For those interested. "Prayers for Bobby" in on now. On Life.

[Lil Missy]

It's about a gay teen who committed suicide because his mother would not accept his being gay.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I tried to watch it, but I just can't.

I couldn't get through it. I can't imagine doing that to my child. :cry:

[Lil Missy]

2. That' okay. Then you should not watch it.

Like I told someone else, there is no fucking way I would watch a movie that simulates the way my son died. It's not necessary.

I have different reasons for wanting to watch this movie.

Be well.

Lil Missy

[Lil Missy]

3. Well, I guess I already knew the ending. He died.

I don't know why I torture myself like this.

This was based on a true story.

Now that I have watched it end to end, I am more mortified, and in some ways more gratified.

What I did not realize, was that his funeral service, for crissakes, was entirely built and spoken around the fact that he had completely left God, against his mother's insistence.

And that he refused to resist temptations that could be cured if he were only closer to God. Thus, his death was justified.

This kid jumped off a bridge into the wheels of a semi truck. Now, if there is a God, I don't think that was God's will. He was Bible beaten and shamed so much, that he felt he had no other option left but suicide.

And yes, that does piss me off.

To mother's credit, she did finally come to peace, and suggested there was never anything wrong with her son in the first place. And she has been an activist for gay rights since then.

I am sure she is a wonderful and god-fearing woman. But good fucking duh. How she harassed and tormented that kid into suicide.

[Lil Missy]

4. Nobody wants to tutch this but?

[Jamastiene]

5. I don't have regular Lifetime.

I only have LMN (Lifetime Movie Network). I couldn't watch it. I know the story though. To some degree, that could have just as easily been me. Somehow, I made it through with my sanity and my will to live intact. It was pure Hell though.

For anybody who wonders what Hell is like; it's like spending eternity with fundy nutbags who won't shut the fuck up with their hate toward gay people. There is nothing worse.

I, myself, knowing that story, cannot forgive that mother for what she did. It should not have taken him committing suicide to get her to wake the fuck up to what she was doing. No matter what she does now, it will never be able to bring him back or undo the horror she put him through. I hope she feels shame every single day for that.

[Shell Beau]

6. I read that in college for my Cultural Diversity class.

What a sad and touching story it is. I didn't really get that he committed suicide just because of his mother not accepting him being gay, but more that he was religious and couldn't come to terms with his religious beliefs and the way he felt inside. They didn't match up. His mother was also very religious which added to the angst of it.

The mother wrote the book didn't she? The book contained part of his journals. It was killer sad.