In the wee hours of Friday morning, a bullied teen from western Snyder County, PA, left his home, walked over 10 miles in the dark to Hwy 11/15, waited by the side of the road for the next tractor-trailer to drive by, then jumped in front of it.
Andy is a pastor in western Snyder County. His sermon on Sunday was a response to this tragedy. He put the following comment up with his initial posting of the video to facebook:
OK here it is. It's hard to be an outspoken voice of moderation. This is a sermon to my congregations, with reference to our community tragedy this Friday. It should not be considered such a risky thing to do to proclaim God's love for gay teenagers, but I didn't have the guts until today.
He put additional comments up as he posted this to youtube:
In the wake of another teen suicide in our nation, this time in our community, it was time to finally say publicly what I have said privately many times: "God loves gay people too." This should not be so radical, but it is still eliciting resistance and hate. Due to the nature of many immature and anonymous youtube users, comments will be disabled. This video is on facebook already, but I hope that by using youtube, it may make its way to those who need to hear it. The voices of hate cannot be allowed to be the only voice heard, even and especially those who use the name of our Lord to justify it.
I have always been proud to call Andy my friend, but am especially proud of him for this particular witness to the Gospel. Preach it, brother.
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