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Mother’s Day On Our Radar – Mindy Forsythe Rescues A Tortured Gay Teen (trigger warning)
I also loved the elementary school years, even as a single mom in a wheelchair. My kids were five and ten when I was paralyzed, and that was one very rough first year. But when I think back on that time, I don’t remember that ordeal. I think of Little League games and way-too-indulgent Christmases, and reading “just one more” goodnight story to sleepy little faces.
“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.”
What I was not good at, and did not enjoy, were the teenage years. When I think of that period of my kids’ lives, words like “sneaky”, “moody”, “selfish” and “ungrateful” start pouring out, so I find it best not to visit there. For me, my kids’ teen years were something I endured, not something I enjoyed. I would never have considered taking another teen into our home, much less a troubled one.
That experience may be why, when I heard the story of Mindy Forsythe who saved a gay teenager from hell at home, I immediately wanted to have her canonized. St. Mindy. Patron saint of lost gay teens.
From the outside looking in, Mindy, her husband Dale and their three children have the picture perfect, happy suburban family. Corey Nichols had anything but.
Fifteen-year-old Corey (right) had the bad fortune to be one of the thousands of gay kids rejected by his religiously homophobic family. Knowing how they felt, he tried to keep his sexuality hidden, but they suspected. Corey told Out In Santa Cruz that his father warned him that gay people were not only sinners, they were sin itself, and when they reached a certain age, they had to be killed. Corey says his father threatened:
“If any fag lived in this house, I would shoot them in the head with a shotgun.”
Corey was miserable – as you can imagine. Then one night, sick and scared, he told his friend Aubrey in an online forum:
“I am desperate. Things here are so bad, I want to slit my wrists. I am not kidding.”
It was the luckiest moment of Corey’s young life, because Aubrey’s mother, our shero Mindy, happened by at that moment and saw what was on her daughter’s computer screen.
“It was like I was possessed by someone else,” Mindy recalls. “I knew I needed to act, and to do something, but everything I did was against my nature and not how I usually act as a person.”
“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.”
What I was not good at, and did not enjoy, were the teenage years. When I think of that period of my kids’ lives, words like “sneaky”, “moody”, “selfish” and “ungrateful” start pouring out, so I find it best not to visit there. For me, my kids’ teen years were something I endured, not something I enjoyed. I would never have considered taking another teen into our home, much less a troubled one.
That experience may be why, when I heard the story of Mindy Forsythe who saved a gay teenager from hell at home, I immediately wanted to have her canonized. St. Mindy. Patron saint of lost gay teens.
From the outside looking in, Mindy, her husband Dale and their three children have the picture perfect, happy suburban family. Corey Nichols had anything but.
Fifteen-year-old Corey (right) had the bad fortune to be one of the thousands of gay kids rejected by his religiously homophobic family. Knowing how they felt, he tried to keep his sexuality hidden, but they suspected. Corey told Out In Santa Cruz that his father warned him that gay people were not only sinners, they were sin itself, and when they reached a certain age, they had to be killed. Corey says his father threatened:
“If any fag lived in this house, I would shoot them in the head with a shotgun.”
Corey was miserable – as you can imagine. Then one night, sick and scared, he told his friend Aubrey in an online forum:
“I am desperate. Things here are so bad, I want to slit my wrists. I am not kidding.”
It was the luckiest moment of Corey’s young life, because Aubrey’s mother, our shero Mindy, happened by at that moment and saw what was on her daughter’s computer screen.
“It was like I was possessed by someone else,” Mindy recalls. “I knew I needed to act, and to do something, but everything I did was against my nature and not how I usually act as a person.”
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/on-our-radar-mindy-forsythe-rescues-a-tortured-gay-teen/news/2014/05/11/86029
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... "If that were MY son, I'd kick him out of the house-- that's just WRONG!". My father looked my uncle right in the eye and said, "Gene, there not a thing wrong with my son, but there's something TERRIBLY wrong with any parent who would do that to their child, just because they're gay".
Thank you, Dad. Love you always!
