IT WAS ACTUALLY THE HOMOSEXUALITY SUBJECT THAT MADE ME STOP AND GO, "WAIT A SECOND."
ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH AN AWFUL TIME TRYING TO FIGURE HIMSELF OUT, AND IN THE MIDST OF A CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER CONSERVACHRISTIAN, THEY SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY WAS A CHOICE. SINCE THIS SO BLATANTLY DID NOT RECONCILE WITH MY EXPERIENCES I HAD TO ARGUE THE POINT, AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR OBNOXIOUSLY RELIGIOUS SARA. THE FINAL PUSH CAME WHEN, THAT HALLOWEEN, SHE INVITED ME TO THE "HELL HOUSE" HER CHURCH WAS PUTTING ON. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ONE OF THOSE? I WAS SO REVOLTED BY IT. THE VERY FIRST SCENE WAS OF A GAY GUY WHO HAD DIED DUE TO AIDS COMPLICATIONS AND THE DEMON REJOICING OVER TRICKING HIM INTO THINKING THAT IT WAS "JUST AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE." I WAS SO PISSED.
(I WENT WILDLY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. I BECAME OBNOXIOUSLY ANTI-RELIGIOUS SARA. ONE OF THOSE ATHEISTS YOU WANT TO STAB IN THE HEAD FOR ACTING SO SUPERIOR. IT WASN'T UNTIL JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL THAT I FINALLY REACHED AN EQUILIBRIUM.)
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ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAD BEEN GOING THROUGH AN AWFUL TIME TRYING TO FIGURE HIMSELF OUT, AND IN THE MIDST OF A CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER CONSERVACHRISTIAN, THEY SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY WAS A CHOICE. SINCE THIS SO BLATANTLY DID NOT RECONCILE WITH MY EXPERIENCES I HAD TO ARGUE THE POINT, AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR OBNOXIOUSLY RELIGIOUS SARA. THE FINAL PUSH CAME WHEN, THAT HALLOWEEN, SHE INVITED ME TO THE "HELL HOUSE" HER CHURCH WAS PUTTING ON. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ONE OF THOSE? I WAS SO REVOLTED BY IT. THE VERY FIRST SCENE WAS OF A GAY GUY WHO HAD DIED DUE TO AIDS COMPLICATIONS AND THE DEMON REJOICING OVER TRICKING HIM INTO THINKING THAT IT WAS "JUST AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE." I WAS SO PISSED.
(I WENT WILDLY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. I BECAME OBNOXIOUSLY ANTI-RELIGIOUS SARA. ONE OF THOSE ATHEISTS YOU WANT TO STAB IN THE HEAD FOR ACTING SO SUPERIOR. IT WASN'T UNTIL JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL THAT I FINALLY REACHED AN EQUILIBRIUM.)