If your child was gay, would you disown them?

Stop trying to make people think rationally. Religion isn't about rational thought. You let others do that for you.

 

I agree with this, partially. I used to think homosexuality was wrong, and even while believing that I couldn't disown my children for it. How could you disown your children for anything?

There are things I do that I don't tell my parents about because I partially don't want lectures and partially I don't want to disappoint them. But I'm fairly sure that I could do pretty much absolutely anything and my parents wouldn't disown me for it. I think the idea of saying you'd disown your kids for anything is bizarre, and wrong. Isn't parental love supposed to be unconditional if anything is?

Not to mention at this point I don't see anything wrong with homosexuality. I might be surprised if a kid of mine said they were, even shocked, but not really in a bad way. And they wouldn't be punished for it or disowned for anything.

It would make "the talk" a little more unusual and interesting though...

 

If my son/daughter turned out to be homosexual then *I* would've failed as a parent and their flaw is my fault. Therefore, I'm the one responsible for it...

To answer your question. No.

 

what the *edit*hell is wrong with you people?! How could you even think to say yes?!

your child, your own flesh and blood, you would disown for any reason? let alone being gay. there are much worse things in the world that boys kissing boys.

seriously.

what the **** is wrong with you.

 

Probably. But I am no bigot, for I would also disown any straight, bisexual, or asexual offspring of mine.

I want kids like I want testicular cancer. (Though I guess at least that could remove the possibility of having kids.)

 

If I were in this position it wouldnt bother me one bit. I am a vegetarian, but I would not disown them or think any less of them for eating meat. I am also agnostic, but it wouldnt bother me in the least if they were religious. I would encourage them.

I know several people who are gay, they are no different from straight people when it comes to personality. The subject of sex never comes up.

Those of you who say you would disown them....well I guess your offspring would be better off if you were to disown them.

 

No.

Wait, let me rephrase that:


HELL NO. I'd be a complete failure as a parent if I made my child, male or female, feel like they were less of a person because of something they couldn't change. I'd embrace whoever they chose to spend their life with as part of the family (heck, at least if they were gay I wouldn't have to worry so much about chasing punk teenage guys away from my daughter with a shotgun and a few landmines).

 

I like your thinking, Nathan. Hopefully, it'll become more common as the years and generations go by.

 

No. I would only disown a child who was not sensible enough as to want to disown me as a parent.

 

I'd most definitely not disown them. I'd be fine with them being straight,bi, or gay. They'd be my flesh and blood and my family and there's very little that would make me disown them, if anything certainly not something as trivial as the gender they feel attraction to.

 

Thouhg I would very much disagree with their choice, i wouldn't disown them.

Though I could disown them for many things. Such as beng a confessed Pedophile.

 

No, I don't think it would be that big a deal if they were gay.

 

Yes

 

In regards to the whole Christmas dinner thing, let me ask this:

Would you like it if your son were carrying on an affair with a marreid woman and brought his mistress to Christmas dinner?

Morally, this is how most Christians view it. You still love your son, but you don't support the choices he's making.

 

No.

I'd feel honoured that my child trusts me so much that he/she would tell that to me. I'd support him/her since I hope, if I ever have kids, I'd be the sort of parent that accepts children for what they are. That doesn't mean I will blindly accept all they do but I would offer my differing opinion without forcing it upon them.

In the case of a potential future child of mine being gay I'd wholeheartedly support their identity since I'm bisexual myself and know how important unconditional love and respect is in this regard.

 

No. I'll be honest enough to say that I probably wouldn't be very happy with it until I got used to the idea, but I do hope that I'd be able to raise my children so that they'd be able to tell me their sexual preference before they even started dating. Being presented with a child's new partner and facing their homosexuality at the same time might not be so easy.

I'd be much less happy if my kids became fanatically religious after being raised in an agnostic, freethinking environment, but I don't think I'd disown them for that either. They might disown me, though, if the few "Christians" I know are anything to go by.

Frankly, bigots who would disown their children for being gay don't deserve to have kids.

 

My kids would have to do something pretty horrific to get disowned. Rape or somesuch.

Drugs, sex (however they may wish to do it), it's all fine with me. Or, if not fine, not severe enough to warrant emotionally scarring them by kicking them out of the family.

 

If I wanted to be a horrible parent then yes I would. I love how people are in here saying"It's against my religion so yes". Well, you know what else is against your religion? HOLDING JUDGEMENT AGAINST OTHERS!!!!

Jesus.

 

If your child was gay, would you dissown them?

If your child were gay. The question's in the subjunctive mood. And there's only one 's' in disown.

Of course I wouldn't. Do I look like some kind of yee-haw barbarian bible-basher?

edit - if their English were as bad as yours, I would consider it, however.

 

I wouldn't disown my children, period.

 

What Mastage said.

The only way I'd emotionally disown (distance myself from) them is if they were emotionally manipulative or abusive and it was causing me a lot of harm. The only way I'd financially disown them is if they were going to use that money to cause harm to themselves or others, for example if they were serious drug addicts and all they'd do is buy drugs. But I could never say, "you're not my child anymore."

 

Would you react the same way if your child decided to convert to another religion?

Same thing. I wouldn't disown them, but I wouldn't encourage it either.

EDIT--Someone posted about their straight married kid having an affair.
Its the same type scenario. I'd love my kid, but would not tolerate or support that kind of behavior.

Same with drug abuse, alcoholism, conversion to another religion, militant liberalism, laziness, etc. etc. etc.

t if they... I don't know, decided to eat meat on Fridays or do some other thing that went against your religion?

Hey, I'm baptist. Red meat 7 days a week.





And all of you stop bashing Christianity---not one of us Christians said they would disown our kids. We've only stated that we would not support their lifestyle. So back off.

 

I would disown my kid if they were a Grammar Nazi.

 

No, I wouldn't disown my child for being gay.

-Seldon