“My Name Was Not Eric. It Was Faggot”

A testimony about what fundamentalist Christianity and social ostracism can do to a human soul:

Eric – after making this video and struggling to overcome the impact of this psychological and physical warfare against him – killed himself two days ago at the age of 19. His own mother had tried to exorcize the gayness out of him. His own mother.

You want to know why so many of us are so impassioned to change the world that effectively killed this human being, made in the image of God? To love and save the Erics of today, and to prevent the laws and culture that reduce him – and all that he is – to the word "faggot." And this is a task real Christians need to be in the vanguard of, rather than adding to the pain and torture that seeps into the lives of so many, so young, and so vulnerable.

Why is that so hard to understand? Can anyone doubt where Jesus would be in this battle?