I’m writing this post because Blake McGrath has suddenly found God, and according to Facebook, is no longer gay. WHAT!? Yes, for the past few weeks, McGrath has been sharing the word of God via his Facebook status and his “Interested in:” field says “Women,” where it had previously said nothing. For the record, Blake McGrath got his publicist to go up to my ex at the bar and exchange numbers with him and inform him that Blake was interested in him. a) My ex is not a women. b) My ex was not interested. c) That was extremely tacky and d) this happened not even a year ago… and suddenly he going back in the closet because someone came knocking on his door and told him he’d go to hell if he was gay?

As we all know, we are born gay, and I know in my sin that “God” or whoever created us, made us this way, and it is not some sort of defect. As much as he tries to preach that he is going to heaven because he suddenly worships God every day, I think its extremely cowardly of him as he embarks on his solo “singing” career, to jump back in the closet. Way to man up and represent us in the mainstream, Blake.

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This is what the man in front of me was asked earlier today as I completed my Saturday routine of turning up my headphones and passing the Jehovah’s Witnesses on Davie St. The man in front of me tossed his hand in the air and kept walking, and my temperature rose rapidly at the question they asked him. Why?

I grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, and although have been outside of the “religion” now for just under a decade, I still know the belief system front to back. I still know all these logistics and ideas so vividly, because it has taken me this decade to let go of the judgmental mentality that I found, years later, had nothing to do with me as a person; it was the situation in which I was raised that created those traits. Now, I understand that everyone’s personal experiences shape them into the person they become, religious or not, but research some of the things I had to believe growing up, and then tell me that I don’t have a leg up on most regarding judgmental notions.

One of such judgments was regarding gay people.

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