Via Andrew Sullivan, here’s an It Gets Better video. You should watch it. Sadly, the author took his own life recently.
Sullivan writes:
You want to know why so many of us are so impassioned to change the world that effectively killed this human being, made in the image of God? To love and save the Erics of today, and to prevent the laws and culture that reduce him – and all that he is – to the word “faggot.” And this is a task real Christians need to be in the vanguard of, rather than adding to the pain and torture that seeps into the lives of so many, so young, and so vulnerable.
Why is that so hard to understand? Can anyone doubt where Jesus would be in this battle?
I can’t even imagine.
This is what happens when people think that “praying the gay away” or some similar nonsense is a good idea. This guy was no different than you, me, or anyone else, except that he was tormented throughout his entire life.
What happened to him, and to so many others, is unacceptable, and it has to stop. Kids should not be killing themselves because people teach them, for their entire lives, that there is something wrong with them.
I can’t believe it’s even necessary to write that. And this is done in the name of God?
How fucking hard is this to understand?
520 Chestnut 
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