Parents throw their kids out all the time for all sorts of reasons. Calling that “murder” diminishes the actual killings that occur in Muslim families.

But I do think what is described in this post is relatively rare. Unfortunately, abused children are not rare, but all too common. The factors that lead to abuse of children is not caused by Christianity, but a result of ignorance, human weakness, and a degregation of societial civility and responsible behavior. Or as Christians and other people of faith like to call it, evil.

Usually the family of the homeless youth is completely disfunctional and the kid leaves because staying there is worse than being on the street (or when the kid leaves they think it is worse). There is almost always violence, sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol and other serious issues happening in the home. Occasiaonlly kids go on the street because they are recruited by other kids (as if it was some adventure), but that is relatively rare too and when it happens reality usually causes those kids to head back home.

The show also enjoys denigrating the media’s favorite boogie man, the rural white male. Any time an NCIS episode is staged in a rural setting, you can be sure the slanted, stereotyping will be laid on thick.
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Christians do not do this, even as poor a Christian as I was taught to hate the sin, love the sinner. Take, for instance, the Patriot Guard riders who stand tall between those Westboro cult types and the families of fallen troops. Most have no particular stance, one way or the other, about Teh Ghey. Yet they ally themselves with you for this cause.

I have no particular stance, either. In all my years upon this earth no one has ever asked my permission nor my approval to be LBGT (I hope I have the alphabet right) so I reckon nobody needs my permission or approval.

A Christian family would no more throw a kid out of the house for being LBGT than did the Palins throw their daughter out when they found she was pregnant. They thought they had a marriage thing going, then they found that Levi was a weasel. So, they loved their daughter and helped her through, and are still helping her.

That is a Christian family. The Cheneys, with their lesbian daughter, are a Christian family. They live by that seemingly silly bumper sticker, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven”.

Slightly OT. If yours were the (beautiful) face of the gay movement instead of those idiots waving their weenies in the gay pride parades, gay marriage would probably be the law in fifty states. And I submit there would be fewer kids thrown away, too.

I do not accept the substitution of the term “racism” for “disagreeing with a black man,” nor do I accept the substitution of the term “rape” for “I changed my mind the following morning.” Likewise, I do not accept your substitution of the term “murder” for “wrong-headedly kicking your kid out of the house.” I believe your argument could be made stronger and more relevent to the average American without the hyperbole.
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You wrote: “Christians honor-murder their gay and lesbian teenagers by throwing them out of the house when they discover they are gay or lesbian,” but throwing teenagers out of the house is NOT honor murder, or any kind of murder. Honor murder is murder done to avenge the parents’ honor (really, the father’s honor, because wives can be honor murdered, too) or standing in the community. It’s done by beheading, running someone over with a car, stabbing, bludgeoning, etc., and it’s done by Muslims, supported by their religion.

Saying “You can’t live in this house any longer” is not murder nor is it done only to gay and lesbian teenagers, or only by Christians. Plenty of heterosexual teenagers are made to leave home because they are sexually promiscuous, using drugs, selling drugs, running with gangs, and just generally out of control, refusing to obey their parents. When parents have tried everything they can think of, often including expensive therapy, to get their kids back on a sane track and nothing has worked, sometimes they tell them to move out in order to save their sanity, their marriage, and their other kids. Sometimes the kids can go live with other family members. More often, defiant kids run away of their own volition because they refuse to play by the house rules, thinking they have all the rights and their parents have none. If you don’t have first hand experience with rebellious teenagers, you can’t comprehend the problems parents experience, or even the ones teachers experience. It can be very ugly. When I was growing up, we kids did a lot of sneaking around to do things our parents didn’t approve of but if we got caught we threw themselves on our parents’ mercy, rather than telling them they were stupid old fucks who had no right to tell us what to do, as kids do today and have done for many years now.

When kids are out on their own, whether they were made to leave home or ran away, they can get into all sorts of trouble and they can wind up dead, but the same things can happen while they’re still living at home if they are careless about who they associate with, where they go, and what they do. It is natural for teenagers to make a break with their parents, and they need to do it to become independent. The problem is that there is no accepted way to do that today. Back when kids took on apprenticeships at 14, and went to live in their master’s home, family tension was relieved and the kids were beginning their adult life. The concept of adolescence hadn’t even been invented. Childhood led into adulthood around puberty. Now most kids are at home until they’re at least 17 and they reach puberty earlier so it’s difficult for them and their parents. What’s the answer?