"As Christians, we just have to wonder. Was there no believer to befriend Tyler and, without loving his homosexuality, love him? The homosexual community insists that to love someone is to love their sexual orientation. We know this to be a lie. But no one who loves me should love nor rationalize my sin. The church must be the people who speak honestly about sin because we have first learned by God’s grace to speak honestly of our own."
--Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and architect of the fundamentalist take-over of the Sothern Baptist Convention, in a self-serving comment on the death of Tyler Clementi.
Imagine that you're a gay kid sitting in a Baptist church somewhere. You've been taught all you life that homosexuality is a grave sin against God, a threat to the family, and an abomination. You're desparate because you don't want to loose your family and church and you don't want to burn in Hell, yet deep down you know this isn't going away. Then you hear a great leader of your church say that to love you as your truly are is "a lie." No one should love this intrinsic part of yourself. Mohler's "love" has just pushed gay kids one step closer to the brink.
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