A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.
When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness.
By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.
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评分Being gay is an unreasonable pain one was born to undertake, therefore an unwarranted sin. Being gay isn’t an abomination, but forcing gays to conversion is; needn't show repentance to your sexual orientation, cos sexuality is integrated in your unique shining identity, it’s part of your body, your soul, your spirit, and cannot be erased.
评分“The transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a change of sexual orientation.”, where their essence lies. When we talk about sin, fear, abomination, bear in mind love is what matters most in god’s eyes. Every time you repeat amen in church, think, a child is listening. （是的，我無法不將作者的經曆與Prayers for Bobby聯係起來。他逃脫瞭，但Bobby沒有。）
评分It doesn't matter. Being a good person is all that matters.
评分不在宗教氛圍濃重的環境成長，應該是體會不到作者那種被撕裂的感覺吧。最後抹掉的是作者在上帝通訊錄上存著的名字嗎？
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