First of all - I'm not blaming aids on gays. Society, myself included, thinks that aids stems majorly from homosexuals. And in a sense, there is some truth behind that.
As for homosexuality being wrong, I was taught in church and by my parents that it's wrong. First time I told my parents that I had a gay friend, my dad said it was good that I wasn't at home or else he would have beaten me. Course, the one nice thing was that I didn't go to a public highschool. I went to a private arts highschool, where about 50 percent of the men there were gay, and they could be open about it and it was no big deal. It's the arts.
I agree that it's possible to be taught wrong. And I guess I used the wrong wording. To me, if it is something I would never do, I label it as wrong. For example - I'll never try any other drug except marijauana. I think it's wrong. IN fact, I don't smoke pot, because I think it's wrong. I don't drink...well because I don't like the taste of alcohol. So my definition of 'wrong' is more of a personal thing : if I won't do it, I won't do it because I think it's wrong. So in terms of this, yea, you're upbringing is extremely important to how you act and what your thoughts are as an adult. I was taught till 14 a lot of things were right and wrong. One of the things my father and and my pastor enforced was "Homosexuality is wrong....it's the work of Satan." Frankly, I wouldn't go as far as to call it the work of Satan, but it was something that would never interest me. I'm straight. So any kind of homosexual act that might pertain to me...I view as wrong. I'm not a homophobe,if you read my first post, I just...it's really hard to change your viewpoint with how you were raised for 14 years. For example, my grandparents were EXTREME racists. Luckily enough for my dad they gave him the choice to be a racist or not, and he choice to NOT be because he didn't see what the big deal was OF being a racist. He thought, "So their skin a different color...who gives a darn...I have terrible acne and moles on my body. Woppty-do."
I'm really sorry if offended anyone on my view of homosexuality. It's hard to want to think one way when your parents and minister BEAT a certain thought method in your head. Many of my friends are homosexual. I'm not nearly as bad when I was, when I was younger. HECK! Before I got into HS people thought I was gay because I was a classical musician. I had no friends till I turned 14. No one understood me. Attending Interlochen was the best four years of my life. I opened up my opinions and viewpoints and accepted a lot more. I can't change overnight on my opinion, but I am heading in that direction. 14 years ofbeing told what is right, whether it is right or wrong, and then being asked to change, it'sreally hard to do. If you met me as a teenager, you would have hated me. Now I'm acceptable. 10 years from now I hope to be respected and have dropped my views all together. It takestime. It doesn't happen overnight.