A few months ago, I made reference to some summer reading I had done. One of the books was the final installment in the Harry Potter series. Since that time, there has been not a little hullaballoo going on over the revelation by the author J.K. Rowling that the character Dumbledore, a wizard who is head master at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is gay.
Reaction to this news has ranged from the cheers of some to the calls for boycotting of the series by others. See for instance the articles published in the November 10, 2007 issue of ZENIT.
I'm just not so sure what all the fuss is about. Sure in former generations, the issue of sexual orientation was something to be discussed only within the walls of one's home and only with those who were most to be trusted. In fact if such news was to be laundered in public it was almost certainly an automatic sentence of death - or at least severe chastisement.
Among the younger generations of today however, sexual orientation is just another facet of getting to know someone. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, the values of family, respect and love are the same. If everyone was so obsessed with faithfulness to commitments and living with integrity, I wonder whether the world would not be a much different place where we could actually get along with each other and dare to love.
2 comments:
Straight or gay...lets look beyond the cover and see the person as Jesus would. People were shocked when Jesus spent time with the woman at the well but Jesus saw beyond and recognized the woman for her own worth; a daughter of God. Straight or gay, we are all sons and daugthers of God.
God lovingly created all.
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