From Their Lips To God’s Ears: 21 Secret LGBT Struggles With Religion
There’s an instinctual flinch in our community where sexuality and religious faith intersect. And for good reason. For many LGBT people growing up in strict religious households, rigid belief systems can mean the difference between acceptance and disownment.
It really boils down to whether or not someone takes the time to think things through on their own. If you only base your beliefs on what someone else tells you, there’s bound to be trouble.
In a video that went viral of a boy coming out to his religious parents a few months ago, the mother explains to her son that “you can deny it all you want to, but I believe in the word of God and God creates nobody that way. It’s a path that you have chosen to choose.” There’s nowhere to go from there, really — the boy gets kicked to the curb.
We were interested in hearing from more people caught in the conflict of religious prejudice, so we asked the team at Whisper to see what they could find.
The stories they came back with are powerful, telling and often tragic.
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Dan Tracer
