How many more parents need to raise their children while being afraid that they are not teaching them all the \u201cright ways\u201d and therefore find their identity as parents threatened when a child turns out gay, loses faith, or has anything happen that is off the evangelical script? The fear of raising kids \u201cright\u201d is a huge burden for evangelical parents. How many more kids have to grow up fearing that they are everything they have been taught to hate?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Melissa\u2019s spouse, Haley, has written a guest post on Melissa\u2019s blog called When You Are Everything You Were Taught to Hate. Haley, remember, is a transsexual woman raised in an evangelical quiverfull home who served as a conservative pastor for several years before coming out as a woman and leaving the ministry. How many more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,19],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicalism-fundamentalism","category-worthwhile-reads","tag-lgbtq"],"yoast_head":"\n
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