Love your children – gay or ‘straight’

THE EDITOR, Sir: HAVE YOU ever noticed when some parents find out their child is a scammer, robber, murderer or even in a gang, they don’t complain or disown their child? In fact, they like it because they benefit to some extent.

But, ironically, if they ever found out their child is lesbian, bisexual or gay, they disown them, treat them like an outcast, scorn them, put them out, try to kill them, abuse them. I didn’t know the love agreement between parent and child was ‘ love until you’re found not straight’. Yes, many parents are heartbroken on learning that their child is gay, but it’s not about them, really.

Here is a child confused, lost and worried: he/ she will lose everything – love, trust and affection – just because he/she didn’t turn out to be the (heterosexual) son or daughter their parents wanted.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

The love for your child should be unconditional.

You never know what your child/children may become, so please don’t stop loving them and providing guidance. You are not loving what they do; you’re loving them as your own flesh and blood.

The truth is, our hatred for LGBT has nothing to do with the Bible. We have been raised to hate them. We have been cultured to want to kill them, to view them as nasty and disgusting. And when we are called out on our barbarity, we draw for all sorts of explanations. We are a disgusting nation!

LGBT people are engineers/ scientists. They are doctors/ surgeons. They are writers/ poets. They are musicians/ singers. They are actors/ models. They are, the soldiers/ police. They are your friend. They are your relative. They are your son/ daughter. They are like you. KASHANE TAYLOR kashanetaylor@ymail.com Kingston 11