K. So, I was raised Southern Baptist. I also am gay. Thank you for writing this. It has really helped me to not hate myself so much. Now I am not a religious or spiritual person. I find myself each and every day separating myself from all of the things I learned, in church, growing up. People are arguing that the LAWS in Leviticus are concrete. Ok. But Lev. 18:19: “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”