First
of all, you DON’T CHOOSE to be gay or
straight, it’s simply the way you were born.
I’m starting this blog because a while ago
I read the cry for help from a young gay student. His story is amazing because
he doesn’t give up and fights his way through education, he is left with
nothing but the clothes he wears a pair
of flip-flops his laptop some books a
blanket and his cat. Hhis parents kept his other belongings because they though
he didn’t deserved them, he hadn’t paid for it they (parents) had paid for all
of it. (Yeah, pathetic I know)
They ( His parents) took his savings from his bank account before
he could get it himself, they said it
was payment for all the time he had lived in their house. Again, it is normal for a
parent to provide for their child. So basically they did steel from their
own son, How low can you go!
It seems that a ’friend’ from high school got wind of him
being gay and next, everyone knew including his parents and they eventually
kicked him out because of it. And he had
to leave high school two months before graduation, because it wasn’t safe for
him anymore.
I think it’s normal for a parent to provide
for the child. His parents didn’t feel that way. Imagine you are a young adult
and come home one day after school and mom and dad tell you, you have until
midnight to collect your things and get out of their house……. They take away
your savings, your clothes and other things just because they feel it doesn’t
belong to you because you are gay!
It was author Wade Kelly who took his story to heart and started the
fundraising for this young man. Wade Kelly has written a wonderful novel …
When Love Is Not Enough … It’s about how so
many young gays are struggling, and long for acceptance from their parents and
the community, it’s wonderful written and I cried more than once reading this
book. Because I know what Wade wrote, these things happen in real life, sad but
so true. The suicide rate is very high
among these youngsters and that saddens and at the same time fills me with
anger.
It amazes me, every time I read that parents kick out their young children ( Some are even as young as fourteen and
they mostly end up on the streets) or if they are really lucky they have
relatives who take them in. Makes me shudder with disgust. Becoming a parent
should be a blessing even if the child doesn’t turn out the way you have wanted
him to. They are children and didn’t ask to be born, children are most precious
and are a blessing not a burden or a shame.
This young student, isn’t a trouble maker
but he works hard and studies even harder to make his life better.
But read this oh so sad story ‘of this very
strong young man’ for yourself and help with the funding.
Wade Kelly’s Homepage:
