Posted on 05/02/2006 1:10:54 PM PDT by meandog
Bump.....
You can't be an influence for good in someones life if you've cut communication with them.
That's a pretty judgmental statement, don't you think?
Actually, if you correct your child then I am not saying you must write them off. I am just saying that sometimes it is all a parent can do. For that matter, sometimes it works the other way and the adult child must break the relationship. I honestly believe that. There are boundaries that should not be violated and behaviors that cannot be tolerated. Have you ever lived with an alcholic or a drug addict? Someone with a violent temper? Lots of things. Do you know, was the lesbian respecting her parents by not putting her sin in their face or did she expect them to give their stamp of approval and everything? Frankly, I feel more for the parents who are devastated than I do for the child who is actively sinning so profoundly. They probably feel they have lost their child either way. And the goal of the parents is most probably to turn the child around. I seriously doubt it is just a vengeful act. I do not know what I would do.
They gave her life and instruction. She should be grateful for that. She's an adult. Walk on her own two feet. If she wants them back, change her ways.
Funny, my daughter (who is gay) is of the same mind. I kind of thought that she was in the minority in thinking this. I wouldn't disclose the reasons that she thinks this way but I can tell you that she is afraid of boys and attention from boys.
Good memory, M. I'd forgotten about him.
I don't know if it would matter. Like I said, I do not believe in a God, so I have no dog in the "heaven or hell" race. However, your choice of words describing the family relationship (the negative "looking the other way," as opposed to something more positive, like "loving their daughter, warts and all") - when "standing before God" - suggests you already have their final resting place picked out, unless they abruptly cut ties with her.
I do not mean my criticism of the Cheney's to be because they didn't cut her off. I mean it be because they embraced her like it didn't matter. The "cut her off" thing was brought up by you and I think someone else (regarding Alan Keyes). I don't see that as the worst response, though not necessry (Alan did not cut his daughter off, for the record). I see the worst response as total acceptance.
If Republicans in Congress would stop spending money and enforce immigration law, I wouldn't care how many men they slept with.
I see the worst response as parents trying to "beat the gay" out of their kids. I've known several gay guys to whom this has happened -- I'm talking closed fist, heavy work boot beatings.
That's hideous.
I am proud of my Vice President today.
Okay, I thought this was Dana Carvey. I am sorry, but I did.
I still believe that it's an emotional/mental illness that can be complicated by other things such as exhibitionism.
When we were young, I used to hang out in gay bars with my brother and got to hear a thing or 2. And I was ALWAYS carded to see if I was a REAL girl. Back then, you could still be arrested for being in drag.
Yep.
No, what's hideous is that the father will get sick and the kid, now and adult, will travel back home to try to patch things up on the old man's death bed.
My attitude toward these little field trips is, "What are you, outta ya mind?"
More like "hero of the moonbat fringe of the right".
Hear! Hear!
No, that's not it. It's surprising to LIBERALS that a conservative could love a gay child. They think that low of us.
"In my opinion, Alan Keyes loves his daughter much more that the Cheney's love Mary. And the details of his family situation were widely misreported."
And on what do you base that? Surely you're not saying there is a certain amount of love assigned to each reaction a parent makes to difficult situations.
I always enjoy that some stupid people bring up immigration on every darn thread even when it has nothing to do with the topic.
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