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I was raised what the poet Mary Karr calls a cafeteria Catholic. I'm 50, and we were raised to love gay people, and trans people too which was a surprise because they were barely in the public eye back then, and to be pro choice. None of the social bugaboos of Catholicism ever made it through our door, and when I heard in Catholic high school that I was supposed to be antichoice I said oh, why? It was all completely alien to me. I had very little attachment to the Catholic Church and when I left home I left the church simply because my parents couldn't make me go, and I didn't really like the priest who was kind of an asshole, although I suppose if I was forced to be celibate I would too. It just didn't have anything to say to me.
As an adult I joined a "spiritual mutt" Christian church which is super progressive and has gay and trans people, and everyone comes in with a different faith history, and we're a wonderful group. I've never met such genuinely nice wonderful people in my life, I've been with them for years and we've never had a disagreement, and everyone has always been delightful. Didn't know such wonderful nice people existed. It's all focused on building our community and our city.