Gay Harassment and the Struggle for Inclusion; New York Times, 10/8/10

Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times; Gay Harassment and the Struggle for Inclusion:

"“It may sound extreme,” Ms. Connor said, “but Tyler Clementi is someone who died in a battle that many clergy and religious people are fighting. For inclusion. For our understanding of what God wants the world to be.”...

“Clergy have a key role,” said the Rev. Pat Bumgardner, pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in Manhattan. “We have a chance to shape public opinion, people’s willingness to wrestle with the diversity of God’s creation. Pastors need to step up to the plate and speak about the wrongness of bullying, the wrongness of cruelty.

“There’s no religion on the face of the earth that countenances the taunting to death of children.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/us/09religion.html