the only response to this amazing excerpt is: WOW.

[Openly Gay L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl] held up his 35-year-old Bible and told his colleagues the pages were stained with his tears — a mark of the time he spent wrestling with his identity. “In my struggling to come to my understanding of my relationship with God,” Rosendahl said, “I finally realized that God created nature, and God makes no mistakes. So we’re not a mistake, we’re not an accident, we’re just another expression of God’s will.”