It's rather heartening to know that someone else has had that experience; I wasn't raised to believe that homosexuality was wrong, either. (I was raised Catholic; contrary to popular belief, the Church teaches that homosexual people are born that way and the inclination is not, itself, sinful. It does, however, condemn homosexual acts, but then it also condemns heterosexual acts between people not married to each other, also fun of any kind.) My mother was a little more interested in our learning other parts of Christianity, specifically loving your neighbor and that, and I don't recall hearing my parents ever mention homosexuality at all when I was growing up. Murder would have carried a much stronger stigma in our house.
Consequently, because I was destined for classics at an early age, I formed my opinion more or less without societal baggage and came to the conclusion that since Alexander the Great, and probably also everybody else in antiquity I had read about at some point or another, engaged in same-sex relationships, they were OBVIOUSLY okay. The ancient world was made of awesome and win, so obviously homosexuality was too. :D
It's rather heartening to know that someone else has had that experience; I wasn't raised to believe that homosexuality was wrong, either. (I was raised Catholic; contrary to popular belief, the Church teaches that homosexual people are born that way and the inclination is not, itself, sinful. It does, however, condemn homosexual acts, but then it also condemns heterosexual acts between people not married to each other, also fun of any kind.) My mother was a little more interested in our learning other parts of Christianity, specifically loving your neighbor and that, and I don't recall hearing my parents ever mention homosexuality at all when I was growing up. Murder would have carried a much stronger stigma in our house.
Consequently, because I was destined for classics at an early age, I formed my opinion more or less without societal baggage and came to the conclusion that since Alexander the Great, and probably also everybody else in antiquity I had read about at some point or another, engaged in same-sex relationships, they were OBVIOUSLY okay. The ancient world was made of awesome and win, so obviously homosexuality was too. :D
I had a weird childhood.
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