solarbird | Why blue-state queers need to be out to their red-state parents, a case study (Reply)

Why blue-state queers need to be out to their red-state parents, and why red-state queers need to be out where they are: damned fine example here.

Phelps showed up to protest this 16-year-old "doomed fag" in Oklahoma, and got this in return:

Inside the church, the congregation was standing and the six-piece guitar band was rocking. The Lord reigns ... Great is the Almighty. The music and energy built until Pastor Eubanks bounded onstage. "Welcome to the reign of life," he said. "Amen?" "Amen!" the crowd shouted, whistling and clapping. "There is darkness and there is light and we are in the middle of the light," Eubanks said, to more thunderous applause. "Say it: God loves us all. All of us!"

After the service, several people came up to hug Janice. One woman held her in an embrace that lasted two minutes, whispering to Janice the whole time. A burly man with a crew cut gave Michael a thumbs-up. "Man, you be who you are," Shannon Watie said, holding his Bible. "We got your back."

And that's what I was talking about.

(Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the link.)