Comments on: Exactly The Opposite of What The Ex-Gays Told Me http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Zeke http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208/comment-page-1#comment-12016 Zeke Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:38:39 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208#comment-12016 My father was the one who was loving and understanding when I came out. My mother ranted, raved, assaulted me mentally and emotionally, threw me out of the house and didn't speak to me for over two years. I can't tell you how many gay people I know who tell the same story of a loving supportive father and a bitch of a mother. I really don't understand the commonly repeated myths about how mother's are ALWAYS loving and supportive of their children or why people refuse to acknowledge that MANY mothers are their children's worst nightmares and MANY fathers are awsome parents. Too bad our family courts and our society in general don't seem to notice. My father was the one who was loving and understanding when I came out. My mother ranted, raved, assaulted me mentally and emotionally, threw me out of the house and didn’t speak to me for over two years.

I can’t tell you how many gay people I know who tell the same story of a loving supportive father and a bitch of a mother.

I really don’t understand the commonly repeated myths about how mother’s are ALWAYS loving and supportive of their children or why people refuse to acknowledge that MANY mothers are their children’s worst nightmares and MANY fathers are awsome parents.

Too bad our family courts and our society in general don’t seem to notice.

]]> By: rich http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208/comment-page-1#comment-12011 rich Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:29:19 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208#comment-12011 This is a really touching story Jason - and I am so pleased you found the genuine love of a parent - I am just regretful that I have add to that - eventually! Without wishing to take anything away from this piece - I feel that I must suggest that the abuse and harm you suffered in therapy is unethical and actually contrary to the way most contemporary and informed therapists operate. I am sorry that you suffered these experiences - but I am optimistic that psychoterapy is 'wiser' nowadays. This is a really touching story Jason – and I am so pleased you found the genuine love of a parent – I am just regretful that I have add to that – eventually!

Without wishing to take anything away from this piece – I feel that I must suggest that the abuse and harm you suffered in therapy is unethical and actually contrary to the way most contemporary and informed therapists operate. I am sorry that you suffered these experiences – but I am optimistic that psychoterapy is ‘wiser’ nowadays.

]]> By: Ben in Oakland http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208/comment-page-1#comment-12005 Ben in Oakland Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:55:19 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/06/14/2208#comment-12005 Wonderful story, Jason. It once again underlines how often 'good'christians are very willing to talk the talk, but seem to have forgotten their shoes when it comes to doing the actual walking. Wonderful story, Jason. It once again underlines how often ‘good’christians are very willing to talk the talk, but seem to have forgotten their shoes when it comes to doing the actual walking.

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