Documentary exploring the often tormented relationship between the gay community and the Christian community. | dG1fa1RyRDhMQ2J6NjA
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00:00I have buried more suicides in this community.
00:05When she first came out to me, I wished she were dead.
00:09I would rather she be dead than gay.
00:12That's how deeply ingrained it was in me of how sinful it was.
00:20I have grown up in a fundamentalist Christian church
00:24where gay people were, you know, the evil people out there.
00:28I was pretty angry at God.
00:30I felt betrayed by Him for having these homosexual feelings.
00:34The Christian Coalition decided to put the name of every young person
00:37who was found in a park suspected of being homosexual in the paper.
00:40Benny Hogan saw his name. They fired him. His family rejected him.
00:44Then he hung himself. That's the consequence of sin.
00:47They never once think, that's the consequence of my rhetoric
00:51towards that person condemning him.
00:53They never make the connection.
00:55Why would I choose to be gay?
00:57In nature, there's a natural variety.
00:59Most of the world's right-handed, but you have people who are left-handed.
01:02Who in their right mind would choose something that would invite
01:05hatred and rejection and misunderstanding?
01:08We have no rights and everyone hates us.
01:10Please come along and join us.
01:12Live in my personal hell with Madonna.
01:14I just want to be able to have the life that I would have had
01:18before you started taking things away from me because I was gay.
01:23What's it like to be gay?
01:25God created all people with worth and dignity.
01:28Anybody can be discriminated against for anything.
01:31Gender. Color of skin.
01:33What's it going to take for things to change?
01:36Knowing who God is, how would he ever condemn people to help
01:41just because of who they are?
01:43God loves everybody.