Phillip Parker, 14, of Tennessee was found dead over the weekend apparently by his own hand. Parker was another gay teen (or someone believed to be gay) who just couldn't deal anymore with the bullying of his peers and decided that it was just too painful to go on.  This is another example of the 'hate gays at any cost' mentality of the christianist politicians including the likes pf Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney who in their wild quest for the hightest office in the land have embarked on a kill the gays kind of retail politics and self-proclaimed 'righteous' people who seem to thrive on hate and some of whom without any thought for the consequences of their actions and their preaching  who support themselves and their families by raising money to campaign against equality under the law.  Gay and lesbian people are the last discrete group of people it is okay to hate.  Phillip is another young man terminated before he grew up to be whatever it is he wanted to be. Now he is no more and the haters will continue to deny any responsibility for his needless death and the needless deaths of every young person who has died at the hands of their insane theologies and culture wars. There is no room in this society for people even 14 year olds who harrass and intimidate their peers to the point that those children kill themselves after having lost all hope.  I do not think that it any sort of coincidence that so many of these suicides occurr in what we call the Bible Belt of this country   Sadly it will not get better for this young man or his family.  Rest in Peace, Phillip.