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Good morning, I'm Pat Collins and I have an important question for you this morning. Your

child broke his arm and came to in pain. Obviously you'd care for him and take care of him.

Even if he committed murder, I guess you'd say, well, he is still my child no matter what.

But suppose your child came to you and said, mother, dad, I am homosexual. What would you

do then? Today, more and more parents are having to face this question. There are parents

of homosexuals who have literally written their children off as dead and that is the idea

behind this post to put out by one of the gay liberation associations and it says, your

child is not dead, only gay.

In the early 1970s, it was really, really hard for people to talk about gay kids. We weren't

supposed to exist. If gay adults had no rights, gay kids had fewer and they were zero support

for the families of gay kids. But the power of love is a force to be reckoned with and

the quiet, intense bravery of one mother's love set in motion a domino effect that continues

to empower hundreds of thousands of people through PFLAG, an organization for LGBTQ plus people

and those who love them. This is the story of the triumph of love over hatred, the power

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