(about a father disowning his son for being gay)
I certainly hope I never find myself in the same situation as this father, but if my son told me that he was deciding to pursue a lifestyle that he'd been told repeatedly by me was unacceptable, I don't see how I'd be able to maintain a relationship. But I wouldn't consider that I'd disowned him—rather that he'd disowned me. Hopefully this son, in not being patted on the back by everyone in the world, might actually be forced to wonder whether a sexual proclivity was worth a relationship with the man who brought him into the world.
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You're the one who created him; you're responsible for what he is.
People don't "decide to pursue a lifestyle", they are born like that.
If my dad disowned me because I'm gay, I wouldn't consider him my dad to begin with.
You're a cunt, and it saddens me that you people actually reproduce.
Hopefully this son, in not being patted on the back by everyone in the world, might actually be forced to wonder whether a sexual proclivity was worth a relationship with the man who brought him into the world.
He may rather wonder whether a relationship with someone who valued dogma over love was worth having when that person could not handle characteristics in his son which he could not help.
Yes. He would definitely decide it was worth it, if all he had to lose was "a relationship" with a small-minded person who didn't want his child to become an individual who makes his own decisions.....and who cold-bloodedly lays out his criteria for "a relationship" with his own child without ever using the word "love".
No, you're not allowed to play the victim card for being a shitty parent. When you're old and dying alone in a nursing home without your children by your side because you've alienated and rejected them, you're still not allowed to play the victim card.
Here's a fact that'll toast your bagels: There are straight mothers & fathers who participate in Pride parades, along with their gay sons/daughters.
you .
I know this is old, but here's something to think about: you're not in charge of your hypothetical son's psychology. Neither is he. And if he "decides" that he's gay (read: accepts that he has always been gay) then he'd surely value the love of the man who accepts him for who he is rather than the man who refuses to.
I have a friend whose parents disowned him for a)being pansexual and b)getting engaged to a transgender male. He disowned them back, and refuses to use their last name anymore. As he very well fucking should.
@Swede
"It's as inane as saying that your son decides to pursue a lifestyle of tallness, or left-handedness."
Don't say that! They might decide to bring back the days when left handedness was a sign of the devil and had to be beaten out of you!
Fundies seem to be of the mindset that anything can be beaten out of you, if you're beaten enough.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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