Last August, I was urged to seek spiritual guidance from a priest after having come out to my parents. He told me that as a Catholic, my destiny in life was to go to heaven and I could never achieve that if I was gay. He told me that I could change my orientation with prayer and proper spiritual guidance. Ever since elementary, when I would be bullied for being different, I had never turned my back on God and said I dont believe in You. Not once in the hundreds or even thousands of times when people shouted Gay! at me did I ever doubt Him. I continued to pray and hope that things would get better. But when this priest said what he said to me on that day, when I felt most vulnerable, most needing of some acceptance and positivity from the people who supposedly preach Gods word, that was the first time I stopped believing in God. Why does this person condemn me for something I did not choose to be? This article gives me hope. Of all the priests I could have talked to, why did it have to be him? It only took a short time before I repaired my belief in God because I couldnt deny His existence when I experienced the good things happening around me. I have gone to confession and received communion since, but I will never return to that priest. And if ever I am forced to go to him again, I will bring out my phone and play Same Love on repeat to drown out the hate that he preaches. I have come out to my friends and my family, and now Im coming out to the rest of you. This way, I can never take it back and say Im straight (because the church converted me). I am gay. I did not choose to be gay and it took me 20 years to accept but I am finally happy. If you have a problem with that, then by all means disappear from my life, but we probably dont see each other anyway since the people I surround myself with these days are the people who know me more than I know myself and these are the people I love. #ItGetsBetter news.yahoo/bishops-acknowledging-reality-catholic-families-094555875.html
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:43:46 +0000
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