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Clementi’s parents say their attitudes toward homosexuality have evolved since suicide
Clementi’s parents say their attitudes toward homosexuality have evolved since suicide
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD – Jane Clementi expected to have a talk with one of her sons about his homosexuality – but was surprised when her youngest, Tyler, approached her weeks before leaving Ridgewood as a college freshman to say he is gay.
“I did not know what words to use to him at the time,” she said Friday. “I was waiting for that conversation with James. It wasn’t the right child who came forward.”
She said she concluded long ago that being gay is not a choice, but she still believed it was a sin. She said that belief changed after Tyler, 18, killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 22, 2010, days after his Rutgers University roommate used a webcam to spy on him as he kissed another man.
“She said she concluded long ago that being gay is not a choice, but she still believed it was a sin.”
Well at least she realizes that people don’t choose to be gay, but her logic still defies me. God created people who are inherently sinful? I don’t understand how a sin can be something that involves no choice on the part of the sinner.