People say that parents and children love each other unconditionally. However if you came out as gay (or any other kind of minority sexuality) and your parents refused to accept you, thereby breaking their end of that deal, would you still be able to hold up yours?
This is kind of perplexing me. I understand that some parents would believe that their child would be going to hell, and in their best interest they would not want them to be gay. But with that being said, if you truly believed that your child was going to hell would you want to make their life on Earth hell as well? Also, the gay to straight reform camps emulate that sense of trying to give your child salvation. But these do not work, but I think the parents do have good intentions. Ultimately, it is not the end of the world if a parent cannot except their child's sexuality (as long as they accept their child as their own), however, nothing in the bible compels them to reject their children all together if they are gay, and that would be crossing the line, to the point in which I could not really respect them because they would be against me without any societal, religious, or secular moral backing.
This is kind of perplexing me. I understand that some parents would believe that their child would be going to hell, and in their best interest they would not want them to be gay. But with that being said, if you truly believed that your child was going to hell would you want to make their life on Earth hell as well? Also, the gay to straight reform camps emulate that sense of trying to give your child salvation. But these do not work, but I think the parents do have good intentions. Ultimately, it is not the end of the world if a parent cannot except their child's sexuality (as long as they accept their child as their own), however, nothing in the bible compels them to reject their children all together if they are gay, and that would be crossing the line, to the point in which I could not really respect them because they would be against me without any societal, religious, or secular moral backing.