tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post4001378716360811453..comments2024-03-19T01:35:21.069-04:00Comments on The Closet Professor: Mothers...Ugh!Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05299122685163501819noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-8010660491418257102012-03-12T07:52:39.083-04:002012-03-12T07:52:39.083-04:00That you are a good personn is obvious. That you l...That you are a good personn is obvious. That you live your sexuality in a honnest and decent way seems, as far as I may perceive you through your blog, clear. That your way of living has nothing to do with evil or something like what religions say is bad, you don't seem, at all in this way. Your homosexuality is a part of you inner you, and you live it in a poetic , politically way, culurally, way - and I hope, also, with feelings and flesh. So...You are a big boy, aren't you ? What your mother thinks...and even she is your mother and your link with her is strong, because, sure, you are also a good child......This is her problem. Is'nt it ? Your life is your life. They are so many things of your life, your mother is not concerned with. And why be so upset because of what she thinks or feels ? And why sharing with her things that are completely yours ?<br /><br />Hoping for you, more confort for the life you chose.<br /><br />FrenchanonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-30331147935467456672012-03-11T16:15:31.963-04:002012-03-11T16:15:31.963-04:00I think everyone's mother is a little like tha...I think everyone's mother is a little like that when they come out. My mother doesn't understand it, but because of how my family works, we don't discuss anything. I've had a partner for almost 8 years, and I still feel like we're less than in her eyes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15891271065457242707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-77359724905723915612012-03-11T14:06:49.481-04:002012-03-11T14:06:49.481-04:00I saw an interesting comment on another blog conce...I saw an interesting comment on another blog concerning a young man coming out. The commenter mentioned that there are TWO comings out when you do so: you and your parents - they have to get used to being the parents of a gay kid. So perhaps that is part of her problem, too. She herself is embarrassed or ashamed or whatever to be the mother of a gay kid. For many of her generation, being gay is caused by how you were raised or at least that is what many believe. I hope she reads the book and takes it to heart.<br /><br />Peace <3<br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-52864427452407946532012-03-11T11:37:30.035-04:002012-03-11T11:37:30.035-04:00That all truth was established at one particular t...That all truth was established at one particular time, or in a specific time period, within only one culture and can never change makes absolutely no sense. Even the Catholic Church within which I grew up and was educated doesn't practice that although they say they do. <br /><br />I was taught in Catholic school that to eat meat on Friday was a mortal sin, that babies who died without being baptized went to Limbo and couldn't enter Heaven, that we should wear St. Christopher medals to protect us and pray to Saints like St. Philomena.<br /><br />Then one day, Poof!, it was OK to eat meat on Friday; Limbo didn't exist, never had, and all the babies were with Jesus; and Saints like Christopher and Philomena had been invented to foster devotion and really didn't exist, so don't pray to them any more. Made me wonder what else was a lie, and pushed me further toward getting away from religion altogether.<br /><br />I hope your mother does read the book and that it helps her see that the Bible was put together in a very political manner meant to suppress other genuine gospels that didn't support what had become the "party line." Hopefully, she'll see the importance of Jesus NEVER having said a word against homosexuality and will understand your full value, unclouded by irrelevant 4000 year old prejudices .Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-53987925799765263322012-03-11T10:13:52.516-04:002012-03-11T10:13:52.516-04:00Your statement that you work each day to teach the...Your statement that you work each day to teach the kids tollerance, which you can do with a job, and which you could not effectively do without a job. os telling of your mother's influence. She 'raised a good un for shore" and we know she is really proud of you...just as your readers! I'll bet the book might open, at just a little bir, her thoughts!!!silvereaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13811098608576016926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356114186987252972.post-37808848948264919862012-03-11T08:52:13.640-04:002012-03-11T08:52:13.640-04:00Joe: Do you think your mother is embarrassed for ...Joe: Do you think your mother is embarrassed for you or for her? I wonder whether she is worried more about your eternal soul or perhaps people would blame her for "making" you gay.fan of caseynoreply@blogger.com