My dad is a homophobe and I dont know what I should do.
Is there anyone who has a close relationship with someone that they love but they also hate that person at the same time because of their beliefs or morals or whatever? What do you do?
There was a girl in my philosophy course who told the class about her brother who basically raised her and treats her with love and kindness but he is a nazi. She hates him because of that but she loves him too. At the time that she was telling the class about that I was so confused about her situation and didnt realize that I was in a very similiar predicamint...maybe I just didnt want to admit it to myself. Is this a completely unique situation or is it common and no one talks about it.
I wish I could say something so enlightening that my dad would snap out of it and realize that a person's sexual orientation has nothing to do with the type of person you are. And he would say 'You are soo right! I dont know why I have been so ignorant for all these years!!'
Is there anyone who has a close relationship with someone that they love but they also hate that person at the same time because of their beliefs or morals or whatever? What do you do?
There was a girl in my philosophy course who told the class about her brother who basically raised her and treats her with love and kindness but he is a nazi. She hates him because of that but she loves him too. At the time that she was telling the class about that I was so confused about her situation and didnt realize that I was in a very similiar predicamint...maybe I just didnt want to admit it to myself. Is this a completely unique situation or is it common and no one talks about it.
I wish I could say something so enlightening that my dad would snap out of it and realize that a person's sexual orientation has nothing to do with the type of person you are. And he would say 'You are soo right! I dont know why I have been so ignorant for all these years!!'
I'm far more liberal and open-minded, obivously, or I wouldn't be on this site.
But my point is, she had enough of a fit when I converted to Catholism. The fact that I'm bisexual, she never needs to know that.
So I guess that's my answer. If you can have a decent relationship with your dad by not bringing up homosexuals, don't do it. You won't change them 99 times out of 100. The ignorant relative, not homosexuals.
I always have my little laughs that I keep to myself. Like the time last year that my mother drove around myself, my husband and our female friend who was on vacation from Germany. Little did she know that the night before the three of us had some hot, three-way sex.