Religion and LGBT people

[Mystical]

By the way I know quite a few gay christians.

Also, in my experience, sixth form/year 12/13 17/8yr olds are socially biased towards homosexuality. It's quite the fashion at that age, and a lot of people come out. A stark contrast to the bigoted attitude of younger kids.

Where I live, which is almost completely Christian belief oriented: if you're gay you're an abomination. They're beat the fuck up, here. Hence the gay men I know portray themselves as straight in public. Granted, that's just the state I live in and for the most part I grew up in small towns. Adult's attitudes translate to kids' attitudes, and bigotry though. I was afraid to ask a girl out because I was concerned her parents would sever our friendship completely and then tell my parents which would've been just horrible. I had to constantly reinforce my 'boy crushes' to my friends so they wouldn't label me a 'lesbo' and send me off to the 'dyke' table, where I didn't fit in at all (I hated sports). Boys got it worse, they were called faggot even if they were openly straight yet had feminine character isms. It was like animalistic how the 'weak' males got picked on mercilessly. There was definitely an environment of condemnation, and ALL my friends or people in high school that I knew, didn't come out until out of high school. I am happy that things are getting better, but I doubt they're bigot free on the subject, so long as religion teaches it's an abomination and un natural. News flash to those guys: 1500 animal species have been identified as being homogeneous. Even gut worms. Animals without emotive stimuli.