Help Save Bryce Faulkner
Posted by Sheila Putang on Friday, October 23, 2009
Under: Anti Gay Clinics
Older post from my first blog
I just want all of my readers know that this is a very serious subject and needs immediate attention by all, including the media. I also want to let you know that some of this blog wont be verbatim but some of the wording will be the same when it comes to describing what kind of young man Bryce Faulkner is and what his family has done to him. I am hoping this young mans story touches you to help in the fight to save Bryce from extremist and his family. YES he needs to be saved from his Family. Have any of you felt that you needed and wanted your families support so much that it made your heart ache and that you would do just about anything to please them? We all have, but have you been brow beaten and threatened that you will loose everything such as your car, your home, your loved ones, your self? Unless you changed who you were? Its a feeling that hits you in the gut so hard that you almost cant breathe. Well this happened to a young man by the name of Bryce Falkner. The reason it happened to him was because he was gay. YES his family threatened to take everything away from him because he was gay. Threatened to disown him, take his money, his schooling, EVERYTHING AWAY from him because he was being true to himself and deeply loving another. Well if you think that is bad it just gets worse. Keep reading as a small section below will describe Bryce's story. The next two paragraphs are a description of Bryce's story and his current situation. Some of this wording comes from the site I dont usually quote anybody else writings but I dont want to have any misunderstandings or misinterpretations of this young mans situation, because he needs our help severly! Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin. As any person from the south, especially those whom have a conservative fundamentalist family and has come out of the closet knows, the family can become quite volatile in their reaction to the news. Bryce is no exception to this. In order to manipulate Bryce into accepting "treatment" for his homosexuality, they took away everything and left him the choice of becoming homeless and destitute or going into therapy. As anyone can imagine, this wasn't much of a choice. Being in the closet in a small town left him no one to speak to or to seek help to get him through the transition from the closet and into the light of day. His family took away every resource he had and left him with no phone to call for help, a car to drive to any help that might out there and no money to even take a bus to Wisconsin to be with his lover. The program he is going into is a 14 month program, one of the most severe and intense of these kinds of programs. People it is worse then that! Bryce has now been missing for 33 days! No contact with the real world or his lover Travis. I really don't think we could imagine what Travis is going through right now. How would you feel if you had your lover snatched away from you with out knowing truly where he was at, how he was being treated, not being able to talk to him and then told that Bryce dosent want anything to do with him anymore! This came from Bryce's mother Debra Faulkner. Mrs. Faulkner stated that Travis can with Bryce thru her. He will not be allowed to talk to Bryce. He can give her the message and she will then bring it back to Travis. Come on people now she is also stating that Bryce is not at this treatment center but with family. However nobody has seen him, nobody has phsyically talked to him on the phone, thru email etc. Now dosent that sound like shes hiding something? Well shes not going to admit it. She has threatnened Rev. Brett Harris who the site to help Bryce with a law suit if he didnt remove the site. Rev. Brett Harris is in this fight until the end and will not remove the site. I don't blame him. Now you cant hate Mrs. Faulkner for this, but what you can do is feel pity and sympathy for her as she has been brained washed by her church and her parents stating that Homosexuality is a sin. Remember I dont preach hate on my site and I try not to say that I hate things or people, but there is a time that you just get so passionate about something espically to an injustice done to another human being like this. I also feel what Bryce proably felt when his mother found his emails and he was outed. See Sheila's heritage is Southern Baptist. OH My families roots are from the south and when I was outed to my mother when I was 18 it wasnt a plesant experience. Sheila is a devoted loving christian. I love God and Jesus Christ, and I know now that they love me too! My mother made me go and talk to my familys minister. This was a very unpleasant experience for me. I was always worried at that age about me going to hell because of my sexuality. I was terrified of it. So to sit there across the table from him and hear him reading scripture to me and saying I was going to hell for who I was until I changed my ways, then will I be saved. I left there in tears and was scared for my life. I went home and cried for days and didnt leave or go to work for 3 days. I just couldnt go outside. So I went back to being "straight" (How can you go back being straight if being gay is not a choice) so s of you could only imagine what I was going thru. Well I found help from a gay friend who I knew was a christian that went church once a week. Talking to him almost on a daily basis was helping me cope for my so called sins. Well a few months later I fell on hard times and had to move back home. I really didnt talk to my mother that much like I use too, and she could tell I was hiding something. I wasnt really hiding anysizesizething because I just totally swore off relationships at the time but yes I was feeling uncomfortable there. I would go to work and then come home and shut myself in my room. I would cry silently and have Wyonna Judd playing in the back ground. If it wasnt for that music I would of lost myself, if you know what I mean. Then one day I came home and nobody was there and there was a letter on my bed in an envelope. I opened the envelope and as I was reading I just started balling trying to read the rest of the letter as it was saying that I am her son, and why she dosent understand my wanting to be gay she was ok with it because all she wanted was for her son to be happy. God helped open my mothers heart and mind that he loved all of his children. My