Having been *trapped* in a fundamentalist household for many years of my life, I found it astounding and disturbing that a person could get up in my church and confess to having murdered someone and would have been forgiven and accepted in that congregation. BUT! Had he confessed to having had homosexual thoughts? He would have been ridden out on a rail.

I still believe in God, and one of the reasons I still believe in Him is that he got me out of that horrible, guilt-ridden, hateful life. I think I'm probably a heretic now, at least to those people (and my mother).