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One Woman’s Journey from Gay to Straight
The Sojourn Reclaimers campus is a quadrangle of metal fabricated buildings in rural Texas that used to be a turkey conversion factory. How exactly a turkey is converted, I’m not sure, but hopefully it is a swift and merciful process. Above the office door a laser-printed sign meant to look like cross-stitch reads, MAY ALL WHO ENTER, LEAVE UNBURDENED. A great comfort to the turkeys I’m sure.
On Day One, the intake clergy ask you to turn in any sort of homosexual articles you are wearing. I mean, it’s not like we’re wearing cock rings and dildos, yunno? Anyway, by this time, you’ve signed five pages of forms and are trying not to look at women. You don’t want them to get the wrong idea, after all. Nor do you want the men to, since you would look like an eager beaver. So you stare at the ceiling, then the floor, while your lips retreat into your mouth and you consider bolting. But it’s 20 miles to the next dusty town and you’ve already changed into the Sojourn-issue denim jumper dress and croc sandals. This ensemble declares to roving bands of polygamists, “I’m feminine, yet sensible. And I’d like to be one of your eight wives.”
Now, it may seem odd to you that I’d gone from hardcore rocker to cancer survivor to potential sisterwife just like that, but there was an odd kind of synergy to it. I was running on miniscule hormones, after all, like a chalkboard erased. If ever there was a time to rewrite my formula, this was it.
Praise Jesus
Posted by Liesl ~ 6:45 PM ~ 30 comments
Patrice commented:
You know, I distinctly detect a note of sarcasm in this post and I really think it’s inappropriate. There is a time and place for humor but it has no place alongside Jesus. Jesus was not a funny man.
WildeRosemary commented:
He may have shared a few light-hearted, strictly g-rated jokes with his disciples???
Patrice commented:
JESUS WAS NOT A CLOWN!
RugbyLVR commented:
ROFLMAO. You people need to take this show on the road. Come on Liesl, your heart’s not in this thing. Throw off the crocs and run!
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