Sunday is Bring Your Gay Teen to Church Day

Open doors await them

Homosexuality and religion have a complicated past, but some area churches hope to bridge that gap this Sunday

By JEANNIE KEVER HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Feb. 19, 2011, 7:29AM

Ebie Hussey's first reaction when her son announced that he is gay was to offer unconditional love.

Finding a new church was a close second.

"His first question was, 'Am I going to hell?' " Hussey said of that conversation with her son, Jaxn. "Mainstream Christianity and fundamental Christianity really pushes that homosexuality is a sin, and he had caught on to that."

Jaxn, now 15, knew his parents didn't think that. "But I had always heard people saying that kind of thing," he said.

In an effort to counter the message, almost two dozen Houston-area churches have designated Sunday as Bring Your Gay Teen to Church Day. ... (continued)