Surely, CNN can do better than to tout this ignorant attention-seeker as an ‘expert’.

I read his apology over at GLAAD and accept it.

I remember my own mother’s reaction when I came out to her and remember it being about her and not about me. I think there is still a little truth in his original statement.

Pam Spaulding had a poll on her blog with “Get off my lawn” as an option. I like that one.

And FYI, American Morning runs from 6-9 am Eastern. Dr. Gardere was talking to Kiran Chetry.

This tests the courage and commitment of the parents to do their damndest to protect and support their child, come what may.

This discussion has been the same whether talking about mixed children from interracial couples, to the gay children of whoever.
To speculation on the motives of parents who have crippling and painful genetic diseases who decide to have a child despite the warnings.

Gay children, more than any others, is why the question: What about the children? Will loom, even before the child is born, the child is the one expected to carry the burden of their parent’s cowardice.

NerdyAppleBottom showed her courage that not all parents confronted with this issue will have.
She’s rare, and she’s public about the protection of her cub, come what may.

The real deal is few parents are allowed or are given the tools, intellectual, emotional or moral, to prepare to deal with having a gay child.

Indeed, the arrogance of themselves and their communities, assume they never WILL have a gay child, and if they do, to respond with the same hostility as an outside mob, rather than instinctual parental protection FROM that mob.
Consider Clint McCance’s statement what he’d do to a gay child of his own.

It might stand to reason, if a gay child has a physical sign of being gay, rather than it manifest after they’ve bonded with their parent, they’d have been left in the wild at birth to die.

So it begs a bigger question why a parent would do the equivalent of that abandonment long after the fact of knowing their child and loving them?

This is NEVER about the child, the adults hide behind that child so they won’t have to examine their own moral cowardice.
This is about the PARENTS and whether they are willing to protect and give their child what they need whether they are gay or not.
After all, gay children DO have straight siblings.
They are expected to be different from each other, yet have the same parental love and guidance and support.

Shame on those mothers A, B, and C that NAB described.
They are those parents whose own cowardice betrayed more than they might think.
And NAB showed them what she was willing to do AGAINST them. Something a lot of faith communities don’t expect, but should.

And I wish more parents of gay children were ferocious, determined and it wouldn’t hurt for them to let it be known they might kill for the love and protection of their own.

If only.
Because if the FAMILIES of gay people got behind them politically as well as socially, there would be a lot more to fight societal homophobia like NAB is doing while her son is still little.
She’s not trying to wait until too late.
She’s doing it NOW.
And more power to HER.

Oh, sure a lot of parents want their child to be heterosexual but thinking that if their child was gay it’d be their worst nightmare? Get real, obviously not. The vast majority of parents are going to have worst nightmares that are far, far more shattering than that.

Is this really so unthinkable? It’s all very misogynistic, really….