It seems as though
Tolerance toward the gay community has become more common
You're hearing lots of great stories about people coming out to their families their families have been open and accepting
However there was an unfortunate video that went viral recently featuring a 20 year old by the name of Daniel Ashr- Ashley Pierce now
He came out to his family in Georgia
Last October and when he did his father was unresponsive. He didn't seem like he was] too
happy with it, but his stepmother seemed like she was more open-minded and accepting
well, then all of a sudden they did something that he referred to as a delayed intervention and the outcome was less than
Accepting it was actually pretty terrible and we have a video to show you guys that
Kind of gives you a sense [of] how horrible his family [actually] is and what they did to him
This is kind of difficult [to] watch so I want to give you some warning, but with that said let's take a look
Daniel I
Want to tell you before I say anything else, [and] [I] love you, and I noticed [you're] not going to believe [that]
But it is true. No, I believe it
so
And I have known
That you were gay since you were a tiny bit [alone]
Mm-Hmm that you would know at this point. It's not a choice
And you have made a choice
Evidently what you told your day. I have not made a choice. I
Have not made a choice. [I]
Have been from the moment I come out of my mother's uterus. [I] have been that way
Probably long before I come out of notice yeah
Now you can deny all you want to?
But I believe in the word of God and God creates nobody that way it's a path that you have chosen to choose
All right, you believe it the way you want to believe it because I cannot change that
All right, so that was the grandmother telling him you chose to be this way
and I think that it kind of reveals and
Exposes the ignorance that people have toward the gay community that notion that people decide what their sexual?
orientation is without stopping [to] reflect on themselves and whether
They ever decided what their sexual orientation was I never sat down and thought hey, you know what I think
I'm gonna be straight and my first crush is going to be the Indian boy in my kindergarten class [name] [so] [Miyagi] [know] it just
Happens right, I just realize [all] kind of
[he] was such a cutie [uh] but but it just it's what happens
It's not something that you choose and even if you do choose right which I don't actually think happens who cares
It doesn't impact your life in any negative way whatsoever. It's just something that they don't understand something that they're afraid of something
It doesn't seem normal to them
So they're going out of their way to hate someone in their own family their [own] [freakin] blood. It's despicable
[and] that's part of the point that I think she makes later
It's I have gay friends, but they're not relatives, so that's the exact point
She was trying to me and I was quoting her verbatim with her accent
I wasn't just making [that] up because that that's what she said, you know
It's fine when it's not in my backyard or [in] my basement, or you know in my living room
But it's not cool right [now]
Yeah, [not] [only] does she think that you choose, but she acknowledges there that he's been that way since as earlier
She thinks that children like [two] or three year olds of thinking who would I like to have intercourse with someday?
I don't think that that's exactly how it works first of all she doesn't know that the baby is gay
She does not know [that] that's a lie seems pretty smart. I mean that got said Toddler. She knew yeah
Oh, he's going for the banana
Baby food why not not the green beans gay totally gay decision?
and then
But it says you're saying that this is an intervention. [yes]
He referred to it as a delayed intervention because he came out last [october]
And it happened only recently and by the way the reason why the video went viral is because Dan savage
[found] it and he drew attention to it and now people are understandably outraged the family's response now it gets worse
We have two more videos for you [guys]. Let's take a look at the next one since you have chosen that pan
We will not support you [kay] longer
You will need to move out and find
Wherever you can to live and do what you want to because will not let people
Believe that I can do what you did, okay? [molly] [smugly]. [I] will be out by Thursday night at midnight
[how] about that all right [now] be completely out, and you'll never ever have to see anything if that's the way you choose it
That's fun. No, that's not what I'm choosing. I'm doing what you're telling me to and you're just only me so
That proves how much of a person you are in fact. I live in your basement since it's your house, and you're my mother
Really so all of that support that you told me about
How I support you, [I] don't support
And we does not [hold] your head what you do know and [I] have a lot of friends that are gay, but they're friends
It's it makes me so sad
How do you disown a family member over their sexual?
Orientation and and the fact that they refer to it as a habit just makes me cringe cuz it's not [a] habit
It's who he is again like whenever I say that you know deeply religious people are ignorant on this issue
Not all of them there are lots of religious people
They're very [open-minded] to this issue
But people like his family members the reason I say they're ignorant is because they don't know like either
They are willfully ignorant and they have the evidence pointed to them and they refuse [to] take it in fact later on in the video
[they] like we don't care about the scientific evidence you chose to be gay right, so even if they're presented the evidence
They decide no no we're gonna say that you it's a choice, and it's against the word of God we don't care about science
We care about the word of God that's more important to us than any type of scientific evidence
You could throw our way well the only choice being made here is the family's choice to be complete fucking animals and and not
Support their child that's that's the only choice in this entire. What seven-minute interaction
Yes, they never they always say that it's a choice, but I mean it's not like he's not in New York, okay?
