Former anti-gay Christian

I was raised in a church setting by a VERY religious family, ever since I was a little kid. Rarely did my family miss a Sunday. Though I hated church as a kid, as a young adult, I became very serious about Christianity, and was a hardcore religous person for years. Needless to say, I was very anti-gay. I wasn't one of those crazy nuts who claimed God hated gays; I was the opposite, always saying that God loves us all equally, and just wants us to follow turn from our own ways and follow him.

About four years ago, I first having some serious doubts, and really began to question my religion. After a lot of introspection and objective examination of Christianity, I realized that there was no substance to it. When I got to that point, I re-examined a lot about life, and morality. One of the things I realized, was that it was seriously wrong and unfair to treat homosexuality as anything less than something natural that people are born with.

Is there anyone here who was anti-gay at one point because of religion?

 

Maybe at some point in time years ago I was.

As a young child, maybe 7 years old I heard my dad and step mom asking each other "whether or not gay people could go to heaven," to which their conclusion was "no." For a child whose sexuality was not totally clear cut, that was very stressful.

 

Thanks, Lord Nope!

I was raised to strictly mind my own business and NOT worry about other people's personal lives.

I cannot thank enough my parents and family for teaching me that I am NOT the center of universe, and that what happens to me, and what I think does NOT really matter too much!

Amen!

KD

 

love pleasure and beauty are sacred, no matter what sex the adults happen to be that are participating.

 

Me. I was raised Catholic and at one point in my teenage years was very into that religion.

 

I never really recgonized myself as a gay(bi) until later in life around 17/18 years old. But I never really hated or even gave much thoughts to gays until I really fancied a friend. But I really made fun of the really femme ones, still do to a lesser degree because a man just shouldn't act like that.... I don't hate or dislike them either and wouldn't say something to their face. Oh I forgot to mention that I was baptized a catholic but my parents did that to stop the family from bitching. I've prolly be to church less than 8 times including weddings.