Personal anecdote: my parents are extremely fundamentalist Christians and have been since I was ten. My father doesn't believe in evolution, and I doubt he would believe me if I told him scientific evidence is proving that homosexuality is biological. My mother tells me that the world may say one thing, but in the 'spirit realm', all things are governed by the supernatural. They are not bad people, but in this, our beliefs differ very fundamentally. They don't know that, though. I grew up around people who think similarly. Even my more secular cousins think homosexuality is something to be shunned.
I can relate! Not with my parents, but with a lot of people I respected at the church I used to go to. (This also applied to the roles of women within the church and the family.) It's a weird disconnect.
Yeah, it happens. One of the things I noticed when I was at Pink Dot was that there were guys in clothing that challenged traditional gender structures (ie. they were totally hotter than me) and I kept automatically bracing myself for the jokey slurs that usually accompany acts like that. It was so liberating not to hear them.
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Personal anecdote: my parents are extremely fundamentalist Christians and have been since I was ten. My father doesn't believe in evolution, and I doubt he would believe me if I told him scientific evidence is proving that homosexuality is biological. My mother tells me that the world may say one thing, but in the 'spirit realm', all things are governed by the supernatural. They are not bad people, but in this, our beliefs differ very fundamentally. They don't know that, though. I grew up around people who think similarly. Even my more secular cousins think homosexuality is something to be shunned.
I can relate! Not with my parents, but with a lot of people I respected at the church I used to go to. (This also applied to the roles of women within the church and the family.) It's a weird disconnect.
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