I think this link is worth reading. It's not funny or anything, but it is one that should be widely spread, as it affects all of us. Be sure and have some tissues handy. Michael was not a faggot
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sad
Just read the article ,all I can add is that it is so sad,How people can turn their back on their children is beyond me ...I would killl for mine Rest in peace Michael
Tears...
For Michael and far too many others.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Intolerance
is such a silly thing, eventually it hurts even those who show it. Education is the only answer, as long as people believe homosexuality is acquired or a choice, this sort of intolerance will persist. In the end the parents lost their son forever - I hope they're happy now.
Angharad
It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that parents sometimes go to in order to salve their consciences when their rejection results in the death of a son or daughter, gay or not. I have seen it more than once, and usually the service is full of the self justification of the parents and the bigots who believe like them. The mother sounds like maybe she will blame all gays for the death of her son, believing as many Christians do that he was committing a sin and was being encouraged by others to do so. She will not be able to move on until she finally acknowledges her and her husband's and her other son, his grandmother that "couldn't get involved" responsibility in this. "Michael" would have been much better off in San Francisco where he could have gotten help. It would be nice if the family could be held legally responsible too.
At least that is the way the article affected me. No kid deserves that kind of rejection.
CaroL
This is one article that
needs to be read by all here. Micheal's story made me cry.
May Your Light Forever Shine
It's not us...
Who need read this... We already know this tale of woe all too well in our own lives, in the lives of close friends, in the lives of peoples whose stories we love. We already know better. Even though I really don't understand homosexuality and never will, it's similar enough to my own experience (heck, most people I come across think I present female because I'm "just a gay guy") that I can very very easily empathize.
Unfortunately it's the very people who most need to come to understand this story who never will accept it. They'll deny the truth of it to their graves and beyond. They'll probably continue to deny it even when Christ himself asks them why they treated him so.
I'm not saying Christ was a homosexual. But he did bear all burdens in the Garden before the crucifixion. He bore what Michael did. And those who treat their fellow man that way are doing it unto Christ, whether they know it or not.
... Sorry for bringing religion into it like that, but it just really irks me when people equate this brutality with Christianity. This isn't true Christianity. This is devil's worship cloaked in white robes.
Abigail Drew.
Powerful
That was 1 very powerful story and a heart breaker.
Ther are many Micheals out there hopefully they have a better outcome.
R I P Micheal free at last :-( RICHIE2