Gays, family ties and opening up....

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

We had a gay man attending our church for a while. He is living with the son of one of our members.

Honestly, I did not have a problem with this as he tried to pray and seemed to want to change. He finally told our pastor he didn't want to change.

When he told our son that he was "beautiful" it became personal for me and I struggled with - correction - am struggling to have compassion on him. My first thought was - "I wouldn't care if you dropped dead now."

I think when it becomes personal it's another whole ball game to work through.

Sorry, if anyone is offended by my feelings. I honestly am trying to work through this. He doesn't attend anymore, but my husband said, which he didn't mean and was speaking out of fear - "If he touches my son, I'll beat him to death with a baseball bat".

That is how volatile feelings can run, for some, with this issue. Just being honest.

I agree. If someone came after me or my kid that way it would be different whether it is same sex or not. But just purely being gay has nothing to do with that. Some gay people, men especially are very over the top and want to sleep with every man they see....some aren't, my family isn't. Not that you are doing this, but people are naive when they think all gays are the same. Every straight person ain't the same either. Gays are not out to recruit other to 'gaydom' or 'homosexualville'