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stay active in the lds church. she sent me several questions and i spent some time typing out my answers (actually during an graveyard shift in the er...the ogden area didn't have too many crazy people tonight so i had plenty of time) and when i got done typing out my super long answer to one of the questions i decided that i wanted to post it here because i feel like it accurately describes a lot of the question was how do you balance your se*uality and your religion? i’m as*uming that the reason for this question is because the religion i am a member of has been so outspoken about its teachings related to homose*uality. i think this question is kind of difficult to answer without having a lot of context but i will try.  i feel like, first, it is important for me to acknowledge that i am lucky. from the moment i started being open about my se*uality, i had very important, key people that were supportive of me, and i know that things could have been much different if they had responded differently. my parents and my church leaders never made me feel like there was something wrong with me, or that my feelings were something evil. they never suggested that i created these feelings somehow or that i was less of a person or less worthy of a person because i am ga*. i know that others have not experienced this. i know there are many whose families disown them, whose church leaders belittle them or make them feel wrong, and so i am empathetic to and understanding of people who feel like the church and its followers are judgemental, closed-minded, and ignorant. i am lucky because the response of family and church leaders helped me to form an understanding and belief about what god thinks about my being ga*. in terms of god’s involvement and feelings about it, i believe that my being ga* was intentional, that it is on purpose, and that there is a purpose to it, not just something to “deal with,” and it isn’t something that i should be ashamed of or scared of.  i believe that historically the church’s position on