Now that's interesting...
Mar. 12th, 2007 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickpsJust had a chat with my uber-bearish (and very straight) second in command at work. He'd been telling me that his son from his first marriage (who he'd not seen for 18 years) was making a visit this week and he hoped to re-bond with the young man.
Today the other shoe dropped - the son is 21, gay, and was tossed out of the house by his biological mother when he came out. (I'll skip the diatribe on cruel parenting and idiotic actions taken in the name of religion) Life in semi-rural Oregon must have been doubly hard as a result. The kid had to quit college, where he was doing quite well, and get a job in retail to support himself. Sad situation.
Second-in-command and his current wife want the kid to consider moving to SoCal, move in with them, go back to college, and get back into a more normal life. Current wife, who works in a corner of the medical trades where gay folk are in abundance, wants to introduce the kid to a more accepting gay community. I gather a trip to Hillcrest is in the schedule among other gay-centric activities.
Diametrically opposed views, no? On the one hand, a mother who is biologically and legally obligated to raise her son, has cast him adrift. Whether he lives or dies doesn't concern her. And on the other, the isolated father and his wife willing to give of themselves, their home, and their love to see that this young man, who is effectively a stranger, have a place he can call home.
We live in a strange, strange world...
Today the other shoe dropped - the son is 21, gay, and was tossed out of the house by his biological mother when he came out. (I'll skip the diatribe on cruel parenting and idiotic actions taken in the name of religion) Life in semi-rural Oregon must have been doubly hard as a result. The kid had to quit college, where he was doing quite well, and get a job in retail to support himself. Sad situation.
Second-in-command and his current wife want the kid to consider moving to SoCal, move in with them, go back to college, and get back into a more normal life. Current wife, who works in a corner of the medical trades where gay folk are in abundance, wants to introduce the kid to a more accepting gay community. I gather a trip to Hillcrest is in the schedule among other gay-centric activities.
Diametrically opposed views, no? On the one hand, a mother who is biologically and legally obligated to raise her son, has cast him adrift. Whether he lives or dies doesn't concern her. And on the other, the isolated father and his wife willing to give of themselves, their home, and their love to see that this young man, who is effectively a stranger, have a place he can call home.
We live in a strange, strange world...