He's not in San Francisco like he's off in you know Bumfuck America or whatever they never explain
Why you would choose [to] make that choice when it it's obviously a parent to you your family is not Gonna support you
They're gonna disown you you're gonna be [a] [stir] sighs in the community
It's gonna be much harder for you to ever openly love someone or be with someone
Why would you make that choice given this the concert? We'll have on your life. They would probably say to piss off
God or something like that. You don't you talk about Willfully ignorant you don't understand
He's just a deviant yeah, and he's devilish and he has cloven hooves
And that's why he wants to make his life and his family's life that much harder
Yeah it [and] one [final] thing that this reminds me of that
I've you know we've reported before about like Honor killings and beatings and disowning zinn in Africa the Muslim world
Women raped or something like [that] the family will disown them and and the reason that they say that they do it
Is that they don't want their honour to be besmirched in the community and they said [they're] we don't want other people to think that
We condone it so it's not [just] that they're disgusted and they want to get rid of them
I can almost understand that on sort of a a primal human level
It's that they understand probably rightly so that the community is more accepting of a family that callously
Sends their kid off to possibly starve and die homeless than to allow him to stay
And have sex people that you don't approve of like that that's more acceptable in that community
Should make you want to be disowned from your own community?
Absolutely we have one last video for you, [and] this is when things get violent. Take a look
Maybe none of these people have raised you you're full of shit
And you told me on the phone that you made that choice. You know you wasn't born that way
You know damn didn't well you made that choice
you know
That this man has done everything he can't raise you and you told me right on that damn phone that that was a choice you
Made he didn't need to blame yourself
So don't fill these people full of bullshit daniel. You're twisting my word you are
everything you are
Completely different person let me tell you something
Doug, you're not [gonna] fucking hit [me]
son of a bitch of a bitch get update
all the name
What's wrong with you? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah, yes, why you you don't kill my don't need [you] little piece of shit. [I] did [it]
I trusted you you've never trusted me you
Shit with me than anybody
Hey, come here. Oh teacher. I claim you as my own mother
[listen]
Listen check this out
But it's wrong with you people what's wrong with you you?
Know what is wrong with you people what's wrong with you [know] on your mouth on Facebook about me. I've got everything in the world
Everything in the world for you. Haven't run my mouth about you, al you [have] it. What is okay? What?
[am] I laughs I?
Don't get it. [you] just help me pull it up on Facebook, and you sure I don't have your folks move I'll go get some
You're discreet
I'm not a disgrace. Yeah, you are. No you're not no. I'm not
Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say [that] you ooh
Sounds like what good Christian people would do yeah, it might have sounded like the the grandmother was just screaming out random things
But I think she was actually quoting from ezekiel. [oh] really well. No you hear there. No, no
He's just crazy fucking babbling, but they believe [don't] believe that they follow the bible
That's not fucking what Jesus would do he wouldn't beat him over the head and then start talking about a social Media
Activity what you [intercepted] it has nothing to do with religion you hear you hear it in them it it these parents
Think it's that they're led to believe for some reason they feel guilty that their son is gay
They feel they've done something to make it happen. I don't know the situation
But certainly the kid isn't helping matters either because it just seems to be like he's saying
It's not a choice, but they're hearing we did this to you right. I mean, Dr.
Phil could solve that in like ten minutes in a way, which is some professional. Did you said hey? It's not your fault
[it's] not a choice you guys take the religion of religious beliefs aside
Because they're following the script we know the script. It's a pastor who usually comes in and says you need to have an intervention
Here's what you need to say it's a choice
Love the sinner hate it's the it's the same script, but the way the story always ends is those parents die
Usually alone without their kids at their bedside and that kid grows up without a parent
Something like an extended family to share their lives with and it's really just sad yeah, you know. I don't know it
just bums me out to hear that because
But that's ignorant
In its full
Sort of it looks just ignorant and talked about going from you know following the script at first. I want you to know much
We love you, too
Pummeling this kid. What was a grandma [again]. [I] mean that was a she went
Oh look she came along way in seven minutes
That was one into the kid now like we're so he it was disowned by his family
He was living with them so at this point
uh I think it's safe to assume that he is
Either staying with a friend or has no place to stay so as a result the online community got together
and they're trying to help [him] out so the video had more than
700,000 views as of Thursday afternoon a gofundme campaign was set up to help raise money to cover
Pierce's living expenses by Thursday - collected more than
$19,000 every once in a while, man you you hear stories like this you see how they end in you you see
How a community gets together to help a kid out and it makes you feel really good
And I'm [so] proud of those people for setting up that
You know that site and and donating the money in helping him and I hope that he has a bright future
And it's really sad when your family disowned you like that
But it's better off to
Not have to deal with them than live in a home where they think that you've made a choice and that
You're you know good a describer nin. You know so [total] [damage]. It's like really selling really smart people
I'm sure they're pretty ignorant whole host of other issues
Which would also basically justify the kid running away from his parents anyway. You should probably give a look at their okay?
Don't get harder
idiots [I] have to get out of your straight brothers like yeah, I'm going -
okay - [uh-uh-uh]
Um can I get out of here?
He was quoted as saying like I would I woke up a little late today
And I thought the worst part of my day was gonna be that I was 20 minutes late to work
[I] could have never ever thought that this was coming when I walked out of my bedroom door especially when he came out last october
And it wasn't you know it wasn't a warm response, but he didn't expect this yeah, yeah
And and I looked on Twitter this morning from what it says on Twitter. It looks like they're up to over
$50,000 it's freaking awesome. That's great