Can Coming Out in a Religious Context Help Bullied LGBTQ Youth?
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Dana Rudolph
October 11, 2010 3:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/10/can_coming_out_in_a_religious_context_help_bullied.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/10/can_coming_out_in_a_religious_context_help_bullied.php)
There's been a lot written on the recent bullying-related suicides. I found this piece by Rabbi Victor Appell, "If Only Tyler Clementi Had Been to a Gay Synagogue," particularly moving. Too often religion and LGBT rights are set up as opposites; Appell shows us how they don't have to be, and how "coming out in a religious context" might even have helped some of the youth who have committed suicide after anti-LGBT bullying. Appell himself was the subject of such bullying. Now he is a rabbi and a gay dad, raising two children with his partner.
I'm an FTM Christian and I laugh at people's shocked looks when I tell them :D God is the only love I need, because with him, everything is possible. I love him more than anything on this earth.