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penisbilt · 4 days ago

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one of my only surviving memories of one of the churches my parents tried when i was a teenager, the pastor spent like half the sermon ranting and raving and yelling about the blasphemic lady gaga and how she had recently sang "god bless the u.s.GAY" during her performance of the national anthem at like the superbowl or whatever and they unfurled a gay flag instead of an american flag or something and about how it was SO DISRESPECTFUL to GOD and our TROOPS and that gay people should be ASHAMED for this and how lady gaga must be the devil's attempt to influence OUR INNOCENT CHILDREN into doing EVIL. like turning them gay i guess. or something

#i then proceeded to instinctively tune out every thing else about that church so this is really the only one thing i remember about it #i dont think wr went there too long thankfully maybe like a month or two at most #i dont even remember what that church's particular stance on Gay even was . tbh #i was literally so incensed my brain decided to focus entirely on the lady gaga thing because i was just like #'yeah i do not need to be hearing whatever words this guy is about to start saying about gay people'#my parents felt like 'love the sinner not the sin' types when i was growing up so i always wonder what they thought about that sermon #because we really didnt go there anymore pretty soon after that. but also like i said my parents were also actively churchhopping #i always assumed growing up my parents probably just agreed 100% with whatever a pastor says (because thats how they were at #our family church before the pastor they liked retired)#but im really only now as an adult wondering if my mom or dad picked up on *something* at the time.#whether it was me being probably visibly uncomfortable or how angrily the pastor spat his venom #or how the congregation eagerly took in every word. nodding and muttering 'thats right' under their breath and clapping for the hatred show #at least the pastor i grew up listening to really did focus on spreading messages of love and compassion.#again. more of the 'love the sinner hate the sin' type congregation. a bit 'dont ask dont tell'#on the bright side i wasnt directly exposed to homo/transphobic violence at that age. on the other side i didnt know #that being gay or trans was a thing you could even be until i was in 10th grade #i learned about being trans and i was like ohhhhh okay. hey parents can you call me this shortened masc version of my name. dont ask why

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