dragojustine | (Reply)

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Woot! Go you! Those kinds of conversations are scary and yet satisfying - I had a long, surprisingly civil discussion with my mother this week RE: gay rights. She believes, as per the bible, that gays are an abomination and can be cured, and she's basing her vote on the fact that the mother of the guy running for prime minister in our country is Jewish (which therefore makes him religious). I calmly asked her why she believes gays are an abomination, pointed out that gay-conversion programmes have proven to fail time and again (and that if being gay isn't a choice and can't be cured then God must have made them that way), and that surely the most important thing to a Christian god is compassion.
I then went on a side-rant about how the people running the 'conversion' groups in the States are evil, manipulative and brutal... and she agreed *G*

I didn't change her mind, really, but I felt better getting my position out there, because staying silent makes me feel like a hypocrite.