The YouTube
channel Culture Beats got some wonderful reactions when they asked random
people: ‘What would you do if your child was gay?’
In a video
posted this week, people seemed mostly unfazed by the prospect no matter what
country they are from.
An Australian
woman asked the question said thoughtfully ‘You can’t do anything about it
because it is not a decision he made. He was born with this kind of orientation
so the only thing you can do is accept and support him.’
Another Aussie,
this one a man sitting on a park bench with his wife said: ‘I don’t have a
problem with that so I think I would just try to find out how my kid was
feeling about that and support my child.’
An elderly
couple from Ireland were downright enthusiastic.
‘I’d like to
understand how he feels because it’s still your child,’ said the husband as his
wife nodded in agreement. ‘I would wish that he could find happiness whether
he’s gay or straight. We’ve passed a law now that gay people can marry in our
country. I’m very proud of that… So gay people in our country have equal
rights.’
A Norwegian
woman said simply: ‘I would support him or her. Tell them that I love them
anyway, that it doesn’t matter to me.’
But clearly it
would be difficult for others.
‘I would be
very upset personally,’ said a woman from Azerbaijan. ‘I would try to consult
the doctor to see why he’s gay. … If it is hormones then it is from God. If
it’s society, then I would try to help him.’
A Turkish woman
said: ‘I would think about it but later I would accept it. I would feel bad at
the first time because you think everyone is the same but this stuff happens in
the world.’
An Iranian man
admitted: ‘I would probably be sad. I want my boy to have a wife and my girl to
have a man. But maybe I would accept it in the end. You cannot get rid of your
children. But I will not be happy – no.’
A woman from
the United Arab Emirates made clear that a gay child in unacceptable to her.
‘I will kill
him,’ she said.
Asked why, a
man with her but off camera said: ‘It’s against the natural law.’
Watch below:
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