As a someone bought up in a small, conservative farming city in the 1960’s I can only marvel at how much the world has changed, when I compare my attitudes and behaviours as a 12 year old with those of my daughter today- though reading stuff like this shows there’s a long way to go still.
I guess it’s difficult for those parents to read about and understand and empathise with stuff like this, but entrenched attitudes can take generations to overcome- TG probably didn’t even figure on their radar 5 years ago, some people are still barely coping with the LG bit let alone the B. World’s changing very quickly.
I’ve always found it very sad, but I guess indicative of people’s need to control others that when offered up the mix of good and bad that Christianity encompasses most believers focus on the ‘don’t do this’ behavioural stuff, rather than the positives.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change…