How can I teach my children about respect for the dignity of the human person when homosexual behaviour teaches my rights supersedes the common good?How can I teach my children that the purpose of marriage is for the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of children when same�sex unions cannot fulfill the unitive nor procreative aspects of the matrimonial bond?
How can I, as a mother, teach my daughter "I will show you how to become a woman" and my son "this is how you ought to treat women"; how can my husband teach his son "I will show you how to become a man" and his daughter "This is how you ought to be treated by a man" when, through same-sex unions, two mothers or two fathers would say "Do as I say, but not as I do"?
How can I teach my children that understanding the human person as one who uses his/her intellect, will and freedom to guide one's passions and emotions toward what is best for the common good when homosexual behaviour concentrates on the emotion to guide the behaviour toward their best interest?
How can I teach my children to understand that there are phases of love: physical attraction, falling in love and love as decision of the will? How can I show them that ultimately the true love we are aspiring to is "to love is to will the good of another" (Thomas Aquinas) when homosexual behaviour lies in the realms of the sentiment?
How can I teach my children about the virtue of temperance and self-mastery, words like purity, chastity, modesty, self-control which have become obscure since the sexual revolution, when the contraceptive mentality has led to a level of promiscuity that includes homosexual behaviour, as we have taken procreation out of the equation, and hence removed our sexual intimacy from its rightful place–marriage?
We cannot teach both; it has to be either one or the other. We, as parents, need to teach our children to be respectful of all human beings, but at the same time we cannot condone all behaviours.Please help us to teach the truth, for the sake of the next generation, and for sake of the family.
Tonia Gooding
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