{"id":4248,"date":"2009-04-17T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2009-04-17T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:55:01","slug":"his-father-wept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/his-father-wept\/","title":{"rendered":"His Father Wept"},"content":{"rendered":"
Johann Hari has written a superb profile of Andrew Sullivan<\/a> in Intelligent Life<\/i>, and I was quite moved by this paragraph:<\/p>\n After years of trying to suppress his sexuality—an “emotional blockage” that “really warped my personality”—he allowed himself to fall in love and have sex. It was on a trip home that he finally told his parents he was gay. His mother paused and said: “Oh my god. I’d better make a cup of tea.” His father wept. Sullivan had never seen his father cry before. After a while, he said: “What’s wrong? I’m fine.” His father replied: “No, you don’t understand. I’m crying because of everything you must have been through, and I did nothing to support you.” Sullivan says now: “It was the most honest expression of love I have ever heard.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n (Link via email from Arun<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n