This is in response to the letter published May 29 from Elaine Graham. I would like for her to walk in my shoes and pretend that she is the parent of a homosexual child. She must be aware of the fact that most homosexuals are born of heterosexual parents and have heterosexual siblings. I don’t know at what age Ms. Graham chose to become heterosexual, but I do know that my son did not choose to become gay.

I wonder how she would feel if one of her children were denied equal civil rights? Wouldn’t she try to fight to have these very rights restored?

I have asked our government why those rights are being denied, but don’t get a straight answer. After all, my son had all those rights until he reached puberty and came to realize that what had always seemed normal to him was being labeled by some people, including Ms. Graham, as immoral, sinful and something to protect children from exposure to. Homosexuality is not contagious.

Does anyone believe that a youngster would deliberately choose to be gay?

My son’s life would have been a lot less stressful during his middle-school years had it not been for people such as Ms. Graham teaching discrimination and condoning physical and mental harassment.

I do not consider myself part of a homosexual agenda or movement. I just wonder what has happened to: “All men are created equal” or “with liberty and justice for all.”

Barbara G. Underwood, Lisbon