acceptance

Throughout this semester we have covered topics focusing on love and acceptance. Part of the Jesuit education is to leave your comfort zone and meet the people in the city and become involved. Recently, I attended the talk about the gay gene. This lecture was different from most of the other that I have attended this past year. It offered a lot of statistics and gave you an inside look as to how homosexuals feel about certain advances and about the politics aspect. He used analogies to help others understand his point and explained a lot of things that I had also wondered about.
The most interesting thing that Chandler Burr talked about was regarding the issue of fetuses. First, he shared with us how in Texas a lesbian couple wanted to know how they would go about in aborting a heterosexual baby. It was interesting to hear this because more often you hear about heterosexual couples hoping and wishing that they do not have a homosexual baby. I believe it is a fault of the society that this information was not broadcasted and made into a bigger deal than it really is. Here the issue of acceptance has switched sides. It is an ordinary thing to hear about a heterosexual complaining about someone who is gay. Though it is unfair, it is much more common to hear of. In this case, the idea of gay people complaining and trying to avoid straight people, the tables have turned and they are not being tolerant of their way of life. Constantly, heterosexual couples and people are being put down for their prejudice beliefs against homosexuals, as well they should be. Therefore, I believe that the media should handle this situation as they do any other situation.
Another interesting part of the lecture was about gay activists. At first, when he told us that they fight to claim that they were not born gay and that it just happened to them, I was shocked. It was always my belief that it was biological and that that was how they wanted it to look like. However, he then shared with us the reasoning and it makes a lot of sense. They would rather not have gay rights than to admit that it is biological because there are many couples out there unfortunately who do not want to have a baby of a homosexual orientation. In essence, gay activists have a fear that if the gene is found and they are able to tell whether a baby will be gay or not before it is born, then they will be aborted and eventually killed off.
This lecture covered many grounds and was real eye-opening. Burr touched on subjects that were surprising and that most people do not make into a public matter. If everyone could just be accepting and not so judgmental then this would not even be an issue. People need to learn to be more tolerant so that this world could be a happier and safer place to live in.