Would you dishonor your kid if he/she was gay?.

[Boing]

Well this father did.



https://gawker.com/grandpa-writes-letter-disowning-daughter-after-she-diso-1440373471

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/father-disowns-homophobic-daughter-in-epic-letter-230436549.html

 

[Swagger]

You can tell he is uneducated just by his writing style.

 

[McGuinty]

The hormonal theory of sexuality holds that, just as exposure to certain hormones plays a role in fetal sex differentiation, such exposure also influences the sexual orientation that emerges later in the adult. Prenatal hormones may be seen as the primary determinant of adult sexual orientation, or a co-factor with genes, biological factors and/or environmental and social conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_hormones_and_sexual_orientation

 

[Art Mann]

Well this father did.

You misleading us, Boing.

What happened is the grandfather has disowned his daughter for disowning her son, his gay grandson.

That handwriting is hard to read, so here's the easy-on-the-eyes version:

I'm disappointed in you as a daughter. You're correct that we have a "shame in the family", but mistaken about what it is. Kicking Chad out of your home simply because he told you he was gay is the real "abomination" here. A parent disowing her child is what goes "against nature".

The only intelligent thing I heard you saying in all this was that "you didn't raise your son to be gay". Of course you didn't. He was born this way and didn't choose it any more than he being left-handed. You however, have made a choice of being hurtful, narrow-minded and backward. So, while we are in the business of [disowning] our children, I think I'll take this moment to say goodbye to you. I now have a fabulous (as the gay put it) grandson to raise, and I don't have time for heartless B-word of a daughter.

[If] you find your heart, give us a call.[/If][If][/if][If]
-Dad[/if]

[If]

Kudos to grandpa for giving his grandson a new home, and for setting his daughter straight about family priorities.[/if]

 

[Art Mann]

I love my son...I don't really care if he is gay or straight. Now, if he turns out to be an asshole after all my efforts to bring him up to be a good person...then maybe.

Like you, my friend, I love my son.

Fortunately he turned out to be anything but an asshole. Bright, funny, hard-working, a totally good person for whom I hold great respect. My best friend, as it turns out, something which never occurred to me as a young parent that the future might hold.

As we are both raging heterosexuals, I never had to deal with the personal feelings some parents experience when a child comes out of the closet. But in view of the fact I have so many cool and talented friends who are gay, I suspect I would have adjusted without much difficulty.

The fact he's left-handed is a bigger problem, frankly. Whenever he buys an expensive new set of golf clubs, his expensive old set is absolutely no use to me, dammit.

 

[Boing]

You misleading us, Boing.

What happened is the grandfather has disowned his daughter for disowning her son, his gay grandson.

That handwriting is hard to read, so here's the easy-on-the-eyes version:

Oops thanks Art Mann for clarifying my error.

 

[DannyDeVito]

Oops thanks Art Mann for clarifying my error.

Shame on you :slap:

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Like you, my friend, I love my son.

Fortunately he turned out to be anything but an asshole. Bright, funny, hard-working, a totally good person for whom I hold great respect. My best friend, as it turns out, something which never occurred to me as a young parent that the future might hold..

In your case this doesn't surprise me Art.

As they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[SillyGirl]

I can't think of anything that would cause me to disown my son.

If he had turned out to be gay that would be fine with me. As long as he understood it would in no way relieve him of his obligation to give me grandbabies. :tongue:

 

[Wise Guy]

I can't think of anything that would cause me to disown my son.

If he had turned out to be gay that would be fine with me. As long as he understood it would in no way relieve him of his obligation to give me grandbabies. :tongue:

How would you feel if he was into hard drugs?.

 

[SillyGirl]

How would you feel if he was into hard drugs?.

I would feel sad and incredibly worried, but I would not disown him.

 

[Madman]

In your case this doesn't surprise me Art.

As they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Praise-Bowing

 

[Cardinal Fang]

You misleading us, Boing.

What happened is the grandfather has disowned his daughter for disowning her son, his gay grandson.

That handwriting is hard to read, so here's the easy-on-the-eyes version:

Thanks for transcribing the letter. My eyes were pushing to get out of my head. Powerful letter from the Grandfather.

 

[Art Mann]

I would feel sad and incredibly worried, but I would not disown him.

Wow . . . Your words cut so close to my own heart, SillyGirl.

Which is why I sympathize with Michael Douglas for the pain he feels as a parent as a result of his son Cameron imprisoned by drugs as well as by bars.