If your kids can't see a movie because they can't know gay people exist, what the heck else do you call it then trying to act like gay people don't exist until the "right time, place and age"?
If you have no problem with gay people, what is "the issue"?
no one's denying that these people have an "issue" with gays. clearly they do, otherwise there wouldn't be any problems letting their kids see the movie.
where we are disagreeing is to the nature of that issue.
you are presuming and making broad blanket assumptions that all of the parents who don't want to take their kids to the movie because of a gay character are doing so out of pure hatred, intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry.
I am not denying that such instances aren't happening. Only a fool would deny that.
However, I am not going to presume that all those people who have an issue with gays operate out of pure hatred and bad intent.
Like I said, some people may view homosexuality as an "alternative lifestyle." And they may not feel comfortable having their kids exposed to that at a young age in a Disney film. They may feel that it should be left to another movie or something to discuss when their kids are older.
Does that make them closeminded? to a degree, yes. But does not approving of the gay lifestyle mean they absolutely hate gays and think gays should be shunned? Not necessarily.
Now, you may still see that as hatred and bigotry. and that's fine. that's how you choose to see it.
I see more nuance in the situation and recognize that not everyone operates out of the same motives and intent.
I don't presume to know what's going on inside other people's heads and hearts, so I'm not always going to assign bad intent to them.
That's the main point I've been trying to make these past few days across these various posts. And I don't know how to make it any more clearer than that.
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