Reply #59: Yes, you do detect some anger....

[Liberal Veteran]

I have been with my same gender partner for 13+ years and I can't tell you the number of times I have been shit upon one way another by someone claiming that I shouldn't take it personally, because it's just their faith.

For example. I have a neice and nephew I have never met and they don't know I exist because I have a so-called Christian brother who doesn't "want his children exposed to my reprobate lifestyle"

Or perhaps my mother who after ending a ten year affair with another woman up and decided that she was no longer a lesbian, joined the Catholic church and wrote me a 5 page nastygram telling me I was going to hell for being gay.


So if you detect some hostility where the issue of homosexuality and Christianity meet, just realize that it's because I so very rarely know that people are Christians by their love...it's usually because I know they are using their faith as excuse for doing terribly meanspirited and hateful things.