We need more of this kind of struggle:

Al Mohler, whose online commentaries helps me think more clearly, forces conservative evangelicals like me to ask whether we care about people as well as truth. You can read his entire article about Tyler Clementi's tragic death, here, but here are a few lines that brought me up short.

What if Tyler Clementi had been in your church? Would he have heard biblical
truth presented in a context of humble truth-telling and gospel urgency, or
would he have heard irresponsible slander, sarcastic jabs, and moralistic
self-congratulation? . . .
The teenage years are hard enough to navigate.
Most boys do not struggle with homosexuality, but there is not a teenage boy
alive who does not struggle with sexual confusion. There is no deacon, preacher,
or pew-sitter who went through male adolescence unscathed and without sin. There
is not a human being who reaches school age who would not be humiliated by a
well-placed webcam. And yet these boys - along with girls facing similar
struggles - imagine themselves to be alone in their confusion and helpless in
their anguish.
Was there no one to step between Tyler Clementi and that
bridge? . . . Was there no one to put into perspective the fact that people who
did not love him had taken advantage of him, but that the many who did love him
would love him no less?

We Evangelicals need to remember that the Fred Phelpses of the world are out there waving vulgar signs and shouting at news cameras. Thanks to Mohler for using his considerable clout to let others know that there are those who care. We are struggling, too (intended in no way to belittle the kind of struggle in which Clementi was engaged.). We hold to truth that we can't simply throw over the rail, and we love people that we can't allow to jump off the bridge.

It's STTA.