*Around age ten

I walk out of my bedroom taking a break from reading one of the many books I borrowed from the library. "That's just disgusting" I hear from the TV room. I walk in and see my mom watching the news. The newscasters are talking about homosexuals and on the screen are two same sex people kissing. I don't understand what is wrong with what I'm seeing. Why would my mom say it is disgusting? So I ask her, "Mom, what is wrong with it? Why are they kissing?" My mom looks at me. "The Bible says that homosexuality is wrong. God says that homosexuals are an obination and they will go to Hell if they don't repent of their sins and change their decision to be homosexual."

I just look at her for a bit and then look back at the television which is talking about a different story now. "Oh, okay," I say as I walk back to my room to think about what I just saw and what I was just told. I don't understand what is wrong with it. Don't they love each other? Then why is it wrong? Well, mom says its wrong, so there must be something dirty about it.

I just don't understand why a love as beautiful as that...is so wrong.