Regarding the pic posted by BGM below, would it be pathetic of me to say I would be deeply

[Monty91]

uncomfortable about my child being co-opted into any gay pride celebrations?

And not because I think it would "turn him gay". I am not a cretin.

[Classic Jorge]

I dont think they were on the floats, oiled up and dancing whilst wearing Baby Gap chaps.

[Berni]

Said permission would not be granted, since I believe it's wildly inappropriate to use children to make any political point - even one with which I agree.

[Monty91]

they are too young understand.

I guess the counter argument is that these events are celebrations of love, as much as sexuality, and that there is no harm in a child being introduced to the idea that two men or two women can love each other.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Perhaps some or all of the kids in questions were in fact kids from same sex marriages.

See how much I know about these things since we let them run free over here.

[Berni]

way. The fact that they were co-opted by their parents to this end just makes their parents c**ts if you ask me.

[redgunamo]

league title open-topped bus parade.

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.

[Monty91]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

"We do this because we want to" and his friend chipped in with "You should be able to love who you want".

Three year olds....And they had them chanting "Who do you get to love - who you want".

[Classic Jorge]

I remember explaining it to my daughter, I was all prepared for this long conversation full of difficult "whys" and she just accepted it and moved on.

[redgunamo]

decisions themselves, you end up with a world in which less suitable people make them. Gay Pride parade organisers, for instance.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

stuff is for grown-ups and shouldn't involve kids.

Let's be honest, they're there to attract photographers. It's basically pimping children for political ends.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

daycare for the day or not allow them to take part, even if they didn't agree with it.

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

[Luis Anaconda]

This is most possibly the gayest post ever on here

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4034 366&rid=167&S=38f16fb9a8d9cb5047d2323c438f16a0 (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=4034366&rid=167&S=38f16fb9a8d9cb5047d2323c438f16a0)

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

I didnt agree with the whole royal wedding malarkey but I didnt want to deprive my kid of some jelly and ice cream for the sake of my grumpy politics.

[Berni]

http://assets.feministing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Screen-Shot-2015-03-26-at-1.48.03-PM.png

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Monty91]

My 7-year-old niece is currently fixated by God (who she unquestioningly believes in) and her Jewish heritage.

Not happy http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Monty91]

Well, you could, by all accounts.

[Berni]

And, as such, is not something to which children can give informed consent. Thus, to use them to do so is wrong.

Everything's political on some level.

[Classic Jorge]

Normally I dont believe in the whole "catching gay" thing but being pumped full of seaman in that favella may have changed him

[Classic Jorge]

Rather than some blanket ban on anything that could possibly be considered "political" though.

[Berni]

coloured towels on his head and pretending they're his hair. He wants to be a hairdresser and once, when I took him to a shoe shop, I took my eye off him for a sec and when I found him, he was amongst the ladies' shoes, parading up and down in high heels for all he was worth.

Not conclusive, but a picture is building. :shrug:

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

those decisions for himself.

I also vote Tory, but wouldn't dress a child of mine up in blue and take them to a Party Conference, either. And I would regard anyone who did so as a thoroughgoing c**t.

[redgunamo]

Blokes have to take a firm line on such things. A prudent, honest line which fully accepts responsibility for any negative, even if unforeseen consequences.

This means not making mountains out of molehills. Gay Pride parade (or indeed *any* parade worth the name) = free drink for me and/ or free ice cream for the wife and kids. That's it.

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

NTTAWWI, naturally.

[Berni]

Out of interest, what was the red flag for you?

[Classic Jorge]

Would you disagree with that too?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

And may he be a top as often as a bottom and not end up with an anal sphincter hanging, as Mr Baron Cohen so memorably once described it, like mouth of tired dog.

I'm not sure there was one thing, just a general air of puddle-jumping. I am, of course, no expert in the matter of children, but I do, as you know, know my stuff in the matter of poovery.

[Berni]

Such things are fixtures of national life. One does not have to be in favour of torturing religious terrorists to death to enjoy fireworks, anymore than one has to believe Jesus to be the son of God made flesh to like a bit of turkey and a few pressies.

Gay Pride, on the other hand, is a recently-created event with a socio-political message.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Mine happens to be bummers.

[redgunamo]

against something and take responsibility for their beliefs *now*, unlike the other festivities which have long since been "fixtures of national life." :sherlock:

Everyone needs to grow a pair, imo, like the homos have.