Jane Clementi Talks About Why Her Family Left The Anti-LGBT Church
By Think Progress
The tragic suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi motivated an important conversation about bullying through the trial of his roommate, Dharun Ravi, who spied on his intimate moments with a webcam. But after nearly two years, Clementi’s mother, Jane Clementi, is opening up about some of her own guilt, because when Tyler came out to her, she still shared her evangelical church’s beliefs that homosexuality was a sin:
JANE CLEMENTI: People talk about coming out of the closet — it’s parents coming out of the closet, too. I wasn’t really ready for that… It did not change the fact that I loved my son. I did need to think about how that would fit into my thoughts on homosexuality.
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