• Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s very sad. I’m fortunate that it was the opposite for me. Born into a hyper-conservative Catholic family, then when 3 out of 4 of their children wound up LGBTQ, they realized that God might have been telling them something. They’re extremely and refreshingly Christ-like, and total allies. They treat my same-sex fiancé as their full-blown in-law.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t call that a contrast honestly. Sounds like a very similar attitude.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah. Fair I guess. We don’t actually know the other person’s parents started out hateful. Perhaps just ignorant. I guess both angles are assumptions.

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      1 year ago

      One would think the choice would be obvious: Either accept your children for who they are, or accept some right-wing bullcrap and only get to talk with the one kid you didn’t shun from your life.

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        1 year ago

        As a parent it is truly unthinkable how anyone could disown their children over this kind of thing. I literally cannot fathom doing that to the people I love the most in this world.