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I normally don't do this, but I feel like something needed to be said about the issue.

Dan Savage started the It Gets Better Project on YouTube in commemoration of Billy Lucas, a 13-year boy who hung himself as a result of the bullying and taunting he endured because he was gay. If you watch the news, or read the paper, or even just surf the web, you would see that in the past few weeks, there have been more and more cases of homosexual teens resorting to suicide. Dan started his project because this issue needed visibility, and other teens that might be contemplating suicide need to hear positive things. Perhaps the boys that did take their lives could have been saved if they were reassured, if they knew their lives would get better.

The LOT Project posted this last week on YouTube. Watch it. And really listen. And for a few minutes in your life, pretend you were Billy Lucas, or Tyler Clementi, or Asher Brown, or Seth Walsh. Imagine you felt like you had nothing left to live for, that your natural self was disgusting to the people around you, and then you heard this message. Imagine. If it were me, I would probably hang myself too.

Fortunately, I know I have something to live for. I know people love me, and I know that it gets better. But there are kids who haven't learned that yet, and that's what the It Gets Better Project is for. It's a shame that there are videos like the one above that contradicts everything positive we have worked toward.

I go to a Catholic school, and my teachers have always told me God works for the common good. Now tell me, do videos, like the one above, promote the common good? No. They affirm the negativism that makes teens so hurt, so broken in the first place. In fact, the video said Billy Lucas himself is practically burning in hell. If that doesn't anger you in the least - that some guy from some discriminatory church would say that about a boy who is not even alive to defend himself - you really need to learn more about this issue.

In the video above, the man states that homosexuality is a practice. I beg to differ. It is something natural. No one chooses to be gay. And I mean, why would we? Why would we want to be the subject of such hatred? Why would we want to, supposedly, "burn in hell for our sins?" Now religion, on the other hand. That is a practice. That is something you choose to do, and choose to believe. If you want to believe that the humans God created in his own image are wrong and deserve the treatment they get... Well, that's your decision. But it's you who has to live with the guilt of knowing that your own intolerance is the number one cause for teen suicide.

So to end this on a positive note, I want to direct you to the It Gets Better Project. Subscribe to the channel if you have a YouTube account. Share it on Twitter and Facebook and even on here. Don't be ignorant. Support the teens who feel like they really don't have a voice anymore. They are the people around you: they go to school with you, they take the bus with you, they pass by you on the streets everyday.

You really don't know who's life you're saving by telling them you love them, and you support them, and that it really does get better.