@izzythepush,
The mother was changed herself. If she hadn't, there wouldn't be much of a message here.
The message is: if one looks at the trouble one has with gayness in others as an issue, they'll eventually find the trouble started in their own heart and mind.
The mom is one of my favorite persons on the planet. Her late husband, a 5'-2" Marine combat Colonel and Viet vet, was a wonderful person himself - the funniest and most generous curmudgeon ever. He hated the bell choir, when he passed I bought two clapper-less bells, had them engraved "The Jerry Campbell Memorial Hand Bells" and donated them to the choir. They use them with mallets.