over at Catholic Mental Heath:<\/p>\n
Would you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Hey. I\u2019m 41, raised & currently living in Washington, DC. I was raised more or less Reform Jewish in a progressive family and community. I came out in middle school and helped to found the gay\/straight alliance at my high school. In college I met Christians (mostly Catholics) who were able to describe their own faith in Christ in terms which invited me to learn more. I basically found myself unwillingly falling in love with the Church.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a big and ongoing challenge to reconcile my love of Christ and His Church with being openly gay and having absolutely no interest in being anything other than that; I made a lot of mistakes and am probably still making some. But it\u2019s also been a great blessing. I\u2019ve been able to discover so much forgotten beauty and hope for gay believers, in Scripture and Christian history. I\u2019ve also gotten to meet a ton of other gay Christians, which is always a trip and almost always a delight. Hashtag no ragrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a> (oh man, I got Chris Damian\u2019s twitter handle wrong. Follow @CDamianWrites<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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