Gay teens need our support and acceptance

Jennifer Bloche (Feb. 6 column) seems unhinged that her son got ahold of a magazine that shed some light on improved acceptance of gay teens. This provokes the question: What am I to do to keep media from corrupting my children into thinking there's something flawed about homosexuality?

This is not the world I live in any more, Ms. Bloche, and I find it vile that you remind me of what it was like before it changed for the better for us and our children - before we started recognizing gays as normal human beings instead of perverted outcasts.

It is an abhorrent display when someone makes a case for the plight of Christian teens who are “shy” or “ridiculed” for it. We obviously went to different high schools and send our kids to different elementaries. Do you actually see young Christians taking more heat in school than someone struggling with their evolving sexuality?

I'm going to err on the side of not alienating people by gender and orientation before I'm going to worry about religious prosecution in a Midwestern city.

Charles Fletcher

Cedar Rapids