Posted on 05/19/2009 12:58:22 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel
DEAR ABBY: My father is 83. My mother has been dead for more than 30 years. Since then, Dad has been involved with many women.
But, since he turned 70, he has become involved with men, which he says he finds very rewarding and much less complicated.
Dad and I always had an open and honest relationship. We have a lot of homosexual family members and friends.
At the same time, I'm shocked that the fact that he is gay has been so difficult for me to accept.
Have you any suggestions on how I might better deal with this?
- Caring Son in Miami
DEAR CARING SON: Your father appears to be bisexual, which means he is attracted to both men and women.
Whereas he may not have wanted to admit to himself or to you years ago that he had feelings for people of the same sex, it is no longer shocking to be open about it. Times have changed. Today a person's sexual orientation is no longer considered something to be kept hidden.
One constructive way to "deal with it" would be to realize how fortunate you are to have the kind of relationship you have always had with your dad. Be supportive, don't judge and love him for the parent he has always been.
LOL, nope.
Well, here I’ll be consistent. I do not condemn the man (that’s for God to do) — and I’d invite a homosexual to church so that he could learn the Word of God and find out why he needs to repent — but you clearly cannot ignore “sin no more” no matter how loudly you scream and put your fingers in your ears.
We simply disagree on interpretation of the entire quote. Which is fine.
What in the world is going on with our society?? Sick.
Maybe he has dementia and really isn’t gay at all.
you either accept ALL of scripture or you reject it..there is a warning somewhere in The Revelation about this!!(I Think toward the end!).
There are multitudes of disagreement even within Christianity itself, thus the splitting of it into countless factions, each with their own specific ideas of what constitutes the “truth.”
As for my spiritual “commitment” (your word), it does encompass the Christ story but that constitutes only a part of it. This is not to diminish the Christ scenario, only to say that my beliefs are not limited to it.
This proves that every gay person makes the choice? You are a very logical person, aren’t you? (/sarc)
And which interpretation/translation/revision of scripture do you accept?
Multiple interpretations, translations, revisions of the Bible, even within different congregations — or within different individuals, for that matter.
The Book of Revelation is actually a prime example of a book that has been interpreted in countless ways by different sects and religious factions or groups. All of them convinced of their truth, of course.
I think that this Abby gets scammed a lot more than her mother used to.
This is predicated on following His command to, "go and sin no more."
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Your “spiritual commitment encompasses “the Christ story”,
says it all.
Why am I not surprised by the answer?
This agenda, as well as the abortion agenda, presumes that all people NEED sex, no matter what the age, and if you think of something, no matter how wrong you should act on it, cuz hey you were born that way, or you can't be expected to behave responsibly! Consequences?? What consequences. We will just get them banned, and do whatever we want. The new “morals”.
Granted everyone wants sex, it is NOT A NEED! Unless you are a serial rapists or some such mental disorder.
Totally and completely, 100% selfishness.
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