I found this sad posting this morning

The writer of this email was lamenting his church's refusal to accept him.

"I have been abandoned at many times in my life. By friends who didn't want to associate with a "fag." By family members who couldn't deal with having a gay relative. By coworkers and associates who wondered every time I had a cold or took a sick day, if I finally had that "gay disease." Through it all I've always had faith in my church and the old saying that everything happens for a reason. I would often lie in my parents' backyard at night, looking up at the stars knowing there was a higher power and someday the answers would all be revealed to us. But now, the abandonment I feel from my church is almost too much to handle. What do I have left? The stars didn't look real to me last night. My church has told me the stars are not for me, they are for straight people only."