...when
statistics show that as many as 40% of the nation’s homeless youth are
gay or transgender, compared to 3-5% of the overall youth population, we
have to acknowledge that we’re facing a crisis. The disparity suggests
that gay and transgender youth stand a much higher chance of becoming
homeless because of abuse, neglect and familial rejection due to sexual
orientation or gender identity that drive them to the streets.The kids
on the Christopher Street Pier that day, and the other gay and
transgender youth living on the streets who make up the 40% have done
nothing wrong, other than being born the way they were supposed to be.
And because of who they are, these kids have been forced to leave their
homes, subjected to abuse or worse.
[For the full article, see
here.]
Homophobic
clergy can be seen to be the major factor when parents kick their kids
out of the house, forcing them to be homeless, because their children
came out to them, thinking that they could trust their parents to
understand and unconditionally love them. Indeed, this is the way it
would be were it not for homophobic clergy's influence in lying about
same-sex attraction and love!
All
too many people believe the lies emanating from the ignorance and/or
hatred of these clergy, and that is one of the reasons why churches
should not enjoy tax exempt status, and why one of the best methods of
activism is to choose one homophobic church in a given city or
jurisdiction and consistently, and continuously, picket that church
every Sunday during their services, telling people that that church is
preaching a false Gospel, and is diametrically opposed to Jesus'
teachings.
Homophobic
clergy are erroneously felt to be speaking for God, and erroneously
felt to be correctly interpreting the Bible! These assumptions are not
true! And any parent who would kick their Gay child out of the house is
engaging in the demonic, as is any clergy who says that being Gay is
"disordered" and is a "sin."
Just
because someone turns his collar around doesn't necessarily make
him/her a person of God! He/she might well be working for the devil!
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