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Letter From A Mother

Here are excerpts from a letter JeanValJean posted in a comment. See the full letter here.

If you want to tout your own morality, you’d best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality.
I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people. I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual agenda” and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

My first born son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay. He never professed to be gay or had any association with anything gay, but he had the misfortune not to walk or have gestures like the other boys. He was called “fag” incessantly, starting when he was 6 …

You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselevs tear apart families and drive children to despair …

If you want to tout your own morality, you’d best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality.You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you …

Both sides of my family have lived in Vermont for generations. I am heart and soul, a Vermonter, so I’ll thank you to stop saying that you are speaking for “true Vermonters” …

You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant.


See also, What Was The Sin of Sodom?

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  • Amen to the woman who wrote this! Especially her final point.
    Plus I love her screenname. Les Mis for the win.

 
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