Contents:
- MY SON IS GAY
- PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
- MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?
- IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
MY SON IS GAY
They immediately clocked as gay, while we immediately clocked them as we warmed up to another, one mom anxly said: "I have a qutn: I am pretty sure my son is gay, but I don't know what to do. "For example, if someone the word "gay" place of "stupid, " remd them that the two are not terchangeable, and suggt they should say what they actually mean stead.
PARENT SPECTS THAT CHILD MIGHT BE GAY
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Wh gay marriage makg headl around the world, parents are lookg for helpful ways to intify wh children, iends, and fay members who intify as homosexual or same-sex attracted. "Our church never warned to thk through how you would want to rpond if your son tells you he's gay. Jordan's story is rerd a Christiany Today feature article, "Hope for the Gay Unrgrad.
In our discsns about Jordan, she has been very firm her belief that the Bible says homosexualy is a choice.
MY SON MIGHT BE GAY. WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO HIM?
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From what I'm told, there are many the church, like my son, who say they have homosexual attractns, but are choosg not to act on that s and stead, to live a chaste life servg the Lord. Jordan has shared several horrible stori about stunts he has known om Christian hom—some wh parents mistry—who have been beaten and abed by their parents when they tried to talk wh them about beg gay.
IS YOUR CHILD GAY?
Here are a few thgs I've learned on how to cultivate a healthy rponse to my son's nfsn of homosexualy:. My hband wisely unseled me to only share Jordan's revelatn wh a tsted and select few, so that if his homosexualy ed others to treat him differently, me om him sayg somethg and not . If they see firsthand how the Lord giv the power and abily to rpond to their homosexualy wh passn and love, rather than anger and abe as they may have expected, then maybe that example will empower them to believe that he n help them change as well.