that time i came out of the broom closet...

The following was written in 2006...in another lifetime...back when I felt extreme pressure to explain my choices to others.

I was raised without religion (what a gift!), but made to convert to Catholicism at 16.

I tried to reconcile it with my soul for perhaps 6 years, during which time, I felt more and more dead inside.

I studied Catholicicm a lot, im…