My wife and I have recently moved back to AZ. My parents were supposed to retire in California and leave us their mortgage to manage their home for them. (rent). We took over payment and everything was fine. My parents decided to come back and renew drivers licenses and get eye surgery done. It was to be 8 weeks. 8 weeks of sleeping on the floor with an air mattress can do serious harm to ones marriage! Anyway they are not leaving.
My Dad noticed my wife's Volvo and my own both have the human rights sticker on the back windows. He asked me about it. I told him, oh boy here we go! I thought. "What is your stand on Gays and lesbians getting married?" He said, "Hell no why should we let them get married?" I said, "Dad you taught me when young to never discriminate and that people were different, and here I am today married to a dark woman and 3 beautiful children. I have been surrounded by hate filled churches in Georgia bashing and trash talking gays and lesbians for the last 3 years and I took one look at the issue and decided to join their struggles." He was shocked. " I want you to remove those stickers!" He yelled at me. I asked him why he thought gays and lesbians getting married was a threat to his own marriage. "They threaten everyone's marriage because they wont be able to have kids and its unnatural!" He yelled. He yells now about everything. " Gays and lesbians haven't attacked anyone." Oh yes they have!" "When?" I asked. He told me when he was a teenager he went with his buddy to a bar and snuck in. A gay man grabbed his friends butt, so he and his friend followed this man out into the alley and beat him unconscious almost dead. " That's horrible, he did not even attack you!" "Yeah he did he grabbed my friends ass!" "That's it that's all it took and you were going to beat this man to death?" He said "your damn right". Now my dads 71 years old and watches fox news like nobody's business. He cant get enough of it. And he used to be a caring person, fighting injustice wherever it was. Now he is discriminatory and hateful and anti gay and republican and just plain mean.
He still has not explained why he thinks gays and lesbians are a danger to his marriage. he just does. He keeps bringing up stuff from the bible and I keep telling him what Jesus himself says about gays and lesbians and he keeps quoting Paul. He doesn't get it that Jesus words are the red ones and Paul wrote the new testament almost entirely. So many of my Christian friends are the same they just do not know what is contained in their own book. Its like stupid = Christianity, for the most part.
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