“This place makes me feel so bad sometimes. A lot of you agree with getting rid of your child who might be gay.”
Children are not free to do as they please. The fact that the unacceptable behavior is the current fad has no bearing on the matter. Those who pay the bills set the rules—they can draw the line at heterosexual or homosexual activity, drugs, violence or simple disrespect.
An adult living under your roof is free to abide by the rules or leave—being able to leave is being free. If the parents forced the “child” (who is a legal adult) to stay, then they could be accused of not allowing their child freedom.
Too many today conflate freedom with license. Freedom is being responsible for yourself; doing whatever you please is licentiousness.
The same goes for the abuse of the word “love.” Love is not an emotion; it is an ongoing commitment to act in the best interest of another—often in contradiction to emotion. It’s not love to enable a drudge-addict; it’s not love to support self mutilation; it’s not love to physically/sexually/emotionally abuse another—even when one or both parties “enjoy” it. To even suggest such behaviors are acceptable is as far from love as possible.
It’s quite ironic that those yelling the loudest about freedom and democracy can’t understand the basic principles of reciprocity and responsibility. You’re free to act in accordance with the law, but I’m free to disagree with your actions and not be subjugated by a “democratic” totalitarianism (AKA: mob rule).
Actually, I do agree that parents (especially of adults) can lay down the rules in their own home. Every family should be free to raise their children their way within clear safety boundaries.
It’s just sad that a parent would choose to stop supporting a child for his sexual orientation. And much sadder to me that so many freeper still heartily agree with this. You were lucky in the earlier decades that the whole
Society shunned homosexuality so all gay kids hid it. They weren’t lucky but the parents who love only heterosexual children were.