more & more it seems to me that as blatantly as religion is thrown in people's face as in the usa it just doesn't happen anywhere i've ever lived. i'd vomit on her shoes.

This is a little different, but kind of along the same lines. I had an excellent teenage friend; she was strong-willed, with a mentally robust mind. She stood up for herself and others, she understood my struggle and brought out in me a level of self-confidence that I had never known before. We were true friends until one day I never heard from her again. Years later she contacted me on facebook. We talked for hours. I had asked her why she just one-day disappeared, all she said was that she needed time to get her head on straight. She felt the wrong way about love, and her grandmother sent her away to a private camp. Then she cut off any chance for me to learn more by saying, "thats the past and I don't want to talk about that now." I knew that her parents had passed away in a car accident about four months before she disappeared. At the time I figured she was just dealing with that. I was excited to chat with her again, so I didn't press the whole feeling the wrong way about love thing. Just as we were saying our goodbyes, she asked me if I had found Jesus? I thought she was kidding since she was raised as a secular Jew. I said I haven't ever felt the need to look for someone that may never have existed and if he did was certainly dead. I was expecting a LMAO, but she texted, sigh....... and said, "I hate that you will never know the wonders of Heaven'" and then she blocked me. Who had she become and where did the person I once knew go? I've tried to find a way to reconnect with her, but she's just disappeared again.

I was molested by christian group of men, women, and others from the age of 8-14. That experience changed me in a whole lot of ways. My sexual desires absolutely drift away from that of a midwest redneck, conservative christian, sexist meathead. So when conversations come up about transgenders and bathrooms, faggots, what god intended sexually with his subservient robots, I kind of want to puke.

That's tough... I had to stand in a group of my peers at work while a prayer was said. Then we said the pledge of allegiance to our flag... tension was high. I stayed focussed on my position and my pledge...

Back in the 80s, I had an extremely unpleasant experience with a gynecologist. Went in for a routine exam and birth control prescription. When the appointment was over, he wanted to "pray" with me. I was so shocked that it was even happening, I was speechless and just sat there stunned until he was done. I never went back to him. There was more that happened with this same doctor, but it's really unpleasant. It should be illegal for any medical professional to bring their religious beliefs into any medical setting or situation. It sickens me that so many get away with that shit.

You must be able to imagine how I feel when they start combining religion, sex, and gender all together.