Straight mom breaks Spurlock streak

I was dead wrong.

Hear that?  Dead wrong.

I said that everyone comes away from Morgan Spurlock’s new show 30 days with their mind changed.  Well, one traditional mom proved me wrong.  After staying 30 days with a two exceptional gay parents and their four adoptive sons, she didn’t change her mind about gay adoption (she was against, the couple was clearly for).  The best she could do was to “agree to disagree.”

I can hardly even process this nonsense, er, her mindset.  A woman whose close friend was shot and killed learned to appreciate guns, and a straight mom couldn’t budge more than a centimeter on gay parenting even after being shown the horrors of foster care?  The main culprit behind the woman’s refusal to consider gay adoption seemed to be religion and I can understand that many people take their faith quite seriously, but I think that we can at least temporarily take the mindset of someone else.

I understand how the straight mom felt, alone, ostracized, and threatened.  However, when the episode ended with both gay parents crying after the mom walked away from their final discussion, well, they won me over.  She just seemed heartless.  And so the question is, what could she have done better?  Assuming that breaking her religious beliefs would truly affect her on a deep and personal level, what could or should she have done differently to protect those beliefs, but still respect the gay parents?

The gay couple (two men) was almost perfect as far as parenting is concerned.  It would be difficult to fault them for many aspects of their parenting and watching them both sobbing quietly when the woman told them that she couldn’t accept them as parents was pretty painful.   Is that really what Jesus would have done?