If all the kid did was say he was gay and the father reacted this way, the father is wrong. There is nothing principled about the father’s letter. The kid didn’t say he was out having sex or marching in parades. In fact, the father seems incredibly callous and cold. Christianity teaches the difference between being gay and acting on it. I agree that the article is a stupid attempt to tie it to Cathy though.
A father that cares enough about his son to be in his life (rare these days) and write a letter (even more rare these days) would have a face-to-face with him first.
I only see two possibilities:
-The letter is completely fake.
-The letter came after a long time of instigating or rubbing it in for not accepting his lifestyle. Always bringing it up, bringing ‘boyfriends’ over(probably why he's banned from the house), showing pictures of how ‘happy’ he is at ‘gay’ getaways/parades, etc. I'm in NYC and know good number of people in the ‘community’. This is pretty typical when such a situation occurs.
I personally don't have a problem with them as long as they keep it private and, IMO , the government should not be involved in any marriage at all(no licenses, records, tax rules, official divorces, etc). In both straight and 'gay' unions, it should be a purely private matter with legal paperwork filed for any joint rights/responsibilities - joint accounts, hospital visits, power of attorney, contracts, etc. Any two (or more) people can already legally establish such rights - married or not. And no, I don't support adoption or artificial fertilization without an already existing male/female union with child-care contract.
And IMO, the military should have the right to select or reject any soldier they want - it is a cohesive unit fighting for life or death, not a damn starbucks - there's no room for any damn PC there.
The father was correct in doing the letter.
The same would have happened with a multitude of other “wrongs” committeed by the son.
This father, and I use the term loosely, obviously has the mental maturity of a 12 year old. Although he takes heat for it here on FR, I can understand Dick Cheney a lot more easily than I can this jerk.