Reply #159: I feel for Judge Greer -- same thing happened to me

[CornField]

I was also asked by my protestant Christian pastor to leave the congregation. According to him, things in my personal life were causing a "rift in the congregation." The personal problems were not something I had any control over. I was pregnant with our second child and we learned that he had a terminal neural tube defect (anencephaly). We had made no secret of the pregnancy and also did not make a secret of the fact that several doctors had encouraged us to terminate the pregnancy due to further complications.

I was a Sunday School teacher and I sang in the choir. The day I was called into the pastor's office, I was expecting him to offer me some sort of one-on-one spiritual guidance about my personal situation and the stress of the OKC bombing. (This was the same day that the remains of the building were demolished.) Instead, I was asked to walk away. I did. My only regret is that I wasted so much of my time and talents with individuals who obviously cared so little.