Jesus taught us that God is, “our Father, which art in heaven,” and that he is a loving father of all. If Jesus loves and died for your daughter – and he did – then are you justified in denying her your love and association? The higher command, to love one another as Jesus loved us, calls to mind the Savior’s continual loving association with the vilest of sinners, his forgiveness of the men who put him on the cross, and the loving sacrifice of his own life for every sin and every sinner – to include ourselves and our children. I think we should then love no matter what. Jesus gave two commandments on love – to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to love one another as he loved us.Ĭertainly, our children are our neighbors, and certainly we would want to be loved, no matter what. If the actions of a child lead us to distance ourselves from that child, are we not breaking the commandment to love that child? Are we falling into the trap of believing that two wrongs make a right? If we have understanding and mercy, we will receive understanding and mercy. If we have harshness and condemnation, we will receive harshness and condemnation. But it also teaches that “all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.” And the Sermon on the Mount further teaches that the judgment we impose upon others for their sins will be the judgment God imposes upon us for our sins. Yes, traditional Christianity teaches that homosexual sex is a sin. It’s like Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, sometimes our focus on the speck in our brother’s – or daugher’s – eye can blind us to the beam in our own eye. Your upset with the apparent sin of your child may lead you, by turning cold to them in your heart, to commit an even greater sin. You have probably embraced a faith system or set of values that, like the Bible, calls homosexual sex a sin.īut you should recognize that that disappointment is a temptation that may very easily lead you yourself into sin. You have envisioned a future for your child that now seems to be threatened. Or, actually, to any parents who would abandon any child.įirst, I am sorry for your grief and disappointment. Or to any parents who abandon a child who turns out gay. This week, 19-year-old Emily Scheck is the poster child for gay victimization.īut, if the story is true, I wanted to say something to her parents. One’s sex life and one’s relationship with one’s parents or child are private matters that are none of anybody else’s business.īut tens of thousands of dollars have now been raised, and every gay activist has been called and sounded off. None of that has been confirmed, by either Emily or her parents, and Emily has repeatedly refused to speak to reporters.īecause the story, true or not, is private. That’s a lot of supposedlys, but nothing is certain about this story.Ī woman claiming to be Emily’s friend opened a go-fund me account asserting that Emily was gay and that her parents had cut her off. And supposedly, they have disowned their college-student daughter and cut her off financially, supposedly because she has a girlfriend. Supposedly, they live in Webster, New York.

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