Last Friday night the 27 year old son of Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in California took his own life. I cannot imagine anything more tragic that could happen to his parents and family. In a statement Rick Warren said his son’s suicide was the result of years of struggle with depression and a “momentary wave of despair.”

There has been an outpouring of support for the Warren family and I have observed many statements of sympathy on Twitter. However, mixed in with the decent people expressing sympathy are the absolutely evil people piling on the hateful and vile comments. I’ve snatched a few below from Twitter but there are many, many more and some with language that will never be on my blog. Some even suggest that Rick Warren murdered his own son because he was gay and about to ‘come out.’

These people and others showed their true character and the evil in […] → Keep reading