Reply #45: Catholic too

[goodgd_yall]

I never bought that homosexuality was a sin either for the very same reason---it didn't make sense. If sex between people of the opposite sex was "good," how could it be bad just because it was between two people of the same sex?

I DID in my youth, though, think it was not the preferred way to be, that somehow it meant there was something wrong. This at the same time I was curious about it and having strong feelings toward persons of the same sex as well. I also backed pro-gay positions. I didn't actually realize I was a lesbian until my late 20s. I had never wanted to have sex with men before that, but I thought I was asexual---not realizing I had more choices. That sounds really odd, but this was back in the late 70s and gayness was still judged by most people to be sinful, perverted, an object of ridicule and hate. So my epiphany really was when I recognized I was gay although I thought a lot up to that time to understand homosexuality---probably my way of discerning if I was gay. I had to think of it as something other people were before I could make the next big leap.