My Catholic Kid is Gay! Now What??

Contents:

• “MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
• HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS
• 'A PRAYER FOR BECKET': EX-GAY SON DISVERS HIS MOTHER'S SECRET PRAYER THAT SET HIM FREE
• MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??
• MY SON IS GAY
• MOM’S POWERFUL PRAYER FOR GAY SON
• A PRAYER FOR PARENTS LEARNG TO LOVE THEIR GAY CHILD
• PRAYERS FOR GAY PEOPLE

“MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE

Your child is gay. But for many Christian parents, nothg n prepare them to hear that their beloved child is gay.

HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RPOND TO THEIR CHILD'S GAY INTY CRISIS

If you are a Christian parent, fay member or iend to whom your loved one has e out as gay or lbian, then this is for you. They did not “choose gayns” to rebel agast you, get back at you or make your life miserable. As a younger Christian, tght that homosexualy is a s, I believed that trma somewhere someone’s past ed homosexualy, even if they didn’t remember .

To my surprise, God pletely shifted my unrstandg and revealed to me the many people who had a great childhood are still gay.

Some gay teens have been shamed, banished, threatened, beaten, and shunned. If dog the thgs meant that homosexualy would not vis a Christian home, then we wouldn’t see croppg up so often.

'A PRAYER FOR BECKET': EX-GAY SON DISVERS HIS MOTHER'S SECRET PRAYER THAT SET HIM FREE

But please unrstand that even if we disagree, nothg chang regardg our rponsibily, our blsg as a Mom or a Dad to unndnally love, accept and affirm our gay children – as God has done wh . Rachel Held Evans nclus her blog post If my son or dghter were gay wh this paragraph:. If God bls Dan and me wh a child who is gay, I would want that child to know whout a doubt that he or she is loved unndnally.

MY CATHOLIC KID IS GAY! NOW WHAT??

I believe Rachel’s motivatn is to create a more welg and lovg environment the church for those who intify themselv as homosexuals, or who stggle wh homosexual sire.

MY SON IS GAY

I admire and agree wh her motive, and mt say that I’ve learned om her this area of beg much more reful how I speak and wre about homosexualy.

First, she don’t munite any ncern about the sfulns of homosexual sir nor the immoraly of homosexual actns.

MOM’S POWERFUL PRAYER FOR GAY SON

She seems to nvey that homosexual sir are not part of human brokenns, and that to pursue homosexual practic do not have any bearg on a person’s relatnship wh Christ.

” There is no ditn that she se anythg wrong or unbiblil about homosexualy.

Send, Rachel seems to intify everyone who tak the view that homosexual sir are part of broken human sfulns, and that homosexual actns are s, as bulli.

A PRAYER FOR PARENTS LEARNG TO LOVE THEIR GAY CHILD

However, ’s irrponsible and unfair to group all who say that homosexualy is immoral as bulli of Christ’s ltle on.

What do you mean by “I thk I’m gay”?

PRAYERS FOR GAY PEOPLE

Are you therefore planng to pursue homosexual relatnships? Sixth, if your son agre that homosexualy is sful, and he wants to have victory over the temptatns, then there are many Gospel promis you n enurage him wh. However, if he says that he believ homosexualy to be okay and he’s cid to pursue , then while assurg him of your ntued love and re, you mt lovgly warn him of the spirual and physil dangers of homosexualy.

Seventh, I’d enurage the son not to see himself as a homosexual, not to fe himself by his sexualy. Rather I’d want him to see himself as creature ma God’s image, a man wh many parts to his inty, a person wh many gifts, a son wh a diverse character and personaly, one part of which, at least for the moment, is to have a homosexual sir.