Prayer for Bobby

Well, not sure who saw the lifetime movie "Prayer for Bobby". I heard it over the radio recently that it was going to be shown tonight. So I recorded the movie on my fabulous DVR. Now this lifetime movie I must say is the best one I have seen so far. It is about a young man who is homosexual and committed suicide, and his mother who became a advocate after. Now that is just a mist of what the movie is about. Now this young man realized that he been struggling with the thoughts of a gay man. He tired his best not to have the feeling, thoughts of a gay man. But later realized that he couldn't hold it in anymore and confided on his brother which later told his parents because bobby tried to commit suicide by taking pills but couldn't go through with it. Now the thing is that his mother was a crazy Cristian as I like to call them. She use to tell her children that they can not commit sin because they have to be together in the after life. So Bobby felt that she will not love him, but when the brother spilled the beans the mother went into a psycho rage of trying to fix him. She did everything from, changing his diet, exercise, putting bible quotes through out the house, taking him to a counselor and even forcing the father to spend more time with him. She will tell him that she was not going to loose him to this "evil temptation". No the movie portrays both sides which so interesting. Later on, bobby fell in love with a man and told his mother who blame him for not having enough faith in God, trying to cure himself. He told her accept me for who I am, or not have me at all. Of course she choose not to have him. So Bobby left and moved on, but he still felt incomplete and ashamed that he was gay because of what his mother installed in him his all life and especially when he tried to reach out to her. So he decided to jump off a bridge. Which I must say had me stunned! At this point of the movie you grow to see bobby as a individual that all he wants is love from his mother. The mother lets a freaking priest condemn him in his own funeral. Which was crazy!!!! So then the mother begins to question why God didn't cure him. She said that in the bible homosexual will be condemned. She began to do research because she need to know if her son was in heaven or hell. She found a church that accepts homosexual as equals. And shows them that God loves them for who they are. She questions the priest, how the bible states that homosexual is not acceptable by God. He replies to her with several things that I myself never knew. He said that in the bible also states that a women who gets married after having children should be taken home and thrown rocks. Also when a child disrespect their parents they should be killed. Now she runs off in disbelieve and reads the bible and finds that those statements are so in the bible. She returns to the priest again to question that why is it okay for anyone to interpret the bible anyway way they want to justify their actions. He replies by you have to understand that the bible was written by a mortal when they themselves interpret things themselves when they wrote it and also the bible was written in a different time. We all think different within time. She still didn't agree. But as she morned over bobby room and things she began to read his journal and found that he did try to change he didn't choose to be gay. All he wanted was his mother to love him. She then attended a group meeting with parents who have gay children. And came to a conclusion that she had a major part on his death. She couldn't understand why God allowed him die and not cure him. Only if she would have listen to her child who was trying to speak to her, maybe he would be with her today. Only if she would have done her research on homosexuals she could have known how to deal with it. "Bobby wasn't healed because there was nothing wrong with him," she says. This was so deep!! This is a true story. And I am glad that it was shown on TV. Hopefully it changed those who are ignorant to the homosexual world.

-"Before you echo Amen in your home or place of worship, think and remember, A child is listening." - Mary Griffith