Was reminded of a bus commute home last week...

When I glanced through this post at Badger Catholic; the university students observed therein are upset that they may have to fund their own contraceptives and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. I think it must have been Thursday or Friday last that I overheard a group of five... well, my approximation is that they were probably thirteen or fourteen, perhaps; first year of high school, maybe. Three boys, two girls.  In any event, they were chattering about how often each of them has been 'gay', as in, 'I was gay for a couple of months back when...' and 'I am gay but we're going to Florida for the summer...' (the clear implication being that in Florida something may happen that will alter her 'lifestyle choice')--although it is true I heard only three voices (two male, one female), so forty percent of the group were keeping their judgments to themselves, I guess.  So far as I could tell by the minimal number of cultural tells I was able to glimpse they were 'middle class' kids; but, specially here in Eugene, who knows. How impoverished our society has become, how terribly parents are failing in their duties, how... et cetera, et cetera. Spes contra spem.