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My mom picked me up from a "date." It wasn't really a date because we're not officially going out yet, but it might as well have been. Anyway.

My mom, kinda out of nowhere, asks me how I can have a different sexuality. She's talking about how it's abnormal and all this other stuff and how she'll never understand me or my brother because it's so strange, and all this other stuff. "I wish you could go with a guy," she says. One time, a long time ago, she said, "why couldn't I just have normal children?!" She talks about it as if she thinks it's absolutely disgusting. But she never mentioned sacrilege before.

Then today, she was like, "When god created man, and man was lonely, he didn't create another man to keep him company. He created woman."

Touchee (pronounced two-shay)... but I'm Agnostic. So that didn't really fly with me.

It really hurts that she has so much trouble accepting me, and I wish she wouldn't bring it up. Fortunately, after I countered with my comment about my being agnostic, she promptly changed the subject.

It's times like this I don't want to talk to my mother. I don't want anything to do with her when she talks like that. I mean, it's not her choice. It's mine. She's not the one who has to go out with that person, you know?

I see I'm ranting and getting off track. I'll stop. *takes a deep breath and counts to ten*

But don't you feel this way? And why do they have to bring religion into the picture... especially when they know you don't care WHAT God did or said?

People would sometimes try to use quotes from the bible to prove god's existance. I was like... "But to me, the bible is just another fictional story book. Where is your substantiated proof?" but they just didn't get it.

pleh.

yeah, but then they'll say, "the bible is the word of god, and the lotr was written by tolkein." But see, the bible is the word of man that he is writing the word of god. So what gives? Don't they see how stupid their arguments are?

i've only spoken with one that does see the flaw there. that happens to be my dad. most seem to think it was written directly by god and handed to people by him, while its really just some peoples translations of what they were apparently told by god.

Well, you gotta take a look at it from their point of view. To your parents, they can't imagine anyone NOT accepting the Bible, namely you. So when they quote the Bible, they think they're showing you your own hipocrisy. Even though you may not believe the Bible. Your best defence would be to find some quotes in the Bible to quote back at her. But you need to realize, your parents are obviously homophobic, and thinking that their own child is homosexual is hard for them. They think "Was it my fault?" "What did I do wrong?" Your parents are blaming themselves, even though its your decision, not theirs.

To people that believe that a universal morality applies to all of mankind, your beliefs are irrelevent.
To people that didn't come to their conclusions by logic, logic is irrelevent.

You must find a way to tell her why you believe what you believe, because it's clear that she doesn't currently understand.

I do hate it when people bring religion into arguments though.
There's a reason why it's called faith; you can't logically expect others to believe it.

xd I haven't found a girlfriend yet either, maybe I'll be a priest. eek

If I were gay, I think my whole family would accept it with great ease.
Heh, far as I know, when my sister found out she was bisexual and told the family, everyone was just like, "okay."
Maybe I'm lucky...

Ok, I'm Catholic and I'm not even ok with people doing this. The idea that some people have about everyone believing the Bible is the word of the Lord even if they aren't Christian is ludicrous. I mean, I was Agnostic when I was younger, and you could quote scripture to me all day and I'd tell you to leave me alone or I'd report you for harrasment. I wish one of these people would explain to me how they managed to convince themselves that people will believe a book they consider to be the Word of G-d, when the person they're preaching to considers it nothing more than a fairytale?