When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change. I look at women and look at my straight friends and see what they have It's natural to love and be loved, to lust and be lusted after.
In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments. Sign me up. According to Diamond, that sexual fluidity only increased as women aged.
With the statement that sexuality exists along a continuum rather than a zero or a six, heterosexual or homosexual, I do believe sexuality is a fluid thing. You can't really pick it apart.
All we can be is true to ourselves, respect others and most importantly respect and love ourselves, and then we can make positive changes in this beautiful yet complex world of ours. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage.
If you look at several nations in Europe, for example, traditional marriage is so rapidly on the decline that it is no longer the norm. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. Shame does not bring me down as he once has but at times he does creep up.
Catherine W.