Reader comments from www.advocate.com.* "I was 'disfellowshipped after I divorced my husband to be with a woman. * "I grew up very active in the Baptist Baptist Member of a group of Protestant Christians who hold that only adult believers should be baptized and that it must be done by immersion. During the 17th century two groups of Baptists emerged in England: General Baptists, who held that Christ's atonement applied to and Assembly of God churches and my story is much the same as other GLBT GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered folks, Open rejection and shame forced me into the closet and away from the one thing in my life that gave me any meaning: the church." * "My faith is as much a part of me as my sexuality; they cannot be separated, That's not to say that I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in still involved in the same church I was as a youth, however." * "Remaining Catholic is right up there with being a gay Republican. I could not face myself in the morning if I were either." * "The United Church of Christ United Church of Christ, American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. said 'Welcome home' and served me the Eucharist Eucharist (y  `kərĭst) [Gr.,=thanksgiving], Christian sacrament that repeats the action of Jesus at his last supper with his disciples, when he gave them bread, saying, "This is my after learning had left the church when I
first came out."* "I was raised attending a Methodist church, and I still attend." Are you still active in the faith in which you were raised? Undecided 4% Yes 21% No 75% Note: Table made from pie chart. |
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