'God is on your side': Group of US Catholic bishops call for support, defend LGBT youth against bullying
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FILE - Archbishop of Newark in the United States of America Joseph William Tobin (R) walks after kneeling before Pope Francis to pledge allegiance and become cardinal, on Nov. 19, 2016 during a consistory at Peter's basilica.
NEW YORK - Declaring "God is on your side," a Roman Catholic cardinal, an archbishop and six other U.S. bishops issued a statement Monday expressing support for LGBT youth and denouncing the bullying often directed at them.
"All people of goodwill should help, support and defend LGBT youth," said the statement released by the Tyler Clementi Foundation, named for the Rutgers University student who took his own life in 2010 after being recorded on a webcam kissing another man.