On his first experience with how gays are viewed in his particular religion: We didn't have that when I was a kid, so I was left just with the feelings and no way to articulate them.' Sometimes I look at kids now growing up with Glee and all these other figures in the media. 'I think I knew as I as going through puberty, I had some crushes on classmates, but you don't have the language for it at that age, necessarily.

I have very mixed feelings now when I hear that song.' Questions of whether Jesus really does love me, whether this means I'm going to hell, is this something that I can make go away. Then you layer on the questions about sexuality in the context of a conservative Christian home, and it's very very confusing. Back then it was really reassuring, especially when I was younger, and then when I was having these strange feelings that I didn't know how to account for, that's when things got a little more confusing.

I would sit in my grandparent's living room and every morning when we weren't at school, we would read the Bible and sing hymns together in Chinese and English, and pray. On what the song 'Jesus Loves Me' meant to Chu when he was young: RELATED: Click here to read an excerpt of this book His journey is chronicled in the new book, 'Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America.' Writer Jeff Chu wanted to know the answer to a pivotal question inspired it: As a gay Christian, does Jesus love him?Īfter all, houses of worship remain closed to him, and controversial congregations like the Westboro Baptist Church have no qualms about loudly shouting, 'God Hates Fags.' So Chu made a pilgrimage around the country to get a better sense of how different Christians feel about gays and lesbians. The first line of the traditional Sunday school song, 'Jesus Loves Me,' goes: 'Jesus loves me, this I know/for the Bible tells me so.'

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