I know! You are thinking why is this guy writing a "rant" when this is supposed to be a craft blog. Well, it's my blog and I guess that gives me the right to write whatever I want to write. This is about one of my former students, who by the way, was a marvelous student, became president of his class and finally student body president as a senior in high school. He was an outstanding athlete and scholar and had gone far since graduating from college in the spring of '17. I found out just today that this young man came "out" recently as gay. So what is so bad about that, you are asking yourselves? (At least I would hope that is what you would be asking!) My answer is "absolutely nothing!" Now the reason for the rant! This young man who I will simply call N has been disowned by his family. His parents and grandparents will have nothing to do with him. He has an uncle and aunt that still are holding him close and he has been spending holidays wit...