mom was praying a lot and she felt that God was urging her to do some researching and talking with people. She did that. She proved that she loved me. I was so thankful for that. Now me and my mother are best friends again, and she is going to walk me down the isle for my wedding next year. I just hope that when we do get </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Bryce out that he knows that God loves him, and as for Mrs. Faulkner I hope you can open your heart to hear God's actual word and feel his passion that he has for all of his children and to know that Bryce is not abnormal that he is still your same young boy that you gave birth too. Bryce needs your support not your hate! I hope I am not getting off subject here but I want you readers to understand why Bryce proably made the decision he did to go into this kind of treatment. He is scared, feeling lost, feeling that he is an abomination and is doomed to go to hell unless he gives up his true self and denies that he loves Travis. Then for Travis to feel the despari</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">ty of not being with his true love not being able to communicate with him, and to hear form Bryce's mother that Bryce dosent want to have anything to do with him any more? Its just not right. Bryce is a legal adult and should have his voice heard. He should be allowed to be who he is, and who God made him to be. </span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">When Bryce's parents found out about Travis, Bryce was already preparing Travis that he was going to need him and for him to support him and to continue to love him because he was going to need him. Then Bryce dissappears to this so called treatment? People Bryce didnt go to a church that nothing bad is going to happen to him. Bryce went to the most extreme treatment centers here in the USA. They are very brutal </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">and severe in their treatment. Bryce is not with a group of people that loves him. He is with a group of extremist that hate him for who he is. They would rather see him gone then to allow him to be gay. Of course what the Faulkners did is not illegal (unless they physically forced him which there is no evidence of that yet) but its ju</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">st wrong and its wrong in Gods eyes as well. If being a homosexual was such a big sin why wasnt it in the Ten Commandments? Why didnt Jesus comdemn it when he walked the earth? One thing that the bible does say is an abomination is eating shell fish. You dont see these groups trying to shut down Red Lobster do you? I am totally serious in this. We need your </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">help. Travis needs your help. We need your hel</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">p in saving Bryce from these extremists. There are mulitple centers like this in the USA and they need to be outed to the media. We need attention to be brought to this cause. I am joining this fight not to just fight but to wage war against these conservative extremist. I am not going to stop untill we are heard and these centers are not allowed to operate because the people will be educated and the people will shut them down!
I just want all of my readers know that this is a very serious subject and needs immediate attention by all, including the media. I also want to let you know that some of this blog wont be verbatim but some of the wording will be the same when it comes to describing what kind of young man Bryce Faulkner is and what his family has done to him. I am hoping this young mans story touches you to help in the fight to save Bryce from extremist and his family. YES he needs to be saved from his Family. Have any of you felt that you needed and wanted your families support so much that it made your heart ache and that you would do just about anything to please them? We all have, but have you been brow beaten and threatened that you will loose everything such as your car, your home, your loved ones, your self? Unless you changed who you were? Its a feeling that hits you in the gut so hard that you almost cant breathe. Well this happened to a young man by the name of Bryce Falkner. The reason it happened to him was because he was gay. YES his family threatened to take everything away from him because he was gay. Threatened to disown him, take his money, his schooling, EVERYTHING AWAY from him because he was being true to himself and deeply loving another. Well if you think that is bad it just gets worse. Keep reading as a small section below will describe Bryce's story. The next two paragraphs are a description of Bryce's story and his current situation. Some of this wording comes from the site I dont usually quote anybody else writings but I dont want to have any misunderstandings or misinterpretations of this young mans situation, because he needs our help severly! Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin. As any person from the south, especially those whom have a conservative fundamentalist family and has come out of the closet knows, the family can become quite volatile in their reaction to the news. Bryce is no exception to this. In order to manipulate Bryce into accepting "treatment" for his homosexuality, they took away everything and left him the choice of becoming homeless and destitute or going into therapy. As anyone can imagine, this wasn't much of a choice. Being in the closet in a small town left him no one to speak to or to seek help to get him through the transition from the closet and into the light of day. His family took away every resource he had and left him with no phone to call for help, a car to drive to any help that might out there and no money to even take a bus to Wisconsin to be with his lover. The program he is going into is a 14 month program, one of the most severe and intense of these kinds of programs. People it is worse then that! Bryce has now been missing for 33 days! No contact with the real world or his lover Travis. I really don't think we could imagine what Travis is going through right now. How would you feel if you had your lover snatched away from you with out knowing truly where he was at, how he was being treated, not being able to talk to him and then told that Bryce dosent want anything to do with him anymore! This came from Bryce's mother Debra Faulkner. Mrs. Faulkner stated that Travis can with Bryce thru her. He will