William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: A fascinating part of her story: she was raised in a very restrictive white ...
A fascinating part of her story: she was raised in a very restrictive white evangelical family, but had a grandfather who was a military vet and an accomplished neurosurgeon, who came out of the closet as gay after fathering three children.
She saw what a wonderful person he was, and began to realize that what she was being told in church did not square with the reality of a more complex world:
"And so that was a crack for me in everything that I was being told.”
#WhiteEvangelicals
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