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[quote=Anonymous] 2008 in a rural city, a good friend came out of the closet at 20 and while he was living with his large catholic family. I had already known and gone out to LGBT events with him. His parents sent him to counseling at the Church with the head priest. A couple weeks after the initial truth telling the priest came up to me and another friend of ours (we all went to this church) and spoke to us about being the kinds of influences our friend needed right now. I got defensive at the idea that we could influence his sexuality in any way, and surprisingly the Priest agreed and told us that it’s our world out there, we will be the future and how we treat our peers will be the new standered. That we needed to protect our friend from falling victim to those who would prey on him and his vunrability, to support him as he begins to find himself. The priest reminded us of the morals and values the church instilled in the three of us and that when we were all confirmed into the church we vowed to protect the covenant  with God, therefore we must protect our friend in the church and not let him be outcasted or martyred.

It was a bewildering and profound. Completely changed my views on how religion and politics worked. Because of that experience I am smart enough to know that in the house of God all are his children, and any house that says differently is one that has been poisoned. [/quote]

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