I weep, and I agree

Gareth Higgins has a powerful post up on Tyler Clementi and our complicity as Christians in his death. An excerpt:

The story of Tyler Clementi is not just about a young man and his roommates’ stupid prank. It is a story about cruelty, and dehumanization, and fear, and the lack of an understanding of how human relationships can promote the common good instead of individualistic gratification.

It is a story about the role that bad religion – most of it Christian – has played in creating a culture of shame around sex and sexual identity in America, and the distortions of human happiness that pass for healthy religious practice.

It is a story about our complicity in this bad religion, and in these distortions.</blockquote>

There is much more to Gareth's blog -- I commend it to all of us, religious or otherwise.