I am a couple of years younger than you are and I knew there were gay kids in my high school class (graduated in 1981). My health teacher, history teacher and English teacher were all gay. We knew it then. They were all great teachers and wonderful people. I know many gay people...friends and relatives. Acceptance of homosexuality is nothing more than accepting that ALL people deserve equal treatment under the law, do not deserve to be discriminated against by anyone, no more than discriminating according to race, marital status or anything else.
So, if the "homosexual agenda" includes stopping the ridiculous discrimination against gay people, then I'm all for it.
Not sure where you are from. I only know what I know from my own personal experience. I grew up in Orlando, Florida which has always had a rather large homosexual community. Yet while attending High School, I honestly don't remember 'ONE' person that any or everyone 'knew' were 'gay'. I can clearly remember the ill treatment that guys received that were merely viewed as 'fruity'. I can't imagine how someone 'gay' would have been treated.
In the neighborhoods I lived in growing up, if there was a 'known' homosexual living near by, everyone talked about the person as a pervert. Parents warned their children to 'stay away' from such people.
Starting in about Jr High, I do remember seeing news items about homosexual parades and such in San Francisco and other parts of California. To us such news items made California look like a 'different world' than the one in which we lived.
I have 'made up' nothing. Just expressed what I have witnessed from the 'place' in which I lived.
There have always been 'rumors' about Physical Education Teachers being gay. My High School was no different. The female gym teacher 'appeared' to be what we called "butch" back then. She may well have been 'gay'. But I never heard anyone state anything definitive so far as 'knowing' she was 'gay'. In fact, that very word wasn't even a part of our vocabulary back then. What are now called 'gay' people back then were referred to as '[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]', 'queer' or other titles.
And nothing I have offered is meant to indicate that I advocate treating 'gays' any differently than anyone else. While I don't agree with much of the 'agenda', my position is that so long as I'm not personally affected by their behavior, it's not a 'personal issue' with me.
But I can assure you that I don't agree with the 'agenda'. Promoting negative behavior is never a 'good thing'. And according to the Bible, it is most certainly 'negative behavior'. God didn't nor does He 'make' gay people. That is a personal choice and so far as the Bible is concerned, a clear and obvious 'sign' that those that chose such a path have 'turned their backs on God'. If you are curious as to what I'm referring to, I offer this:
Romans 1:
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And we also have the story of two cities that were destroyed and the only indication as to the 'reason' is that they were predominately 'homosexual' in their behavior.
Not my words..............
Blessings,
MEC