An Apology

I want to offer my deepest apologies to gay men. I was a Christian teenager who didn’t have the guts to love people who weren’t like me. So, I used humor and ridicule, rather than love and grace to process my confusing feelings. I would never make fun of gay men to their faces; but I would take the coward’s route, and laugh at their expense when they weren’t around. I have behaved like someone who doesn’t even believe in God, when all the while, I’ve claimed His name as the overriding purpose of my life. Go figure. So to the community of gay people I ridiculed, I ask for your forgiveness. I also seek the forgiveness of God, for I have demeaned a beautiful life created in His image.