Courage Shattered

Tonight has been as close as I have ever come to telling my parents that I'm gay.  It's just been a trying day and I came home to even more crap where they wouldn't leave me alone... so much so that I contemplated just telling them to make them go away for a while.

Well I eventually calmed down... but still had the urge to tell them.  And given the current political climate, I was starting to think they might even be possibly accepting.  Boy was I wrong.

I brought up the topic of Gay Marriage when the news program we were watching remarked on the recent change in position (are the apparent position) of the Republican Party toward Gay Marriage.  She was shocked to hear the so many prominent figures in the Republican Party were taking such a position contrary to they're normal conservative values.  And suffice it to say the conversation ended abruptly with her attitudes changed to disgust over the situation.  So I went back to my room... or rather, my closet...