How is it that the Onion never get old? They are incredible:
At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay teen. He’s a member of his school’s swing choir, enjoys shopping at the mall, and has sex with other males his age. But lately, a growing worry has begun to plague this young gay man. A gnawing feeling that, deep down, he may be a fundamentalist, right-wing Christian.
“I don’t know what’s happening to me,” Faber admitted to reporters Monday. “It’s like I get these weird urges sometimes, and suddenly I’m tempted to go behind my friends’ backs and attend a megachurch service, or censor books in the school library in some way. Even just the thought of organizing a CD-burning turns me on.”
Added Faber, “I feel so confused.”
The openly gay teen, who came out to his parents at age 14 and has had a steady boyfriend for the past seven months, said he first began to suspect he might be different last year, when he started feeling an odd stirring within himself every time he passed a church. The more conservative the church, Faber claimed, the stronger his desire was to enter it.
“It’s like I don’t even know who I am anymore,” the frightened teenager said. “Keeping this secret obsession with radical right-wing dogma hidden away from my parents, teachers, and schoolmates is tearing me apart.”
As usual when it comes to the Onion, read the whole thing.
I say that there is nothing wrong with being gay and being a christain…I’m Bisexual and I go to church…..
Too great, and all too sad, as it reminds of too many a story, including mine :(
You have my sympathy – I can’t imagine how horrifying it would be to discover that you wanted to be a right wing Christian.
No, I kid. I was stuck in the atheist closet for almost a decade while going to church, and it’s funny how the agony I went through went away when I officially said “You know, I don’t believe this stuff.” Luckily I have an awesome family, unlike some I’ve encountered.
Meant when I said I was attracted to guys, as well as girls. Though its just another part of me, and doesn’t define me. Still dad went to a conference, and brought back a book teaching me how to “combat the desires.”
I had something similar – and that was just for liking girls. I’m certain I can’t even compare to the crap you had to go through. It’s made me aware for my own children, and let them know that I’ll love them and support them no matter who they choose to love.
yea, well I for one have seen plenty of gays go to church, and I see no wrong of it….Anyone can be a christian if that’s what he/she truely want to be and live by….its really all up to them and what they believe in