When To Correct Someone
by Margo Howard
Dear Margo: I have a delicate problem. My children are adopted, and time after time people make comments in front of them that I feel the need to correct. They may range from someone who knows they're adopted saying, "This is your real mom; no one loves you like she does" to a person who doesn't know remarking on kids who are "not real brothers" because one's a step, a half, adopted, etc. In the first scenario, as soon as the person was gone I said to my son, "You kno ...
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Posted by: Matt
Comment: #1
Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:20 PM
God doesn't make mistakes; people do. They allow themselves to be seduced into a homosexual lifestyle; it isn't "hard wired" to be a homosexual any more than it is to be a drunkard, a gambler, or a thief. Good golly, I'm tired of these advice columnists printing letters from gays; neither the writer nor the columnist ever seems to be sympathetic to any third party who has legitimate objections to the lifestyle. Instead, the columnist always coddles this behavior - as do many of the comments left (see Carole's comment). "Oh, don't let those bad "intolerant, homophobic religious fanatics" get to you, sweetie...you just do what feels good to you, tell your Mom she doesn't know what it's like, and to hell with right, wrong, and with what the Bible or the majority of society says. Funny how any objection to this behavior is automatically labeled as "hate" regardless of what is actually said. Disgusting, really. Christ loves each and every one of us, regardless of where we have been or what we've done, but that does not mean He places his stamp of approval on each of our actions.
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Posted by: Carole
Comment: #2
Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:17 AM
Margo's advice to the lesbian who lives at home won't make it with religious fanatics. She said to tell her mother than God doesn't make mistakes. Her mom probably thinks that her daughter's sexual orientation is from the devil, not god. When things go wrong, either god is punishing us, or the devil is at fault, according to the intolerant, homophobic religious fanatics I've spoken to.
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