I just read something from the below-linked article and I feel like responding here.
“Some fans have also likewise condemned the anti-LGBTQ comments online. On Twitter, one user wrote “If your argument for not taking your children to see the movie Lightyear is this scene, the problem is not your children. The problem is you and your prejudices so messed up that you will end up transmitting it to an innocent person. It’s so easy to say ‘they are two women who love each other.'”” (https://www.chron.com/culture/article/These-are-the-Lightyear-scenes-drawing-ire-from-17248628.php#:~:text=Some%20fans%20have,love%20each%20other.%27%22)
Let’s look at the Mariam Webster dictionary for ‘prejudice’ for which I could say I am being accused as this term is tossed around a lot:
2a(1): preconceived judgment or opinion
(2): an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge
b: an instance of such judgment or opinion
c: an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice#:~:text=rights%20or%20claims-,2,against%20an%20individual%2C%20a%20group%2C%20a%20race%2C%20or%20their%20supposed%20characteristics,-prejudice%20verb)
Is standing for uprightness or holiness prejudice? Just because someone does not understand my opinions or beliefs does not automatically mean I am prejudiced. Yes, I have a preconceived opinion but it is based on an objective belief system outside of myself so I am not ‘prejudiced.’ Yes, it is a contrary opinion to many others but it has just grounds with sufficient knowledge so again I am not ‘prejudiced.’ I am not irrational nor am I hostile towards anyone else so again I am not ‘prejudiced.’ Instead, I am defensive about what is right, what is holy, and what is virtuous based on objective truths. Things that other people do are not right for me to do. And I do not have to accept them as virtuous.
Please note that I am not intending to be or sound like I am better or holier than others even though I am striving to be holy. Allowing a pinch of feces in the water makes it unfit to drink and so too allowing things like this Buzz Lightyear scene makes it easier to accept this behavior as normal and slowly influence and change how love is defined for me and my kids. Because someone is drunk next door does not mean I have to allow them into my house and expose my family to their behavior. I draw the line. In the same way, I draw the line on what is acceptable entertainment for me and my family. At what point is entertainment so devalued that it is no longer worth watching? Where do you draw the line? Is it acceptable to allow my kids to watch the garbage? It is not like we are doing it. Let’s borrow an old line from an old song, “Be careful little eyes what you see.” TV and movies have crime in them and it does not mean that I will commit a crime. But criminals are more and more being portrayed as good guys. Some are portrayed in an approving light. Sometimes I might even agree depending on the circumstances of the story. Does it mean I will ever commit a crime if I am ever placed in a similar circumstance? I don’t know. But having it exemplified in a story in an approving way makes me think the crime is merited and in turn, makes it more likely. The same with having LGBTQ+ behavior exemplified to my kids. I watched the scene in Buzz Lightyear and it seems so innocent and not very in your face. But it also shows the behavior in a very good light and being approved of by Buzz.
This is what I can not pass on to my kids – the acceptance or approval of it as virtuous, righteous, admirable, praiseworthy, pure, and exemplary. The real truth is not shown of the negative sides of these types of relationships. For example, the rate of violence in an LGTBQ+ relationship rate is double or more than in straight relationships (https://www.hrc.org/resources/sexual-assault-and-the-lgbt-community). The rate of aids is more than 3 times higher (https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html). The rate of addiction is 2 to 4 times higher (https://www.naadac.org/assets/2416/jeff_zacharias_-_naadac_-_seattle.pdf). This does not account for the paramount spiritual factors that are not being accounted for in these relationships
Now if you think I am going to get all doom and gloom I am sorry to disappoint. Everyone has to make their own choices themselves. I’d be glad to talk more in-depth on the spiritual side with any one person. Everyone is different and everyone can research for themselves what the Bible says and pray about it for themselves. This is what I encourage everyone to do as with all things that are not holy – this is between them and a holy God. As He says, “Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still” (Revelation 22:11 BBE). At the same time, I will never stop sharing the truth as muddling up what is pure with what is not is worse than erroneous and has led to the downgrade of many things in our society (Specifically here I am talking about other things muddling up the truth and not only the overall above topic). Don’t let Buzz muddy the water and come in as a Trojan horse to slowly seep under your values slowly destroying them. Seek the real truth that is objective. Stand up for them.