Viewpoint: Finding tolerance in the Christian faith

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Viewpoint: Finding tolerance in the Christian faith
The Michigan Daily
By Allie Wills
March 15 2009


http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-03-16/viewpoint-christianity-and-coming-out


I have always been Christian and religious. I can't remember a time when I didn't believe in God. I grew up in a conservative Presbyterian church that had a "love the sinner, hate the sin" attitude toward homosexuality, so when I came out to myself as queer at 16, I was devastated. At first, I considered celibacy, which was my church's only answer to homosexuality. I would have done it if I had been sure it was what God wanted, but something nagged at my brain. How could it be a sin? Who was I hurting? Why would God have made me queer if I was supposed to spend my whole life fighting it? I considered fighting it for a while and then started looking for other options.