On the bright side, I don’t think Katie managed to convince the audience that her views were right because according to the community at 30 Days, they all seem to be bashing her. I think its really unfortunate that there are closeminded people like her out there.

Nice article. (well not nice, but you know informative and engaging and whatnot) I gotta say I have to agree with the idea that if you’re shown a different side of something, you should try and understand it. Am I gonna change my whole outlook? Probably not, but I’ll try to make some modifications. Quick example:

I have a client who can’t speak great English, which is fine, and why I was hired. Because I can. On the other hand, I had a client who also couldn’t speak great English, but when I asked for clarifications of things “I don’t understand what you’re asking, sorry. Could you repeat that last one?” He got up in arms and said, “could you just forget about my grammar, mate?” (I’m kind of a grammar Nazi, but mostly I’d just like things to be constructed in an understandable way. his questions confused the heck out of me, and i just tried to rephrase them to get the right one) As well, he was entirely unprofessional and kind of abraisive. My opinion:

Some of your clients will be foreign, and some of them will be kinda defensive about it. Are all foreigners bad? Heck no, I love the Irish accent as much as the next girl. It’s just a russian roulette kinda thing. 1/6 might irritate you. Same with Americans (in which case it’s like 1/2 might irritate you, haha, kidding)

On the flip side, if you are exposed to a different situation and maintain your opinion, it doesn’t necessarily make you wrong, depending on the way you look at it. The woman is extremely religious and believes in her opinions. On the one hand, it’s one person, what could happen? On the other, what if Hitler were a good painter?

I had a girlfriend (so clearly I’m not really against gay people, haha) who darn near fell in love with me after two days. My friends loved her, and thought she was cute, and I was driven nuts when she texted me saying she “missed me” and we’d been together for what? Three days. What is there to miss? My voice isn’t that sexy.

I’m not down with affection, I’d rather date a jack-arse. It’s my opinion. Is it wrong? That depends on your perception. (I’m totally aware that that’s a terrible example)

It’s all a matter of opinion and circumstance, I think. I’m not gonna hate the woman b/c she’s against gay people, it’s how she was raised. Do I support her? No. But just like gays haven’t affect her personally, she hasn’t effected me personally.

Hi Speakindoodles,

You’re right about that. I’ve been surfing around and even some of those in the Mormon church are speaking out against her and her views.

I think that closed mindedness is simply fear of change. Unfortunately, it produces craziness like this episode.

Hi Corey,

Your examples are very interesting Corey but I got what you were saying

It’s not that I’m against her because of her opinion. An opinion is an opinion is an opinion. Like butts everyone has one.However, the concern comes in when someone acts on their opinion.

Kati can think that gay adoption is bad all she wants but when she goes to the voting booth and votes against it, that’s when I get little hot under the collar especially when it didn’t seem to appreciate what was at stake.

Oh well, on the bright side as Speakindoodle says, she didn’t convince any one of her point of view and she actually made herself look bad.

I personally do not have anything against gay people. I have many friends who are gay and even a daughter who is gay but in my personal opinion a child if it’s going to have parents should be in a family that has a man and woman as parents.

There aren’t a lot of kids out there who have to have counseling due to the sexual orientation of their parents. I’ve read a lot of things on the child raised in a gay parent home and most of them have to have counseling to deal with the trauma of being in that kind of home.

Gay people can be very wonderful people. They can do a lot of good things. But there are also gay people who are just well, nasty. There are a lot of hetro’s that are nasty as well so it’s not just a gay thing I’m talking about.

The thing I am wondering is why these gay men adopted boys and not girls. IMHO that seems like they are adopting boys so as to indoctrinate these young impressionable boys into believing the gay lifestyle is the only way to live.

My ex-son in law took my two grandsons to a gay pride parade and pretty much forsed them to see things only the adult person should see. It was disgusting and vulgar and something that my precious grandsons shouldn’t have had to see just so they could “see the other side of reality” as their father puts it.

I think children should not have to be forsed to live in a home (by adoption) where the parents are gay because they shouldn’t have to be ridiculed or made fun of or any other thing due to the sexual orientation of their “parents”. It’s just wrong to do that to a child.

Just because someone prepares for those kinds of things for the children they adopt (like counseling etc) doesn’t make it right that they should even ever have to go to counseling because a gay couple decides they want children. It’s not fair to those children to have to deal with that OR to be indoctrinated into believing the gay life is the way life should be.

I think more hetros should adopt those children in foster care. I don’t know why they don’t. But the one thing I do have complete objection to is a gay couple ever adopting an infant. They IF they are going to adopt a child should be one in foster care who is older. Not babies.

If I had been in the era of time when gay people were allowed to adopt a child when I gave my baby away to adoption I would never have probably given him up. It’s just my opinion.

I have the same opinion about a single person adopting a child. A child should be raised in a two parent home if they are going to be adopted.

Obviously if a girl gets pregnant and chooses to keep her baby in a single parent home that’s different but an adoption should be in a two parent home and with a male and female figures to take examples from. Providing of course those homes are good homes not just any two people. A loving stable male and female parent home. JMO.

Yes I’m full of “opinions” but everyone has the right to them don’t they? Even the woman in that show who opposed gay adoptions has rights to believe however she does (as do people pro gay adoptions) whether that’s due to her religious beliefs or due to her own personal feelings and she has the right to be closed minded.

I think seriously speaking, everyone who is pro-gay adoption is also closed minded in the respect that they aren’t going to change their minds about the way they feel either. Everyone on all sides of this “opinion” thing at one point or another are going to get defensive. It’s human nature.

When someone believes something very strongly most people will get on the defensive and just shut their ears and minds to anything else to come in. I’ve seen it time and time again throughout my lifetime.

Not many people who are pro-gay adoption are going to see someone who is anti-gay adoption as anything more that “prudish” or “closed minded” or anything else because they want to believe that their way is the right way.

Believe this or not, no matter what anti-gay people think, gay people are going to get their way because they are the squeeky wheels and won’t back down no matter what. So why are so many people angry with those who are anti-gay in any respect? It’s really not going to change a darn thing for the hetros. They are still going to have to put up with things they feel are wrong and nothing can be done to change it.