@article{1404970,
      recid = {1404970},
      author = {Chu, Jeff,},
      title = {Does Jesus really love me? : a gay Christian's pilgrimage  in search of God in America /},
      pages = {353 pages ;},
      abstract = {When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his  devout Christian mother cried. And cried. Every time she  looked at him. For months. As a journalist and a believer,  Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that  had been haunting him for years: Does Jesus really love me?  The quest to find an answer propels Chu on a remarkable  cross-country journey to discover the God "forbidden to  him" because of his sexuality. Surveying the breadth of the  political and theological spectrum, from the most  conservative viewpoints to the most liberal, he tries to  distill what the diverse followers of Christ believe about  homosexuality and to understand how these people who  purportedly follow the same God and the same Scriptures  have come to hold such a wide range of opinions. Why does  Pastor A believe that God hates me, especially because of  my gayness? Why does Person B believe that God loves me,  gayness and all? From Brooklyn to Nashville to California,  from Westboro Baptist Church and their "God Hates Fags"  protest signs, to the pioneering Episcopalian bishop Mary  Glasspool who proclaims a message of liberation and divine  love, Chu captures spiritual snapshots of Christian America  at a remarkable moment, when tensions between both sides in  the culture wars have rarely been higher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1404970},
}