I read in the news recently that two women were kissing at a baseball game in Seattle at a Mariners game at Safeco feild yesterday. The reason this is significant is that another woman in the crowd, a mother with children, made a complaint to a Safeco Field usher about the lesbian couple, and as a reasonable, thinking, tolerant adults would just tell the offended women to go to her front door and let a few decades in, on a
one a day basis or something, you know take this whole culture thing slowly. Instead the usher decides that he needed to go and repremand and publicly embarress the lesbian couple for doing what heterosexual couples do at baseball games all the time! Kissing at a baseball game is
how to relieve stress for a lot of couples, it is how we enjoy each other and have fun. It’s baseball for Christ sake, not your local catholic church. The reason this mother was upset was becasue she says quote, “I didn’t want to have to explain the couple to my children”. What??? If this had been some drunk guy with
washboard abs groping his girlfriend at a baseball game no one would say anything, this would be, “normal”. Here is my opinion on this subject; if you go to a ballgame and a same sex couple are behaving like other “normal” adult couples do and you are uncomfortable with it because, “you don’t want to have a conversation with your kids”… DON’T HAVE KIDS! Sorry, but talking to your children is apart of the unspoken parenting agreement you enter into when you bring them into this world. Here is a thought; If we treat the lesbian couple just like the “normal” couple then maybe, maybe we can effectively teach our children tolerance. Tolerance is a very underestimated personality trait our children will need to become well adjusted adults. If our kids ask why two women are kissing each other? We should go ahead and tell the truth; they are a loving couple just like the “normal” couple kids. There is nothing different about them and there is certainly nothing wrong with two consenting adults being who they are. Teach our kids tolerance and watch them become well rounded, tolerant adults. Go the other route and try to hide what has been around forever, you are then perpetrating the same fears onto your children as did your parents did to you. Progressive, foreward thinking societies tend to not pass along fear and intolerance, but compassion and understanding.