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lil  ·  4388 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Ex-Gay Friend

The comments on the site are very interesting. I particularly liked this one from "Del" on the most recommended list of comments:

"You don't need to cling to Queer Theory to be gay, you don't need to cling to Fundamentalist Christian Theology to be straight. You don't need to live in San Francisco to be gay, you don't need to live in Wyoming to be straight. You don't need to be a professional gay, you don't need to be a professional straight. You don't need to be gay to be sexually attracted to be men, you don't need to be straight to be sexually attracted to women. You don't need to be sexually attracted to men to be gay, you don't need to be sexually attracted to women to be straight. You don't need to reject gays to be Christian, you don't need to reject Christians to be gay. You don't need to be straight to be Christian, you don't need be Christian to be straight.

Before you lived a "gay" life, you were telling others how to live theirs. Before you knew what it meant to be "gay", you were defining it for everyone else. Before you live a "straight" life, you are telling others how to live theirs. Before you know what it means to be "straight", you are defining it for everyone else. Before you experience "Christianity", you are telling everyone else what that experience is.

Life is not a theory. Live life.