Why I Do What I Do, Episode #4

Our niece is gay. Her sister is transgender. Their grandmother - a former missionary and lay pastor in the UMC - died this fall at age 99. After her funeral, through tears, my niece told me that her grandmother was the only reason she still feels there might be something about Christianity that is for her. She told me how she was treated terribly in her home church and as a camp counselor at a United Methodist camp because of her homosexuality. But when her grandmother found out she was gay, she accepted her fully. When I die, I want it to be said that any teenagers or people of any age in my world knew without a doubt that I was fully supportive of them exactly the way God made them.