For LW1, another quite obvious illustration of why family is defined by shared values, and not shared DNA.  These people that he calls "family" are nothing more than a bunch of racist and homophobic neanderthals who do not share his real family's values.  He should leave them in the dust of their own ignorance and move on.   Small minded, reptilian thinking dinosaurs such as these "people" are gradually becoming extinct.  My advice would be to move away from the cesspool in which they live, and join their children and children' families in a more progressive and embracing environment.  

Once places like "religious" Mississippi realize what their intolerance and ignorance, and acceptance of same is costing them they will be forced to change.