![]() When my mom got cancer the first time, it was something that was useful at the time for me as a coping mechanism. We didn't have a lot of money, the household wasn't very stable a lot of the time, so when something bad would happen, say a prayer, go to church. It was pretty hard growing up in a lot of ways. It was something we did every Saturday morning. "It was a fairly important part of our lives. ![]() Rigoberto Perez, 30, raised as Seventh-day Adventist That's what I put down as the answer, but I vividly remember thinking to myself that that was not the right answer." "I remember a theology test in eighth grade where there was a question about homosexuality, and the right answer was that if you are homosexual, then that is not a sin because that's how God made you, but acting upon it would be a sin. The thing for me - a large part of the reason I moved away from Catholicism was because without accepting a lot of these core beliefs, I just didn't think that I could still be part of that community. ![]() "Starting in middle school we got the lessons about why premarital sex was not OK, why active homosexuality was not OK, and growing up in American culture, kids automatically pushed back on those things, and so we had some of those conversations in school with our theology teachers. Lizz Reeves (from left), Yusuf Ahmad and Melissa Adelman also participated in the discussion about religion with NPR. ![]()
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