Posted on 08/07/2012 9:29:23 PM PDT by mlizzy
It is probably one of the hardest things a gay man will ever have to do and one has decided to share his heartbreaking experience with the world.
'James', 33, from Pennsylvania, uploaded a letter sent to him by his father five years ago on internet messaging board Reddit, shortly after he worked up the courage to come out to him.
James reveals he called his father to tell him the news in August 2007: 'I finally built up the courage to tell my father I was gay.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Personally, I think he should have done better. Regardless of what level of communication he wanted to pursue he should have explained possibility of repentance and forgiveness to his son. “God doesn’t for you to live this lifestyle” is only the beginning, of what he should have said.
Three boys out of my son’s high school graduating class of a couple of hundred kids, were homosexual. All three died with AIDS. Their lives were gone in their early 20s. What a great lifestyle they had.
If I had a grown child who was homosexual, he/she could not come to my house. That child would have made a choice and I would make a choice.
By any chance, was her name Aisha?
If all the kid did was say he was gay and the father reacted this way, the father is wrong. There is nothing principled about the father’s letter. The kid didn’t say he was out having sex or marching in parades. In fact, the father seems incredibly callous and cold. Christianity teaches the difference between being gay and acting on it. I agree that the article is a stupid attempt to tie it to Cathy though.
Unconditional love is not the issue; the issue is unconditional acceptance.
And I dare say only a fool would pledge unconditional acceptance, even to God himself.
We have a winner!
Apparently "The Blaze" and "The Daily Mail" consider it news.
Because Christians always go along with what the "world" wants, right?
Peppering your response with insults and false rationalizations doesn't make it any less wrong.
Well said.
Its not total until one of them dies.
Do tell! I must have missed that chapter. Could you cite a reference, please?
Please explain E X A C T L Y how one can be gay ‘without acting on it.
This is the problem. The left has so thoroughly reframed and co opted the very language and definition of the issue that everyone else is spinning their wheels arguing logical falacys.
If you take away the sex, you have two people with desires that total 2% of the population. There CANNOT be homosexuality without sex. Without the sex, they are celabate friends.A man/woman can ‘feel’ any number of emotions and experience all manner of lust. But Sexual activity, which is what homosexuality is, is a rock solid requirement.
And we must challenge that meme at every opportunity.
But as someone who works in the theatre in NYC, I can tell you that the gay community is NOT nice and kind to each other. Once you are in the group, you have to be prepared for a lot of bile, insults and conformity. Individual gay men can be nice; but put them together at a party and you have a mixture of The Boys in the Band and feeding time at the zoo.
A father that cares enough about his son to be in his life (rare these days) and write a letter (even more rare these days) would have a face-to-face with him first.
I only see two possibilities:
-The letter is completely fake.
-The letter came after a long time of instigating or rubbing it in for not accepting his lifestyle. Always bringing it up, bringing ‘boyfriends’ over(probably why he's banned from the house), showing pictures of how ‘happy’ he is at ‘gay’ getaways/parades, etc. I'm in NYC and know good number of people in the ‘community’. This is pretty typical when such a situation occurs.
I personally don't have a problem with them as long as they keep it private and, IMO , the government should not be involved in any marriage at all(no licenses, records, tax rules, official divorces, etc). In both straight and 'gay' unions, it should be a purely private matter with legal paperwork filed for any joint rights/responsibilities - joint accounts, hospital visits, power of attorney, contracts, etc. Any two (or more) people can already legally establish such rights - married or not. And no, I don't support adoption or artificial fertilization without an already existing male/female union with child-care contract.
And IMO, the military should have the right to select or reject any soldier they want - it is a cohesive unit fighting for life or death, not a damn starbucks - there's no room for any damn PC there.
Therein lies the problem.
I wouldn’t cut the kid off from home, but it would be understood his butt buddy wasn’t welcome there.
I wouldn’t be giving wedding receptions with all of his pervert friends there with my family and would make it clear that because I loved him I would gladly pay for help with his sickness.
If there’s any indication the kid wants help or isn’t ‘convinced’ f his problem, then I totally agree. Help all one could possibly do. But if they are in you face “Gay and Proud” Then that’s their choice.
As a side note, you brought up weddings etc. The selfishness of the homo results in nothing but chaos for the family when it comes to family events as well. Think about ‘the one’ regular ‘problem child’ EVERY family has at least one of. Christmas, weddings, BBQs ... all of it. If there are 100 people at the event, 90 of them are on eggshels because no one wants to ‘ruin it’ for everyone by saying something when the probchild has his/her attention grabbing scene. Or most likely, many AVOID family events BECAUSE of these types.
My family had several of the regular type and it was hell. The selfishness of these people is boundless and when Homo is thrown in the mix it multiplies by orders of magnitude.
No good EVER results from homosexuality and catering to it. But a lifetime of pain and suffering for everyone involved does.
Maybe the lost boy is actually related to Alcee Hastings of Florida? That mere politician came out of the closet recently to tell the Huff and Puff that Mr.Allen West offended the entire Black Caucus,supposedly six months before the Baptist Press published an interview with Dan Cathy. Yet somehow
Alcee understood it was all tied to the Chick -fil-A controversy. When it takes a Democrat or a Reprobate so long to process the information somehow it does not ring true.
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