Review: Exquisitely Crafted
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
This is the second book by this author I've read over the last two days.And it just keeps getting better and better.He tackles some really difficult subject matter with grace and poetry: the religious right and their anti-gay bigotry, the pain suffered by LGBT and questioning youths subjected to bullying, bashing and endless messages of condemnation from their peers, parents and society, and the extremely high cost of staying in the closet.Sounds like a hackneyed laundry list of injustice, and in lesser hands, that is exactly what it might have become. Instead, this is a moving story of youth, and the adults - family, church and school - that have failed them.And ultimately it is about the true message of Christ that way too many Christians have lost or ignored - that love of one another is what counts, not the pallid excuses so many churches use for spewing bigotry and hate, harming our children and ourselves.It is inspirational, sometimes profoundly moving, always human, not to mention important.Thank you for a truly great book.