Loved your experience Lukejmedic.
You sound very balanced in your view on this whole subject. One thing I have observed is that for some people, balance is very hard.
Its as if balance was a straight road and they cant help driving off to the left or right. No where have I seen this more than with JWs. They have just settled in to being told the world is black and white and they are the "only true religion" and they like that feeling.
So while you are calmly keeping it between the lines they are careening wildly in to one ditch and then the other and that is evident in the dirty looks at the meeting, the anti semetic comments and the blaming of an ancient God for androgyny!
But no where was it more evident than the comments on Facebook.
Such a shame but maybe thinking about the why behind the what helps a little?
You sure do sound like a great father to drive all that way for your young son. He is going to think about that through grown up eyes someday!
Very nice to read of fathers like you.