Comments on: A Mother, Forced to Choose

By: Sonia

Sonia — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:33:59 +0000

My children are still little but I think i would have the same reaction as you because for us mothers,our children will be our little children forever,no matter what. You are a great Mom, I applaud you!!! :):)

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:25:20 +0000

I love this ariicle too because love is God’s greatest gift to us. And you are certainly using that gift wisley.

By: Clint Bussey

Clint Bussey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:20:01 +0000

This is beautiful. The witnesses are just another religion that holds mankind back from a better world. I wish that my mother loved me as much as you love your child. She has completely disowned me and shunned me for 7 years. Family is always more important than false piety and peer approval. You are like the mother hen that Jesus spoke of that protects her chicks under her wings. The witnesses are so divorced from the truth and the divine now, in fact it seems as if they are agents of death, prejudice, and ignorance. I love this article.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:40:49 +0000

You are an amazing mother for sticking with your child! I’m gay and my mom won’t talk to me or anything anymore. It’s so heartbreaking being on this end of things. Your son is lucky to have such an understanding mother to help him through this.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:39:51 +0000

I admire you for sticking to your son’s side. Any religion that would want you to do otherwise is cold, calloused, and unnatural. Your son looks like a fine young man, and he looks happy. Obviously you two have a good mother son relationship, and that is a beautiful thing indeed! Go with your heart, and forget what this demanding cult would want of you!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:08:08 +0000

Thank you for loving your son. You stand up and show that it is possible to do the loving and motherly thing when so many other mothers can find it in their hearts to refuse to do the right thing. I too am involved in GLSEN, as well as other GLBT advocacy groups. I am gay. My mother shun me. I will live my truth…and I am so happy your son will to…and with you, his mother, by his side. In each act of bravery we win against this evil organization.

By: Athlyn Green

Athlyn Green — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:35:46 +0000

I applaud you for your courage. As my mother so aptly put it: “Any teaching that destroys family relationships is harmful.”

Unfortunately, thought control is such that if people can be convinced that their course is justified, they will engage in terribly heartless acts.

The shunning espoused by J.W.’s is a form of emotional abuse. I only hope that the leaders are finally called to account.

By: Norm

Norm — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:00:52 +0000

You are a wonderful human being. You understand the true, compassion that a loving god would ask of his followers. You have taught your son to be a better person, not through harsh treatment, but by the logical step of setting a loving example in strivng to be a better member of the human race.

By: Thomas K.

Thomas K. — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:24 +0000

Watchtower Society’s hierarchy is made of bigot and neofascist: sexist and racist.
They should be publicly unmasked as such.
Finally they’re going to get what’s coming to ‘em
Just to tell some names of the reactionary bosses: Don Adams, Gerrith Losch, Samuel Herd…who’d like to be in them?
Get these names into your minds folks, and you know where to picket and strike
they hate being dragged before public opinion. They have no nerve there and no way out.

By: Sam Morrison

Sam Morrison — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:36:12 +0000

Amy, thank you for sharing your story. I still cannot fathom how a mother could make any other choice when it comes to their children. When we left the religion, my mother refused to abandon us, my husband’s mother wanted emergency contact only. It seems it’s all just a lottery.

May you both find happiness in abundance.