What To Do If Your Child Comes Out w/ Kim Zember

Kim talks about her experience coming out and her advice for parents if their kids come out to them.



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[LeoOrlando-ydut]

It’s a difficult subject. Gays should be loved and respected as human beings created in the image and likeness of God. However, the lifestyle is not a means of celebration. I lived that lifestyle for 20 years, and it was surprisingly very stressful and not liberating at all. I drank and smoked heavily to cope, and it nearly killed me. I went to confession and have been celibate for 6 years.

[deucedawg]

This is the first interview of Matt's that I could not turn off and listen to later. I was on my lunch break. I put a leave of absence just so I could finish the show. God bless you Kim for sharing your story.

[StormtideSkywise]

Her point just at the end is often missed by so many. I hated when my classmates would put down homosexuals so aggressively when they were busy fornicating. Double standards irked me a great deal. Lust is lust, sin is sin, mortal sin is mortal sin.

[MrCheesywaffles]

That's great advice, to love and suffer with them. I am disturbed by the modern usage of that blessed word "truth" when she said it was her mother's truth. The truth _is_ . Either we are right or wrong, she probably meant that is how her mother felt and thought about that difficult issue.

[McRingil]

Thank you for sharing this, hard to admit to be so wrong

[regonzalezayala]

🎯 Key points for quick navigation:

00:00 *🗣️ Personal Experience with Coming Out*
- Kim, the speaker, shares her experiences about 'coming out' related to same-sex attraction, setting the scene of the conversation with a Priest who influenced her decision.
- Talks about viewing the sunset and seeing colors in a new light as an epiphany during the transition of coming out. She interprets it as a potential sign from God appreciating her transparency, although not necessarily endorsing her subsequent decisions.
02:31 *👪 Family Reactions and Being Honest*
- Retells her experience coming out to her family, specifically her mom who had asked her about her sexuality previously.
- Distinguishes between celebrating a person (their honesty and authenticity) and celebrating their decisions or actions.
03:38 *🎯 Advice for Parents on Handling Their Children's Coming Out*
- Urges parents to meet their children where they are at, without unwarranted celebration or condemnation.
- Advocates for parents to maintain their beliefs but refrain from reiterating disapproval of their child's sexuality.
04:59 *💭 Broader Insights into Dealing with Homosexuality from a Spiritual Perspective*
- Discusses bearing the burden of sin, using analogies to highlight the individual's experiences, for example, the hangover after getting drunk.
- Emphasizes on the need to ask the Holy Spirit for guidance on how to bear the burden when loved ones engage in various lifestyles that go against divine orders, including homosexuality.
- Concludes by touching upon the societal tendency to amplify the sin of homosexuality over other sins, which often makes individuals struggling with same-sex attraction feel like 'lepers' within society.

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[TheChristicMystic]

Ew… She just divorced human compassion from Divine compassion, even though true human compassion is Divine compassion, because all that it is to be God and all that is truly human finds its reality in the theandric God-Man. If there was any measure of genuine compassion coming from the guy she was speaking of, then it was of God.

Freakin’ dualists, man🙄

[norwegiancatholicism]

In the beginning she talks about a priest who's "not a priest anymore", and married? How's that even possible??

[douglaskoontz]

I’m not sure on which position you or your guest stands.

[theignorantcatholic]

He bore her burden. But he made her burden less in order to make his bearing it with her easier for him. Secular society envisages compassion as only making other's lives easier. But in reality, real compassion is bearing others burdens with them.

Bearing the burden of accepting and embracing ones same sex attraction is an easier burden to bear than the one Christ calls us to. And I think that although we want to have compassion and bear others burdens, but we don't want to bear the burden God calls us to, so we subvert others' burdens to make our bearing their burden easier on us.

We pretend to have the compassion of Jesus, to feel like we are good and holy, but without actually having the compassion of Christ. It's a selfish motivation to get the feeling of holiness without the work of actually being holy. Typical sin.

This seems to be the case in euthanasia, pro choice advocacy and in LGBT supporters.