Ron, I don't know what you should tell her Ron. I do know if my son were asking, I'd be sure to stress he show tolerance of it. When I was growing up, we "learned" from the older kids to hate this and hate that and a lot of that hate was wrong. Over time, I was engage to a girl that was a "hairdresser" and she worked with several, uhh, male "hairdressers" that happened to be gay, well, they weren't exactly bad people and I realized I was wrong on some things. I've worked with gays, lesbians, and "BIs" (fortunately no transgenderly-curious though Bob saw one of them down the ditch last year
) and just like the rest of society, you had your good ones and bad ones. So I learned to be a lot more tolerant and thats what I'll teach my son.
It's not my way of life and I hope its not his when he grows up, but I'll teach a little of that "to each their own" thing. As for how to treat it by religion? Or by law? I'm not a priest or a judge. I know where I feel on it and I'm not a supporter of "Gay Marriage", civil unions OK.
When your daughter goes to college and when my son goes to college, they will see probably more than you and I will have seen (been on a college campus lately? or even in a school? it's a lot different when we were in), for good or bad, whatever. But I guess we want to teach them to at least understand that some people can have their own lifestyles and do their own things.