something that's been bugging me

A couple of weeks ago I went out for dinner with some ladies from work. And for some reason we were talking about the upcoming Sandhills Alliance Pride Festival Day. One of my coworkers was saying that she thinks it's wrong that it's being held in a church. I said I think that it's great that it's being held in a church. Yay for the super awesome church that's holding a gay pride event! I wanted to say "not all churches hate gay people." Instead, I thought to myself "well, I'm not going to your church."

But the thing that is bugging me branched off of that discussion. One of our coworkers (who was not at the dinner) has a daughter who recently came out. This daughter had been married, and has two kids. They're little kids. And the coworker who things it's wrong that the festival is in a church said she worries about what the kids think. She's worried that they're like "well, Daddy was here, and now he's gone, and Mommy's dating a woman." Okay, does she also wonder what they thought when Mommy and Daddy got divorced, or is it only because Mommy's a lesbian now? Because if she only worries because Mommy's a lesbian, that doesn't sit well with me.

Little kids are super open minded. The thing that makes them think things like "Mommy dating a woman is weird" is if their parents told them that. So I'm sure the kids don't care. That always bugs me. Who's thinking about the children? You know what? As long as someone's feeding them and not harming them, I don't think kids give two shits. Little kids are more open minded about gay people than adults are. They don't understand why it's "weird" or "wrong" for two men or two women to date each other.

I don't have any sort of conclusion for this, I just had to get it out.