Floyd Edwards,
Reading your post seems like I am reading my own preparation on the subject to post. You have 100% insight of what is real among those that are and those that are not in the LGBT community within the Church.
As a teacher, our school psychologist was gay. The National Teacher of the year, just before I retired, was a Lesbian from my school. Accidentally, with out realizing it, I moved into a LGBT community, “Silver Lake” in Southern California, where I lived and owned and stayed for a year before and moving to Canyon Lake, where I could have my pontoon party boat, my ski boat, my sail boat, and my canoe. all at my own home, on my own dock with my own hydraulic lifts. Most of my neighbors were
lawyers, two of which were for Paramount Studios, and doctors from the best hospitals including Children’s hospital. There was a movie and stage actor. I CAN NOT USE NAMES HERE.
Almost everyone living here were extremely professional people. I could not have afforded to live her on my teacher pay if I did not have other companies, that teacher pay supplemented.
I was the token straight that was invited to every neighborhood party. I soon forgot that I was the only straight and that all other were LFBT. They never made a big issue of it. I know that I could never change them, and nobody ever tried to change me. In the eyes of the community, we were all of the human race. We were all God’s children. We were all God’s creation and none of us was willing to challenge or critise t