Perspective | Today is National Coming Out Day. Here’s why I waited until age 48 to tell people I’m gay. – The Washington Post

To be gay, as the beliefs go, is to be unacceptable to God, and the only way to avoid sinning is to repress and kill that part of yourself. Christian fundamentalism told me that God would heal my broken soul and change me into a heterosexual, if I repented, prayed, and tried hard enough.