Tell Me About It: ‘She has told my children on numero ocsns gay people will burn hell’
Contents:
- ‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’
- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
- I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
- CAN I MARRY A WOMAN AS A GAY MAN?
‘I HAVE A WONRFUL DGHTER, WHO IS GAY, AND A HOMOPHOBIC MOTHER’
* can i marry your daughter gay *
Scripture and the Church’s magisterium otherwise teach that homosexual sex—whether between two men or two women—is an trsic moral evil, let alone attemptg to publicly sanctn such a relatnship.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD SAYS: "I'M GAY"
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And the Church distguish between same-sex attractn (SSA) and homosexual acts (see CCC 2357-59). The obv lack of bodily plementary illtrat that one need not voke God to make a pellg argument agast homosexual sex. She also shuts down whenever I brg up boyiends or boys general (and she’s never dated a boy, as far as I know), and seems bothered by anti-gay ments and sermons she hears.
I’m worried that she might be gay and don’t feel fortable tellg bee of some ments her father has ma the past. We’re already at odds over the electn, but I still love her even if she is gay.
—Dghter Might Be Gay. You mt realize you nnot make your dghter one wh ls gay by wishg she were straight. Nor n you make her ls gay by keepg quiet when her father or pastor says somethg homophobic or by repeatedly askg if she has a boyiend.
I WAS MARRIED WH 2 KIDS WHEN I REALIZED I’M GAY
Your dghter may be gay or bisexual, but she may also be straight and merely disturbed by the anti-gay sentiment your church po.
CAN I MARRY A WOMAN AS A GAY MAN?
Do not let the only thg you ever say to your dghter about homophobia be nothg. Tell her that you regret never speakg up the past when you’ve heard anti-gay slurs, that you were wrong to let homophobia go unremarked-upon, and that your love for her is not ndnally based upon her prumed heterosexualy. Support your dghter by overtly tellg her that you support her, not that you would still love her “even if she is gay.
” When you tell someone, “I still love you even if you are gay, ” what you are really sayg is this: “Obvly beg gay is worse than beg straight.
There are many rourc available to you as you figure out how to parent a way gog forward that repudiat pulsory heterosexualy and anti-LGBTQ sentiments: nsir the work of Mel Whe, Soulforce, PFLAG, and the Gay Christian Network, among others.