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In reply to the discussion: It Was Like One Slap In My Face After Another... Gay Husbands Go To Red America. [View all]bobclark86
(1,415 posts)Uncle Bob caught banging the 15-year-old coffee girl at the office? Just got out of prison and is going back because he boinked her again at 16?
Eh, those are ALL forgivable. Remember, Jesus forgives EVERYONE!
Just as long as you ain't one of 'em "queer" folks.
I have a large red family, and one of my cousins has come out to a small handful of the more-tolerant (i.e.: the three Democrats and the two Socialists of the 40-member Republican clan) family members as a lesbian. I feel horrible for her if she ever "comes out" to the rest of the family. It was bad enough when her mother came back from her Peace Corps stint in Jamaica with a black man ("Think of the children!" is what her grandmother yelled at her mother the night before the wedding in the late 1980s). I'm pretty sure half of the heads in the family will explode over that kind of announcement.
You have my sympathies, Don. I don't give them out often, but you deserve them. My little bit of advice with this sort of craptastic situation: Just smile, nod, and then ignore them. You know, turn the other cheek and such. You won't convince them I know the types all too well. Focus on your love, and I hope your family is more-tolerant than those small-minded jackasses.