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 Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:20 pm
I found this on Shoujo-ai.com
The following is a very strong and moving letter written by the mother of a gay boy in Vermont...
"Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. 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 firstborn 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 "f**" incessantly, starting when he was 6.
In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life without dignity.
You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. God gave you brains so that you could think, and it's about time you started doing that.
At the core of all your misguided beliefs is the belief that this could never happen to you, that there is some kind of subculture out there that people have chosen to join. The fact is that if it can happen to my family, it can happen to yours, and you won't get to choose. Whether it is genetic or whether something occurs during a critical time of fetal development, I don't know. I can only tell you with an absolute certainty that it is inborn.
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. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing I received with no effort whatsoever on my part. It is so woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever change it. For those of you who reduce sexual orientation to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I'm puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you could change it at will? If that's not the case, then why would you suggest that someone else can?
A popular theme in your letters is that Vermont has been infiltrated by outsiders. 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 invoke the memory of the brave people who have fought on the battlefield for this great country, saying that they didn't give their lives so that the "homosexual agenda" could tear down the principles they died defending. My 83-year-old father fought in some of the most horrific battles of World War II, was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart.
He shakes his head in sadness at the life his grandson has had to live. He says he fought alongside homosexuals in those battles, that they did their part and bothered no one. One of his best friends in the service was gay, and he never knew it until the end, and when he did find out, it mattered not at all. That wasn't the measure of the man.
You religious folk just can't bear the thought that as my son emerges from the hell that was his childhood he might like to find a lifelong companion and have a measure of happiness. It offends your sensibilities
that he should request the right to visit that companion in the hospital, to make medical decisions for him or to benefit from tax laws governing inheritance.
How dare he? you say. These outrageous requests would threaten the very existence of your family, would undermine the sanctity of marriage. You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant. God is not for the privileged majority, and God knows my son has committed no sin.
The deep-thinking author of a letter to the April 12 Valley News who lectures about homosexual sin and tells us about "those of us who have been blessed with the benefits of a religious upbringing" asks: "What ever happened to the idea of striving . . . to be better human beings than we are?"
Indeed, sir, what ever happened to that? "
If you believe that homosexuals deserve the same rights as everyone else, repost this, and pray and thank god that there are people like this mother, cause without them, where would we be?
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:25 am
Wow... eek Go mom.... heart
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:04 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:34 am
WoW! She really told them lol. like he said Go MoM! by yall biggrin
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:10 pm
Wow...This gives me hope for telling my own mom about my sexuality...
It's great seeing a parent fighting for this... Most exceptionaly, a religous one apparently.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:33 pm
Mothers, parents, and people like her really do give hope for the next genoration. hope for maybe a better life, a better home, a better world.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:21 pm
wow! o_O i'm gonna have my mom read this^^
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:21 pm
this was great what the mom did. yet she didnt move because she was Vermontean
well then how could she love the state that hated her and her son. how could she live knowing that she could move, save her sons life and being able to live a life.
If she loves vermont so much than why cant she move, to make her state happy.
this is sad how the people treated the boy. but you can never excape it. but this is unexceptible for people to act like this.
I am not mad at vermont nor the people that taunt the boy. I am mad at the mom for not seeing that if she moved that she could save a life, and make people happy.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:16 pm
This goes for all sexualities. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:06 pm
Koi_Rebekka This goes for all sexualities. biggrin Yup!
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:56 pm
Wow, that letter truely gets to the heart of the issues when it comes to the reasons behind religious homophobia or just plain fear.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:16 pm
wow, that's deep smile go mom xd
i love that woman....
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:59 pm
Now that is praise worthy. She told them what for, didn't leave because things got tough, and supported her son the whole way. Every state needs to read this because no matter where you go there's homosexual bashings everywhere. No one is really safe from it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:03 pm
HEy MOM!!! She told them.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:48 pm
Hear hear dammit! Theres about as much wrong with being bi or gay as there is being straight, people that don't accept other people like that piss me off! scream People need to be more open minded and not just go "EW!", it's like telling a sky diver not to do it. He wants to do it, he enjoys it, ******** off! Same thing with homosexuals, if they wana do it it's their choice, not yours! *sighs* I feel much better now mrgreen
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