Lesbian mother and teens reach agreement over lifestyle (!Update to earlier story!)

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[chance33_98]

Lesbian mother and teens reach agreement over lifestyle

Kimla Green says she's willing to put aside her homosexuality in order to have her two girls come home. By Chris Adams ABC13 Eyewitness News (8/19/02) — It's a very private family drama that is now being played out in a very public way in court, with daughters against their mother.

This is a family torn apart by conflicts over homosexuality, the role of religion and the struggle to balance some very difficult facts of life.

Kimla Green walked into a family law courtroom Monday with one simple goal.

"I just want my kids back home right now," said teen girls' mother, Kimla Green.

Green acknowledges that she is sexually attracted to women and that she has brought women to the home she once shared with her two daughters, ages 16 and 17.

The family was before a judge Monday because the two teens asked the court to declare them independent because they object to their mother's gay lifestyle.

For now the girls are with their aunt. Their mother says it didn't have to come to this.

But the girl's attorney, John Breeze said, "Well, obviously there's always two sides to every story."

A Harris County judge transferred to the case Fort Bend County. But in the interim, the two sides appear to have struck a deal.

"We're hoping to have the court read our agreement or hear our agreement and say that it is in the best interest of the children and that will hopefully be the judgment," said the mother's attorney, Lee Jeronimo.

Green says the two girls have been unduly influenced and interfered with by the church they've been attending.

The new deal makes both Green and her daughters give up something.

"Well, my agreement is not to show any type of homosexual lifestyle in front of my kids or to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable concerning the gay lifestyle. I agree to that as long as they agree not attend the Body of Christ Ministry because of all the brainwashing going on," said Green.

The agreement would reunite the family. It still needs to be approved by a Fort Bend County judge. Everyone's expected back in court there later this month.

The Body of Christ Ministry declined to comment about the case.

[chance33_98]

"Well, my agreement is not to show any type of homosexual lifestyle in front of my kids or to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable concerning the gay lifestyle. I agree to that as long as they agree not attend the Body of Christ Ministry because of all the brainwashing going on," said Green.

HMMMMMMM

[chance33_98]

I won't be act gay if you don't act christian....

[The Old Hoosier]

So now it's BRAINWASHING to tell kids homosexuality is wrong. Do you see where this is going?

[Sangamon Kid]

The agreement would reunite the family.

Who are they kidding?

[RonF]

"So now it's BRAINWASHING to tell kids homosexuality is wrong. Do you see where this is going?"

Depends on the activities of this particular church. Almost any religion holds homosexual behavior to be a sin, but some churches are more the "hate the sin, love the sinner" types, while others are "cast out the sinner" types. If this denomination is teaching these kids to hate their mom and harass her, etc., then that would be somewhat different than if they were in a more mainline church. We don't know enough of the circumstances here to make a judgement one way or another.

[Frankss]

she won't "show" any homosexual lifestyle to the kids-she is not saying she will stop. perhaps the kids should agree not to "show" any Christian ethics to their mother.

[GraniteStateConservative]

while others are "cast out the sinner" types. If this denomination is teaching these kids to hate their mom and harass her, etc., then that would be somewhat different than if they were in a more mainline church.

That is the case. She was in church and the pastor announced from the pulpit that she was hell-bound.

[Puppage]

Kimla Green says she's willing to put aside her homosexuality in order to have her two girls come home

What the hell is that? Is it a fagpack? Can ya just take it off? Why not just leave it outside?

[bimbo]

The agreement would reunite the family.

The family includes an un-mentioned father ... is he to be re-united, too?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"She was in church and the pastor announced from the pulpit that she was hell-bound."

It's probably going to be a foot race between her and the pastor as to who gets there first.

[Severa]

I KNEW I saw that in the previous thread but I can't find it now.

Really folks, I have to ask this. I see what looks like an awful lot of animosity toward homosexuals here on FR. Shouldn't God be the one to judge these individuals? (Yes I'm fully prepared, so flame on if you feel you have to)

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

That is the case. She was in church and the pastor announced from the pulpit that she was hell-bound.

Please prove that statement..

[wasp69]

Yes He should but does that mean that we just smile at them and let them put their carnality on us? Same as someone telling me not to put my morality on them? FWIW, I am a "love the sinner and hate the sin" Christian because that is what Christ teaches his followers.....

[hopespringseternal]

"I promise to stop drinking/beating you/running around if you will come back to me."

[realpatriot71]

Shouldn't God be the one to judge these individuals?

Why let only God judge? We all feel so much more superior for it. You know, because we're "normal". Nope, nothing wrong with us. No sin and casting stones that's what we do . . .

[joesnuffy]

Yes Ive noticed that too...and a lot of animosity towards abortionists,rapists, pedophiles and crooked politicians, judges, lawyers and baby killing terrorists...shouldnt God be the one to judge these individuals...snif snif ..kum by ya

[L,TOWM]

>>>>>>>>It's probably going to be a foot race between her and the pastor as to who gets there first.<<<<<<<<<

I'll sign that memo. The pastor sounds like the type of 'Holy Man' that would have told his flock that the carpenter that hangs out with whores, eats without washing his hands sometimes, and that does good deeds on the Sabbath is really a nobody or a blasphemer.

As for the daughters, some one should probably sit them down with a few choice readings from Romans, Galations, and IPeter 3:15--as well other selections from IPeter.

Maybe even that passage from ICorinthians tha describes a state of being as patient, kind, not rude, not self seeking, bearing all things, believing all things. Even the ability of Christ and the Holy Spirit to redeem their mother from her sins...

[Green Knight]

I agree to that as long as they agree not attend the Body of Christ Ministry because of all the brainwashing going on," said Green.

Don't we have a little thing in this country called the First Amendment which protects Freedom of Religion? Nice to see our courts hard at work, violating peoples' rights to exercise that freedom.

[cherry]

"Really folks, I have to ask this. I see what looks like an awful lot of animosity toward homosexuals here on FR. Shouldn't God be the one to judge these individuals? (Yes I'm fully prepared, so flame on if you feel you have to)"

well, yes and no....there are a lot of hate mongers here masquerading as good conservatives.....you name it, they are against it....The Catholic church, gays, any limits on porn, republicans, democrats, etc.....don't feel like you are the only one put upon...lol

but seriously, I think most here feel the way I do....that ones' sexuality is private as long as you keep it private....

[GraniteStateConservative]

The original post.

B&P, I don't know why you think I'd make something like that up.

Olguin said the girls discussed how their mother was pointed out during a church service and told that she would go to hell because of her lifestyle.

"The girls were afraid they would go to hell, too, if they lived in that home," she said.