At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
I am basically a religious man.
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.