My Coming Out Day
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Today marks 15 years since I came out to my family and my home church. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions since then. There had been days when I struggled to decide whether I had made the right decision or just thrown myself and my family into a constant scripture-interpretation feud. It was hard early on, because my brain and so much of what I had been indoctrinated into was so deeply rooted in my faith, that I couldn't figure out what was God's voice and the voice of my upbringing. I have read a lot of books, on both sides (thanks to my family members trying to tell me I could be "healed"), along with my Bible, and honestly, it has taken years to break out of the fear and molding of the evangelical church. I feel like after the 1st presidency of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, I truly started to see just how control-built and not-of-Christ the evangelical church could be. I saw how they viewed curren...