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I'll tell you where to stick your geranium... This was the worst book I have ever read. The single most devastating experience in Barbara Johnson's life seems to be that her son was gay. Not that two other sons were killed tragically, but that one of her two remaining children was involved in "the homosexual lifestyle." Despite having only two surviving children, Johnson refuses to associate with her son unless they can completely ignore that he is gay. After he leaves home (who could blame him) she says, "Whatever Lord" and continues on her merry way. The fact that there is never any mention of what her son must have been going through all this time when he has been rejected by the one person in the world who should love him unconditionally is only one of the reasons this book is so upsetting. Johnson writes about rejecting her son in such a flippant manner it is impossible to have any sympathy for her at all. To her credit, she does finally write a few pages about loving your kids no matter what, but her "no matter what" seems to only mean once they come around to your way of thinking. There are a lot of better sources for people coping with the lifestyle choices of a child than this book, which would have you brush your "flawed" child away like a gnat.
Stick a Geranium In Your A** Sorry, Babs. You can't call yourself a Christian and also be so judgmental about your son or the so-called "homosexual lifestyle." If we're throwing labels around, we might just as well call it "the heterosexual lifestyle." Gimme a break; it's 2004, lady. How dare you be a homosexual! I read so much about her down to earth humor and wit that I picked her up. You have to be really right wing, and realy christian to truly enjoy her book. And if you are, you will enjoy her breezy depictions of her marriage, identify with her horror at discovering her son has succumbed to the `homosexual lifestyle' (as the blurb puts it.) and egg her on all the way, upbeat despite all her travails. If you are slightly more iiberal, you will question the very basis of this book, think her humor extremely offensive (he cannot be gay, he is a christian) and believe there are many people who have lead much more difficult lives than her, who do not try and make a book out of it.
