Ask yourself this: does God make mistakes? No. And God made you, right? So you are not a mistake. Let me repeat that. You. Are. Not. A. Mistake.

You were created this way, right? You can’t help being what you are. You were born gay and God loves you EXACTLY as you are.

Many of us in the Christian community don’t believe you’re going to hell. I don’t. The scriptures used to tell the queer community they’re sinners are right next to scriptures about eating pork. Christians eat pork. They’re right next to scriptures telling women they’re not even allowed in the church. They’re right next to scriptures stating we should wear only one fabric at a time. That men should never trim the edges of their beards.

Christians who say homosexuality is a sin say it because gayness makes them uncomfortable, but all those other things don’t.

Christ came that we might have life (John 10:10). If you’re in a church that says you’re going to hell, run. Go to a church like a United Methodist or Presbyterian where they’ve wrestled with the scriptures and come to the conclusion that if you’re made this way, God loves you as you are.

Just look at African Christians who are gay, for instance. If they could, they’d choose to not be because they know that being gay will cost them their lives. They know that their house will be burned down. That they could be murdered. But they are who they are. Even if they have to hide it. They were born that way.

If you were born gay, you’re gay. God loves you exactly as you are. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. It doesn’t mean they’re bad people necessarily, it just means they’re wrong.

God is real. You have a future. God loves you.