Actually, your statement wasn't clear except to those of you who traffic in the buzz words of the religious right.
"Lifestyle" = homosexuality, a choice of word deliberately chosen to trivialize some people's deepest feelings and sense of being. In fact, gay people have all sorts of lifestyles, just as straight people do.
Moreover, your suggestion that the sub showing the film is probably a gay person pushing some sort of message is a none-too-sly reference to the concept of a "Gay Agenda," which doesn't exist except in the perverted imaginations of people such as yourself. Gay people are actually and rather famously diverse. Getting us to pursue an organized "agenda" is akin to herding cats. This suggestion is particularly ridiculous in this case, where the sub is a woman. Even if--big IF--she is a lesbian, the film has nothing to do with lesbians (and, in fact, has been criticized by lesbian critics as yet another example of how mainstream culture thinks "gayness" is all about what men do).
Well, sin is certainly the cause of much sorrow. But in the case of this story, the sin in question isn't the love between the two main characters. That love would be nothing but positive in a better context. The sin in Brokeback is the narrow-mindedness and intolerance of people who fear what is different and take refuge in declaring that everyone must live by their arbitrary rules and their rules alone. It is that sin which haunts the main characters and prevents them from forming a healthy bond. It is that sin which ultimately results in the murder of one of the main characters.
Absolutely. But not, in my view, because teens can't know about homosexuality. It isn't a choice and it isn't contagious. This particular film, however, has scenes which young teens may find confusing and embarrassing; confusion and embarrassment are not helpful in the attempt to teach anyone about sex and love.
Some things we choose, certainly. We choose to be honest (or not); we choose to support a partner (or not). We choose to share our love with another (or live a solitary life). We choose to undertake the difficult task of knowing ourselves and another (or we choose to hide behind stereotypes and magical thinking).
Because our natures differ, what is "natural" for you isn't necessarily "natural" for me.
But "natural" is yet another of those right-wing buzz words (see "lifestyle" above), used most often simply to mean whatever the majority of people prefer. Homosexuality and other minority orientations occur in Nature and have occurred throughout human history. They are as "natural" as left-handedness.
