It’s not the first time religion has been used to justify bad behavior. 26-year-old Michael Neri, a drama teacher from Kidderminster, England, recently received a text from a mother who feels he shouldn’t teach children because he’s gay. You read that correctly. She was upset about a gay man teaching drama!
She told him in no uncertain terms that her children would no longer be allowed to attend his class.
She also asked him to please refund her deposit.
“I have recently learned of your lifestyle,” she writes, “and as a Christian I cannot allow my children to be influenced by unconventional ideas. It is our belief that a man should marry a woman.”
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Michael’s response shows class and restraint — and may have even made the headstrong woman think twice.
Read the conversation below.
DDstar1me
Michael darling, you read that bitch for filth.
Dave Bowen Nicol
Bazinga
Rob Powers
Oh Get Real Mother !
Barry Giles
Well done .What happens if one her children is gay? Will she get rid of th m?
RIGay
As… empowering, touching, moving… as these stories are, every… every… every… single one of these I have read has turned out to be a fabricated hoax.
Net: Nice thought, but invented fluff meant to stroke the originators ego.
Gus8519
I love what he said and did with the deposit! Made my day!
Rodney Hom
Hahahaha
Jim Philbrick
Bitch got her ass taken to the cleaners
D P
Wit, style, grace, and dignity are what I see in his response.
Brian JC Kneeland
She cannot dictate everything in life!
ronniephoenix
She got owned
gjg64
Perfect!
CWM85
Stupid parent… ignorant role model for her sons… ignorant.
Raeford Hill
She needs to get grip on life
jefrsh
I’m sad if that is a hoax because the way the teacher handled that horrible woman is commendable…
16669d
Why do ‘those people’ use ‘lifestyle’ to describe my life as a gay man.
I just happen to be gay that’s all.
Get a life Christian mother and leave us the hell alone.
David of Montreal.
stranded
Michael Neri is giving me LIFE! OMG, what a great response.
scotshot
@16669d: Using “lifestyle” implies that we’ve made a choice to be gay, or that all gays live in gaybars, are alcoholics and promiscuous sex addicts with loose *ssholes. It’s a way of dehumanizing us.It’s easier to execute us if they think they’re murdering a caricature.
zooby
@Barry Giles: Probably.
Catherine Corrigan
Fantastic. Well said Michael, what an amazing teacher ð??ð??ð??ð??
Brad Schultz
Donated to Stonewall lol
GayEGO
This nutty mother is so brainwashed she is unable to think logically or know what she is saying. She is not a Christian, she is a Christian Extremist and her children should be taken from her for teaching them such hateful nonsense. We need more Michaels to teach our children about love and inclusiveness so that the future of humanity will not have the religious extremists such as ISIS and other terrorists whose brains have been infected with extremism.
woodroad34
@GayEGO: She’s not even a Christian extremist, she’s just an ordinary, garden-variety bigot hiding behind a religion….a lamb on a roof trying to talk tough to the wolf below.
woodroad34
So, how many children of her’s are in this class and were they pushed into by an overreaching, shrewish stage mother or did on of the kids want to take the class? If it’s the latter, too late — the kid’s already gay whether she takes him/her out or not.
Griff Taylor
Girl Please!
martinbakman
@RIGay: Seems that Mr. Neri is real, although it does seem absurd the X-tian mum used texting to handle her concern.
Agreed that many of these stories appear fabricated, such as the gay man that thought he observed a gay teen with his protective father arriving at Starbucks for the teen’s gay date. Sounds heart warming, but probably an invention in the observant gay man’s head.
Katie Buklis
I love it.
drivendervish
It’s a great response but it would have a far greater impact were it not riddled with misspelling and poor grammar. IMO
Kangol
Typical crazy Christian bysh but Miss Michael needs to let go of that “gay lifestyle” crap. We lead gay LIVES. There is no one “gay lifestyle.” It’s a homophobic slur that more of us should dispel.
tomron
@drivendervish: I got stopped with ‘there’ also, but realized it COULD have teen there, as in that place. Howevefr, either way it would be wrong because in that case there should be a comma after there.