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Originally Posted by Anormalguy
I had a religious nut neighbor who would tell his kids, starting at age five, that he would have to disown them if they turned out "that way."
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I have a friend whose father actually did that, when the kid came out at 17. It was my good friend's younger brother, and they came from a very evangelical household. The father disowned the son, the son dropped out of high school and ended up on a very bad path for a long time. Eventually the father came around and accepted his son again, and now they get along somewhat... but some very serious damage has been done to their relationship, and it will never be the same between them again. Such unnecessary pain.
EDIT: FYI for all of you who don't know, I was very much a religious nut for a good part of my life, and I still have many friends "in the fold" who are as Christian as they come--and for them, that calling means that they support and welcome people as they are, gay, straight, or otherwise, because they know that Christ would have them do the same. All of them were against Prop 8 in California.