Homosexuality is a sin.
Homosexuals are doomed to spend the eternity in hell.
If they wanted to change, they could be healed of their evil ways.
If they were turned away from temptation, they could be normal again.
If only they would try and try harder, if it doesn’t work.
These are all the things I said to my son bobby, when I found out he was gay.
When he told me he was homosexual, my world fell apart.
I did everything I could to cure him of his sickness.
8 months ago, my son jumped off a bridge and killed himself.
I deeply regret my lack of knowledge about gay and lesbian people.
I see that everything I was taught and told was bigotry and dehumanizing slender.
If I had investigated, beyond what I was told,
If I just, listened to my son, when he poured his heart out to me,
I would not be standing today here with you, filled with regret.
I believe that, god was pleased with bobby’s kind and loving spirit.
In god’s eyes, kindness and love are what it’s all about.
I didn’t know that each time, that I echoed eternal damnation for gay people, each time I referred to bobby, as sick and perverted and a danger to our children, his self-esteem, his sense of worth, were being destroyed.
And finally, his spirit broke beyond repair.
It was not god’s will that bobby climbed over the side of a freeway overpass and jumped directly into the path of an 18 wheel truck, which killed him instantly.
Bobby’s death was the direct result of his parents’ ignorance and fear of the word gay.
He wanted to be a writer.
His hopes and dreams should not be taken from him. But they were.
There are children like bobby, sitting in your congregations, unknown to you, they will be listening, as you echo amen, and that will soon silence their prayers, their prayers to god, for understanding and acceptance, and for your love.
But your hatred and fear, and ignorance of the word gay will silence those prayers.
So before you echo amen in your home and place of worship, think, think and remember, a child is listening.
天佑鲍比里面母亲最后的演讲，很感动，很真实。
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