<p>mini, if the OP is a real person, I don’t find your provocative posts to be helpful at all.</p>
<p>The OP has to make some choices as to how to handle this issue. There are risks in anything he chooses to do. If his first priority is to get out of the house and have the best selection of colleges as a place to go, my opinion is that trying to engage his parents on the subject is not a good idea, especially if there is evidence on the table that they will withdraw their support for college. I’ve known many, many kids who have gotten into confrontations, disagreements with their parents who have just angered their folks so much that the parents just refuse to fill out the onerous financial aid forms or pay any money towards school. Figure it out yourself they say. And the reasons for this run the gambit. It is the parents’ right to do this. You cannot force them to pay or to fill out forms. If this happens to the OP, he is out of a lot of resources for leaving home and starting a life of his own in college, and he had better start looking for a place to live in case his parents give him notice that he is out once he graduates from high school or turns 18, if not sooner. This does happen often. Parents get fed up for a variety of reasons, and the reasons are not so relevant as the consequences.</p>
<p>If the OP is more focused on his own mental health, then that is the venue he needs to research and use. Ask around for places that support teens that are having his issues with unsupportive parents. They can give him the counseling he needs better than any other source. </p>
<p>I don’t think trying to turn the parents is a project worth doing. Though if that is what the OP wants to do, those resources that can work with him with the situation my advise him as to how to approach his parents.</p>
<p>Personally, when I was that age, I did not engage my parents in discussions or go into issues that got them upset. There was simply no “upside” to it. None. I knew my parents’ limitation in terms what they could handle and when it came to personal things, I kept well within those bounds. </p>
<p>Mini, telling fundamentalist type parents that Jesus was gay does not get you very far. Take that argument elsewhere. We have a kid here who has told his parents that he is gay, and the parents are at the brink of withdrawing the support that could be very useful in the next several years. Inciting trouble is not the way to go on this one unless that is exactly the path the OP wants to take.</p>
<p>I don;t think you should talk to fundamentalist-type parents about gay issues at all. Didn’t I already say that, twice?</p>
<p>And, yes, I think it likely that Jesus was gay. He certainly wasn’t in favor of marriage. All speculative of course. But the reason it might be helpful to the OP or gay high school students generally is so that they realize they may be in very good company.</p>
<p>Less speculative is that homophobia is a psychological disorder. That is precisely why one SHOULDN’T try to talk one’s parents out of it.</p>
<p>Is everybody that is unmarried gay? Is everybody that was murdered while single gay?</p>