Prayers for Bobby Page #13

I didn't know where else to go.

I was sitting there,

listening to all their stories.

About how they...

always just knew...

their kid was different.

And then I had this dream tonight...

Bobby was a baby.

My son was always different.

His difference began at conception.

I knew that.

I felt it.

I know now...

why God didn't heal Bobby

He didn't heal him because...

there was nothing wrong with him.

I did this!

I killed my son!

You did not kill your son.

Bobby killed himself.

How could God forgive me?

How could Bobby forgive me?

God has already done the forgiving.

You have to forgive yourself.

I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry!

Dear god.

Give us something we can live with

and pass on to others whose lives will never be the same because of a loved one's death.

I did not decide on brown eyes for myself.

And I now realize that Bobby didn't decide to be gay.

If you say in your word

that it is evil and wicked to be born with no arms,

and a child is born with no arms,

What is that child to think?

Our first order business is a proposal for a gay freedeom day in Walnut Creek.

Attention, please.

We have a select group to debate the issue.

I don't see her.

...it's reverend Whitsell.

For one day,

for one day, people can celebrate their difference rather than feel shame.

They should be ashame!

There are so many other people who need our time and our attention.

Why are we wasting it on this?

Alright, alright. Let's have some order here please.

They spit in the face of decency and morality.

We cannot allow the fabric of our society to be torn apart.

Right?

I heard he tries to run for the Human Relations commission,

they picked that limped Whitsell instead.

They sent him a letter.

I said, 'We sing hymns at our church'.

What do you do with the hymns at your church?

So unless anyone else has anything else to add,

we'll adjourn to make our decision.

Mary?

Hey Dad!

Dad, get in here!

Dad hurry up! Mum's on TV.

Homosexuality is a sin.

Homosexuals are dommed to spend eternity in hell.

If they wanted to change,

they could be healed of their evil ways.

If they would turn away from temptation,

they could be normal again.

If only they would try and try harder,

if it doesn't work.

These are all the things I said to my son Bobby when I found out he was gay.

When he told me he was homosexual,

my world fell apart.

I did everything I could

to cure him of his sickness.

jumped off a bridge and killed himself.

I deeply regret my lack of knowledge about gay and lesbian people.

I see that everything I was taught and told was bigotry and dehumanizing slender.

If I had investigated, beyond what I was told,

if I had just,

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