A Gay Man Wr a Love Letter (and Warng) to His Gay Son

Contents:

• A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE
• A MOTHER'S LETTER TO HER GAY SON BCE DAVID CIELLO
• “MOM, DAD… I’M GAY.” A CHRISTIAN PARENT’S RPONSE
• MUM’S HEARTBREAKG LETTER TO GAY SON
• AN OPEN LETTER TO MOM, FROM HER GAY SON
• DAD'S LOVE LETTER TO GAY TEENAGE SON GO VIRAL
• ‘I’VE KNOWN YOU WERE GAY SCE YOU WERE SIX’: DAD’S MOVG LETTER TO GAY SON GO VIRAL!
• DAD'S TOUCHG LETTER ACCEPTG GAY SON GO VIRAL
• ASK AMY: PARENT PRSUR GAY SON TO CHANGE
• THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY
• OPEN LETTER TO PARENTS OF GAY KIDS: THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU
• FATHER'S LETTER DISOWNG GAY SON JAM AFTER COMG OUT GO VIRAL

A LETTER TO HER GAY SON: SPREADG LR MAYENO'S PROFOUND MSAGE

Lr gave me permissn to re-post her letter to her son, “A Letter to My Gay Genr-Expansive Son, ” which she origally published to her HuffPost Parents blog on January 5, 2016: am spreadg Lr’s profound and empowerg msage bee more people need to read .

A MOTHER'S LETTER TO HER GAY SON BCE DAVID CIELLO

Enjoy Lr’s passn:A Letter to My Gay Genr-Expansive SonI tell my son I love him all the time.

No one is ashamed of havg a gay or transgenr child bee everyone is accepted and ’s a world where we all regnize people wh many genr inti, sexual orientatns and genr exprsns. I want to live a world where I am not nsired a special mom bee I love my gay son. A simple explanatn he was gay and he was mtg suici.

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

As keepg his homosexualy a secret beme his poison, his suici has bee me. It's still so hard to unrstand that your beg gay was the e of your suici. Not long ago, I read a sad story where a gay teen wrote he was "wag for his mother to ask him if he was gay, " bee he uldn't brg himself to say .

It ma me wonr were you wag for me to ask you if you were gay? Sadly, you weren't exposed to an open, healthy outlook on gay sexualy to help brg you to self-acceptance.

MUM’S HEARTBREAKG LETTER TO GAY SON

Granted, homosexualy was not visible, but your bt iend had a gay big brother who me out, and Tony and I had gay iends, and you knew they were loved and rpected. I believe we are all some way rponsible for yours and untls others aths om the homophobic attus that our society general embrac, to my own failure to have provid a proper sexual tn beyond the boundari of heterosexual love; and cludg trimental ments or jok you would have been exposed to by those you knew, who did not know they were affectg you.

Bce and his mom Spir, boundls and eePart of the universeA star the nightForever a part of God's mystil plan Wh all my love forever, Mom Roz Michaels next: A Price Too High~ all gay is ok!

AN OPEN LETTER TO MOM, FROM HER GAY SON

A Mother's Letter To Her Gay Son Bce David Ciello, HealthyPlace. Rachel Held Evans nclus her blog post If my son or dghter were gay wh this paragraph:.

DAD'S LOVE LETTER TO GAY TEENAGE SON GO VIRAL

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.

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. 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.

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.

‘I’VE KNOWN YOU WERE GAY SCE YOU WERE SIX’: DAD’S MOVG LETTER TO GAY SON GO VIRAL!

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. 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”?

DAD'S TOUCHG LETTER ACCEPTG GAY SON GO VIRAL

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.

ASK AMY: PARENT PRSUR GAY SON TO CHANGE

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. Eighth, I would ask him to keep g to church, pecially as homosexualy is sometim the rult of worshippg self rather than God (Romans 1:24-25). But I would ask his permissn to let the pastor know about his suatn bee I’d want to urge the pastor to greater sensivy towards those stgglg wh homosexualy.

Like Rachel, I too have wced and crged as preachers have nmned homosexualy as if is an unfiveable abomatn that only weird and wicked people outsi of church stggled wh.

Is somehow nceivable that there are some our church who have stggled wh homosexual sire and have fallen to s this area? Where I do disagree wh Rachel, is her refal to accept that hell and judgment are any part of the Christian msage about s, cludg homosexual s. Y, the Gospel wel sners, heterosexual and homosexual sners, but, thanks be to God, do not leave there (1 Cor.

THIS IS HOW I REALLY REACTED WHEN MY SON TOLD ME HE WAS GAY

A mother has shared the heartbreakg letter she wrote to her youngt son to apologise for her reactn when he me out as Abboud wrote to her son Patrick, a Sydney-based journalist and TV prenter, as part of the #AbsolutLoveLetters iative, to expla the “shame” she felt when she learnt he was gay.

“When you me out and told me that you are gay I got hysteril as at the time I didn’t unrstand , and thought was your choice to be that way, ” the letter reads. Patrick grew up a strict Arab hoehold Sydney’s wtern suburbs, and for years, he didn’t even know that beg gay was even an optn.

OPEN LETTER TO PARENTS OF GAY KIDS: THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU

Homosexualy was still illegal his parents’ homeland – his mother is Lebane and his father is Paltian.

“I had a girliend for a long time and tried to ‘pray the gay away’ and that lasted years. When you me out and told me that you are gay I got hysteril as at the time I didn’t unrstand , and thought was your choice to be that way, I wasn’t ted about , people said was a shame to our Arabic muny and society didn’t accept . I stggled si for a very long time but I started searchg, learng and talkg to profsnal people about until I unrstood the way I need to, that gay people don’t have a choice to be how they are, they are God’s betiful creatns and there shouldn’t be any discrimatn agast them.

FATHER'S LETTER DISOWNG GAY SON JAM AFTER COMG OUT GO VIRAL

In fact, I found after meetg your betiful partner and some of your gay and lbian iends, that they are more lovg and rg for others than most. "Everythg good that has happened to me is bee I am gay, " Richie Jackson wr his new book, Gay Like Me.

"Everythg I thk, believe, crave, create, nquer om beg gay.