Dear Misty,I need some advice, I am a straight married woman with a loving husband and two beautiful teenage daughters. Last year I met two gay men and we became friends, my whole family just adores them!! WE love them like family.. I am a Christian (cont

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Dear Misty, I need some advice, I am a straight married woman with a loving husband and two beautiful teenage daughters. Last year I met two gay men and we became friends, my whole family just adores them!! WE love them like family.. I am a Christian woman of faith and both my daughters go to a christian private school, one day I brought one of my friends with me to pick up my daughters and introduced him to a few of the mother's waiting for their children. The next day it seemed like I was shunned by these mother's!! I walked up to one of them asking her "Is their a problem that I am not aware of"? she pulled me over to the side of the building and told me "Some of the mother's here are outraged because you brought a gay man to the school"...I looked at her and said He is my friend and I don't care if he is gay!! I love him like a brother. she looked at me like I was on drugs or something!!! I was very hurt because of this.. she walked away.. Now none of these so called mother's will speak to me. I am not going to loose my friendship over something like this!! I never had to deal with something like this before.. How do I feel?? hurt and confused.. NOW the kicker is.. None of the children will speak to any of mine at school because "Their mother (ME) has gay friends... My youngest daughter is confused about this, and I wish I had answers for her.. because to tell you the truth.. I don't understand myself.. WHY??? why do peole have to judge someone just because their a little different... Any advice you can give me will be much appreciated! Thank you Willow

Dear Confused and Loving Mother - Welcome to our world. A world where anyone can suddenly turn against you because they find out your "GAY" or appear gay or in your case, are gay friendly. In our world, we turn to each other for comfort and solace. Now what to do with your current situation on hand, my first suggestion is to obviously pull your kids out of school, for the only choice you have is to homeschool. You also should move to the country where the people may be uneducated and uncultured but at least there are fewer of them to deal with. -- OK Im just kidding -- that would be beyond drastic, and that is clearly not the answer. Rejection of any kind is difficult, and when they are attacking your daughters, and it hurts you even that much more deeply. I would love to tell you to remind these "Christians" or should I say these "People who are Christ Like" that God is LOVE, and God created one race. The Human Race, and we are all equals. Some of us are tall, some of us are short, some are white, some are tan and some are black. Some are skinny and Some are Fat... and YES -- Some are GAY. Everyone Knows that God is perfect and that he doesnt make mistakes, and he created all of us in his image, even the black ones and even the gay ones, and yes GOD DOES LOVES THESE MEN... and I would LOVE to tell you to remind these mothers that the Bible says Judge not - Lest thy be judged. But the reality is Im afraid you can talk until you are blue in the face, and it will fall on deaf ears. Most people in the Church believe what they believe and there is no way you can convince them otherwise. They are Right and you are Wrong and that is that. However it may be a good time to have a Family Meeting. In this Family meeting I would discuss "LOVE" with your Family. Talk of how GOD is LOVE, and we are to LOVE one another. I would also go into say that God is perfect but People are NOT. And where as these mothers at your school may mean well but they are human and humans make mistakes. Especially when they do not understand or if they are afraid. Right now Christians are Afraid of Gay people, It would also be a good idea to go into a quick History Lesson about the Civil War that Divided our country Between North and South... and Between Black and White. Back then Whites and Blacks could not use the same bathrooms, Pools etc. Back then the Churches and Christians would use the BIBLE to defend their point of views.... for in Leviticus 25:44-46 it talks about how to treat, and purchase your slaves. Tell your daughters that if it was back then today that these mothers would be mad at Mommy for being friends with a black person. I would also share with your daughters that America also went through an Anti Japanese spell just after Pearl Harbor. And in Germany Hitler tried to kill Everyone that wasn't perfect in his eyes, that includes all jews, gays, blacks and handicapped people. Then Explain to your daughters that you are not prejudiced and you are not raising your children to be prejudiced either. As for the the other kids at School, they are being mean to them because they do not know any better, and right now they are scared and don't understand. Encourage your daughters to hold their heads up high, let them know that they have done nothing wrong, and their mother has done nothing wrong. It hurts now, but to be strong. Before you know it the other kids at school will probably forget all about this, and will soon be making fun of them because they don't have name brand shoes or their glasses are out of fashion. I hope this could help, xoxo Misty

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