A video that alleges to show a self-proclaimed Christian family’s reaction to their son, “Daniel,” coming out offers a chilling first-hand look at the violence and rejection that can result when parents don’t accept their child’s sexual orientation.
The video, which claims to be secretly recorded on what appears to be a cell phone, captures the hateful reaction of a family after a child confirms to his parents that he is gay.
The video appears to capture a conversation that was already in progress, and shows the young man’s family members citing Biblical opposition to homosexuality before telling the child he must move out of the home, disowning him, calling him a “disgrace,” then turning physically violent as a confrontation ensues.
A woman who appears to be the child’s mother begins by telling the young man that she has known since he was a small child that he was gay. Nevertheless, the woman tells her son that she believes he has made a choice to be gay, that it is “a path chosen”. When he tries to refute her claims by pointing to “scientific proof” that sexual orientation is innate, she says she believes in “the word of God,” not so-called science.
Pierce’s boyfriend set up a GoFundMe account to help his partner cover living expenses, as the family made good on its threat to cut the teenager off financially, even taking his car.
