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Any Other Preacher's Kids Here? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/exchristian

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I know this community isn’t very big yet, but I’m wondering who else here might have been a preacher’s kid or missionary’s kid growing up?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sister and I are PKs. Our father is a closeted gay man who for some unfathomable reason gravitated toward increasingly conservative megachurches during our childhoods. We’re both queer atheists now, and our childhoods left us damaged, angry, and sad. Now he’s retired and half-out while our mom is bemusedly waiting for the other shoe to drop. The relationship is emotionally exhausting so we both moved far away to minimize contact. I have a great relationship with my in-laws and would love something similar with my parents, but I feel there is likely too much baggage to unpack.

[–] DarthBueller 1 points 1 year ago

My nephew is most likely gay and his homeschooled upbringing and cognitive dissonance drove him to go to all in as a Baptist music director, get married to a Christian tradwife and have as many babies as possible, like having kids firmly establishes he’s not gay. Sad.