two generations, two povs - no winner (well, he think he won)

[walkwithheroes]

So - both my parents are anti same-sex marriage. Or rather they are anti calling it marriage. Call it a unite or a partnership. Let them have all the same rights as married couples, but don’t call it a marriage. And all the ancient records were a same-sex marriage was preformed? Yeah, that’s not in English so who knows what it really meant. And all

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[kitmarlowescot2]

Well one has to take in the generational difference, and the world he grew up in is quite differnet from the one our generation grew up in. I mean in your father's childhood the media wont' have touched anything gay with a ten foot pool. Everything he heard about with gayness was bad in media,life and he didn't have access to other's point of views that we do with the internent and the ability to see other's points and experinces that are completely different from us. You also have to take the AIDS epicidmic, and the fear of living throught this disease that his generaion and my mother's generation lived through. The homophobia they heard about 24 hours a day and the way the poltical goverment just ignored it. Fear can make you angry, and I think our father shows that through his views. Unfortunatley you might never get him to see from you persceptive and all the two of you can do is agree to disagree. If it makes you feel any better I am sure in your life time you will totally disagree over something similair with your children or your sibslings' or friend's children. That is the nature of the gap between generations, that I doubt will ever go away.

[walkwithheroes]

I suppose you are right. My father was born in 1962 and grew up in a rather small town. He's never been one for "alternative" life styles and it's getting worse with age. (He's become VERY conservative and often states that our president and others are leading us to Hell.) I'm disappointed in his refusal to really discuss things (he normally comes into the conversation with a 'bullshit' and a 'you've been brain washed by the liberal media. You just don't know.') that he is uncomfortable with.

What's worse is the fact that he gets all his news from a morning radio show that is just. . .so sexist, homophobic, and racist, I honestly have no idea how the stay on the air. He just really disappoints me because he should know better. He grew up in the deep South - he saw injustice and he saw people being treated unfairly and he stood up for them as a youth. Now (and for the past eight years or so) he's just become really really racist, homophobic, and anti-anything not Christian.