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The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families

 
 
 
Potoooooooo said:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture...being-cast-out-by-religious-families-20140903
While life gets better for millions of gays, the number of homeless LGBT teens - many cast out by their religious families - quietly keeps growing
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We had one refugee in our basement for a couple of weeks. Kicked out by parents when g/friend outed herself, and her, by association.

I cannot understand the mentality.

SOmeone at work expressed some sympathy for the parents of the teen. "What would you do if your kids turned their back on everything you stood for? What if your son became a NeoNazi?"

"Personally, I'd want to keep the little weasel close by. Where i could watch him. Plus, i'd get a BIG kick out of introducing people to my interracial Nazi child... "

Plus, as i remember our teachings, God doesn't punish you for associating with sinners. He'd kinda prefer that you hang out with them and annoy them into the Faith. Or, something like that. I mean, we're not AD&D Paladins. We don't suffer because someone else in the party (household) behaves in a non-approved manner. We're judged on our own sins.
Except when God punishes generations of people for the sins of their fathers.
But it never goes backwards. No one's punished 7 generations for the sins of their great-great-great-great-great-grandkids...

I don't understand the mentality. I really don't.
 
Keith&Co. said:
SOmeone at work expressed some sympathy for the parents of the teen. "What would you do if your kids turned their back on everything you stood for? What if your son became a NeoNazi?"
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When 'what you stand for' is the mindless and vicious persecution of young people for imaginary transgressions, it's kind of hard to feel sympathy for the 'betrayed' when someone 'turns their back' on that stance.
 
All the kicked out children need do is commit a minor felony and the parents will be civilly liable. Sure the kid may be sent to some institution for children. The parents may be financially liable here too.

Parents' responsibility for their child's actions http://criminal.lawyers.com/juvenile-law/parents-responsibility-for-their-childs-actions.html

Parents' responsibility for child's care and safety

Kicking an underage child (meaning under 18 in most states) out of the house, without the child being emancipated, can often be considered child abandonment, which is a crime.Even if you aren't leaving your child on a proverbial street corner, you will be legally abandoning her if you:

  • Leave your child with a neighbor and don't communicate with her;
  • Fail to send some sort of money to support her, or
  • Refuse to participate in a plan by a school or program to reunite you and your child.
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We seriously need some secular street ministries. I can just imagine these kids looking for help to get off the streets and finding the same attitude that got them there in the first place.
 
Davka said:
We seriously need some secular street ministries. I can just imagine these kids looking for help to get off the streets and finding the same attitude that got them there in the first place.
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Are there any?
 
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