Please pray for Nathan

During my perusal this afternoon of Margaret Cho's blog, I came across this mind-numbing and gut-wrenching account of the death of a much too young GLBT activist from Fresno by the name of Nathan Christofferson (see entries dated December 19 and 27th.) A link is provided to a detailed accounting of the aftermath of his death from the eyes of one of his friends and fellow activists. This accounting can be also be found here.

Reading stories about young lives being taken away from us due to ignorance, misinformation, disrespect, and under the guise of "compassion and caring" is disgusting and unbelievably ANTI-Christian. You hear me, James Dobson, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Michele Bachmann, "Rev." Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson, Angela Davis, "Hon." Clarence Thomas, "Hon." Scalia, Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Lon and Bon Mabon, Marilyn Cosgrove, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney...etc. I said ANTI-CHRISTIAN. In the middle of my workday, I had the arduous task of holding back the tears of anger, disgust, and rage at the audacity of Nathan's own family members and members of the parents' hate-ridden church ministry to demonize his sexuality. How FUCKING dare they call themselves Christian! How dare they call themselves "loving family members." Their actions are just plain hypocritical and demeaning.

It takes a lot of courage to stand up for what you believe in the despicable world of hatred that we currently live in. I firmly believe that Nathan was one of those courageous individuals that we desperately need to stand up and fight. I can't help but be disgusted at the state of the human race, particularly here in the states during the dictatorship and free reign of Dumb (Dick Cheney) and Dumber (Dubya). I grieve for the voices of those lost due to hatred (by others as well as self-hatred). We live now in a physical and psychological terrorist state, which must be stopped at all costs. I grieve for those of us left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Please pray for Nathan tonight.