What is your opinion of the following excerpt?

Kendall was 13 years old when his fundamentalist, evangelical Christian parents discovered that their son was gay by reading his private journal. He was in the shower when his parents stumbled across the journal, and he says that they immediately began screaming at him, telling him he was eternally damned to hell. He was so frightened that he ran away from home for the night. He had no way of knowing that this was just the beginning of his struggle.