Reply #37: I will definitely give my guy a big hug...as soon as he gets back from

[JackBeck]

Sweden in two weeks. He's there for work.

We've flirted with getting a hotel room when we visit for quite some time but decided that the more time we spend with his parents, the better. The other messed up thing is they stayed at our apartment in Brooklyn when they visit...and sleep in our bed. Not while we're in it, mind you, but we laugh as an aside about how they "sleep in the bed of sin". Seriously, though, they are wonderful and loving people who have come a long way. I think sometimes his dad has more problems with his only daughter marrying a Southern Baptist Preacher than he does with having a gay son.

Jon was way ahead of his time growing up Nazarene. He stopped going to church as a teenager because he didn't like, as he told his parents, how his religion excluded people. Smart boy. I'm a "recovering Catholic" and my priest growing up told me it was OK that I was there at my dad's funeral. Man, religion can really be used in all the wrong ways.