not be allowed to talk to Bryce. He can give her the message and she will then bring it back to Travis. Come on people now she is also stating that Bryce is not at this treatment center but with family. However nobody has seen him, nobody has phsyically talked to him on the phone, thru email etc. Now dosent that sound like shes hiding something? Well shes not going to admit it. She has threatnened Rev. Brett Harris who the site to help Bryce with a law suit if he didnt remove the site. Rev. Brett Harris is in this fight until the end and will not remove the site. I don't blame him. Now you cant hate Mrs. Faulkner for this, but what you can do is feel pity and sympathy for her as she has been brained washed by her church and her parents stating that Homosexuality is a sin. Remember I dont preach hate on my site and I try not to say that I hate things or people, but there is a time that you just get so passionate about something espically to an injustice done to another human being like this. I also feel what Bryce proably felt when his mother found his emails and he was outed. See Sheila's heritage is Southern Baptist. OH My families roots are from the south and when I was outed to my mother when I was 18 it wasnt a plesant experience. Sheila is a devoted loving christian. I love God and Jesus Christ, and I know now that they love me too! My mother made me go and talk to my familys minister. This was a very unpleasant experience for me. I was always worried at that age about me going to hell because of my sexuality. I was terrified of it. So to sit there across the table from him and hear him reading scripture to me and saying I was going to hell for who I was until I changed my ways, then will I be saved. I left there in tears and was scared for my life. I went home and cried for days and didnt leave or go to work for 3 days. I just couldnt go outside. So I went back to being "straight" (How can you go back being straight if being gay is not a choice) so s of you could only imagine what I was going thru. Well I found help from a gay friend who I knew was a christian that went church once a week. Talking to him almost on a daily basis was helping me cope for my so called sins. Well a few months later I fell on hard times and had to move back home. I really didnt talk to my mother that much like I use too, and she could tell I was hiding something. I wasnt really hiding anysizesizething because I just totally swore off relationships at the time but yes I was feeling uncomfortable there. I would go to work and then come home and shut myself in my room. I would cry silently and have Wyonna Judd playing in the back ground. If it wasnt for that music I would of lost myself, if you know what I mean. Then one day I came home and nobody was there and there was a letter on my bed in an envelope. I opened the envelope and as I was reading I just started balling trying to read the rest of the letter as it was saying that I am her son, and why she dosent understand my wanting to be gay she was ok with it because all she wanted was for her son to be happy. God helped open my mothers heart and mind that he loved all of his children. My mom was praying a lot and she felt that God was urging her to do some researching and talking with people. She did that. She proved that she loved me. I was so thankful for that. Now me and my mother are best friends again, and she is going to walk me down the isle for my wedding next year. I just hope that when we do get </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Bryce out that he knows that God loves him, and as for Mrs. Faulkner I hope you can open your heart to hear God's actual word and feel his passion that he has for all of his children and to know that Bryce is not abnormal that he is still your same young boy that you gave birth too. Bryce needs your support not your hate! I hope I am not getting off subject here but I want you readers to understand why Bryce proably made the decision he did to go into this kind of treatment. He is scared, feeling lost, feeling that he is an abomination and is doomed to go to hell unless he gives up his true self and denies that he loves Travis. Then for Travis to feel the despari</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">ty of not being with his true love not being able to communicate with him, and to hear form Bryce's mother that Bryce dosent want to have anything to do with him any more? Its just not right. Bryce is a legal adult and should have his voice heard. He should be allowed to be who he is, and who God made him to be. </span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">When Bryce's parents found out about Travis, Bryce was already preparing Travis that he was going to need him and for him to support him and to continue to love him because he was going to need him. Then Bryce dissappears to this so called treatment? People Bryce didnt go to a church that nothing bad is going to happen to him. Bryce went to the most extreme treatment centers here in the USA. They are very brutal </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">and severe in their treatment. Bryce is not with a group of people that loves him. He is with a group of extremist that hate him for who he is. They would rather see him gone then to allow him to be gay. Of course what the Faulkners did is not illegal (unless they physically forced him which there is no evidence of that yet) but its ju</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">st wrong and its wrong in Gods eyes as well. If being a homosexual was such a big sin why wasnt it in the Ten Commandments? Why didnt Jesus comdemn it when he walked the earth? One thing that the bible does say is an abomination is eating shell fish. You dont see these groups trying to shut down Red Lobster do you? I am totally serious in this. We need your </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">help. Travis needs your help. We need your hel</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">p in saving Bryce from these extremists. There are mulitple centers like this in the USA and they need to be outed to the media. We need attention to be brought to this cause. I am joining this fight not to just fight but to wage war against these conservative extremist. I am not going to stop untill we are heard and these centers are not allowed to operate because the people will be educated and the people will shut them down!
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