I find it very awkward explaining to my niece?

Bigotry is something all parents have to explain to their children sooner or later, whether it's racial, or based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.

Look at it as an opportunity to explain concepts of love and tolerance, and help her understand that not everyone understands those things. Tell her that people who understand love and tolerance don't act like those teenagers.

The sooner you explain it to her, the better. I believe that children should be taught that there is a whole world out there, and nothing is as it seems. You might want to be subtle when telling her the reason of why those teens are chanting those words, but also go straight to the point so that she can understand. Think about this, what if when she becomes a teenager, she listens to what Church-crazed teenagers have to say and she becomes one of them? And all because she did not understand before.

Also, try to remember you moral principles, and pass them on to your young niece, for she might need them some day.

What's awkward about it?

"Some boys like girls, other boys like boys; some girls like boys, others like girls. Everyone's different."

It sounds to me like sex wasn't a subject handled very well in your own childhood for you to be struggling so much with such a simple issue. Maybe you should take some time to re-evaluate some old, perhaps now out-dated, attitudes toward human sexuality you've been carrying with you (it's "dirty" or "sinful," etc.). Remember that sex and hunger are two of the driving forces of human existence--they are both perfectly natural, and your niece will be a much happier, healthier individual for understanding that it is so.

Since she sounds young, remember to reveal and discuss in accord with her age. (For instance, a five-year-old boy asking about erections, which he DOES experience by the way, does not need to get the entire birds-and-the-bees talk; all he needs to know is that it's natural, helps blood flow to that area, and will be an important part of things that come later.) Don't overwhelm her, but don't underwhelm her either. I'm sure she can handle it.

And regardless of your belief system, I do feel it's important in today's society to teach children not to make fun of others for the way they are (even if you don't like it or agree). "Jugde not, lest ye be judged." There is nothing more un-Christian than prejudgement.

Hope this helps.

May be a talk about the meaning of marriage would be of help.

Marriage between man and woman

The evolution of man is founded on the values of the Home and Family between one man and one woman. Material necessity founded marriage, sex hunger embellished it, religion sanctioned and exalted it, the state demanded and regulated it, while in later times evolving love is beginning to justify and glorify marriage as the ancestor and creator of civilization's most useful and sublime institution, the home. And home building should be the center and essence of all educational effort.

Men and women need each other in their next life and spiritual as well as in their mortal careers. The differences in viewpoint between male and female persist even beyond the first life and throughout the local and superuniverse ascensions. And even in Havona, the pilgrims who were once men and women will still be aiding each other in the Paradise ascent. Never, even in the Corps of the Finality, will the creature metamorphose so far as to obliterate the personality trends that humans call male and female; always will these two basic variations of humankind continue to intrigue, stimulate, encourage, and assist each other; always will they be mutually dependent on co-operation in the solution of perplexing universe problems and in the overcoming of manifold cosmic difficulties.

While the sexes never can hope fully to understand each other, they are effectively complementary, and though co-operation is often more or less personally antagonistic, it is capable of maintaining and reproducing society. Marriage is an institution designed to compose sex differences, meanwhile effecting the continuation of civilization and insuring the reproduction of the race.

Marriage is the mother of all human institutions, for it leads directly to home founding and home maintenance, which is the structural basis of society. The family is vitally linked to the mechanism of self-maintenance; it is the sole hope of race perpetuation under the mores of civilization, while at the same time it most effectively provides certain highly satisfactory forms of self-gratification. The family is man's greatest purely human achievement, combining as it does the evolution of the biologic relations of male and female with the social relations of husband and wife.

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I left our Church because our preacher was saying the same thing. I thought what next? Will he preach next in a Nazi uniform? I also said it out loud. If they were going to do anything, then go speak to people with other beliefs,but our God is all about forgiveness and love, so therefore with God being our father, wouldn't he love everyone as long as they are the best person they can be. Just be yourself and love God.

No you can't. Why were these teens screaming this? It is the truth so I don't see why you would find it awkward to explain to your niece the it is true.

Welcome ANY opportunity to talk to the kids in your family. If you don't answer the :awkward questions now, when they are young, I promise you, you won't get the chance to have these talks when they are in their teens.

Leave it up to her parents to explain life. Its not your place to indoctrinate your niece with your views.

because religion brings nothing but trouble why is it that in order for Muslims to go to heaven they must kill americans when allah is a "loving" god. why did "god" allow humans to fight in the crusades for hundreds of years? why is it that we still allow ourselves to believe what was written by man who's name is unknown and a book that is over 2000 years old? if you want to see the true "god"... go into nature. you'll notice something. nature doesn't care if you live or die. it can kill you but it also provides the things you need to survive. that is the one and only true "god"

Why don't you hand her a Bible then, and let her read it for herself?

Is it YOUR job to explain things to your neice, or is it her parent's job?