Conditional Love

I'm sure some of us have heard of "coming-out"stories from hell, purgatory, or whatever dark, evil place your religious preference tell you bad people go to. You tell your parents and you get either A) Disowned, or B) Accepted for who you are. How about being forced to basically run away from home because you won't "stop being gay".

Then, after you've left home, your mom catches you on the street holding hands with your boyfriend and jumps out of her car furious and chases after you yelling obscenities. No? Really? Yeah, me neither, but this is what happened to 16 year old Stuart O'Neill. Celia Duncan shouted homophobic abuse at her son after she caught him on the street holding hands with his boyfriend.



After calling them a bunch of "poofs," she then proceeded to leave a voicemail saying, "I will get you, believe me, and you will get your head kicked in," and a text message saying, "I will get you and your poof." Personally, I think it should be a crime for a mother to treat her underage son that way, and in a sense it was when the Aberdeen court system fined her £250 (about $370).

Still, no amount of money could make up for the damage she inflicted on her son, especially over a silly thing as sexual preference. Stuart O'Neill said, "I feel really betrayed by my mum. What she said to me was vile and hurtful. My mum didn't like the fact I was gay. She told me to stop being gay or get out of Aberdeen. She basically threw me out of the house."