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When your faith and family love seem to conflict

My daughter came out as gay last month and my church says I have to choose between supporting her and staying in good standing with God and I cannot sleep thinking about losing either one.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between institutional doctrine and parental love reveals the painful gap between abstract moral systems and lived human reality.

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