Evangelicals with gay children challenging church
From: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/evangelicals-with-gay-children-challenging-church/ar-BBg4jLd?ocid=iehp
The article is about Evangelical Christian parents who put their 12 year old gay son into reparative therapy. The son didn't go straight, and eventually went heavy into drugs and died of an overdose at 17.
Now, the parents are gay-pride-wrist-band-wearing advocates of accepting gay children, and are trying to get the Evangelical movement to change. Their excuse is that they were "...so wrongly taught..." by the church. (So much for the conservative philosophy of personal responsibility and not blaming others for your problems or shortcomings.)
This pisses me of on so many levels, I don't know where to start. I feel miserable for the kid, but my anger drives me to the dishonorable feeling that the parents got what they deserved. Fuck those who won't empathize with something until it harms them.
It just frustrates me sleepless that you have people who go from hardcore "gay is evil" to "gay is great" literally overnight when *they* experience a tragedy related to their gay child.
I had one of these at work. Luckily, it wasn't a tragedy that changed the gun-worshiping moron into an advocate for gays. His teenage son merely came out of the closet to him one day, and by the following Monday, this ranting anti-gay piece of shit came to work wearing a small rainbow pin on his shirt. Because gay had suddenly become cool.
The previous year he spouted bible verses and and said that gay guys should have their balls cut off and shoved in their mouth. His beloved son comes out, and he's Harvey Milk all of a sudden.
I wonder how many kids he harmed emotionally before he had his come-to-Jesus moment? He probably promoted self-doubt and feelings of shame in his son and his son's friend for years. But, now, we should give him the benefit of our understanding? After the damage that he's likely done?
No. He doesn't deserve the privilege of wearing rainbow symbols or attending a colorful pride event with his son. (Yes, they went to L.A. Pride together in 2012.)
If anti-gay parents had been anti-gay activists before their children came out - or worse, died - then they aren't entitled to a "fabulous life" with their children after a gay revelation. At best they should abandon their anti-gay activities, remain quiet, restrained and neutral after the fact and should not benefit from the happiness of an openly gay child.
At worst, they should go to hell.
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Seriously?
You think you have the right to judge another DU'er and the pain they have gone through, and tell them if they don't send forth loving positive energy as opposed to "hate-filled narrow mindedness" then they should become Republicans?
Here is how it goes down in my eyes: people who screw other people over (like the parents in the story) get a pat on the back for "getting better" but still have to do the whole "regret, repent and repair" for the damage they've done to everyone else while they were getting to their "come to Jesus" moment. You spend YEARS torturing someone / destroying their self-esteem, you don't get to play "Paul" and everything is better now, because the ONLY PEOPLE who can offer forgiveness are the ones who have been WRONGED.
For anyone else to suggest "well, they said they were sorry, so quit being mean" when lives have been destroyed is gall beyond the pale.
I think you need to take a look at that log in your eye, because I found your reply to be (to quote you): "an extraordinarily harsh, judgmental and hate filled attitude..."
ON EDIT: If this gets alerted, and the original poster has made a change, please be aware that where ever you see a "quote" it comes from the poster to whom I am responding.
