Jessica's Book Thoughts

EXCERPT:

...Why does kissing another boy feel so right? I must have something wrong with me. They didn't teach me to believe this. My parents and teachers have told me to find a beautiful woman to help populate the earth with new Catholics. Can gay people impregnate women? What will my parents think? Will they accept this? Will they try to fix me? Can they fix me, or will other boys always excite me for the rest of my life? Am I condemned to live my existence in Hell because of this affliction? Will God no longer accept me as one of his flock? Will he send a gaggle of nuns with rulers after me to make my knuckles bleed? What was I doing kissing a boy?

I didn't expect this book to throw this at me. Am I offended? Not at all. I would still have requested this book. I just think readers should know ahead of time that this book is based on a very controversial subject.

Two of my closest friends from high school went through a similar situation while in their teen years. I often wonder how hard it was for them. One of the friends suffered from severe depression until she decided what path she wanted to embark on. She got married last week. Her parents refused to attend the wedding. Her new wife's family has treated her like another daughter from the moment they met her. My other friend came out after his five year marriage to his wife had ended. A year after the divorce his ex wife and him had become best of friends. My friend was happy for the first time. Three years after the divorce, his ex helped him tell his parents he was homosexual and had found a wonderful man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. His father went nuts. He demanded that none of the family could have anything to do with him. My friend had a brother who died in a car accident. After losing the only good person she had in her life, my friend's mother committed suicide. His father died last year after drinking himself to death.