I've had experiences that would seem to indicate that the "family unit" these ignorant fundies keep preaching about isn't worth saving. For example, I came out to my mother, and she told me that I wasn't to be gay while I was under her roof. So I told her I was leaving, and she didn't even try to stop me. Is this what God teaches? Why would anyone want that?
2007-02-09 00:25:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
BTW, she wasn't suggesting that I don't act on it, she meant that I wasn't to BE gay under her roof. I thought it was totally unreasonable, so I left.
2007-02-09 02:29:52 · update #1
Far too often I see this kind of nonsense. I volunteer at a mentoring program for gay youth and this is what I usually get.
I had one young man, 16, came to the centre with acid burns on his chest. Why? because daddy didn't cotton to no "f.aggo.t" being his son, so he told him the Bible instructed him to kill his abomination of a son. There's the Christian love we all hear about. Happily, Terry is now in college and has a boyfriend and is healing, it will take years but at least he is free.
Religious parents are very loving, but that love is always conditional. It's one of the reasons I have zero respect for religious people. They talk the talk but when it comes to walking the walk, well, let's just say they suddenly develop a limp or worse and in the case of Terry's father, he just plain stopped.
God is not the source of this nonsense, that lies squarely on the shoulders of those who preach on thing, but do another. Christians of convenience as I call them. They pick and choose Biblical admonitions, they decide which rules to follow and which ones no longer apply (how that works I have yet to understand). Take heart though, we are not hiding anymore and we grow stronger everyday. Sooner or later, they will have to deal with us as equals whether they like it or not.
2007-02-09 01:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes Blood is really thicker than water, much thicker actually ! However your experience makes it very difficult to prove. That amazes me and I know it happens all the time, where parents turn their back on their kids or simply can't accaept them for who they are, must be tough man, really ! While your "under her roof" your kind of obligued to follow her wishes, even if she insist on that ! Its the same as no drinking, drugs, sex of any kind etc... Hopefully she'll come around, ignorance is bliss they say and honestly some of those hard lined Christians are biggets and do spread intollerance and hatred ! When its suppose to be "the good book"....Wish they'd explain !
2007-02-09 09:05:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it comes to families we usually have no choice. That's why it is important for us to pick our own families, whether they include blood relatives or not.
Once while on the parking lot tram going into an amusement park, this totally hot staight man started chatting me up and he mentioned he was meeting his family in the park. Later on, in an eating area, my gay male friends and I were in the food line and the same man and his family were behind us. He said to me "Oh! You found your family!" And I looked at my friends and said "Yes...this IS my family." And ya know? That man looked at my friends, smiled and said "That's great."
2007-02-09 10:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by behrmark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Proverbs 18:24 says "There exist companions disposed to break one another to pieces, but there exists a friend sticking closer than a brother." So, there ARE two sides to that coin.
2007-02-10 04:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by Zeera 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't hold true if family is too narrow minded to understand your sexuality. Friends are there most of the time for others, more often than family
2007-02-09 10:13:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Physically it is.
when your gay, your genes don't get passed on. Some people has issues with that. Probably root of the "sin" perception.
2007-02-09 09:25:01 · answer #6 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people shouldn't be parents, I'm sorry you got one like that. We are not all like that.
A blood clot will kill you faster than just about anything.
2007-02-09 08:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People are stupid and Arogant. The bible is a ******* crazy piece of ****... like your mom.
2007-02-09 08:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by D.Allman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