I posted about a controversial topic on FB and now my mom wants to unfriend me. What should I do?

[Pumpkin Pi]

On Sunday, gay marriage passed in NJ. As a NJ resident, I celebrated by going to a bar and singing karaoke, and then I posted about it on Facebook the next day. I live with my mother, who is an extremely Christian woman. She has a Facebook page, but rarely goes on it. I have gay friends who are getting married, and I'm also bisexual, but I'm in the closet from my mother for obvious reasons.

Well, for apparently NO reason last night, Facebook sent my mother a message containing the post I wrote about gay marriage when it passed (I had written, "Celebrating NJ gay marriage with whiskey, pumpkin ale, and fabulous karaoke!") She came into my room this morning, all upset, thinking that I had purposefully sent it to her. I tried to defend myself, but she said that she thought it was best if I unfriended her so that she wouldn't have to see anything like that again.

I AM LIVID WITH FACEBOOK RIGHT NOW. It doesn't even make any sense that they would send one of my friends something I posted last week. And now they've caused a rift between myself and my mother, especially considering that I'm bisexual. This will make it a lot harder to come out to my mom, especially if she thinks that I'm manipulatively trying to send her gay marriage posts!

What should I do? Who should I complain to? How do I cope?
Sorry, let me clarify. My mother received an E-MAIL in her private e-mail address notifying her of my post. She's never on Facebook. I post a thousand updates a day and this has NEVER happened.

And I know my mom should change her ways, but she is so adamant that it would be useless to argue with her about it. I specifically steer clear of this topic with her at all times, because it just leads to useless fights where nobody wins.

[Robin]

You should point out the myriad idiocy of Christianity. She has zero right to argue about people who love each other. God spreads love, and gay love is still love. It is not because of a few sick popes who needed something to get their cattle together used it for that, it is evil. She is stupid and should change her ways.

[Aimzzee]

When you don't log onto facebook for a while it sends you emails about other people posting to get you to log in, This has to do with your mothers notification settings, which means that its your mother who has set it up (or has not unselected) post notifications in her facebook settings. Facebook isn't at fault here.

In a world that's moving forward most churches are teaching to accept everyone, its one of the commandments. If this is not the case for your mother and she has a traditional view and you don't agree with it, do what she asks and remove her as a friend. Its not as if you dont share with her outside of facebook anyway.

Explain whats happened to her and explain that if she doesn't want to share in your joy for others then maybe it is best that you no longer remain facebook friends as you dont want to offend her further.