"Well, Johnny bin Lindh is one kid who reacted strongly to his father 'coming out'. Although you never heard that mentioned much by the MSM."
Hmmph - that IS news to me.... Sort of like the DC sniper Malvano and the boy he kept w/ him, yes? (For you sure don't here much about that either from the MSM). BTW, source on Lindh's Dad?
Can't give you a specific source and I don't have time to go dig it up but I know I read it. Lindh's father had left Lindh's mother and moved in with another man.
If you dig around on Free Republic's archives, you should find it. There were several articles posted here.
Also, since John Walker Lindh (named after John Lennon) was from cali, the papers there gave huge write ups about his family.
The family was straight out leftist hardcore. Mother discouraged christianity when he started seeking spirituality and tried to steer him towards Buddhaism, and some other far eastern religions. She was also a die-hard peachnik who was arrested for anti-war protests during the first gulf war.
Father is gay and left his wife and currently lives with another man. All the 3 of them, hate and loathe Bush, after John Lindh joined the taliban, he was still able to correspond with his parents, and at one time claimed "he's not my president", they generally liked to bad mouth america and bush as a form of finding common ground.
John Walker Lindh is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence as part of a plea agreement, he wanted to at least maintain the hope of one day going to mecca. The government cut him a deal after using several islamic clerics to convince him he had misinterpted the islamic faith and he agreed to provide information to the government.
He also had met Ossama Bin Laden at least once and spoken to him personally.
As for the D.C. snipers, it should be noted, that motives (or reasons) have shifted, in various ways. A homosexual relationship has not been confirmed, but has become very evident to the officers.