10-09-2010, 05:14 PM
marshlander Wrote:I'll assume this is a serious message against my better judgement ...
Our children are not us, thank goodness! I have children from when I was married and I am as proud of them as anyone could be. Surely what you want for your son is for him to be fulfilled and happy as a man and useful as a citizen? If he doesn't want a relationship with a woman there is nothing wrong with him. As a parent your job is surely to do what you would do for any of your children under any circumstances - be there when they need you, offer advice IF asked and let them know you love them without conditions. Once he becomes an adult you don't actually need to do anything else.
Being gay is not a disease. Beings throughout the entire living world come in all sorts of packages. Nature has decreed that the easiest way of propagating the species is for a man and a woman to be together. However, some simply find those relationships don't work and prefer to be with their own kind. No one will catch gayness, no one dies of being gay. The only bad thing about being gay (considering we number less than five percent of the population) is the attitude (and, sadly, sometimes the actions) of other people who think we should be like them.
... and if you judge him by the car he prefers to drive ... maybe he's just into something less environmentally demanding.
A real man wants to drive a Big Block V8 powered land yacht, or hell just something with a V8. But the point is any normal boy should get something by 18. I'd even accept him having a fat chick at this point.