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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 . 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.

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

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?

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

Sadly, you weren't exposed to an open, healthy outlook on gay sexualy to help brg you to self-acceptance.

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!

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:. 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.

MUM’S HEARTBREAKG LETTER TO GAY SON

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. 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.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MOM, FROM HER GAY SON

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”?

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. 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).

DAD'S LOVE LETTER TO GAY TEENAGE SON GO VIRAL

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.

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

Y, the Gospel wel sners, heterosexual and homosexual sners, but, thanks be to God, do not leave there (1 Cor.

DAD'S TOUCHG LETTER ACCEPTG GAY SON GO VIRAL

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.

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. 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.

ASK AMY: PARENT PRSUR GAY SON TO CHANGE

"Everythg I thk, believe, crave, create, nquer om beg gay. " To be gay is e for great celebratn, one of the self-fg featur of Richie Jackson's life -- all of which exist direct ntrast to Jackson's son who is also gay and seems to exhib a nonchalance toward his sexualy. His son scrib beg gay as not a big al, and that way, Gay Like Me serv as a urse rrectn, a splash of ld water agast this younger generatn's face.

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

Our safety, Gay Like Me warns rears, is not a certaty, and our vigilance and llective actn is required orr to keep makg a preview below and click here to listen to the full podst terview. Jefey Masters: In Gay Like Me, you wrote that everythg good that has happened to you is bee you are gay. I was elated, and he said, "Daddy, beg gay is not a big al.

"And I thought, "Oh no, I have to tell him what means to be a gay man. Now I had to warn him how to be a gay man Ameri, what tak to be a gay man That's a worry, I thk, that only a queer parent would know to have.

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

He has no gay guard.

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

" We all have a gay guard. There's a vigilance to beg gay and 's have to always be aware of who's around you, where you are, what you're sayg, who's hearg you.

When we were married 2012, legally married the state of New York, two blocks om our home a gay man was lled gay slurs and then shot to 're legal, we're not I had to teach my son how to have a gay guard, to build up his gay guard, to unrstand that g out isn't only jt once, but you're gog to have to e out every day, multiple tim a day, and this guard will let you know when is safe to e out and when 's Most gay people learn the lsons outsis of their That's how lucky I feel to be able to give him the lsons, bee I know that I didn't get them when I was growg up, and I had to learn them by trial, error, and a lot of tribulatn. RJ: My very first acts as a gay man was to march the ralli about tryg to get the ernment to act.

Beg polil, beg angry, and beg gay are all wrapped up together for Growg up, beg gay was fed by AIDS for me. What was associated wh beg gay then?