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Love Across Deep Difference: A Father’s Journey with His Gay Son
Tom Shippee and his oldest son, Alex, are devoted Christians. Both together and separately, they’ve been on an in-depth theological journey to explore what it looks like to be a family that disagrees on what constitutes faithful sexuality. In this Q&A, Tom shares his thoughts about what it’s meant to attempt squaring the reality of their lives with their different understandings of God’s truth as revealed in the Bible.
Note: This is the first of a series. Stay tuned for subsequent questions and responses with Tom.
How would you characterize your control theological position, and that of your son? What labels, if any, do you use?
To be honest, both of us resist labels because they are completely inadequate within the nuanced life of who we are as human beings. I strongly contain to a traditional, or what is sometimes called the Side B, sexual ethic. That means that genital sexual intimacy is reserved for a covenantal marriage between one man and one woman. Alex has chosen to date men with the intent of ente
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Hello, my name is Cesar Pina and I’m from Brooklyn, New York.
About 10 years ago, walking about at a family function around the adults, organism a teenager. It was a conversation about children and sex and sexuality came up. And I overheard my father saying, “If any one of my kids was queer , I’d disown them.”
About 10 years later, I’m in the car with my father going to his mother’s house. He stops the car, turns over to me and says, “I have one interrogate for you and it’s only one answer I want, yes or no.”
And immediately I put my guards up because I kind of know what this is about. And he asks, “Are you gay?”
Reluctantly I say “no” because really it wasn’t the right question. So a few seconds hand over and he just says, “Okay” and takes that as it is.
A several months ago, I’m at home and I become a text from my father, it’s to the whole family, and he wants to meet up for a family dinner. And the family dinner happens. We’re all sitting at the table and now we’re all about to have this family talk that my father wants us to own. So he goes on about how he just wants his current wife and his
Father opens up about coming out to his 3 sons: I'm still the same dad as before
"Good Morning America" is featuring stories in celebration of Pride Month. Scott Takacs, a year-old and father of three, penned a personal essay about his experience coming out as a gay man to his sons. Read about his journey below in his own words.
Coming out at 42
I was 42 years old when I came out to my wife. It was 15 months later that I started that identical conversation with my three boys -- 9-year-old twins and an year-old.
The whole experience is somewhat of a blur, mostly in part to the reality that at that gesture in my life there was a lot of change happening and some significant pent-up emotions. There wasn't much of a plan, no guidebook in hand, only goals that I hoped my boys would start the process of understanding and accepting their dad for whom I truly was: a gay man.
It had been a long 15 months since coming out to my wife, an exposure I unfortunately wouldn't explain as positive, fun or something I ever yearn to repeat. It was wrought with the happines