I grew up going to church my entire life. I am a member of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. Im my beliefs a relationship should be male and female. However, homosexuality is not a huge problem to me. If one feels that they are truly in love with another, being the same sex, just like lefty and Desdemona then they should be together.
the novel, Middlesex, so far is not one of my favorite novels. I am not a huge fan of it as of now, however I have talked to some of my classmates who said it gets better so I am anxious to finish it. To me, the book just started out slower than a had hoped. I am a very impatient person. I was getting anxious on reading about Cal's life and for a huge chunk of the beginning was about his grandparents. Which don't get me wrong that part was needed but if it was shorter I think I would have enjoyed it more.
I was pretty shocked at the questions you gave us. It was eye opening to see that the questions that you replaced homosexuals with heterosexuals and that in reality, those are the questions homosexuals are faced with everyday. When I was reading over them i was thinking that these questions were weird and dumb. However, these questions can be uncomfortable towards a homosexual when people would ask them. Another hurtful thing was the Westboro Church. The hatred shown by these people is terrible. It is one thing to not believe in homosexuality, but to stand there and say they are all going to hell and God hates them is so wrong!
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14 years ago
I agree with you about how hurtful the Westboro Church was. I was really shocked as well about how they openly preached about everyone going to hell! I also thought that the Heterosexual quiz was really intersting as well because before this, I never really thought about how uncomfortable those questions probably make homosexuals feel.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the book was slow in the beginning too but the book does get better and more interesting in the end!!
I definitely agree with what you said about "Middlesex". I can't seem to get into it and I dont really like it as much as the other novels we've read so far. I'm also impatient and I really wanted the begining to go a bit faster. I hope the ending will turn out better!
ReplyDeleteI like how you said that you were raised to believe the male/female pairing was the correct/ideal relationship, but that you also feel that love is love even if it is between people of the same sex. I think that is the position a lot of people take on the issue.
ReplyDeleteI also think possible why the book is so dry in the beginning is because the author felt the topic was so undeveloped in literature that he had to explain the whole history of how such a condition came to be so that the character could be fully understood. Although I agree that the book would be more interesting if it dealt more with Cal's gender crisis and less with the history of his Greek grandparents.