What's your background?

[Entropist]

I think it's interesting to note that the one issue that made me begin questioning God was homosexuality. I couldn't get around this problem: If people can be born as homosexuals (and I never denied that this is the case), and if homosexuality is immoral based on doctrine and the Bible, what does that say about God?

This was something that bugged me, particularly in my earlier fundamentalist Christian days. I was a music composition major at the time and I adored the very moving music of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Tchaikovsky, and many other composers... which I then discovered happened to be gay or bi-sexual. I couldn't reconcile this beautiful music with the idea that they were "abominations" and whatnot.

In a way, I think my love for this music beforehand "immunized" me from the sort of homophobia that I was exposed to frequently in the Church of Christ. As hard as I tried, I didn't always make a good fundie.