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JUL 23, 2007 05:42 PM
The lose of good people is always sad.
She did no great harm.
More comments from the article cited above.
MW: What would you say to the parent who does not want to accept their child as gay?
TAMMY FAYE: If they don't accept it I would say shame on them. When you're a parent you accept your child as he or she is. But I understand that there are mothers and dads that just can't accept the fact that they have a gay child. I think a mother and dad should accept them, not fight with them, and just accept them because they are their children and they should love their children just the way they are. My boy has tattoos and piercings all over him and I love my boy more than I love my own life.
MW: It's sometimes very difficult for parents to shed the visions they have for their kids.
TAMMY FAYE: Your child is not you.
MW: So what do you say to that parent?
TAMMY FAYE: I would tell that parent, love your child just exactly the way he or she is.
MW: What happens to the parent who won't acknowledge their child?
TAMMY FAYE: The parent loses. Because the most important relationship in the world is between mother and father and child, and I think when a parent refuses to accept any child the way they are -- I don't care if it's because they're gay or if they have a sickness or if they decide to do something different than what the parent wants -- I think the parent loses. They lose the most wonderful friendship they could ever have.
I'm trying to educate parents and the Christian world and tell them, these are wonderful people, allow them to be in your church, love them. Don't be so judgmental. Christians are so judgmental and as a result of that they become very cruel. When I go and stand among those gay men and women, I tell them "I am a preacher of the gospel that loves you. And I accept you just the way you are." I cry when I say that but I mean that with all of my heart. Somebody's got to love them and accept them. And somebody who loves God has got to love them and accept them because so many of them really love God, too.
MW: There are many Christians who say gay is evil, that it's an abomination.
TAMMY FAYE: I think being gay is just being a person who has a different thought on life. They're just people. I don't think that God categorizes people. I went to Disneyland one time, and it rained -- it's so awful when it rains at Disneyland -- and everyone disappeared inside. And when the rain stopped and everybody came out, every single person had yellow raincoats on. You couldn't tell the fat from the thin, the rich from the poor. You couldn't tell anyone from anyone else. And that day I looked up and I said, "God, I think this is how you see us, all in yellow raincoats, and only you have the permission to look under those yellow raincoats."
johnnyfu
Hartford, CT
March 2003
JUL 23, 2007 04:31 PM