[LINK] "Michigan pastor caught on Grindr told gay teen he was going to hell: report"

[rfmcdonald]

The New York Daily News reports on an infuriating event that reminds me that, sometimes, people need to be outed.

The anti-gay Michigan pastor at the center of a Grindr controversy told a young parishioner he would go to hell for being gay.

The discouraging hypocritical words, spoken by Matthew Makela before Queerty discovered his secret gay hook-up profile, nearly drove 17-year-old Tyler Kish to suicide, his mother revealed to WNEM-TV.

Pastor Matthew Makela, of St. John's Lutheran Church and School in Midland, Mich., was caught using the gay hook-up app known as Grindr.

“If he was going to go to hell for being gay, he might as well go to hell by committing suicide,” Jennifer Kish told the TV station.

The teen whose sexual orientation Makela labeled as wrong believed he needed to seek forgiveness for who he was as Makela increasingly vilified homosexuality and marriage equality.

“I needed to repent and hold on to the thought that God could change me,” Tyler recalled feeling, but now he feels sorry for Makela’s plight. “Everything he told me, in a way he was telling himself, too.”