Openly gay American Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson, no stranger to anti-gay rhetoric himself, added his own video testimony to the "It Gets Better" project in hopes of helping the gay teens of America survive their daily struggles and know that a better day awaits them just around the corner.His message is one clear and strong, that God loves all his creations, including those who are gay, and that indeed life being gay does get very much better. He also boldly states that anything preached other than acceptance and God's love for all is "flat-out wrong."
Many have blamed the Christian right as being partly culpable for the recent strings of gay teen suicides this summer, for preaching and advocating embittered intolerance towards the gays and lesbians of America.
Their bigotry of the pulpit reinforces the notion that bullying, abusing and harassing gays is excusable.
Yet despite calling themselves Christians, these organizations have forgotten some magnanimous fundamentals of the Christian faith, those of tolerance, love for thy neighbor, forgiveness for all, and that the judgment of man be left to God, and not to man himself.
And let us remember that the Christian messiah offered in his sermons nothing slanderous towards gays or lesbians, not one word, but indeed preached about the ills of hatred, ill will and intolerance among men.
The Bishop also has some spot-on commentary on the religious organizations (i.e., the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Southern Baptists) that foment 'hate-mongering' and create pariahs out of these innocent gay children.
It is quite long overdue for a Christian leader, one such as Bishop Gene Robinson, to remind us all that God loves everyone.
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