich, and knew it. I just didn't know what it was *called*, or that there were a whole lot of others out there like me. I just knew that I liked making out with girls. The fact that I was one...well, that was a bit of a wrinkle. Didn't stop me from finding two girlfriends before I was 15, though. We just didn't talk about it.
Was I "indoctrinated"? Hell no. The LAST thing my parents would have wanted was a queer child. I just knew what I liked.
